By Jim den Hollander Editor/Publisher Midwesthockey.info This is the fifth and final off-season story giving a quick look at the past season and an early look at the season ahead for the five Midwest-based NHL teams. Four seasons removed from hoisting the Stanley Cup for the first time in league history, the St. Louis
The defending Stanley Cup champions suffered a heartbreaking setback in its first game back from the long layoff. The St. Louis Blues trailed just once in its Western Conference round robin opener in Edmonton Sunday, but that was unfortunately a Nazem Kadri goal that crossed the goal line as the game clock ticked from 1/10th
The St. Louis Blues opened its 2017-18 Training Camp on Thursday (Sept. 14, 2017) with few new veteran faces in the lineup. The Blues spent most of the summer re-signing its players rather than making big changes and why not? Despite losing out to Nashville in the Central Division final in the spring, the Blues
Vern Fiddler fired the game winner with 5:05 to go, nullifying a nice St. Louis rally and lifting the visiting Nashville Predators to a 4-3 series opening win against the Blues at Scottrade Center Wednesday (April 26) in their National Hockey League Central Division final. The Preds never trailed in the contest, but a pair
There’s a good thing there are no style points in hockey. The Detroit Red Wings at times seemed to throw goaltender Jimmy Howard to the Wolves, but he endured, allowing just one goal on 33 shots, leading his team to a 2-1 win in his first start of the new season against the New York
Midwest NHL Notebook for Oct. 12, 2016 The 2016-17 season started the same way the 2015-16 season ended for the Chicago BlackHawks on Wednesday night as the Hawks dropped a 5-2 decision to the visiting St. Louis Blues. It was the first meeting between the two since the finally figured a way past the Hawks
