It seems obvious that Ivan Barbashev is here to stay with the St. Louis Blues.
The young Russian forward has two goals and one assist on the season. He’s still not getting a ton of ice time. Monday night in Los Angeles, he was out there just over 10 minutes. Only Dmitrij Jaskin saw less time, and he got his face mashed in by teammate Robert Bortuzzo. But at least he’s playing, right Nail Yakupov and Zach Sanford?
We’ve heard a little from Barbashev. When he scored his first goal in Ottawa, he didn’t get a lot of congratulations on his phone because he didn’t have a data plan that worked in Canada.