from Jim Matheson of the Edmonton Journal,

This has been the city of slumped shoulders if you love your hockey Blues, a city that never seems to do anything but weep at playoff time. But the tears, for one night, became cheers.

Dead Men Skating? Not the Blues. The dreaded Blackhawks.

Chicago’s out of the post-season, their hold on the Stanley Cup gone.

And the Blues, for once, can look in the mirror and say “OK, we just beat the champs, bring everybody else on.”

That one playoff series win (San Jose in 2012) in the last 13 seasons has now become two with a fantastic seventh-game 3-2 win over the Blackhawks Monday.

No more talk of past failures. Just present successes.

People like David Backes and Alex Steen, Alex Pietrangelo and Kevin Shattenkirk had heard far too much about losing, but kids like Robby Fabbri, who set up Troy Brouwer’s winner and Colton Parayko, who blew a shot past Corey Crawford, were all about today, not yesterday.

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