No Postseason For The St. Louis Blues

was the inability to play 60 min on a consistent basis.

I believe our record is about 24-17-6 when scoring first. I may be off a game or 2 but you see we’ve lost more games than won. This is a bad stat in which we choose to be consistent.
How many of these were 2 goal leads? No clue but it seems like 10 or so.

Our season came down to approx 2 games. If we had kept the lead 2 more times…..

Dec. 11 vs Edmonton and Dec.27 vs Buffalo. Multiple goal leads blown at home leading to regulation losses. Leaving the arena on Dec.11 was as bad as I have ever felt leaving a Blues game, and I thought I’d never say that after attending the Brett Hull number retirement game in 2006.

There were problems all over the damn ice this season. Most of the veterans went into has-been status. They came back from Sweden and immediately fell into a gutter (Backes in particular couldn’t play for shit in October and most of November). Neither goaltender could put three consecutive solid efforts together. They couldn’t play in the third period without giving up at least 2 goals most nights. Oh, and the beer was way too expensive at the Savvis Scottrade DrinkScotch ScotchTape Admiral Stockdale Kiel Center.

So really . . . where do we begin?

Honestly, there is no way a team can have a home record that bad and expect to get into the playoffs. Our goaltenders, while having a few games that were off were fairly solid most of the year, but I think the biggest problem we had is lack of offensive production. I mean, look at Backes and Boyes. We should have gotten a combined 30 or so goals MORE this season from them. Think of all the games that we could have won with 30 more goals. That alone would have gotten us into the playoffs.

We need a scorer.

I would have loved to squeeze some extra hockey out of this season, but let’s face it, it’s better in the long run for this team to come up short.

All season long the Blues kept talking about how they made a dramatic run last season, they could do the same this year. They never seemed to place any urgency on the early season games. The attitude all season long has been a problem.

Hopefully this failure helps them prepare next season and not start off so fucking slow next year.

Besides, the Blues weren’t going to win the cup this year, so it doesn’t really matter if the season end in early April or mid-April.

so pretty much off topic but i need some help if anyone here knows

a) what image was used fro the Federko bronze? it is obviously not his last season but does anyone know what season it is?

b) does anyone know anything about the hull bronze (what the image/season/uniform is and/or if it will be unveiled next season)

“The St. Louis Blues will be indelibly stamped on my heart until the day they bury me in this ground,” Hull told the crowd. “You’ve got a world class organization and they are going to lead you to where you want to be, and to where we all wanted to be.”

to scatter the Blackhawks tonight with a line brawl and drive them from the rink before us, reduce their city to ashes, leave those who love them shrouded in tears, and to gather into their bosoms all the Blackhawk wives and daughters.

except the confrence was too good to make the comeback. We started slow both years, though I will say this years start was a bigger dissapointment. We turned it on late, being one of the best teams in hockey down the stretch, winning 14 of our last 20, and even more note worthy, 8 of our last 10 at home, to keep ourselves in the race, but the ammount of really good teams was just too high catch after the slow start.

It is worth noting, if we get 5 points in the last 3 games, we’d end up with the exact same point total that got us the 6 seed last year. Which would be quite a bitch.

After the sweden games I thought it would be this awesome season…

…guess not.