Although pretty much all you said is agreeable, I am not sure any corner has been turned. At least totally…
Until some major problems get worked out (which I do believe will happen, just not sure when), we may yet see the Inconsistent Blues for a while. The powerplay is still atrocious, only because they don’t score, not because they don’t set up well and pass it around on the perimeter and get some good point shots. They do all that…with limited success.
And fixing the offense will take more determined efforts by the big boys: McDonald, Boyes, Kariya, and Backes.
We’re almost at the third-mark (27 games), and Boyes and McDonald only have 6 goals, Kariya 5, and Backes 4.
And kids Berglund and Pietrangelo aren’t even playing, much less playing poorly! The D is contributing, though, with 9 goals total, and that is reason to celebrate and be encouraged. So, until the offense is more organized and successful, I’m not so sure any corner has been turned.

The foundation for a good playoff team has been established by excellent goaltending; still, though, the shots against are way too high. The Blues overall team defense has to cut down on the opponents’ shots if they expect to make the playoffs, much less advance far. Can Mason and Conklin keep it up. Are Toivonen or Bishop ready to step in if the hockey gods frown on current ‘tenders? Again, I’m not sure we’ve turned the corner…

The next three games on the road will give a good indication of which Blues team we will have come spring. They are capable of winning all three (their record against the Sharks is very impressive lately). And they are capable of losing all three, with flukey goals bouncing in from mid-ice or off our own d-man’s shin.
As usual, time will tell…

points in 5 out of 6 is a great thing and comes really close to actually being out of whatever slump we were in but we aren’t quite out of the woods yet. We need another week of solid play to completely banish it to the past.

I would like a little life out of the PP too, although I’d still take a great PK over a great PP. But our PP has been completely dead not just slow lately.

I think we outplayed the Redwings the majority, esspecially in the first period which was really good hockey from the Blues. But I can’t be too confident going forward, and the reason is simple. Our next 5 games

At Columbus
At San Jose
At Los Angeles
Colorado
At Detroit.

That’s a decently rough stretch, even with Colorado slowing down. 2 road in division games, the Kings and Anze Kopitar still being a beast, and the Sharks of doom. It’s a good thing that we are starting to break out (and make no mistake, I think we are) butwe are going to have to play at a really high level to keep it going. Lets we do it

They are looking better, but wins, not “moral victories” get you to the playoffs.

The goal off Jackman may have been a fluke, but it’s the kind of fluke the other team’s eventually going to get if you let them keep the puck in your zone long enough and let them bang away at your goaltender long enough. We didn’t get a fluke like that going our way because we weren’t putting that kind of sustained pressure on Howard for as long. There were parts of the game where we looked great (especially the first period) and parts where we couldn’t seem to get anything going. Especially in the third period we just couldn’t seem to pick up the puck, carry it into their zone with authority and keep it there for any length of time.

would be beating your opponent to a morally bloody pulp. I think . . . maybe not.

Anyway, if that’s the case, I’d like a moral victory against Columbus tonight.