They’ve instead got the 70-point Stanley Cup champion freight-train St. Louis Blues. But once Chief (coach Craig Berube) took over, he simplified it for everybody,” said Bouwmeester, the Blues elder statesman. The Blues have a big, mobile back-end that leans on you, probably the biggest blue-line in the league. “Our whole group’s pretty big. It’s kind of how they’ve built our team,” said Bouwmeester, who usually draws the shutdown role with Parayko.

Source: National Post January 31, 2020 09:56 UTC