STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN - The Blues now know what traveling in the Eastern Conference must be like. On Tuesday night, they took a little train ride to Linkoping, Sweden, for their final preseason game.
The Blues had a couple of private cars on the train,…
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,…
Blues coach Andy Murray might have to break a promise. On Tuesday, he told the players that there would be a shootout drill after each practice this week, and the winner would be “guaranteed” a spot in the shootout when the…
In life, people applaude someone by clapping their hands. In hockey, they bang their sticks on the ice.
As Wendy Pleau made her way to center-ice this afternoon, to award Team Wamsley with the Determination Cup, the sounds of sticks snapping echoed…
In the Blues’ locker room this morning, the TV was tuned to hockey highlights and preseason scores. When the score of the Blues-Minnesota game from Tuesday night rolled across the bottom of the screen, it was listed as a 4-0 Blues’ win instead of a…
Five days before the Blues report for physicals on Saturday, I chatted with head coach Andy Murray at length today regarding a variety of topics.
For an in-depth look at Murray’s thoughts heading into the season, check out my story Wednesday in the Post-Dispatch and on STLtoday.com. But for some…
Seeking to make a change that will help the Blues dig out of a 3-0 deficit in their first-round series against Vancouver, coach Andy Murray shook up his lines at Monday’s morning skate. Jeremy Rutherford called in from the rink…
As a line, T.J. Oshie, Patrik Berglund and David Perron didn’t have a strong finish to the regular season and it carried over into Game 1 of the playoffs:
The numbers from Wednesday . . .
Berglund: 8:41 ice time, 1 shot, 0…
A hot topic after Thursday’s 3-1 win over San Jose was the ice time of David “The Lightning Rod” Perron.
Coming off a two-goal game against Dallas Tuesday, and picking up an assist on Andy McDonald’s goal in the first period Thursday, Perron had been…
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