The feeling isn’t desirable at all. Missing the playoffs doesn’t come with a prescription for fans. You sit there and take it, like a shot to the gut with your hands tied. Nothing a few more rounds of drinks, therapy, and an entire chocolate cake can’t take care of.
For the first time since the 2010-11 season, the St. Louis Blues will not chase down Lord Stanley’s Cup in the blooming moments of spring. Instead, they pack their bags amid disarray, impending change, and a challenge of identity.
Alex Pietrangelo can bark all day about an offsides call not going the Blues way in Saturday night’s 5-2 season-ending loss, but the truth is the Colorado Avalanche dominated the majority of that game.