BOSTON (AP) After Alex Pietrangelo lifted a backhander over Tuukka Rask to give the St. Louis Blues a two-goal lead late in the first phase, Boston fans went quiet and the eerie quiet lasted throughout intermission.
With good reason. When up by two goals, the Blues hadn’t lost a playoff match.
The Bruins discovered what San Jose Sharks, Dallas Stars and Winnipeg Jets learned the hard way: Do not allow the St. Louis Blues take a lead.
Check out the 7 recap of the NHL Stanley Cup Finals of the game Craig Berube’s team revealed all playoffs a baseball game could be locked down by it than anyone in the NHL. Their style of game translates to playing a recipe that helped them finish Boston 4-1 Wednesday night in Game 7 off to raise the Stanley Cup, a lead.
“We did a real good job in the middle of the ice tonight, particularly in our own end – great sticks, clogging it up, blocking shots,” Berube said.” I thought our guys, they did a real great job in the center of the ice, clogging it up, not giving anything free there.”
After the season saw an 138 multi-goal comebacks, the Blues went 4-0 at the Cup when shooting an outcome of any sort about the Bruins they had a two-goal or more advantage this postseason, and were undefeated.
When he took over as coach for Mike Yeo at 24, so much of that may be traced right back to Berube’s changes. He instituted a north-south new hockey that suited the roster manager Doug Armstrong placed. Asked after Game 7 to the ice hockey what Berube’s hiring supposed to St. Louis, Armstrong didn’t hesitate.
“Everything,” he said simply.” He came in. One of those things he did right away was he took down the standings. … He said, let us just go to work every day.”
“He doesn’t get too large, too low… I heard a lot working with him and I look forward to working together for a long time to come,” added Armstrong, who then laughed when Berube’s interim title was said.” We are going to work that out”

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