When Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote, “Come, come thou bleak December wind/And blow the dry leaves from the three!” he probably didn’t envision the St. Louis Blues having the hiccups as they transitioned out of November hockey and in to a situation in which a couple of line changes may or may not have affected their play in a fashion that cost them consecutive games.
The imagery is nice, though.
The two fall months of the National Hockey League season remain visible only in the rearview and the second act, if you will, has arrived. No portion of the campaign means more than any other but a club’s results in one sector can affect how it approaches another, i.