St. Louis Blues: Top 5 Toughest Games Of 2019-20

Colorado To End The Season Again

The Blues get to play the Colorado Avalanche to end the year. Again. It’s practically tradition at this point.

St. Louis has played Colorado the last game in three of the last five years, if you include this coming year. In those other two seasons, they had to play Colorado in the last week of the season.

That’s fine. It makes sense, since they are a division rival.

The part that does not make sense is the regularity of playing Colorado, but the Blues have gone years where they play Chicago near the end and some years they seem to be done with the Blackhawks in February or earlier. If it is an attempt to build a rivalry, it might be working, but make that last week about rivalries overall, not just trying to make one.

Regardless, this is going to be a tough game, as it has been in past years. In 2017-18, the game decided who went to the playoffs. The game late in the 2018-19 season did not officially eliminate Colorado, but they had little to no chance to make it once the Blues beat them in a shootout.

The bottom line is these two teams have been battling for the playoffs or playoff positioning the last few seasons. The troubling part is the Blues already reached the peak and are trying to stay there while the Avs continue their ascent upward.

They might have the better top-end talent too. So when they are hot, they are hard to contain.

In a perfect world, the Blues would have their playoff position wrapped up and maybe even be on top of the division by the time this game rolls around. History tells us that will not be the case and this game is going to have a lot of significance for one team or the other and likely both.