Ever since the start of the season, St. Louis Blues fans knew the team was going to have a choice to make when their players got healthy. We were just wrong in terms of which decision we thought would be the toughest.
Originally, fans figured it would be difficult to find playing time for all the forwards that could be cleared to play. Instead, it is the defenders posing the problem.
When Jay Bouwmeester got healthy, you knew he’d be put back in the lineup right away. It was more of a question of whether he’d be in the first or second pairing.