When the St. Louis Blues acquired Jay Bouwmeester in the spring of 2013, the plan was multi-faceted. The Blues were looking for a veteran presence to help their young core keep on pace and also to gain an overall solid defenseman.
Bouwmeester has ridden the roller coaster enough to get motion sickness many times over, but has remained his calm, cool, perhaps quirky self throughout it all. He has quietly remained a gigantic part of this team’s defensive unit and kept all the public noise at bay – there has been a lot of it too.