St. Louis Blues: Please Stop The Game 7 Glory Nonsense Already

The St. Louis Blues lived up to their reputation of never taking the easy road by bombing in Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Final. Can we please stop the narrative of Game 7 being so fantastic, though?

The St. Louis Blues are not yet 24 hours removed from their laying of a fat egg in Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Final. Fans are already trying to make things sound better if the team would pull off the win in the next game.

At this juncture, it is unclear if this is a coping mechanism for people or they actually believe it. Even the players and coaches were sort of echoing this sentiment in the postgame.

The players seemed to know they had let the fans down and acknowledged that. Craig Berube made his first misstep in the postseason with his comments about a seventh game.

Following the loss in his postgame press conference when asked about playing on the road, Berube made the comment that if you told him they would play a seventh game in the final four months ago, they would take it. I get where he is coming from, but that is not the mentality you want to have.

Yes, the team is now forced to win in a seventh game, but despite the greatness of the story, some of us are actually tired of hearing about what the team would accept back in January. This is not January anymore. This is June and the Blues could have and should have won at home and might have if they did not play like it was January.

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Regardless of that, even fans are trying to sell that stinking pile. We are not even a day past the Game 6 loss, with the corpse still fresh and not yet cold, and people are talking about how much sweeter it will be to go the distance.

On the postgame of KMOX, the Blues current flagship station, they were saying how it makes it even better to go to the absolute final game of the year, given how the season has gone for the Blues. What alternate universe do you all live in?

I want to win. Don’t try to tell me that it will be better to win in a Game 7. Don’t try to sell the movie plot factor of going to overtime and winning on the road when everyone doubted you. I just want to win.

I would take winning in a sweep any day over winning in a seventh game. I want domination.

That is not the way the NHL playoffs generally work, but that is so much better from my view point. I want to crush my opponent, body and spirit.

Yes, the Blues can still do that to Boston and their fans by winning on their home ice, but that is only because they have forced themselves to have to.

What is so grand about a Game 7 win? Would it not have been so much better to win on your own home ice with an entire building full of Blues fans, ready to erupt?

What about the 50,000-plus outside the arena? Would it not have been more beneficial for them to celebrate a win with all their newfound friends than to go home disappointed?

The only thing that benefits from a Game 7 now is the city, that will gain some funds from parking for another watch party. Whoever gets the money from ticket sales for the watch party will benefit as well – I would assume that is the Blues organization.

Fans don’t truly get any extra from another game. If we are honest with ourselves, the celebration would be no different. If anything, it would have been a bigger party with downtown St. Louis packed full of people.

What extra emotion is actually involved? What does a Game 7 truly provide anyone other than more nausea and nerves? Why would a home win not have been just as great as this odd narrative that winning the final game possible?

Now, everyone will be scattered. Winning a Stanley Cup will be sweet no matter when it happens, but don’t sell this Game 7 nonsense.

I wanted to win with the game live and in front of my eyes. Don’t try to tell me it will be better on the road.

Game 7’s are overrated. Win when you have the chance to win.