So on one hand … every playoffs is the same - one or more of our top sixers gets hurt, the defence is a disaster, there’s no depth scoring, no pushback other than Lowry, and Hellebuyck goes to shit. Part of me is concerned because this team hasn’t shown any ability to bounce back from adversity in the playoffs since 2018.
But on the other hand, the Jets have responded fairly well to poor games this season, I expected we’d have one stinker in St. Louis, Arniel seems to actually make adjustments and I think the Blues probably blew their load this game — I don’t think that level of play from them is sustainable.
IIRC we lost Game 3 against Minny in a similar style and Helle was also pulled that game, and then look what happened.
Game 4 will tell me a lot. If we don’t show up again, we are cooked IMO. Whoever takes that game will take the series IMO, so why not us?