St. Louis Blues goaltender Jordan Binnington has played in only seven career NHL games, six of which have come this season.



When he gets in front of a camera, his excitement level doesn’t seem to sync up with the level of nervousness you’d think he’d have. As he put it during an almost eerily calm postgame interview after his first career shutout on Jan. 7, he gets “excited on the inside” while remaining cool and collected to his onlookers. For the 25-year-old goaltender, it’s a personality trait more than anything.



That kind of level-headed exterior is nothing new for St. Louis fans, who have dealt with an even-keeled temperament in postgame interviews from Jake Allen for the past six years. But the way it seems to have bled over into Binnington’s play as well — he has provided a reassuring level of consistency from game to game in his first month of regular NHL action — is something the team hasn’t had in...