After winning the 2019 Stanley Cup, the annual tradition of figuring out which former Blue you wanted to see win hockey’s biggest prize became a little less painful. The running joke of “oh, all they had to do was play for someone else!” ended effectively with T.J. Oshie’s 2017 win with the Capitals. Now, we can just be happy when one of our old guys wins it without the dose of wistfulness.
Blues fans have a new annual tradition anyway: cheering on Pat Maroon in the Final. This year’s the fourth year that Maroon has made the Final, meaning that if the Lightning win their third Cup in a row, not only are they a new dynasty, it would make Maroon himself the biggest hockey dynasty since the early 80s New York Islanders.