ST. LOUIS, Mo.– The Blues, three points behind both Colorado and Anaheim for the first and second wild cards, respectively, with a game in hand on both the Avalanche and Ducks, face another team far out of the playoff picture in the Canucks (26-39-9) but one coming off a 5-2 win at Chicago on Thursday to break a seven-game losing streak.
"I can't say I was surprised," Yeo said. "It's the NHL. There's a lot of pride in players. You look around the league night after night, there's teams that are out of the playoff picture that are winning hockey games and they play loose, they've got guys who are playing for jobs."
"Most of us have been part of a team at some point, either as a player or as a coach, where you're out of the playoffs and you know that feeling, you know the team's going to have to make decisions and you're going to have to do everything you can, play as hard as you can to prove you deserve to be there."
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"They played real hard last night, they put a lot of pucks on net from dangerous spots, so we have to be ready for that."
The Blues will then jet off to Columbus to play the red-hot Blue Jackets, who have won 10 straight games.
