from Benjamin Hochman of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch,

He sure looked like a human being, but we knew better.

Sitting at his locker on Wednesday night — excuse me, Thursday morning — Jake Allen had the characteristics of a regular person, but mere humans just don't save 51 shots on the road in a playoff game. The extraordinary was extraterrestrial, the superb was superhuman.

How does one describe Jake's 2-1, Game 1 overtime win?

“I don't know that I really can, and I've had time to think about it, too,” Blues coach Mike Yeo said, about 20 minutes after the clock struck midnight. “I knew it was going to be the first question. “

Well, here's a way to describe it: The Blues didn't deserve to win, but the play of one Blue made up for the mediocre play of the other 18.

If they play like this again, they'll lose.

“It’s a long series,” Wild coach Bruce Boudreau said. “I thought we played a good game. … We had 90-some shots at the net (and) 52 shots on the net. I thought territorially we were pretty good.”

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