The Blues keep running into the same wall: win two, then stall out before they can make it three.
That pattern has become a real problem for St. Louis over the past three seasons.
The team has found ways to stack together two straight wins fairly often, but the third game in those stretches keeps slipping away. It’s become such a familiar letdown that the Blues have started to look like a team that can build momentum only to lose it at the finish line.
This season has been no different. The Blues are 0-3 when trying to win a third game in a row, and in 2025-26 they were 3-7-2.
Monty: "It takes real commitment playing to an identity and something you believe in. I think we're getting close, but I feel in the last 2 years that hasn't been there enough."
- Jeremy Rutherford (@jprutherford) November 4, 2026
That kind of inconsistency is especially frustrating because this group has still managed to stay afloat through injuries and a constantly shifting roster. Between Springfield call-ups and waiver claims, the Blues have had to keep adjusting on the fly, yet they’ve still played solid hockey overall.
Even so, the inability to turn two wins into three has left a mark. Their record of 7-7-1 when reaching those two-game streaks shows just how often the next step has been there - and how often they’ve failed to take it.
Around the league, other teams have no trouble pushing past that point. Carolina owns the longest win streak so far this season at 10-0-0, and the Hurricanes remain the top team in the Metropolitan Division. That’s what a real run can do: it builds momentum and carries a team forward.
The Blues, meanwhile, keep getting stuck at the same spot. It has become almost automatic to wonder whether the next game after two straight wins will turn into a loss, and that’s a habit St. Louis has to break.
The source of the fix starts with the room itself. Head coach Jim Montgomery and captain Robert Thomas have to help drive the response and get the team back to the identity Montgomery wants. The players have to own it, but the push has to come from the top if this pattern is going to change.
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