Seeing the St. Louis Blues in the Western Conference finals instead of the Chicago Blackhawks is kind of mind-numbing and confusing, at the least. It certainly has been an odd Stanley Cup Playoffs, as the most of the teams you would expect to still be playing have long since checked out, leaving a couple of previously-perennial chokers (Blues and San Jose Sharks), the league’s hottest team since January (Pittsburgh Penguins) and a broken heap in Tampa Bay that is still winning games despite its injuries.
It’s no fun for a Blackhawks blog to focus solely on other teams still competing in the postseason.