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‘Our best players not doing the job’ amid another Blues skid
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ST. LOUIS – A longtime star and captain are gone, playoff hopes are grim, and there seems to be legitimate concern about recent efforts from the St. Louis Blues.
Head coach Craig Berube is not satisfied after the Blues dropped their fourth consecutive game Thursday. St. Louis lost a long lead in the final minute of the third period and fell in overtime to a worse-positioned Vancouver Canucks team.
“A lot of our best players not doing the job,” St. Louis coach Craig Berube said. After St. Louis Post-Dispatch Blues writer Jim Thomas asked “Why?,” Berube responded, “I guess they don’t care about the team, I don’t know. Not sure why.”
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Berube did not call out specific players with those comments, but when asked about young talents Robert Thomas and Jordan Kyrou, he noted their recent production has been “not good enough.”
The latest four-game losing streak comes one week after the Blues moved captain Ryan O’Reilly and two weeks since moving longtime star Vladimir Tarasenko in trades. Both were pending free agents and largely anticipated to be dealt in wake of St. Louis’ prolonged season struggles.
The latest four-game losing streak is the Blues’ fourth skid of such length this season, which includes an eight-game losing streak very early in the season. The Blues only had two four-game winless streaks last year and hadn’t reached five under Berube until this past season.
Despite the tough circumstances, Berube questions the motivation of his squad.
“Our best players don’t play with any passion, no emotion and no inspiration at all,” said Berube. They don’t play inspired hockey. You cannot play in this league without emotion, grit, being inspired. They’re getting paid lots of money and they’re not doing the job. End of story,” he noted to close his postgame media session.
Berube noted that only a handful of players gave strong efforts Thursday, praising Alexei Toropchenko, Pavel Buchnevich and Jordan Binnington for their work.
Toropchenko, a second-year forward who had the game’s opening goal, has a message for the team regardless of standings position.
“Even if we are not in a playoff spot, I will do everything because it’s a hockey game. This is NHL. You are not playing in a beer league or something. You need to show something, you need to show character and be strong everywhere, play from your heart.”
The Blues close out February with two home games Saturday against the Pittsburgh Penguins and Tuesday against the Seattle Kraken. MoneyPuck.com gives the Blues around a 1% chance of making playoffs this season, a franchise standard for much of the past decade.
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JEFFERSON COUNTY, Mo. – Two people are behind bars after a man reportedly attacked a Jefferson County deputy with a screwdriver during an attempted arrest over the weekend.
Prosecutors have charged Nicholas Davis, 47, and Amanda Davis, 45, of Dittmer, Missouri, with felonies in the investigation.
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The alleged attack followed a traffic stop of a driver in the 9500 block of Jones Creek Road on July 7, though the driver was not Nicholas or Amanda.
According to court documents obtained by FOX 2, Nicholas reportedly came out of his nearby home, yelled at a deputy and started approaching him while holding a screwdriver. The deputy initially ordered Nicholas to back away, then used pepper spray.
Per court documents, the deputy attempted to arrest Nicholas, who then struck him in the chest with the screwdriver. Amanda reportedly approached the deputy and pulled him away from Nicholas before both ran inside their home.
The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office says the situation prompted an hours-long standoff involving negotiators, a SWAT team and a K-9 deputy. The situation led to Nicholas refusing warnings and being bitten by a K-9.
Nicholas and Amanda are both jailed in the Jefferson County Jail without bond. Nicholas is charged with first-degree assault on a special victim and armed criminal action. Amanda is charged with resisting/interfering with arrest.
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ST. LOUIS — The new St. Louis schools superintendent will be officially sworn into office today. Dr. Keisha Scarlett took over the job in July after the retirement of Dr. Kelvin Adams. She was assistant superintendent in the Seattle Public School District. The installation ceremony is at 6:15 p.m. before the regular school board meeting.
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ST. LOUIS — A gasoline tanker truck crashed into a Metro transit center near Riverview and Hall Streets early Tuesday morning and knocked over a power pole. The pole is leaning on other power lines. Police have the area blocked off here because there is a downed power line. Ameren and Metro crews are also on the scene.
The incident happened around 12:30 a.m. It’s still unclear exactly what caused the crash, but we do that there was a second vehicle somehow involved. The airbags on that second vehicle did deploy.
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Police at the scene have not been able to give us a lot of details. Metro officials tell FOX 2 that the transit center here is operating this morning for passengers and buses. Access to certain areas will be limited here as clean up unfolds.
A Metro spokesperson says half of the station isn’t being used right now because of safety issues. It isn’t impacting overall bus operations, everything is just happening on the other side of transit center.
The extent of the damage to the actual transit center is still unclear, but I’m told it does not appear to be extreme. A Metro spokesperson tells me there were no injuries to any metro workers or passengers. The tanker driver also was not injured.
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