SAN JOSE – Blues goalie Brian Elliott is not the primary reason the St. Louis Blues are trailing the Sharks, two-games-to-one. After all, the Blues don’t have a goal in more than 150 minutes, and there’s nothing Elliott can do about that.
Still, his status as the starter for Saturday’s Game 4 is now in doubt. He was pulled on Thursday after Tomas Hertl’s second goal of the evening put San Jose ahead, 3-0 in the third period.
At the postgame press conference, the final question for coach Ken Hitchcock was whether he had a decision to make to go back Elliott for Game 4, or give Jake Allen his first start in the playoffs.