from Tom Timmermann of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch,

The repeated thud-thud-thudding that has been the Blues’ season may have hit rock bottom on Thursday night in a 7-4 loss to Columbus at Enterprise Center, landing with an empty, hollow plop not unlike a bag of fertilizer falling from the top of a tall building onto wet grass. It’s almost sure to leave a mark.

Of course, maybe it only seems to be at rock bottom. Maybe there’s still farther to go.

The free-falling Blues’ future is still very much up in the air as it seems to be making a beeline for the basement. In any case, reports of the Blues having found their game in Canada turned out to be greatly exaggerated, at least on this night. After a brief flurry of interest to start the game that put them up 2-0, a score that only means grief in these parts, the Blues gave up a goal, then another, then another and, well, the final score was 7-4 so you get where this is headed. The theme for the night soon became the odd-man rush, which Columbus seemed to have time after time; for Blues’ goalies, the theme was fishing the puck out of their own net.

After the game, and after 23 minutes spent with the doors to the dressing room closed while players and coaches talked, Blues captain Alex Pietrangelo spoke to the frustration that affected the entire team: “I’m tired of having these conversations. We need to be better. We’re just not good in small aspects of our game. We’re giving up odd-man rushes. We’re giving up chances that are uncharacteristic of this group. Small things make a difference in the game now, especially the way every team is built, every team can score. We’ve got to take care of our end. I’m tired of leaving our goalie out to dry.”

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Highlights are below along with Mike Yeo post-game comments.

added 8:51am, added an article regarding he future of Mike Yeo below the videos.