Stingy defense makes up for quiet offense
"We would like to be higher than what we are on offense, but we don't want to compensate anything defensively to try to do that"
As of Tuesday morning, only one NHL team had scored fewer goals this season than the 53 generated by the St. Louis Blues.
Their shot total ranks near the bottom of the league.
But three other telling statistics show why the Blues are 13-8, fourth overall in the Western Conference and winners of six of their last seven games.
They began Tuesday with the fewest goals against (46), the league's top penalty-killing unit (91 percent) and third-best goals-against average thanks to goalies Manny Legace and Hannu Toivonen (a combined 2.18). Read more