{"id":557800,"date":"2026-04-22T08:33:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T08:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/557800\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T08:33:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T08:33:13","slug":"for-st-louis-blues-harsh-reality-is-they-must-change-one-aspect-more-than-any-early-in-a-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/557800\/","title":{"rendered":"For St. Louis Blues, Harsh Reality Is They Must Change One Aspect More Than Any Early In A Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI<br \/>\nthink it\u2019s preparation, but I think guys got to truly sink into<br \/>\nthat,\u201d said Blues forward Dylan Holloway, who ripped off 34 points<br \/>\n(14 goals, 20 assists) the final 25 games of the season. \u201cIt\u2019s<br \/>\nnot that guys aren\u2019t prepared, per se. Everybody\u2019s working all<br \/>\nsummer, everyone\u2019s training hard, but I think more mentally, it\u2019s<br \/>\nkind of like, \u2018OK, we start on this day\u2019 like mentally. I think<br \/>\nmentally we\u2019ve got to take it back a little bit and truly like be<br \/>\nmentally prepared for the season because like you said, we got off to<br \/>\ntwo slow starts. But for me, it\u2019s not like this team doesn\u2019t have<br \/>\nthe capability to be an elite team, to be a playoff team. It\u2019s just<br \/>\nkind of finding that consistency more and the start\u2019s huge.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI think it\u2019s preparation, but I think guys got to truly sink into that,\u201d said Blues forward Dylan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":557801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5120],"tags":[71,5,4,534,84,5285,5284],"class_list":{"0":"post-557800","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-louis-blues","8":"tag-blues","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-st-louis","12":"tag-st-louis-blues","13":"tag-stlouis","14":"tag-stlouisblues"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116447438701291922","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}