{"id":652415,"date":"2017-04-09T11:19:02","date_gmt":"2017-04-09T15:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/?p=652415"},"modified":"2017-04-09T11:19:02","modified_gmt":"2017-04-09T15:19:02","slug":"looking-back-at-a-really-weird-2016-17-blues-regular-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/looking-back-at-a-really-weird-2016-17-blues-regular-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking back at a really weird 2016-17 Blues regular season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The St. Louis Blues wrap up their 2016-17 regular season with an evening game on Sunday before everyone&#8217;s attention shifts to the playoffs. Before closing the door on the regular season, let&#8217;s take a quick look back at just how bizarre the regular season was. Sometimes it&#8217;s easy to get lost in the craziness of it all and it&#8217;s only when you step back that things fall into perspective.<\/p>\n<p>The 2016-17 regular season was one in which&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Blues kicked Ken Hitchcock to the curb and promoted Mike Yeo early. Maybe this move should have been made at the end of the 2015-16 season, but it finally came as the Blues were in a downward spiral.<\/li>\n<li>Remember the Winter Classic? Seems like ages ago, but that was one of the clear highlights of the year. Unfortunately, a streak of mediocre play followed that huge win against Chicago.<\/li>\n<li>Jake Allen and Carter Hutton were horrible and that&#8217;s being generous. Then, along with the coaching change, the duo took off and became one of the league&#8217;s best.<\/li>\n<li>The fourth line was awesome and contributed some huge goals. They shed the fourth line label and gave the Blues two solid third lines.<\/li>\n<li>Doug Armstrong gave Patrik Berglund a significant extension.<\/li>\n<li>Magnus Paajarvi transformed from a joke into a legitimate offensive threat. His shift into a real contributor is a story which may deserve more attention because it was pretty unexpected and may have gotten lost in the shuffle of the playoff push.<\/li>\n<li>The rise of the youngsters. The injuries the Blues suffered could have been devastating. Instead, the callups all played well and may have earned permanent spots &#8211; particularly Ivan Barbashev.<\/li>\n<li>The Blues were awesome at home which helped mask a road record which straddled the line between average and needs improvement.<\/li>\n<li>Vladimir Sobotka came back. For real. This isn&#8217;t one of those rumors that we all heard for years. The dude actually came back.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And those are just the ones which first came to mind.<\/p>\n<p>So many big and significant moments happened in 2016-17 that it was difficult to remember them all and difficult to appreciate each moment on its own merit.<\/p>\n<p>In a normal year, the firing of a head coach would be the dominating story. Same can be said for the Winter Classic, the ascension of so many young players or the fact the team&#8217;s goaltending was a disaster early in the year. Instead, with so many big stories popping up so quickly and so frequently, the year turned into a blur and it will only be when the dust settles that the 2016-17 year&#8217;s ridiculousness will be truly appreciated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The St. Louis Blues wrap up their 2016-17 regular season with an evening game on Sunday before everyone&#8217;s attention shifts&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":652425,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312679,703638946],"tags":[124688],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.2 (Yoast SEO v22.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Looking back at a really weird 2016-17 Blues regular season - The Sports Daily<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/looking-back-at-a-really-weird-2016-17-blues-regular-season\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Looking back at a really weird 2016-17 Blues regular season\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/looking-back-at-a-really-weird-2016-17-blues-regular-season\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Sports Daily\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-04-09T15:19:02+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/633618442.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"594\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"396\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Alan Draper\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@sportsdailytsd\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@sportsdailytsd\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Alan Draper\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"NewsArticle\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/looking-back-at-a-really-weird-2016-17-blues-regular-season\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/looking-back-at-a-really-weird-2016-17-blues-regular-season\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Alan Draper\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/#\/schema\/person\/2c8aadde2571800d0de74323730df7b5\"},\"headline\":\"Looking back at a really weird 2016-17 Blues regular season\",\"datePublished\":\"2017-04-09T15:19:02+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-04-09T15:19:02+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/looking-back-at-a-really-weird-2016-17-blues-regular-season\/\"},\"wordCount\":460,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/looking-back-at-a-really-weird-2016-17-blues-regular-season\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/633618442.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"St Louis Blues\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Blues\",\"NHL News and Rumors\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"copyrightYear\":\"2017\",\"copyrightHolder\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/#organization\"}},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/looking-back-at-a-really-weird-2016-17-blues-regular-season\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/looking-back-at-a-really-weird-2016-17-blues-regular-season\/\",\"name\":\"Looking back at a really weird 2016-17 Blues regular season - 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