Any time a team underperforms, it’s open season as to what happened, which players are to blame or what the team did wrong. The St. Louis Blues are no different and, at times, may fall under extra scrutiny simply because they’re not one of the blue bloods.
In 2022-23, the Blues were thought by many analysts to be a playoff outlier, but most fans (including myself) did not believe it. It made no sense for the team that was one of two to give any challenge to the Colorado Avalanche to turn around and miss the playoffs the next season.