Alex Pietrangelo is here to stay, but it’s not guaranteed he will stay.

The rookie defenseman played his ninth NHL game of the season Thursday night against Phoenix. It’s been written many times, but I’ll mention it again, if Pietrangelo plays his…

The eight-man defensive carousel will put Mike Weaver and Darryl Sydor in the press box tonight. Sydor will be a healthy scratch for the third time in five games, but this will be Weaver’s first healthy scratch of the season.

Weaver’s turn to sit out…

The Blues are currently carrying eight defenseman, while two more defenseman at Peoria - Tyson Strachan and Jonas Junland (six goals and 16 points in 16 games) - potentially could be considered for playing time. In the middle of that crowd is…

It’s been three games since Paul Kariya was taken off the Blues’ power-play unit.

In those three games, the Blues were 0-4, 1-4 and 2-7 with the man-advantage. Combined that’s 3-15 (20 percent), which is much better than the unit had been…

The Blues have made a significant swap on their two power-play units as they attempt to snap an 0-for-20 drought tonight.

Today in practice, rookie Alex Pietrangelo practiced with the No. 1 power-play unit and Erik Johnson was with the second unit.

Pientrangelo will…

It appears the Blues will be without defenseman Barret Jackman for at least the next two games and possibly longer. Jackman said last Sunday that he planned to rejoin the team in practice by Wednesday, but the team was off Wednesday…

Barret Jackman suffered a sprained ankle in Thursday’s 4-2 loss to Atlanta and was placed on the injured-reserve list today. He will miss a minimum of seven days, per IR rules, and right now the Blues are calling the injury ”week to week.”

Jackman was injured midway through the first period Thursday.

“I went to…

STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN - It’s a common scene in many NHL arenas these days: players in a circle juggling a soccer ball before a game to loosen up.

The Blues are one of a few teams in the league that haven’t copied the pregame ritual the last few years,…

Now that the Blues have trimmed their roster to 30 players, they’ve condensed the team into one locker room at their St. Louis Mills practice facility.

In a locker room suited for 23 players, you can imagine the quarters are cramped.…

I wrote on Twitter last night that, after a conversation with Blues President John Davidson, I could see a case building for Darryl Sydor and Alex Pietrangelo to make the roster.

While I am not diminishing the chances of Tyson Strachan or Jonas Junland making…