All season long, St. Louis has struggled on the power play. And that continued on Tuesday night in a blowout loss to Florida.

Brayden Schenn scored, and Joel Hofer made 26 saves for the Blues (20-18-1), whose loss on Tuesday snapped a two game winning streak.

“I actually feel we deserved better offensively,” Schenn said. “We had some looks, power play had some looks and the goalie made some saves, but then in saying that, third period, I don’t think we were assertive enough, hungry enough to play with it in their end more and it resulted in them spending time on our own end and getting deflections and goals and before we know it, the game’s out of reach.”

In an all too familiar struggle for the Blues, St. Louis went 0-for-4 on the power play. And it’s been a difference maker all season long.

“Yeah, it has to be a difference,” Blues coach Drew Bannister said of special teams. “Good teams in this league are able to, whether it’s separating games, whether it’s to tie games up when they’re down, they find ways to score goals, to give them energy on the bench. And not saying we’re not getting any energy off our power play, but we have to get our power play in the right mindset that when they step on the ice, they’re going to be difference-makers for us. That’s what we need from those guys. They are difference-makers, they’re our best players and they have to make a difference when they go on the ice.”

Defense and power plays have been the go-to issues for the Blues this season, and while they have bounced back well since the firing of coach Craig Berube, there’s still a lot of work to be done.

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