Anyway. I'm so utterly mad right now. It's infuriating to watch your team lose when you know they never played their best game. Sure, credit Nashville a bit on that but lets be honest....it's the Blues, they've been choking for years....just add this to that series to the list.
Eh, I wouldn't call this a choke. They just got beat by a team playing lights out right now.
Ehh...you're definition of 'lights out' isn't the same as mine. Nashville was the recipient of some very fortunate and timely penalty calls against the Blues. Game 1 which they won you literally couldn't touch a Predator without a penalty being called and they scored (2) PP goals and beat us by one goal.
Game 4 in Nashville St. Louis had been playing a perfect road game and had a pretty good head of steam as momentum until that ridiculous penalty call on Reeves when all 10 players on the ice had each other in headlocks and what not and St. Louis ends up with the only penalty? Subsequently leading to Nashville getting a goal and shifting the momentum of the entire game and series.
Certainly the play of Rinne was great and you're not going to win many games only scoring 1 goal...the Blues needed to crank it up and they didn't. But it's tough to combat not only a team that is playing well but what was an awful lot of fortunate, timely Power Play time that both stymied the momentum the Blues had and immediately shifted it to the Preds.
It'd have been an entirely different series had the games been officiated even keel...but they weren't and that sucks. The series wasn't won/lost due to how bad the officiating was but it certainly didn't help at all.
Now just have to tolerate the three or four days of the Blues and the media trying to convince the fans that this season was 'just fine' and it was 'good' which is a load of
Stanley Cup or bust because that's what you play to win...anything less is failure.
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