A Case of the St. Louis Blues
There may be a poker tournament going on, but the big conversation so far today seems to be centered on a hockey game, notably tonight’s Game 5 of the Western Conference quarterfinal series between the second-seeded St. Louis Blues and the San Jose Sharks.
This is St. Louis, so obviously the Blues, who won the Central Division title this season for the first time since 1999-2000, is the team everyone is rooting for. They dropped Game 1 in double overtime, but came back to win the last three matches.
If they win tonight, the Blues will advance to the second round for the first time since the spring of 2002. “There will be no Game 5,” hometown hero Dennis Phillips said to us while sporting a St. Louis Blues jersey. Not only is he confident, Phillips informed us that he’ll be attending the game at the Scottstrade Center later this evening, which means he’ll only be playing this first flight.