The St. Louis Blues have put together a three-game winning streak and look to continue it Tuesday night against the Vancouver Canucks. But with just 20 games left and the Blues sitting in fifth in the Western Conference, the team needs to start focusing on the playoffs and the roster it wants to bring into the postseason.
The Blues were hit by the injury bug hard in the month of February, losing Andy McDonald, Vladimir Tarasenko and Alex Steen. T.J. Oshie recently went down with a shoulder injury against the San Jose Sharks, and Alex Pietrangelo was out with the flu against Anaheim.
Overall, the Blues have had many different players in the lineup, and it seems that everyone is starting to get healthy at the right time. The Blues still need one final piece to put together a team that could legitimately contend for a Stanley Cup.
That player is Jarome Iginla.
Iginla has been the go-to trade rumor for the past couple years now. The Calgary Flames are in no way, shape or form a playoff team, and many project Iginla to pull a Bourque: get traded to a team in hopes of winning a Cup before retiring. Even though Iginla has state ...
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