Exactly
The Blues were an incredibly dirty, unlikeable team with a whiny scumbag coach, so they find some moderately sick girl at the local children's hospital and make a mascot of her, as if there aren't a dozen kids at each city's biggest hospital who are huge hockey fans who would love to see their teams win, but you can't say anything about the Blues artificially propping up that narrative because then you look like the bad guy for not enjoying a sick girl's dream come true or some shit. It was clearly and carefully orchestrated to shift the attention away from how big of a hygiene product Berube and Binnington amongst others were that postseason.