If you’re a Blues fan looking for a way to describe the way the last few days have made you feel, you may be in the debt of one Elisabeth Kubler-Ross. Dr. Kubler-Ross, in her 1969 book On Death and Dying, introduced the five stage model of grief that would come to bear her name - denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance.
Most Blues fans are likely sitting somewhere around step four. Denial was last June, when visions of Jonathan Drouin and Taylor Hall danced in our heads. Anger was the end of the draft, when Kevin Shattenkirk stayed in St.