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St. Louis Blues Eliminated By The Winnipeg Jets In Gut-Wrenching Double OT Thriller | Charlie Marlow Show · Kenny Wallace Media

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  All right, we are live. Deep breath, breathe with me,
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  Blues fans. I don't even know what to say.
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  I'm going to have to say some things, though, because we're
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  live and we're talking about just a gut wrenching,
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  heartbreaking ending to the 2024-2025 season for the Saint
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  Louis Blues. This one stings, Hurts.
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  Roller coaster of emotions. Crazy season, didn't even think
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  the team would make the play offs then they do.
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  They're facing the number one seed.
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  Take him to a Game 7 on the road and lose in double overtime
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  after leading three. One with what, 2 minutes or so
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  to go? Leading 3/2 with 3 seconds to go
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  and The Jets score, sending it to overtime.
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  And man, I've been in Saint Louis since 2008, so it's 2025,
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  almost exactly 17 years I've been here.
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  I'm trying to think of a worse loss for our local sports teams.
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  I can't think of one. I was there for Michael Waka
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  against the Giants in the NLCS, but I didn't.
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  I didn't think the Cardinals were going to win that game.
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  For the Blues to play so well, to be literally not even 3
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  seconds away from advancing to the second round of the Stanley
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  Cup play offs, to lose like that.
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  I want to hear from you all. What do you think of the season?
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  What do you think of the series? What do you think of the finish?
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  I'm, I'm not going to lie to you, I had a bad feeling going
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  into that game, right. It wasn't like the Blues didn't
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  have a chance. I was on XI was talking to
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  folks, asking them their confidence level and I was
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  around about a 4040 out of 140 sixty leaning the way of the
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  Winnipeg Jets. The reason for that is because
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  this was just straight up, for two weeks, a home ice series.
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  All seven games, the home team won every single game.
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  By the way, Connor Hellebug, who played so terribly on the road,
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  He was different at home. And look, give that dude a lot
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  of credit. He was pulled from every game in
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  Saint Louis, all three games. Think about that mentally.
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  And then terrible start for counter Hella Buck.
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  I'm not saying it was all his fault in game seven, but the
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  Blues go ahead super quick, go up to zip very, very early.
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  Let me check exactly when that was.
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  So the Blues, they get that goal where Jordan Cairo can just swat
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  it in there, $1.10 into the game.
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  So one minute in counter Hella Buck, who you think is probably
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  mentally domed up a little bit, get something really bad
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  happening. A minute 10 in the Blues score
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  again. Matthew Joseph scores 716 into
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  the first period. So the Blues have a fantastic
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  first period and the Blues after 2 are up three one.
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  But Connor Hellebuk, look, he didn't fold.
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  If if you're watching that game, I was watching the the Turner
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  broadcast and early on there they were talking about do you
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  do you pull Hellebuk? And I can't remember if it was
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  right after the first goal, if it was after the second goal,
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  but the broadcast was discussing the fact that, look, if there's
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  another goal, you probably got to pull this guy.
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  So give Conor Hellebuk all of the credit in the world after
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  just going through the emotional mental roller coaster of all
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  those games, getting pulled three times early goals in game
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  seven. He writes the ship.
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  He's really, really good. But also the team game.
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  This was more about the team game for The Jets.
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  The Jets freaking dominated the overtime periods, absolutely
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  dominated the overtime periods. When you're watching that, I was
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  just sitting thinking any second here the Blues are going to lose
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  this game. I I had a bad feeling going into
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  the game. And then I think it's just
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  obvious you have a horrible feeling when you talk about
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  momentum and you're on the road and it's a whiteout.
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  And that barn, they were tense, right?
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  They were. They were waiting for something
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  bad to happen until a couple good things happen, then all of
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  a sudden they're behind you. And The Jets played so much
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  better than the Blues in the overtime periods.
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  Let's look at the stats, by the way, just overall.
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  Look, there are some games where the Blues played really well and
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  lost. I thought that game won.
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  The Blues played really well, except for the third period.
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  But a a lot of the stat sheet, score sheet statistics, the
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  Blues were better in in some of these games, even if they lost.
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  I'm talking about game one. I'm not saying they played
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  better than The Jets in game one, but it was so Dang close.
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  But let's just look at the the stats real quick.
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  I mean, shots, Jets outshoot the Blues 47 to 29.
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  Just absolutely dominate them in shots, especially in the
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  overtime periods. Hits Jets with 73, Blues with
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  49. Not close.
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  Blues were better on the face, off dot about 5644.
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  OK. On the power play, Jets did
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  score one out of two. Blues only got the one.
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  Power play, block shots, Blues up 2924 giveaways, Blues 3333
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  giveaways. The Jets had 22.
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  But The Jets just played better. They played better, especially
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  when it mattered. I mean, I, I don't know what you
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  guys were thinking, but it's it's almost impossible to come
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  back from what happened to the Blues in the last two minutes or
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  so of of that game in regulation.
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  You're up three one. And by the way, Jordan
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  Bennington played pretty Dang well, don't you think?
