The St. Louis Blues—except Jake Allen—attended but barely competed in all but the last twelve minutes of Game One of their 2014-15 Stanley Cup quarterfinal series in front of a sellout crowd at Scottrade Center with a deflating 4-2 loss to the Minnesota Wild, the same team they beat in the regular season’s final game 4-2. Their fans, who were sky-high at game time and gave their team a rousing welcome, deserved far better.
On the positive side, the Blues now know they will not repeat the disastrous first-round exits of the last two years by winning the first two games only to drop the next four in a row.