For St. Louis Blues, Harsh Reality Is They Must Change One Aspect More Than Any Early In A Season
Team has been chasing standings two years in a row; last year they got away with it, this year they fell four points short, and they must change their attitude more than anything
ST. LOUIS – The St. Louis Blues tried their darndest.
Oh, did they ever. They tried to overcome near impossible odds to break the door down to the Western Conference playoff race for a second straight season. But in the end, it was just too much to overcome this year.
Living on the edge, in the end, is not the way to go, to be honest. The Blues got into the tournament as the second wild card in large part to a franchise-record 12-game winning streak, and even then, they squeaked in past the Calgary Flames by winning on the final day of the regular season and getting in on the first tiebreaker with one more regulation win (32-31). They were 14 points out of the wild card heading into the Olympic break but were able to get as close as three points as late as April 5 but finally ran out of steam, before finishing this season 37-33-12, four points behind the Los Angeles Kings .
So why are the Blues of the past two seasons so good late but so poor early? “It’s kind of hard to say what really caused it,” Blues forward Jordan Kyrou said. “I think that’s something as a team internally, we’ve got to talk to each other about and find out as a group and then obviously down the stretch after the break, we kind of found our footing a little bit.
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