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  I mean, of all those goals and if you really think about if you
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  think about the goals throughout the series now in the in, I keep
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  going back to game one for some reason, that one's really stuck
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  in my head as well. There were some high end plays
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  there at the end where The Jets scored just some legitimate high
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  end talent goals. But if you think back through
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  this series, especially game seven, I mean Jordan Bennington,
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  almost everything that went in there deflected just perfect
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  redirects. I I think Jordan Bennington
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  played really, really well. So did counter Hella Buck.
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  But to me, this one was about the team game where The Jets
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  just straight up outplayed the Blues when it mattered in the
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  overtime periods. And also this has been a bugaboo
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  for the Blues all season long when it got to be 6 on five when
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  The Jets pulled Hella buck at the end of of regulation there
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  and just scored Bing bang twice in the last couple minutes,
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  including the game tying goal with less than 3 seconds to go.
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  So you had what, less than two minutes?
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  You had the the the three two goal that was at 18 O four and
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  then technically 1957, but less than 3 seconds.
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  Cole Perfetti scores that goal to tie it up 3 three.
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  And it's just I mean, come on, guys, you had to have a terrible
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  feeling when that happened to lose all the momentum.
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  You're on the road to go to overtime.
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  I almost thought this was going to be one of those games where
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  The Jets come out immediately in overtime and just score and it's
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  over. But credit the Blues to play so
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  tough. They played tough.
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  They didn't play well in the overtime periods.
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  They played tough. But The Jets were just so much
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  better than the Blues. And you just you don't win a
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  game like that. Can you remember a game where
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  you you give up the lead in heartbreaking fashion with three
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  seconds to go and you come back in a big spot and still win the
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  game? I can't I don't have the
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  greatest memory. I can't think of any games like
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  that. So look, overall, a great season
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  for the Blues or a really good season.
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  It's hard to focus on that day after.
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  I don't even know if we should, right, because it it, it's
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  interesting. When I was on X asking people
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  their confidence level, a lot of people said, you know what, they
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  win. It's great if they lose.
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  It's still a hell of a season. But I don't think you can, you
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  can't think about that right now with the way they lost, right?
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  If they played well. But they lost 4, three in in
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  regulation and The Jets played better the whole game.
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  That one much easier to swallow when you lose 4-3 in double
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  overtime when you at least control the game for almost the
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  entirety of regulation for 58 minutes.
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  Essentially, you have a two goal lead and even for for 59 minutes
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  and frickin 57 seconds, you're leading that game and you give
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  it up like that. Look, I mean the Blues will be
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  able to come back from it. This is this is a a team that I
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  think is going to be good in the future.
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  But the other part is the the progress in professional sports,
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  it's not always linear, right? I mean, the Blues after the Four
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  Nations tournament were so good, 12 game-winning streak went from
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  a team that most people didn't think was going to even make the
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  playoffs to a playoff team playing the number one seed with
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  a chance, with a great chance to beat them.
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  They had an absolutely great chance to beat them.
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  I would think the Blues are going to be better next year,
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  but that doesn't mean the Blues are going to win a playoff
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  series. You could have a bad match up in
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  the first round. You could play well, go against
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  a a better team. You could run into a really hot
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  goalie. I think the Blues are going to
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  be better next season. That doesn't mean they're going
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  to win a playoff series. I do think if you're a Blues
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  fan, you got to be excited though.
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  It sure as hell seems like you have the right coach and Jim
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  Montgomery. You have a lot of good pieces in
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  place. You have a a good core, you have
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  Robert Thomas, you have Jordan Kairu.
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  Obviously Pareco's getting getting older, but he's not
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  super old. So you got to be happy and
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  excited about the future. Again, Monty is is the guy for
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  the job. You got to think.
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  But that doesn't mean that the Blues are going to necessarily
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  go on a run next year. I hope they do.
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  It's going to be a very interesting offseason with some
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  additions and subtractions. Doug Armstrong has the chance to
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  make this team better. I have confidence that that he
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  will also give give credit to Doug Armstrong.
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  Remember a couple years ago he basically said as he's thinking
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  about eventually moving on, you have Alexander Steen to take
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  over his spot in a in a few years, whenever that whenever
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  that officially happens. But I remember Doug Armstrong
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  saying, look, you want to leave a place better than when you got
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  there. And clearly, Doug Armstrong puts
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  together the team that wins the Cup in 2019.
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  But the last couple years, you're thinking, OK, are the
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  Blues in a great spot? They hadn't made the playoffs
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  the last couple years. Well, now the Blues, I think,
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  are in a very good spot. Doug Armstrong has them set up
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  for success for the foreseeable future.
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  Jim Montgomery, it sure as heck seems like is the right person
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  for the job. And we can discuss all of this
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  though, in the coming weeks, months, whatever it is.
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  But man, to lose in that fashion, folks, is just so
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  brutal. I don't have to tell you, it's
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  so brutal. You almost, you almost wish.
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  You don't wish, OK, you would have got swept.
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  I mean, there were fun games, hockey play offs, though.
