Jay Greenberg: The Blues Were Hard Only on Themselves

Boston is too fast, works too hard and plays with too much discipline (structurally)

I think they could win even without the refs, but the penalty similarities between this and Game 1 v. Carolina were intresting. The refs took the game away from Carolina the same way they did from St. Louis.

The best reason to like them in this series was their big, heavy, relentlessness that could wear down 87-year-old Zdeno Chara to Zuccarello size by Game Six. Indeed, the old man, on for both Blues goals, looked ready for a rocking chair early until the Blues let him play in one for most of the final 40 minutes, a lamentable turn of events for St. Louis.

Big Z isn't even Mad yet.

Imagine thinking cross checks to the face and from behind into the boards with no puck insight aren’t penalties.

"Big Z isn't even Mad yet. "

The Blues don't fear Big Z's anger nor should they!

Neither team is really going to be intimidated at this point!