Written by Todd Panula at Fanside.com
When the Blues play the Blackhawks, why wouldn’t it go into overtime? Especially when the game started late to begin with. The St. Louis Blues sure got a kick out of game one in the end.
See what I did there? Kick…at the end. Applaud me for my genius! I apologize. It’s late and the game wasn’t even on the west coast.
Nevetheless, the St. Louis Blues took game one of their Western Conference Quarterfinal matchup with their arch rivals the Chicago Blackhawks.
Use whatever verbs/adverbs you want: won, stole, got lucky, deserved etc – the bottom line is the puck went in the back of the net just once and it went in behind Corey Crawford.
I’m sure our friends over at BlackhawkUp and their followers are not saying the Blackhawks lost, but rather the Blues were just fortunate etc and so on and so forth. Turn the tables and it wouldn’t matter. The Blues get a victory and the Blackhawks don’t and that’s what counts in the end.
The game opened up exactly like playoff hockey should. The teams were flying up and down the ice and there were hits galore and energy just oozing out of every pore in the building.
Just to show how much playoff hockey is different than the regular season, the Blues only got three shots on goal in the opening period but there was still little to complain about. The Blues were creating in the offensive zone and were just getting a little too cute and missing wide or the Blackhawks were blocking a lot of shots as well.
However the last time the Blues got anywhere close to that few shots in a period, the collective fanbase almost fell asleep.
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