Blues' Current Winning Streak & Shorthanded Goals Keep Coming
Also, an early look at 2024 Draft options for the club & more
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In today’s edition, we have thoughts on the Blues’ current winning streak, how the shorthanded goals keep coming, and more.
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Blue Note Weekly Audio Report: Five Straight Wins for the Blues
January 29th, 2024 by Ethan Carter (Premium THW Substack Content)
In this week’s edition, the St. Louis Blues went 3-0-0 on their trip to the West Coast with wins over the Calgary Flames, Vancouver Canucks, and Seattle Kraken. They also finished the week with another overtime winner over the Los Angeles Kings. The club’s win streak is up to five games.
Also, the success continues for Robert Thomas, Jordan Kyrou, and Pavel Buchnevich, an interesting coaching rumor hit the internet, and much more.
Blues News & Rumors: Winning Streak, Tucker & More
January 29, 2024 by Mike Meyer
A busy four-game week kicked off with a three-game trip to Western Canada including a set of back-to-back games against the Calgary Flames and Vancouver Canucks. With four games in six days and a defenseman sustaining an injury, this was a week that St. Louis Blues fans did not want to miss. Here’s the latest news and rumors surrounding the Blues.
Blues Have Most Shorthanded Goals While Taking Fewest Penalties
January 29, 2024 by Anthony Testaguzza
In the first few months, the St. Louis Blues have been struggling with their special teams, mainly on the power play, but their penalty-killing units have been scoring shorthanded a lot. They are the most disciplined team in the league and have the fewest amount of penalty minutes (321). It leaves one question, how are they taking the least amount of penalties and still have the most shorthanded goals in the league? Well, there are a lot of aspects to this and it could be because they carry a well-balanced lineup on the penalty kill, however, overall it is not the best in the league in terms of penalty kill percentage (PK%) as it currently sits at 23rd.
For the season, the Blues have gone shorthanded 127 times and killed 99 of those penalties, so there are still some cracks in their penalty-killing units.
Blues’ 2024 First-Round Draft Pick Options
January 28, 2024 by Mike Meyer
With the 2024 NHL Entry Draft rankings beginning to take shape and scouts boiling down their options for the organization’s newest draft class, it is time to take a look at a few prospects who could make their way to the podium donning the Blue note as the first member of the St. Louis Blues’ 2024 draft class.
3 Potential Trade Destinations for Blues’ Colton Parayko
January 23, 2024 by Ethan Carter
The St. Louis Blues are likely to be active as sellers when the 2024 trade deadline rolls around. They probably won’t go into full-on firesale mode, but it’s clear that there are contracts and players to be moved from the current roster.
While it might not be likely at the moment, Blues defenseman Colton Parayko could be on the move before the deadline. The club took calls and discussed trading him last season before the deadline and in the offseason, but no deal was made. With all of that being said, here are three teams that make sense as a destination for Parayko as the deadline gets closer.