“Tonight was resilient,” Blues captain Alex Pietrangelo said.

What a win. What a night. The best unit won. The Blues kept their proverbial foot pressed on the gas. And now, they’ll keep it down. Road trip! On to NashVegas for the weekend! Season saved. There will be a Game 6.

“We stayed aggressive,” the captain said, “even when we scored the go-ahead goal, we stayed on our toes and occupied the zone. We didn’t really back off like we’ve done in the past. We kept playing with the puck, which I think was a big thing. Last series especially, we kind of backed off and let the play come to us. We dictated out there (tonight).”

After the Game 4 fallout, I wrote that the two days before Game 5 would be an elixir. Or really, an eraser. The longer the players had away from Game 4 — the game when the refs blew it for the Blues — the better they’d refocus and reassemble as a team.

Mike Yeo continues to showcase his mastery of playoff hockey. He cooks up lines and concocts strategies that keep the Blues in a series — or in a season. Yes, it would be nice if the Blues could score more. Two goals might not be enough to win a game in Nashville. But the Blues’ total of two on Friday wasn’t for lack of trying. The Blues dominated each period from a shot standpoint, and in that furious final period, after Jaden Schwartz scored before the tequila-infused fans could even return from the second intermission.

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