Blues Postgame Show | 11/18/25

Blues Postgame Show | 11/18/25

HD1E St. Louis 101. ESPN is driven by Auto Centers Nissan, home of the lifetime warranty and 30-day return. It’s time for the First Community Credit Union Blues Postgame Show, presented by Scotley Heating Company and Urban Chestnut Brewing Company on 101 ESPN. [Music] Oh, what a kick out to Riley. Far wing tow drag. Knander tucks it in and scores. They couldn’t deny Kneelander the whole way. And the Leafs beat the Blues in overtime on a spectacular move. Spectacular move. No doubt. I I mean, William Nelander just dances a desperate Dylan Holloway trying to get to the puck who was in a weird position. We’ll talk about that in a minute, but then also just dances Jordan Bennington. And no chance for the goalie there as he goes the aggressive route. Nelander holds on to it and just puts it into the back of the net for the gamewinner in overtime. Welcome everyone into our fourth period extended postgame coverage on your home for the Blues 101 ESPN. Alex Ferrario with you as the Blues fall in overtime again. 3-2 the final score as it’s now their third loss in overtime or a shootout in the last five games. Yes, picked up points, but man, these overtimes have been brutal for St. Louis. Um, and this one actually felt like they had the momentum, had the opportunities to win it, but just didn’t shoot the puck. Only zero shots on goal um by the Blues in overtime. And I mean they possessed the puck. If I go to the Corsy rating over on um on natural statick at five on five. I mean the Blues possessed the puck for two and a half minutes of that period. So they had the control. They just didn’t get any shots on net and the Blues essentially fall um in overtime. And man, you hate to see that play because now on social media, I’ve already seen about five different posts of that video calling it the goal of the year. And man, a brutal one on the end of the Blues because you you got a twoon one along the boards. It’s Broberg and Bavic on John Tiveres and no help around John Tiverz. I I mean, he pins it along the boards, those two guys. And it looks like Broberg’s holding on to the stick of John Tiveres to keep him from using it and Pav Navich is just not able to win that puck battle. Tiveres gets it with his foot, kicks it backwards, and then from there it’s just easy going for Nelander dances around Holloway and then dances around Jordan Bennington. But more importantly, it’s you get beat on that board battle and then you go in to look at it. John Defer had been on the ice for a minute and 36 seconds. a minute and 36 seconds for John Tiveres who was on the ice a gas player to say the least. Typically those shifts are about a minute, maybe a minute 10, but by the time you get to a minute 36, well boy you’re talking about lack of energy and Tiveres is able to muster up everything he has to win that battle against Broberg and Bavich and the Blues essentially lose on not winning that board battle. So we’ll hear from the locker room in just a bit. We’ll hear from Jim Montgomery. We’ll also have our final look. But now, let’s get to our Ted Drews three takeaways. It’s time for tonight’s three takeaways presented by Ted Drews Frozen Custard, a St. Louis tradition for over 95 years. On match quality, unforgettable taste. That’s the first takeaway. It It’s an obvious takeaway. You didn’t win the board battles. Now, in the game, I actually felt like you did win the board battles. You were the better team in in regulation tonight. um without question with the exception of about a 10-minute shift in the second period and the Blues rided that chip and only gave up one goal considering what they’ve typically done in the second period. That’s a positive, but you you owned regulation essentially like you go into natural static, the Blues possessed the puck in regulation 55% of the period. They had 23 scoring chances compared to 14. They had five high danger chances. So, what that tells me is one, the Blues weren’t really getting to the front of the net, and the heat map backs that up, but they still possessed the puck. They still were getting scoring chances. They outshot the Maple Leafs 64- 54 in terms of shot attempts. The Maple Leafs had 12 Dzone turnovers. The Blues had two oddman rushes and a total of 23 scoring chances, but they didn’t capitalize. Again, they got the board battles in regulation, but the biggest board battle of them all, they didn’t win in overtime, and that’s what lost them the game. Not capitalizing on chances, not getting to the front of the net, and threeon-ree overtime, you lose the board battle that you absolutely have to win. And I’ll be curious to hear what Jim Montgomery had to say. the other part about that goal that went in and I’d love to to just ask positioning wise uh to the players and to the coaches, you know, Dylan Holloway, and I understand you’re kind of there as puck support in case it it squirts out behind the goalender because if it does, Holloway retrieves it and you’re off to the races, but man, both Buchavic and Broberg were on the far side boards. If that puck goes the opposite direction or comes out the way that it did, you’re in no man’s land with two guys against the goalender and Holloway does get back to at least put pressure on Nelander, but it’s not enough and it’s kind of desperation getting over to it as it just goes straight to the back of the net. So, a wild play in itself. Um, but overall, you didn’t capitalize on the chances that you had and Toronto did and you didn’t win the biggest board battle of the game. Second takeaway for me, you do have to give