St. Louis Blues Tickets

The Blues play some serious defense. This is a five-man effort to give the opponent the fewest looks at the goal as possible. Now, yes every hockey team in the NHL can claim to use the entire team to defend, but only one really does. St. Louis is putting on a defensive clinic every night at the Scottrade Center and they have plenty of patients willing to watch with St. Louis Blues tickets in the waiting room.

It begins with Jaroslav Halak and Brian Elliott. The goalies split time in the net because of just how good they are, which is rare in the NHL. Together, they are going to shutout 15 to 20 games. This is an incredible stat and one that will lead to the conference finals come the postseason.

Now, it is great that the top-six and top-four spend so much time protecting the net, but the team has to discover some way to move the offense into at least the middle tier to take the next step and play in the Stanley Cup Finals. If David Perron and Andy McDonald are able to remain healthy it will go a long way to putting some distance between the Blues and the opponent. With Alex Pietrangelo and Kevin Shattenkirk bringing up the puck from the blue line and Perron and McDonald on different lines as left wings, this is a balanced effort to wear down the opposition and score late in the game. Center David Backes is the closest player St. Louis has to an offensive star. He is an equal threat to score and set up one of his teammates.

Overall, the Blues are in an excellent position to repeat as the Central Division champs in 2013. The stellar team defense guarantees the top spot in a division that is still competitive yet has endured far more loss than infusion of talent. The STL Blues tickets for the postseason are likely to end with the first Stanley Cup appearance in more than four decades.