After the St. Louis Blues collected losses in five consecutive games for the first time under the tenure of Head Coach Craig Berube, Blues General Manager Doug Armstrong held a closed-door meeting with his team.
"(It wasn't a) fire and brimstone meeting, but just a reality check," Armstrong said after the Blues practiced at Centene Community Ice Center on Tuesday. "I went through some stats. We're in the bottom quartile of anything that matters in the NHL right now. And that's the best we are. Goals for, goals-against, goals-against average, we're in the bottom. You look at our goal differential, we're in the bottom. Our special teams are not special. We need to make sure this is ground zero and we start building our way up.
"What I said to the players… obviously we're in the winning business, but what we need to see is a competitive level that is higher than what we have now."
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