St. Louis Blues general manager Doug Armstrong knows how to send a message. So does his head coach — Jim Montgomery’s bold decision to scratch veteran forward Jordan Kyrou ahead of the Blues’ game against Buffalo last week certainly got everyone’s attention.

Armstrong’s time in St. Louis has seen him send more than a few powerful messages to his players, and the roster always seems to respond. The most notable case was around Christmas 2018, when the GM reportedly put out a memo to his NHL peers that the Blues were ready to sell. (As Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman described in Monday’s edition of 32 Thoughts: The Podcast, Armstrong’s language was a little more creative — and festive — than that.) Of course, we all know what happened afterwards: The Blues climbed from worst to first and com

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