“That was a hard game,” Berube said. “I thought we competed for 60 minutes, just didn’t get the result. But we’ve got to do a better job of screening goalies and getting some dirty goals around the net. We gotta get better in that area.”
That’s what the Blues’ new coach Craig Berube had to say after the team’s 4-1 loss Wednesday night to the Nashville Predators.
The try was there. The execution was not, despite Robert Thomas’ first NHL goal. A couple of turnovers (and a great short-handed goal by Fillip Forsberg, who the Blues are incapable of defending against) and an inexplicable call to pull Jake Allen with five minutes left in the game to gain a 5-3 PP advantage and the Blues are down 4-1 and that’s it.