St. Louis Blues Morning Links: A Wild Night

Good morning Blues fans! Two days into the 2016-17 season, the Blues are alleviating fears and generating excitement. It’s hard to imagine the year starting much better.

The St. Louis Blues took down the Minnesota Wild 3-2 on day two of the 2016-17 season. Taking nothing away from the Wild, but the game should not have been that close.

The Wild scored one legit goal and one was all but handed to them on a platter. In two games, that seems to be a reoccurring theme.

The Blues have had two turnovers to opponents in open space and both led to goals. I said it on twitter and it boils down to that – two games, two silly turnovers and two goals allowed.

These things are going to happen over the course of an NHL season. Still, as well as the team has played, it is a little disappointing to gift your foes some goals. That can’t happen with such regularity.

On the positive side, the Blues are getting a great team effort. The players we worried would be defensive liabilities have not been.

We’d all still like to see some goals from David Perron or Robby Fabbri, but they will come. Overall, it’s just been solid team efforts.

The only other negative, and this is nitpicky, is I hope we don’t see a constant rotation of players. Magnus Paajarvi worked well, but the staff needs to settle on a lineup and maybe only switch it up every five games or so instead of every other one.

Here are some interesting Blues links to start your day off right.

I did not particularly think it was great, but if you want to relive it, here is the pregame ceremony before the home opener. (Blues)

Sticking with the Yakupov theme, the Blues’ legend, Bernie Federko was quite in favor of the deal. (Fox Sports Midwest)

We’re going to be beaten over the head with the 50th Anniversary theme, but Fox Sports did put together a quick highlight of how it all began. (FSM)

In case you’ve been napping, you can now watch all the Blues Fox Sports produced games online – as long as your provider carries the channel (St. Louis Gametime)

Regardless of the reason, Blues owner Tom Stillman is very happy with the increased interest in his team (Inside STL)

If you’re into that sort of thing, there is a dedicated page to the odds on each NHL game. (NBC Sports)

The Blues will take on the Rangers on Saturday night. Both will be undefeated after New York won its opener. (NBCSN/AP)

Former Blues captain David Backes got his season with the Boston Bruins off to a good start. (NHL)

Stan Kroenke said St. Louis is a dead city, but the St. Louis Blues are helping to prove that wrong by bringing in large amounts of cash. (CBS/KMOX)

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In non-Blues related news, the L.A. Kings got some devastating injury news to open their season. (LA Times)

Thanks for reading and have a great day.