props to a couple of areas. One, Jordan Bennington, despite him giving up three goals, I thought Jordan Bennington was the reason that this game stayed tied going into reg to overtime. And then on top of that, how about the power play and Daibore D’vorski? Um, you want to talk about how special teams can impact your overall game? Da Dorski’s power play goal showcased it. The Blues were being outshot 10 to3 in that second period. After D’Vorski scored, they outshot Toronto 9 to1 and Toronto only had five shots on goal in the final 20 or in the 21 minutes following the Blues power play goal. So overall, the Blues showcased how quick a power play can shift the momentum and they capitalized on their chance, which is something that they haven’t been able to really do more. If you get more of those, you put yourself in a better position to succeed. And right now, I mean, Dalabore D’vorski is just playing selfish hockey, which I know sounds negative. It’s not meant to be. You need more players playing selfish hockey because D’vorski had five shot attempts, three on goal. Pretty much every time he found the puck, he put it on net. And of those three shots on goal, um, all of them came on the power play. One was in the back of the net. So, the power play unit should try and emulate more of Daibore D’vorski cuz when the puck’s on your stick, you’re just putting it on net and seeing what can happen. Um, and I the Blues had a total of what did I say? 64 shot attempts at this one. So, it’s not that they weren’t shooting the puck, but of those 64 shot attempts, 29 uh got on goal, 18 of them missed the net, and 16 of their shots were blocked, including six of them from Dylan Holloway. Hell of a night for Jordan Kyru and Dylan Holloway. Kyru with 12 shot attempts, six on goal. And then Dylan Holloway with three shots on goal, but had six of his shot attempts blocked uh by Toronto. And then the third takeaway for me, and I think this is what a lot of people are going to be talking about, and just going to be straight honest about it, Pavle Buch is to the point that I think if Jake Neighbors comes back, he might have to sit. Um, and I hate saying it because you need Pavl Buchavic. And my concern would be is if you bench Pavle Buchavic, you might lose Pavle Buch, but man, minus three tonight, 1719 because remember he kind of dropped down to play on that third line. Uh, that’s compared to 21 minutes and 37 seconds of ice time for Robert Thomas. 1613 for Jordan Cyro. A little surprised at how few minutes he has. Um, some of that’s the power play though as Kyru played 207 on the power play. Bhnavic played 311. Um, but not only a minus three, one shot attempt. He had one shot attempt tonight and it was blocked. And the biggest one that I think you can look at was in overtime prior to that William Nelander goal that won it. Broberg gives him a pass with a twoon-one. Pabuch Navich stumbles over it and to me looked like he was trying to make the pass over to Broberg again. It it’s it it seemingly feels like he’s just deflecting every chance to shoot the puck right now and pass it pass it pass it. And what they need if they want Pablo Bavich to break out of this is just put the puck on net. The more you shoot the better your better chance you’re going to have in breaking through and scoring. And we played the audio earlier from Jim Montgomery talking about Pavuch Navich. You know, when he is on his game and confident, he’s one of the best players on the ice. He’s not confident right now. And it’s showing in the amount of the lack, I guess I should say, of willingness to shoot the puck. Here’s his total shot attempts in his last 10 hockey games. Three shot attempts, zero shots on goal. Three shot attempts, one shot on goal. Three shot attempts, two shots on goal, zero shot attempts, zero shots on goal. Six shot attempts, three shots on goal. Three attempts, one on goal. Three attempts, two on goal. And then tonight, one attempt, zero on goal. Right now, I they’re they’re trying to push through it for Pavo Buch, but man, this is one of those games. He was a minus three, which I know plus minus isn’t everything, but you’re a minus three. You have that scoring chance at overtime that you don’t shoot. It comes back the other way, goes into a board battle that you lose and then Pavle Buch, Philip Broberg lose that board battle and Nellander puts it into the back of the net. So an overall frustrating loss I would imagine for the Blues. Yes, they did do good things tonight. I thought they were the better team in regulation. I thought the power play looked really good. How about the penalty kill going three for three, allowing two shots on four minutes of of a power play time for Toronto and Bennington was great. Defensively, you really didn’t allow much in terms of the slot in the middle of the ice. But man, all of that is just erased when you talk about another game where you missed those opportunities to score and in three-on-ree overtime, you lost that board battle that found its way into the back of the net. So, those are my takeaways. As always, we want to hear yours. 