On The First Day Of Christmas The St. Louis Blues Gave To Me
By Jason Martin
One Stanley Cup. The one thing that has eluded the grasp over every St. Louis Blues player and fan is the one thing that the Blues could give everyone for Christmas this year.
The St. Louis Blues reached the Stanley Cup final in their first three years as a franchise and have never returned since. One of the most troubled franchises in NHL history, the St. Louis Blues are seemingly doing everything they can to give their fans a championship.
Granted, the numbers this year do not reflect the effort that the front office has put into these teams to try and win a championship. General manager Doug Armstrong spent up to the salary cap over the offseason but, unfortunately, so far, it has not translated on the ice.
The odds of climbing out of the deep hole that they were put into seems impossible, but crazier things have happened in the NHL. Just last year, an expansion team in their first season made it all the way to the Stanley Cup Final. Anything is possible.
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St. Louis is still full of experience and potential, assuming they don’t sell off their entire team.
They have superstar talents like Vladimir Tarasenko and Alex Pietrangelo, not to mention guys like Ryan O’Reilly, Jaden Schwartz, and (occasionally) Jake Allen.
The team has not been as bad as they have been in recent weeks or even months.
They are slowly putting together better performances on the ice, and in a competitive Western Conference where teams are beating up on each other, it will only take one substantial winning streak for the Blues to get back into contention.
The Blues are ten points back of the Edmonton Oilers for the second wild-card spot in the West and are 13 points away from the Colorado Avalanche for third place in the Central Division.
Assuming that the Blues are anywhere near close to competing for one of the top three spots in the Central is ludicrous, but coming back to at least earn a second wild-card spot is not out of the question.
There are a lot of mediocre teams in the Western Conference, and the Blues are one of them, but they have the potential and the talent to get back into the race. The question is, will the front office be patient enough to keep the team together.
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In the spirit of Chirstmas, the biggest gift the Blues could give their fans is a Stanley Cup. As unrealistic as it seems, the city of St. Louis would shut down for weeks during and after the Stanley Cup Final.