Starting this week, the St. Louis Blues will be competing in the Stanley Cup Final. In spite of picking up Ryan O’Reilly among others over the summer, this wasn’t really supposed to happen this way. In fact, by the end of 2018, the Blues were seen to be yet another team that “won the offseason” only to lose the regular season.
If you take a look at season previews from the fall, most indicated that the Blues were expected to be competitive, with unanswered questions in net. For the first half of the season, that played out.