Sometimes, home ice advantage means everything in a playoff series. Sometimes a team wastes it completely.
We already know where the Jets fall on that dichotomy. Tonight, we get to see where the Blues stand. As Ben Frederickson pointed out in the Post-Dispatch yesterday, the Blues haven’t even been playing as well as they can play, and they’re still up 2-0 in the series. Their power play hasn’t been functional, and the secondary scoring has stepped up in a big way, especially Oskar Sundqvist, Tyler Bozak, and Pat Maroon.