I will strongly disagree with you on that. They have a very, very young and inexperienced defense that is missing two of the best three defenders on the team. Add in the McKee injury and it is worse. Even with this, the defense has managed to play decent.

Look at the average "games played" for other teams and look at the Blues. I think they only have 2 guys with over 350 games of experience. That is almost unheard of in the NHL.