"Hopefully we're going to learn from it and come out stronger and better at the end because we're going to play some very difficult teams from now till the end of the season and obviously in the playoffs. We have to be able to overcome adversity maybe a little bit better than we have in this stretch."

Here are few more thoughts from Armstrong, and I will have more in tomorrow's Post-Dispatch...

On the root of the Blues' problems lately: "I think part of it is, when we're not having success, the guys take a lot of pride in it, and then they try to play outside of what we need them to do. Sort of the harder they try individually, it's a detriment to the overall success of the team. We just need the guys to feel comfortable, and if they do their job, the guy beside them will do his. That's what makes a good team, not trying to do other people's job. I think they want to have success and they're trying to worry more about what's happening around them. They just need to focus on their own games."