Jay Bouwmeester is right.



If the Blues had added to their lead in the third period of Sunday’s game against the Anaheim Ducks —let’s say when Jordan Schmaltz couldn’t bury a beautiful net-front feed from Jordan Kyrou that would have extended the Blues’ lead to 3-1 with less than 15 minutes left in regulation — then we might not be talking about another defensive breakdown that cost the club a win.



But as it were, the Ducks tied the score at 2 just two minutes after Schmaltz’s missed opportunity, then we were left analyzing Alex Pietrangelo’s inability to stay strong on the puck on Andrew Cogliano’s go-ahead goal with 5:16 left in the Ducks’ 3-2 win.



“I think that’s really simplifying things when you just look at it that way, when you look at one play that makes a whole game,” Bouwmeester said. “There are a lot of moving parts in a game and there are lots of times where we...