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3 mistakes the St. Louis Blues and Doug Armstrong cannot afford to make this offseason
St. Louis Blues general manager Doug Armstrong has a chance to turn his franchise back into a true contender for the 2024-25 season.
By Todd Matthews | Apr 24, 2024
2023 Upper Deck NHL Draft – Rounds 2-7
2023 Upper Deck NHL Draft – Rounds 2-7 / Dave Sandford/GettyImages..
For a team that finished 2022-23 with 81 points and saw many key players leave that season, the St. Louis Blues didn’t backslide any further in 2023-24, even if they didn’t do enough to punch a ticket into a wild card despite enjoying an encouraging run late in the year. It shows that an organization doesn’t always need to tear everything down and rebuild, but simply restructuring could be the better way to go. Continuing with such a mentality will do general manager Doug Armstrong and the Blues well.
But when you finish the current season with 92 points, a total that would have put you in the playoffs had you been in the Eastern Conference, that also screams that you need to do anything and everything you can to return in 2025. Luckily for the Blues, they have enough talent left on this team, even in a “retool phase,” to become one of those eight teams to play in the postseason next year…
