Going back to the Blues-Red Wings game for a moment: there are times you look back at a team's loss and say, "that was the beginning of the end for the head coach." I have a feeling tonight might be that for Craig Berube.
Now, I don't think what's going on is Berube's fault at all. The Blues are not a good team, it was going to take overachieving to make the playoffs in the first place, it's hard to imagine another coach coming in and lighting a fire under the asses of players who can't make basic plays and too often are oblivious to what's going on around them such that they start playing better to the point they're contending for a playoff spot again. But a loss at home in which the team blows 3 1-goal leads, coming on the heels of ugly losses to bottom feeders Columbus and Chicago, against a Detroit team that had played the night prior, who was missing Perron and Larkin tonight, ... it makes me think of lots of other times where you knew the end was coming and it was just a question of when - and I don't think a win over Ottawa on Thursday changes what's coming.