Comments on: Blues keep rolling with another Halak shutout

By: pavelfitzgerald

pavelfitzgerald — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:47:52 +0000

Altho St. Louis is playing well, I’d be concerned that they outshot their opponents by 64 shots, yet they only have one more goal during that time. Hopefully the return of Alex Steen helps with their goal scoring

By: cardsandbluesforever

cardsandbluesforever — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:57:34 +0000

it looks like somebody didnt actually watch the game. the way the blues came out in the 1st period they were getting tremedous scoring chances. Khabibulin stood on his head the entire game. a lesser goalie wouldve been sunburned by the end of the first, and Khabibulin made some of those saves by the skin of his teeth. it couldve very easily been 4-0 by the end of the 1st period.
the main thing im seeing is lack of production on the power play. when you get 5 on 3 or 4 on 3 power plays you HAVE to convert! our power play was clicking pretty nicely earlier this month, hopefully Hitchcock is working on that before saturdays game with the bruins.

By: scygan

scygan — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:03:41 +0000

hopefully the offense picks up when steen and mcdonald come back
from injury.

By: danphipps01

danphipps01 — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 09:14:34 +0000

Problem: ultra-defensive, low-scoring teams are rarely Cup winners. When you’re pinned in a best-of-7 series with a much higher-scoring team, one more prototypical of a potential winner (Wings, Bruins, Canucks, Rangers, Blackhawks), you have to be able to bring your own offense to a high level to trade blows evenly. New Jersey popularized the trap back in the day, but people forget they led the League in overall scoring in at least one year they won the Cup. To answer your question, then, they can’t finish opponents off. If they can sign a strong scorer or two (Zach who? Bobby what?) to add a better offensive edge, though… watch out. They’re very close.