Growing up in St. Louis, Bradley was a big Blues fan, and loved the Red Wings-Blues rivalry some 10 years ago.

The word “can” is doing a whole lot of lifting in that headline. It’s cute that Bradley thinks the Blues and Wings had a rivalry around 2010. I can see that from a Blues fan’s perspective, much like I would very much like to call what we have with Tampa right now a “rivalry”, but from where I stood in 2010, any Blues fan saying we had a rivalry was pissing into the wind.

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