One lousy rut ends Bouwmeester’s streak
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YOU had to know it was more than a little something that kept St. Louis Blues defenceman Jay Bouwmeester from playing against the Winnipeg Jets on Sunday at the MTS Centre.
The veteran blue-liner stepped in a rut in Ottawa Saturday afternoon and the lower-body ailment it caused meant his consecutive-NHL-games-played streak ended at 737 games.
It had been the longest active “ironman” streak in pro sports, having begun on March 6, 2004.
Blues coach Ken Hitchcock said Bouwmeester is day-to-day going forward. His icetime average this season was more than 23 minutes per game.
Bouwmeester’s streak was the fifth-longest in NHL history. Doug Jarvis leads that category at 964 straight games.
Now, the NHL’s longest active streak of consecutive games played belongs to Anaheim’s Andrew Cogliano at 562 games.
