by Bill Pollock | Apr 30, 2016 | Sports Features
Radek Faksa scored with 4:44 left in the third period to give the Dallas Stars a 2-1 win against the St. Louis Blues in Game 1 of the second round at American Airlines Center on Friday. Blues goaltender Brian Elliott stopped Ales Hemsky on a 3-on-2, but Faksa...
by Bill Pollock | Apr 27, 2016 | Sports Features
The St. Louis Blues will play the Dallas Stars on Friday to open the second round of the Stanley Cup playoffs. The players were set to hit the ice on Wednesday, but the feedback coach Ken Hitchcock received told him the players needed one more day off to recover....
by Bill Pollock | Apr 27, 2016 | Sports Features
This is exactly what NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman and the league wanted when they adjusted the playoff format a few years ago to pit more division rivals in the first and second rounds of the Stanley Cup chase. For the second time in three years, it gave us a...
by Bill Pollock | Apr 26, 2016 | Sports Features
One of the questions for the St. Louis Blues heading into this opening round series against the Chicago Blackhawks is how would their young players, like 20-year old Robby Fabbri perform? Fabbri scored 18 goals during the season and finished this series with one goal,...
by Bill Pollock | Apr 25, 2016 | Sports Features
Troy Brouwer, acquired in a trade for T.J. Oshie and brought in to help the Blues in the playoffs, scored his first goal of this series 8:31 into the third period. That gave St. Louis a 3-2 win and series victory over the defending Stanley Cup Champion Chicago...
