The St. Louis Blues just got done embarrassing the defending Stanley Cup champions by a score of 6-2. Surely, they could have had just as good a game against a similar team in the Tampa Bay Lightning, right? Surely.
Well, we got hit with reality just 21 seconds into the game. Pontus Holmberg got a deflection on the puck that sent it back to the glove-side post while Jordan Binnington was tracking the shot to the blocker-side post.
Instead of digging their heels in and getting right back into the game, the Blues decided to spend more than 25% of the period in the penalty box.