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

Here it was for the St. Louis Blues, and it was happening in St. Louis, too: A third period to essentially clinch a third playoff round.

Blues win, series is over; Blues lose, series just starting.

And what happened at Scottrade in the most-important period of the series?

St. Louis looked sloppy and slipshod and sluggish and, ugh, can you believe it, the Blues blew it.

Entering the third period, the game was tied at two. Now the series is. They looked lost in the third, and then they lost it in overtime.

“We can do a better job of managing the puck,” Alex Pietrangelo said.

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