The doubts about the St. Louis Blues are back.
It’s true they sent the defending Stanley Cup champions packing in the first round and are technically the underdogs in their second-round series against the Western Conference’s top-seeded Dallas Stars, but the Blues had a golden opportunity in Game 4 to take a stranglehold lead and move to within a single win of their first berth in the conference final since 2001—and they coughed it up.
Thanks to some sloppy play and a real lack of desperation, the Blues found themselves the victims of a 3-2 loss in overtime in Game 4 on Thursday night at the Scottrade Center.
And it wasn’t a resoundingly strong effort from the Stars that led to the result. There was just no killer instinct from the Blues, who seemed to be buying into their recent success and believe they would dispatch the Stars without breaking a sweat the rest of the way.
Just two nights earlier, the Blues seemed to convincingly persuade skeptics that this was their year—that they’d learned from their many recent playoff disappointments.
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