The St. Louis Blues got off to a rocky start following their bye-week. With only two games before the NHL trade deadline, the Blues came out of the break looking understandably rusty.
With the exception of Columbus in recent times and a handful other teams throughout the year, most every team has struggled coming out of the bye-week. Usually, the best case scenario is to force a game into overtime in that situation.
The Blues appeared as though they were going to do just that, but were undone by their defending. The defending on the final goal was nowhere near as bad as the first two goals, but all it took was one second of puck watching for Artem Anisimov to get separation on the back side and have ages to pick out the top corner.