St. Louis Blues' distance was an overtime game in the second round of the Stanley Cup playoffs.

They entered Game 7 on Sunday, winning the Canadian Center for Life Championship by 5-2 against the Winnipeg Jets. When they start the third phase of the game with a two-goal lead, they may be happy with the chance to move forward.

However, Vladislav Namestnikov's goal has two minutes left and Cole Perfetti's goal is just three seconds left, an impossible goal. Adam Lowry ended the 16-minute mark of the Blues season, forcing them to start off the offseason earlier.

When general manager Doug Armstrong spoke to reporters at a St. Louis season-ending press conference on Wednesday, he dropped a bombshell over a star player.

Armstrong revealed that defenseman Torey Krug may have been forced to retire due to a serious ankle injury he suffered in September, forcing him to miss the entire season.

“I didn’t expect him to play again,” Armstrong said. “Now, he hopes I’m wrong, I hope I’m wrong, he’s pushing, but his surgery is very, very invasive.

“I really don’t think Torey has a lot of uncertainty. I talked to him.

Krug is a 34-year-old former All-Rookie team who contracted Blues for seven seasons in 2021, seven years away from contracting $45 million.

He spent his first nine seasons with the Boston Bruins, who signed him as a vacancier free agent in 2012. He was named one of the top 100 best Bruins players of all time, and he was the first player in franchise history to score four points in a single game in the Stanley Cup final.

"At thirty-three, when you miss a whole year of hockey, obviously those things (retirement) go over your mind," Kruger said in September. "I don't want to look too far, but these are the ones you'll surely think of. … It's tough, but it's just as hard as it's physical."

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