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Sheesh. We are only two games into the season and the Blues' lack of depth is already being exposed:

Lee Stempniak's knee injury will force him to miss a second straight game today, and it will cause the Blues to alter their forward combinations again.

In Sunday's practice, T.J. Oshie was moved to the left wing on a line with center Andy McDonald and right wing Brad Boyes. Also, center Jay McClement will play in the middle of left winger Keith Tkachuk and right winger David Backes.

Oh, please. We gotta watch McClement try to act the playmaker he isn't, again? It isn't as if we had lost another center to injury.

It's frustrating. The Blues obviously needed another scoring forward to fill in this season, yet they never landed anyone. Maybe they were interested in Brendan Shanahan, and then again maybe that was just the Blues brass blowing smoke. Either way the product on the ice is going to suffer without a little help. The saddest part is there are guys sitting around still waiting for offers. (I'm thinking Mark Parrish could be had pretty cheaply. A world-beater? Well, no. But the idea is to get some depth, and who else is out there who is only 31 and has six 20+ goal campaigns to his credit?)

If the Blues decide to just go with what they got, they will be shifting around constantly and any offensive cohesion will evaporate quickly.
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