With their goalie situation in disarray, the Blues called up Pheonix Copley from Chicago of the AHL on Friday morning.

The Blues play at Winnipeg on Saturday afternoon. Coach Ken Hitchcock has not named a starting goalie for that game, but this much is known: Thursday night starter Jake Allen, who was pulled twice from the Blues' 7-3 loss to Washington, will not be on the trip to Winnipeg.

"I don't want to make a mountain out of a molehill," Blues general manager Doug Armstrong said after practice on Friday. "Jake is not going to join us on the trip to Winnipeg. We're going to give him a day to reset. ... Jake's struggling right now and I made a decision last night that I think taking a day away, and getting a total reset, he could get a reset traveling with the team, but I wanted a complete reset and then we come back on Sunday, he's back in the net and he's ready to go. To me it's not a huge story; he's going to take a day to get a reset with his family, he just had a young baby, but the play needs to improve and I want to give him a fresh start."

Armstrong said that he hasn't lost confidence in Allen, despite the recent results.