Listen, let’s start this by saying that very few hockey pundits expected the Blues to make it past the Avalanche this round. The Avs are a steamroller, and the Blues aren’t getting offense from players not named Ryan O’Reilly or David Perron. Torey Krug and Marco Scandella are still out, and now so is Jordan Binnington.
Going into this series, I, ever the optimist, expected it to end in six games in favor of Colorado. That was before Jordan Binnington got knocked out of game three in a play that’s been analyzed more times than the JFK assassination.