The people getting stressed out over this team need to relax. this team is not very good so just stop expecting them to be anything else than mediocre. There is a reason many of us picked 1 and done at most for this team. They simply are not a good TEAM and they have too many people who refuse to or are unable to play effective two way hockey. Krug and Kyrou along with ROR, Schenn and Faulk are the main reasons this team is total dog shit as they all are severely underperforming.
This team has not played like a team since last fall during this time when they had massive injuries and covid. Since then, look at all the people they have traded or moved. This is not the same 2019 team nor is it a likeable Blues team. They moved people like Sunny, Perron and Chuckie and replaced them with pumpkins. You went from Perron on second line with ROR to Leivo, who is a career AHLer. What did people think was going to happen?
If you want to be a team that rolls 3 or 4 lines, you better have people in the proper positions to succeed on those lines. The Blues lost their depth and as they do not have legit SUPERSTAR/TOPEND elite talent to carry them, you are seeing the results. Tarasenko is not the same player he was before he got hurt years ago, ROR is clearly on the downside of his career and nobody else is even close to be a superstar.
This team needs a retool and the best way to speed this up so it does not last multiple years is to move what you can get and pile as many assets as you can which can then either be moved for players or bank them for the future. They did the same thing in 2017 and 2018 with Shattenkirk and Stastny being moved. Also, just because you move them does not mean you can't resign them in the offseason like they did with Tkachuk and Weight.