The Blues are deeper, faster and healthier than they were when the Sharks played them in the regular season, but in most areas are only slightly better than the Sharks.
In a weird, misleading and almost dishonest way, the San Jose Sharks made a mistake playing their most complete game of the entire season in Game 7 of the Western Conference Second Round series against Nashville. I mean, they could have saved it for St. Louis, right?
Of course it doesn't work that way, hence the dishonesty, but they could have clinched their series with 85 percent of that performance, and won 4-2 rather than 5-0.