St. Louis Blues defenseman Jay Bouwmeester will be play his 1,000th NHL regular-season game. He has 377 points (81 goals, 296 assists) in 999 games. His career includes a streak of 749 consecutive games, the fifth-longest in League history. "Consistency," said captain Alex Pietrangelo, Bouwmeester's defense partner. "That's 1,000 games of the same level of hockey, night in and night out. Awfully impressive." The Blues are coming off a 1-0 win against the Los Angeles Kings on Saturday, but they have three goals in their past three games and have been limited to one goal in five of their past six; the lone exception is a 6-4 win at the Calgary Flames on Oct. 22. "I think in Calgary we were able to kind of just expose them a little bit more, but right now we're kind of 50/50 on doing the hard things to score goals," defenseman Kevin Shattenkirk said. "Our forwards are doing a great job of working and getting pucks in the offensive zone. They're getting them to the point. We're not doing a great job of getting our shots through initially, and then when they do get through we don't have a lot of net presence. It's a tale as old as time, you've got to get bodies there and you've got to screen guys like [Rangers goaltender Henrik] Lundqvist, otherwise they're going to have a field day."
