The St. Louis Blues are officially the Stanley Cup Playoffs’ worst team.
At one point, the Blues were just 1.6 seconds away from eliminating the Winnipeg Jets and moving on to face the Dallas Stars in the second round, but thanks to the latest game-tying goal in postseason history from Cole Perfetti, Winnipeg bounced back to force overtime.
In that extra period, it was Jets captain Adam Lowry who redirected a Neal Pionk point shot, propelling Winnipeg to the Game 7 victory and onward to the second round, eliminating Jordan Binnington and the Blues just like that.
Thanks to Winnipeg’s loss to Dallas, which then lost to Edmonton, which lost to Florida in the Stanley Cup, it can be officially be determined that St. Louis is the ultimate loser of the postseason.
Usually the bite of playoff elimination stings a bit less when you lose to the team that won the championship or lost in the final.
This time around for both the Blues and Jets, the storyline couldn’t get any bleaker. They lost to the team that lost to the team that lost to the team… and so on, and so forth.
On the other side of the coin is Edmonton and Florida. One team has lost the Cup final in back-to-back years, while the other has now been to the Stanley Cup for three-straight seasons, winning the last two.
Will Winnipeg and St. Louis find a way to retool their teams to fit the blueprints laid out by Paul Maurice and Kris Knoblauch in Florida and Edmonton?
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