This season has seen a lot of ups and downs, with this recent stretch showcasing the St. Louis Blues' best hockey. There are a couple of different reasons why they have been able to stay hot on this post-Olympic stretch, but there is one player who has spearheaded it from the blue line.
That player is Logan Mailloux, and his "rookie" roller coaster season.
With only a few more games left to play, and a lot of them being very important matchups, what does Mailloux have to show to rewrite the script? How can he flip this season from being a failure to a success?
Reverse, reverse
It is important to note that Mailloux came into the 2025-26 season with a bit of an unknown ceiling. The fanbase was a bit skeptical of him at first, due to how Blues General Manager Doug Armstrong was able to acquire him. This franchise had to give up one of its most promising up-and-coming forwards, Zack Bolduc, in order to fill a necessary gap in the defensive regime.
Mailloux has endured some seriously bad growing pains, and it has not been easy to watch. There are a lot more instances of bad than good this season, and that even comes after this nice stretch of hockey that he has had recently. He is reversing his misfortune, but it is slowly coming one game at a time.
Snowball effect
When he was struggling at the beginning of the season, Mailloux endured a bit of a snowball effect. When it rained, it poured on No. 23, and he could not find any way not to get caught up in the downpour.
But in these last 10 games, Mailloux has really turned it around. Since the season started back up on February 26, following the Olympic Break, Mailloux has averaged 22:02 minutes of ice time per game. He has been on the power play, held his own in the five-on-five situations, and really started to showcase that creativity with the puck.
With time, his comfort level will grow. And with that, he will start to take his rightful place as the right-hand man to top defenseman, Philip Broberg.