From last place in the league to the brink of their first Stanley Cup championship, the St. Louis Blues need one more win to complete…
From last place in the league to the brink of their first Stanley Cup championship, the St. Louis Blues need one more win to complete their improbable journey.
They have a young goaltender leading the way.
Jordan Binnington stopped 38 shots, and the Blues withstood the emotional rush of Zdeno Charas return to beat the Bruins 2-1 on Thursday night and take a 3-2 lead in the best-of-seven final. They can win the championship at home in Game 6 on Sunday night.
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«Weve had quite the season so far. Weve been through quite a lot,» defenseman Colton Parayko said. «But we continued to battle. We never gave up on each other. It put us closer together, especially now.»
One game after chopping down the Bruins giant captain with a deflected puck off his jaw, the Blues quieted the rest of a city still celebrating its last championship: The New England Patriots were receiving their Super Bowl rings a few miles away, the second in what Bostonians hoped would be a third title in the last 12 months.
But its St. Louis — whose Rams lost to the Patriots in the 2002 Super Bowl, and whose Cardinals fell to the Red Sox in the 2004 and 2013 World Series — that is one win from skating off with the Stanley Cup.
