It's time to play the music...it's time to light the lights...
Sidebar: would you consider most Blues fans to be Statler & Waldorf, or are ALL Blues fans Statler & Waldorf?
The Blues will raise the curtain on the 2016-17 season tonight, but it's the fans who have the opening night jitters. Sure, the Blues - an historically underachieving postseason team - are fresh off of what must objectively be called one of the greatest postseason performances in franchise history. But after a sub-par offseason that saw the squad lose their captain, their postseason hero, and their number one goaltender, it is difficult to see how this season could be anything but a step backwards.