It’s an old hockey adage, but it rings true for the Blues today: ‘Your best players have to be your best players.”

The Blues have been shut out in back-to-back home games because their best players aren’t scoring points.

“Our offensive players…

Parity rules the NHL’s Western Conference this season, so teams must strive to maintain their edge from shift to shift and from game to game.

Slippage will be costly, as the Blues learned again during their 2-1 loss to the Los…

The Blues came out flying Sunday night and gave themselves a chance to beat the visiting Canucks.

Scottrade Center was packed. A standing-room-only crowd rocked the house.

The atmosphere was electric. The Blues took a quick 1-0 lead and looked capable to…

Just 3:11 into the game, the Blues broke through. Andy McDonald created the scoring play by rushing the puck into the Canucks zone and dumping the puck to himself off the end boards — no small feat, since four Vancouver…

The Blues had a glorious chance to take a 1-0 lead on a power play, but Roberto Luongo robbed David Backes with an amazing left skate save on an attempted rebound conversion.

After running their power play to perfection, the Blues…

The Wild led the Predators 2-1 after one period. But remember, the Red Wings had Nashville down 3-1, late, at home, and failed to hold on.

So fans can’t get too excited watching the scoreboard tonight.

Then Marc-Andre Bergeron scored up in…

Hockey Guy has presumed the Blues would stay out of the Western Conference playoff race this season, due to all the injuries.

Tuesday’s loss if David Backes to a leg injury was just one more major blow on that front. Backes…

Old Friend Brendan Shanahan scored a goal for the Devils in his first game back in the league.

Career pest Claude Lemieux also returned to the NHL, joining the Sharks for the second half of the season.

Let’s do the time warp…

So the Blues lose key defenseman Roman Polak for at least one month with a broken foot suffered Saturday night. Then hard-luck goaltender Manny Legace strains a groin muscle early on Monday afternoon in Boston.

Suspect officiating helps the Bruins rally…

The Blues outworked the Blackhawks for more than 60 minutes Saturday night. They had at least a dozen glorious scoring chances.

They had one obvious goal disallowed, due to an allegedly inconclusive replay review.  Blackhawks goaltender Cristobal Huet reached deep into…