Game 6 means vastly different things in St. Louis for the fans of the Cardinals and the Blues.
For baseball fans, it’s the lovely memory of David Freese literally ripping a World Series trophy out of the Texas Rangers’ hands, and creating Freese’s Lawn in center field. For hockey fans, it’s the finality of your team taking their final bow in a playoff series.
You don’t have to look back too far to find the Game 6 defeats for the Blues, but let’s start with 1981-82, which is when I dropped onto this rock. My first year on Earth, the Blues lost to the Black Hawks (it was two names back then) in six games.