The truly fantastic thing about opening night of a new NHL season is that it’s a blank slate. Upon this tabula rasa, there are no disappointments. Anything is literally possible. Predictions abound!
Of course, we’re Blues fans, so we like to temper those predictions a bit. Fifty-one seasons without a Stanley Cup will do that to you. There have been years in the recent past where the team all but proclaimed that it was their year before the season even started, and it didn’t end well. Hell, EA Sports predicted the Blues would win the Cup in 2014, which did nothing but prove how poor NHL 14’s AI was.