The St. Louis Blues had one of their best starts to a season in team history in 2017-18 and missed the playoffs. While the start to the 2018-19 season is not historically bad, it is hard to imagine the team doing a reverse and making the playoffs in spite of the start.
However, the growing sentiment that this is the fault of Doug Armstrong is just plain wrong. In fact, I am not exactly sure what else the Blues general manager was supposed to do.
Armstrong has never been a perfect GM. While he has made some good deals, he has been somewhat reactionary.