The St. Louis Blues defeated the Wild by a 4-1 game margin in the 2017 Stanley Cup Playoffs First Round. Except it sure doesn’t feel like it should have ended so one-sided. For most the series, the talk was about how the Wild out-played the Blues, or were the better team, and that they just had run into a hot Jake Allen.
But talking heads in the Minnesota media love to point out one major fact - The Wild must not have out-played the Blues because they didn’t win.