ST. LOUIS -- A few weeks before St. Louis Blues training camp, in what's become an annual tradition, Jordan Binnington sat down for lunch with his junior goalie coach Greg Redquest. Since "goaltender" and "superstitious" are synonymous in hockey, they went to the same chicken wing restaurant and sat in the same booth as they did a year ago.
Everything felt the same. But everything wasn't the same.
A year ago, Binnington was an AHL goalie buried on the Blues' depth chart, yearning for a chance to prove himself. That was before he got the call-up to St.