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  It's so much fun in the city. Just knowing if the Blues would
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  have won, you had at least another couple weeks of fun.
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  You're kind of scheduling your your days and your nights around
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  around watching the games, man, to be that freaking close.
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  And I still think, look, the Blues could have went on a run,
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  right? They could have beat the stars.
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  I, I don't know, I'm not saying they would have, but to think
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  the Blues just would have been one and done.
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  And I know there are all these comparisons to 2019.
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  Why not make those comparisons? Why?
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  Why couldn't the Blues go on a deep run?
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  You don't have that many opportunities.
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  Again, the Blues may be better next year.
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  They could still lose in the first round of the play offs.
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  They can match up against somebody really, really good in
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  the first round. Man, what a brutal loss.
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  What a brutal ending. That goes up there with some of
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  the worst, obviously in Saint Louis history.
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  It's not Denkinger. That was the World Series.
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  You, you tell me guys, What, what is it?
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  What is it in terms of the rankings?
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  It's it's so fresh right now. I can't think of a worst loss
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  since I've been here since 2008. I mean, it wasn't the World
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  Series, it wasn't the Stanley Cup Final.
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  I mean, we can talk about the hand pass, but it also matters
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  how things end up. Like anything bad that happened
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  in 2019, you don't care about, you don't talk about because the
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  Blues won the Stanley Cup. Obviously for it to end like
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  that, the finality just absolutely brutal.
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  bunch of my a bunch of my trees and flower beds with some
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  not that powerful? This thing freaking super
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  Joey Nichols says total meltdown.
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  Yeah. I don't know a better way to
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  describe it than that, Joey. Total freaking meltdown, end of
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  that game. You control the game throughout.
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  Embarrassing. Joey Nichols says yeah, yeah,
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  it's it's weird because you are going up against the one seed.
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  You're on the road. If if you'd have said beforehand
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  the Blues lose freaking Game 7, double overtime on the road.
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  Is that an embarrassing way to end?
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  You're saying no. But to control that game for
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  5859 minutes, to lose in that fashion, God, man, you have to.
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  You have to credit Winnipeg, though, too.
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  Winnipeg brought it and Connor Hallibuck early on was shaky.
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  You wonder, are they going to pull on the broadcast on?
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  Turner was talking about that, right?
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  I mean, he was steadfast. He picked his game up and and
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  The Jets made the plays when they had to at the end of that
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  game. The Jets, I mean, they had they
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  had some good bounces. Let's be real.
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  A lot of those goals, let's be real, lot of deflections, lot of
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  redirects. But the overtime periods, The
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  Jets were just way, way better than the Blues.
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  Not even close, not even close. All right, not going to go too
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  long. Joey Nichols, appreciate you
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  watching. I'm going to repost this on
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  YouTube and also Kenny Wallace media for the podcast for all
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  you guys. Thank you so much.
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  Heck of a year for the Blues, but God Dang, what a terrible
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  way. You just can't sugarcoat it.
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  You you can't even do the morale happy to be here.
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  You can't when you when you lose like that, you can look back in
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  a couple days weeks, you can say overall it was a good season,
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  but when you lose in that fashion, God Dang, just an awful
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  way to lose. Joey Nichols says Blues didn't
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  have any legs in OT. Yeah, whatever it was, The Jets
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  absolutely outplayed them in the overtime periods.
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  Not a shock. I was sitting there just kind of
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  waiting. I was just kind of waiting for
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  the goal to happen. You just got that sense.
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  The Blues, we're not going to win that game after the way they
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  they gave up the lead at the end of regulation.
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  So there it is. Overall good season.
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  We can talk about that more in the future.
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  Hey, look, they got me. I'm not a die hard hockey Blues
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  fan at all. They got me super interested and
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  it was fun to watch the games for a couple weeks.
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  But look, I'm the type of person I probably won't watch NHL play
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  offs anymore. That's just that's how I am as a
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  sports fan. I'm mostly for work covering
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  NASCAR. Cardinals aren't very good and I
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  was in it for the Blues and I was really looking forward to at
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  least another couple weeks of Blues games.
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  That that's how I am. I mean the hockey play offs are
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  unbelievable, but I'm not a a die hard hockey fan so I
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  probably won't won't watch much of the NHL play offs now that
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  the Blues are out. But man, yeah, good season
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  overall. We'll focus on that later.
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  But just a gut wrenching, heartbreaking way to end it for
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  the Saint Louis Blues. Credit to the Winnipeg Jets and
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  here. Kenny Wallace media, love you
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  all. Peace out Blues.
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  Dang Dang Dang, Dang Blues. You gave us a fun ride for a
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  couple weeks, but gosh Dang was that just freaking depressing,
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  heart wrenching, heartbreaking, gut wrenching, whatever the word
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  is. I don't even know what to say.
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  I'm kind of speechless 20 minutes in.
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  I'm kind of speechless now I'm just going to get us to 20
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  minutes, 3-2. You see, I started at 3, three
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  seconds, 3 seconds or the Blues lost the freaking game seven
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  with about 3 seconds to go. Awful.
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  All right, see you guys. Love you all.