{"id":395944,"date":"2026-01-08T21:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T21:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/395944\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T21:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T21:30:07","slug":"binnington-stuns-blues-bench-with-bizarre-standoff-refusing-to-get-pulled-in-blowout-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/395944\/","title":{"rendered":"Binnington Stuns Blues Bench With Bizarre Standoff, Refusing To Get Pulled In Blowout Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, this seems like something he would do&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>PublishedJanuary 8, 2026 1:10 PM EST\u2022UpdatedJanuary 8, 2026 12:37 PM EST<\/p>\n<p>FacebookTwitterEmailCopy Link<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Goalies are known for being some of the more &#8220;interesting&#8221; players on their respective rosters, but few are known for bizarre antics more than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outkick.com\/category\/st-louis-blues\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">St. Louis Blues<\/a> netminder Jordan Binnington.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">His resume is stellar. Binnington led the Blues to a Stanley Cup in 2019, helped Canada win the 4 Nations Face-Off last year, and has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outkick.com\/category\/connor-bedard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">named to Team Canada for the upcoming Olympics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">That said, he can be difficult.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Blues coach Jim Montgomery got a reminder of that.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">READ: <a class=\"decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.outkick.com\/sports\/mammoth-avalanche-headed-rice-eccles-stadium-2027-winter-classic?utm_source=chatgpt.com\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">MAMMOTH, AVALANCHE HEADED TO RICE-ECCLES STADIUM FOR 2027 WINTER CLASSIC<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">On Wednesday night, the Blues paid a visit to the Chicago Blackhawks in a battle of some Western Conference basement dwellers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">It was a bad night for the Blues across the board with the Connor Bedard and Frank Nazar-less Blackhawks breezing to a 7-3 win, thanks to a 4-goal explosion in the second period.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Now, Jim Montgomery is a good coach, so who am I to question his decisions? That said, I would&#8217;ve given Binnington the hook after that second period.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">He didn&#8217;t do that, and instead left Binnington in to give up another two goals in the third period.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">But after the seventh goal, Montgomery signaled for Binnington to come to the bench while the equipment staff prepared backup Joel Hofer to enter the game.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">But Binnington just stood there and refused to come to the bench, while Hofer stood in the team&#8217;s tunnel.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">This is just so bizarre across the board. It&#8217;s been a rough season for the Blues, but this looks like a sign of some serious dysfunction.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Binnington has a year left on his deal, which kind of made me wonder if we may be closing in on a point where he and the Blues part ways via a trade.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Or, it could just be another instance of Jordan Binnington being Jordan Binnington.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Remember when he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outkick.com\/sports\/ovechkin-900th-goal-binnington-tries-to-hide-puck\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">tried to steal Alex Ovechkin&#8217;s 900th goal puck<\/a> by hiding it in his pants?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">We&#8217;ll have to keep an eye out to see if there&#8217;s any fallout from this or if the team will chalk it up to standard-issue Jordan Binnington antics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yeah, this seems like something he would do&#8230; PublishedJanuary 8, 2026 1:10 PM EST\u2022UpdatedJanuary 8, 2026 12:37 PM&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-395944","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-nhl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}