Blues Building Better Than the Rest - How St. Louis is Nailing the Retool

While most teams stumble through rebuilds like they're learning to skate backwards, the St. Louis Blues are actually doing it right. Their prospect pool is stacked in ways that suggest Doug Armstrong and company have a real plan - not just hope and lottery tickets. The Blues are balancing the present with a future that doesn't look like a decade of pain, which is rarer than you'd think in this league. That's the kind of organizational clarity that separates contenders from also-rans.