314399646. Also, our YouTube channel at 101 ESPN SDL. Enough from me. Let’s hear from Cam Fowler. The sound bite of the night is presented by Rocket Convenience Stores. Fuel your car and your daily cravings at Rocket Convenience Stores. Tough one to swallow. You guys probably deserve better than this one. Um yeah, I mean I thought it was a it was a good game, a good hard-fought game, both teams. Um there was desperation on both sides and it comes down to a play or two and um you know give ourselves a chance at stealing a couple points on the road. So, I think there’s a lot that um that we can build off of. Does it seem like it just comes down to a play or two with you guys here? Yeah. I mean, um tonight, yes, I think um I think if we look back on it, um you know, a couple bounces here and there, um you know, we could be looking at a different outcome, but um at the end of the day, we got to find a way to um start putting some wins in the win column here. So, um, no, no matter what it takes or how we have to do it, um, you know, it’s a resultsbased game and we have to figure out, uh, a way to start stacking some wins here. What changed when you guys, uh, had the shot advantage like 16 to three over a stretch of the game after you won the power play? Um, I think we were just, you know, we felt felt like we played a good period the first period. It didn’t show up obviously on the the scoreboard or the shot total, but I think we just um continued to stay with the process and believe in one another. We got a couple power plays in the second period which can uh got a goal and and built some momentum off of that. So I think that um kind of gave us a chance of getting back in the hockey game. There you go. That’s Cam Fowler and appreciate Jeremy Rutherford helping us out from the road. Let’s take a break. When we come back, we’ll hear from Jim Montgomery and we’ll get our final thoughts after the Blues fall in overtime 3-2 to the Maple Leafs. 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We’ve talked a ton about Blues struggling to keep the puck out of their own net, struggling to find the back of the net. And man, the the overtime struggles has just been a wild one. Like if I go back through and I’m going to have to do this on the fly before we hear from Jim Montgomery, but you know, you go back through and look at some of these overtime games that the Blues have lost uh to the Kings, zero shots on goal. The Canucks, they had two shots on goal in overtime. And that of course went to the shootout and they lost that one. Uh overtime against the Seattle Kraken, zero shots on goal. Overtime against the Flyers, one shot on goal. And then tonight, zero shots on goal. So, in the five overtime periods that the Blues have played this season, mind you, two of those five went to a shootout, which means they played the full five minutes of the five overtime games that the Blues have played. What is that, 25 minutes, less than that, obviously, if they didn’t go that far, they’ve put together a total of five shots on goal if I’m not mistaken there. I think that’s what I did on the math there. That’s essentially one shot a game in overtime, which sometimes that’s all you need. But the problem for the Blues is there was three of those games that they did not have a shot on goal in overtime where this team was actually dangerous in overtime last year. And it’s hard for me to say that it’s because they don’t have Jake Neighbors out there because I I mean Jake Neighbors is good. He’s probably the third guy that goes out there in the line. And I actually thought Robert Thomas, Jordan Kyu, Dylan Holloway, they were really effective in overtime. Had their scoring chances. It just missed the net. Pero Broberg all had their scoring chances as well. Well, it’s just unfortunate that the shots missed the net or they didn’t take the shot and then of course the board battle that loses the game on the other side. Let’s hear from Jim Montgomery after his team’s loss in overtime. It’s time to hear from the head coach Jim Montgomery presented by Fiser window and door store offering quality Americanmade Marvin windows and doors. Visit their showrooms in Brentwood or East Alton, Illinois. My uh hallway doesn’t get the shut off at one end and then a board battle at the other. Can you take us through the OT sequence here? Um, yeah. I mean, we had a couple of rush chances there that never materialized really hitting the net. Um, Holloway had the last one, then they went the other way and we doubled up in the corner and we weren’t able to win that battle, which were two there won. I forget who there won. I think it was Diver. I know it’s a high-end player, but we got to win that battle. You know, we had won a lot of battles during the game and uh that was one that cost us the game. Tough because of the way you played the second half of the game, a lot of urgency. Yeah, you know, I thought our first period, we actually liked our first period. We missed the net with a couple of three opportunities. Um we thought we were playing to the goal line. Thought our forch check was good and we thought we were being physical and taking away time and space. The first like 11 minutes of the second period weren’t very good. we weren’t winning puck battles, weren’t strong on our sticks, um and they just came at us, you know, and then we got that power play goal and um things kind of flipped and then we started playing better. I was going to ask you what did change with that goal? Obviously get a lift. Yeah, I I thought it was coming a little bit before that five on five. I think that’s why we got the power play. Um but you know, in the third period we just played more direct. Um I like the way we we were won a lot of battles. big picture, how do you look at it? I mean, so many good things to take away, but tough way to end it there. Yeah, it is. I mean, you know, um we did play um with much more intention. Uh we’re much more physical and those things are good, but we we need to start winning games. Yeah. I mean, that’s just it. I Somebody on the YouTube chat said, “Alex sounds like he’s okay with