NHL Playoffs: St. Louis Quietly Advances; Eastern Powers On Brink

All the St. Louis Blues do is win. It seems as though all seven other first-round series in these NHL playoffs have had some good storyline or notable individual performance, good or bad. The St. Louis-San Jose series didn’t have any of that, it was to the credit of the quiet efficiency of the Blues, who looked exactly like the team that had rolled to the #2 seed in the West, as they finished off San Jose in five games.