Before this year, I thought the Blues were going to be quite a good team in the Central, thanks to a deep forward group and a couple of stud defencemen. Then they came out and were garbage for a couple of months and fired their coach.
Apparently Mike Yeo really was holding them back (along with failed starter Jake Allen), because the Blues have exploded in 2019. Their underlying numbers show a meteoric rise, and having been left for dead earlier, they now have an eight-point safety net on a playoff spot with games in hand.