losing.” No, but I I don’t really know what else to say anymore. Like, we can only sit here and pick through the games with a fine tooth comb. Actually, what what am I saying right now, Jordan? We need to We need to jump into the final look. It’s time to take a look back at tonight’s game with the final look driven by Pure Performance. Only stop for all your aftermarket vehicle needs. Sell all the good stuff before we actually get to the segment. No, I’m not okay with all of the losing, but what else is there to say? We’re picking through these games with a fine tooth comb of, oh, well, we did this right and they did this right. It’s why, you know, one win doesn’t feel like it makes a difference until you until you start seeing strings of victories together or strings of good games played together like this one tonight. I agree with Jim Montgomery and I know people don’t want to hear it cuz it’s a loss. I thought they played well in in regulation compared to what it looked like against Vegas where it felt like they were sleepwalking through the game and I think Justin Faulk said afterwards that you know it was like they were in airplane mode that or an autopilot I think is what he said that was not the case against the Maple Leafs tonight. But I’m also not going to look at that and say well you deserved to win this hockey game because you you didn’t you didn’t go to the front of the net. You didn’t get that sustained pressure. You rolled lines. You had your opportunities. You tilted the ice, but it was a lot of perimeter hockey and there wasn’t enough fight to get to the front of the net and the overtime. I mean, Jim Montgomery said it said the exact same thing that I did. You got to win that board battle. It’s twoon-one with a third guy waiting for the loose puck. Somebody has to come out with that puck away from the boards. I think Jim Montgomery said the other day uh few games ago what he wanted from his team. He said, “I I want us to win board battles, puck battles. I want them to go in, come out with the puck in somebody’s arm.” That’s the mentality you wanted, and you just didn’t have it in that scenario. So, am I okay with another loss? Absolutely not. I want to see this team start piling up victories. But right now, there’s really nothing else to say until you start seeing it in action. There’s no more of this, well, we’re building towards something, and there’s elements to the game that are good. Absolutely. But you’re losing pivotal board battles. You’re making mistakes at the wrong time of the hockey game. And you’re just not going to the front of the net to find those scoring opportunities. So all those things pile up to where the Blues are at right now. Do I think that they can turn this thing around and get it right? Yeah, hopefully. Um I don’t know. When Jake Neighbors comes back, one guy is not going to change this whole thing. But when you put somebody like a Jake Neighbors in, you’ve got somebody who goes to the front of the net. This was this the worst game that they have played this season? No. By far. No way. I mean, the Capitals in this in the um Flyers game have to be up there. The Vegas Golden Knights one’s probably up there as well. This one is an ugly loss because of the amount of people that were missing for the Maple Leafs. We’ve seen this before that when teams are missing their best players though, they knuckle down and seem to play tighter hockey. This was a game, we said it in pregame, both teams viewed as a must-win. And one team came on to out with a victory. The other one is going to be looking back saying missed chances. But that’s just where they’re at right now. That’s where they’re at. And unfortunately for this team, I think a lot of fans aren’t willing to look at one game with a couple of good elements to it or building blocks to it. They want to see wins. That’s what Jim Montgomery said. It’s what Cam Fowler said, and they’re not wrong. You’re four games away from Thanksgiving, and we all know the stat when it comes to Thanksgiving and where you sit in the playoffs. Now, last year the Blues bucked that trend. I don’t know if I’d be banking on a 12-game win streak to put them back into a situation like that. So, right now, the Blues had to figure out how to make the turn of those 50/50 moments that result in the opposition winning a hockey game versus them winning the hockey game. And until they figure that out, they’re going to find themselves in the same position where they keep looking on the bad side of a loss versus picking up that first victory and then giving themselves the chance of stringing together some wins. So, that’s just kind of where it’s at right now. And unfortunately, it results in a loss. And the Blues look to get it right on Thursday when they take on the Philadelphia Flyers. That game on Thursday is at 6:00. A little revenge action for the Blues after that game against Philly went the opposite direction in St. Louis. 6:00 puck drop on Thursday with a pregame skate beginning at 5:30. Extended pregame at 5:00 here on your flagship station 101 ESPN. That’ll do it for us tonight. A huge shout out to Jordan Deacon who’s done a great job for us. Thank you to all of you for listening, tuning in, and commenting and joining in on the conversation. We’ll talk to you Thursday night when the Blues take on the Flyers. Coverage starts at 5 right here on your home for the Blues 101 ESPN. Thanks for listening to the First Community Credit Union Blues Postgame Show presented by Scottley Heating Company and Urban Chestnut Brewing Company on 101.

The Blues fall to the Maple Leafs 3-2 in overtime.