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 period, Boston fans went silent and the eerie quiet lasted during intermission.
With good reason. When up by two goals, the Blues hadn’t lost a playoff game.
The Bruins found out what San Jose Sharks, Dallas Stars and Winnipeg Jets learned the hard way: Do not let 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 showed all playoffs a baseball game could be locked down by it better than anyone in the NHL. Their manner of game contrasts to playing a recipe which helped them finish Boston 4-1 Wednesday night in Game 7 off to lift the Stanley Cup, with a lead.
“We did a real good job at the middle of the ice tonight, especially in our end – great sticks, clogging it up, blocking shots,” Berube said.” I thought that our guys, they did a real great job in the middle of the ice hockey, clogging it up, not giving anything free ”
Following the season saw an NHL-record 138 multi-goal comebacks, the Blues went 4-0 in the Cup after taking a lead of any kind about the Bruins whenever they had a two-goal or advantage this postseason, and were undefeated.
When he took over as coach for Mike Yeo at November so much of that may be tracked back to Berube’s fluctuations. He instituted a north-south new hockey which suited the roster manager Doug Armstrong put. Asked after Game 7 to the ice hockey that which Berube’s hiring meant to St. Louis, Armstrong didn’t wait.
“Everything,” he explained simply.” He arrived in. One was that he took the standings. … He said, let’s go to work every day.”
“He does not get too large, too low… I learned 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 name was mentioned.” We are going to work that out”

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