This story originally appeared on Page 5 (The Five Hole) of the Oct. 30, 2019 edition of the St. Louis Game Time paper, sold outside of every Blues home game. For more information or to subscribe, email gtbradlee@gmail.com
A Bruins fan somewhere on Twitter said something on Saturday to the effect of: “You don’t see us Bruins fans repeatedly posting the GIF of when we won the Cup in 2011. You’re living in the past. Move on.” But you see, for most of our lives, the Blues winning the Cup was a vision that we got to see only in video games, on the back of our eyelids, and on the movie screen in our heads at night as we dreamt.