St. Louis needs a Cup so they can get back to work on creating a curse the rest of us can start to take seriously.The St. Louis Blues haven’t been to a Stanley Cup final in 49 years. They haven’t won a title in the entire 52 years of their existence. In terms of trophies, there are AHL teams with just as much NHL pedigree.No one talks about it, though. One presumes they do so occasionally in St. Louis, in between mid-August Cardinals’ game stories and football nostalgia.
The team never got truly awful – an absolute prerequisite for a redemption arc. It has instead been consistently mediocre.The Blues aren’t boring any more. They are quietly – and, suddenly, loudly – putting together a fairy tale season that would make The Brothers Grimm go, “This is a bit much. I’m not sure readers will buy it.”St. Louis went up 3-2 on the San Jose Sharks in the Western Conference final on Sunday night, one win from the Stanley Cup final.
The Blues were utterly jobbed in the conference final by an overtime goal that forced the NHL into a couple of days worth of soul-searching about video replay, rule changes and the nature of perception. If no one sees a hand pass, was there a hand pass at all? What is a hand pass? How can we know? They’re that team – the one that finds a way to disappoint in such a tedious way that the next mornings local sports-highlight package leads with a hole-in-one at a golf tournament in Dubai. So it was a little surprising to look up on Sunday night, see a result in progress and think to yourself, ‘Wait. The St. Louis Blue are good now? We all have to rethink a lot of things about life.’
Despite the fact that club ownership has been flipped around like a penny stock, the fan base has stayed loyal. Possibly stupidly loyal. There’s nothing like an arena at capacity to convince the money men no special effort on their part is required.
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