Andy Murray Would Like the Blues to Know They Didn't Play Well Against Boston

It's been a rough season for the St. Louis Blues, a young team that's been decimated by injuries --ranging from the ridiculous, to the absurd -- so you'll have to excuse head coach Andy Murray if he's just a tad bit annoyed following 6-3 losses at home.

After Blake Wheeler and the Bruins completed their goal-scoring assault on Sunday, the St. Louis bench boss decided to go down the roster -- at least that's the way it seemed -- and point out the players who didn't exactly put on a strong showing against the top team in the Eastern Conference. Some guys played so poorly -- in his eyes -- that he mentioned them twice. And poor David Perron, I think that may have been the worst call-out of the bunch.

Jeremy Rutherford from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch has the post-game carnage:

"I didn't think (Patrik) Berglund was good, I didn't think (David) Perron was good, I didn't think (Keith) Tkachuk was good ... I didn't think (Brad) Boyes was good," Murray said. "I thought (David) Backes was all right." "I expect Jeff Woywitka to be a lot better than he was today," he continued. "David Perron ... where's he? Berglund, I expect him to be better. Am I being a little hard on them here? That's just the way that it is."

Murray also threw his starting goalie, Manny Legace, under the proverbial bus for his inability to play well in back-to-back games this season, saying "We need Manny to be able to play back-to-back games every so often. Manny has only been available to us a certain number of games this year. He should be capable of playing back-to-back once or twice. We don't do it very often, but we needed him today."

Seriously, Andy, it's unhealthy to hold in all of your raw emotions like this. Just let them out. Veteran forward Keith Tkachuk wasn't exactly pleased that Murray would point the finger at so many players because, you know, they're a young team and all that jazz. Fragile egos and what not.

Personally, I'm kind of split on this. On one hand, they're all professionals and a little public criticism shouldn't really be that much of an issue where they cease to function on the ice. Especially if the coach is simply trying to light a fire under a slumping team.

On the other hand, Brad Boyes, for example, one of the guys Murray pointed the finger at following Sunday's loss, has been one of the few players worth the price of admission in St. Louis the past two years, as he's currently on pace for his second straight 40-goal season. Does that mean he's beyond criticism? Well, no. But still, it's not like he's been a constant failure for the Blues and one of the reasons they're where they currently are in the standings, deserving to be called out through the media after an off day.