The St. Louis Blues cannot catch a break this season. They're 10-12-7 through 29 games in the 2025-26 season, good for 27 standings points--three more points than the dead-last Nashville Predators. The Blues' goaltending has been a disaster, head coach Jim Montgomery can't find any answers, and there's no clear path back to contention--not in the short term, and barely in the long view.
Add a run of injuries to key players to the growing list of problems with this team, and the season's as good as over. Alexey Toropchenko is out for weeks, Nathan Walker's going to miss time, and rookie Jimmy Snuggerud--arguably the best goal scorer on the Blues--is going to miss a good chunk of time, too.
While a grueling win over the Ottawa Senators last night should've been cause for celebration, it was overshadowed by a bigger issue: Jordan Kyrou missed the remainder of the game and is unlikely to suit up today, too. If Kyrou's going to join several other teammates on the Injured Reserve list and miss significant time, that's essentially a wrap on a season the Blues are already floundering through.
Kyrou is a frustrating player, but there's no denying he's one of the best forwards on the Blues; perennial 30-plus goal scorers aren't easy to come by, and Kyrou is one of them. The Blues don't have anyone on the roster or in their farm system who could immediately replace his production, and a team that's already one of the worst goal-scoring teams in the league (rocking a league-worst minus-28 goal differential), has almost no hope of reaching the postseason.
If Kyrou is to miss more than a game or two, there's not much left to do for fans this season but fire up ol' Tankathon and hope the lottery balls fall the Blues' way.