St. Louis Blues: Grading Every Player At The All-Star Break

Goalies

Allen:  A-

Jake Allen‘s record is not all that eye-popping. He stands at 8-3-3 at the All-Star break.

He has played in 17 games and started 14. Oddly enough, two of those three games played that were not starts came in the last couple weeks leading up to the break, but we will get to that in a bit.

Overall, though, Allen has played very well. He was admittedly shaky in his first game or so, but once he shook off the rust, we saw the Snake that led the Blues over the Minnesota Wild in the playoffs in 2017.

Allen’s 2.22 goals against ranks fourth in the NHL at the break. His .927 save percentage ranks third in the league.

Allen is still being used primarily on the road. However, he has regained some favor with fans at home, going 2-1 with a 1.89 goals against on home ice.

Binnington:  B+

Some will say this grade is not fair, but sometimes you are grading against yourself. That is the case with Jordan Binnington.

Binner was so good in the 2019 portion of 2018-19 that he faced a herculean task of trying to live up to that. In that attempt, he has done a fine job, but to earn an A or A+, he would basically have to repeat that. That’s almost impossible.

Binnington’s numbers are good, not great. He went into the break at 22-8-5.

The thing with Binnington is there has suddenly been a feast or famine aspect to his game. He has bailed the Blues out of plenty of games where they didn’t have legs until well into the contest. The flip side is he has been replaced three times this season. Making matters worse, two of the times came right before the break with blowout losses to Colorado.

Those games did nothing for his stats as he let up seven goals in one game and four goals on 11 shots in the other. Overall, he has a .912 save percentage, which isn’t the best, but his 2.58 goals against is not that bad.

The goals against number puts him 16th in the league. However, only three goaltenders who have played 30 or more games have better numbers.