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Every team goes through in-season hiccups. It happens. The Blues banked a ton of points and built a solid cushion through the first half of the season, but the Dallas Stars have been making up space and have been dueling with the Colorado Avalanche for second in the division.
There’s six points between the Blues and Avalanche, and seven between the Blues and Stars. Dallas is in the same boat as the Blues: 4-5-1 in their last ten. The Stars blew a 2-0 lead on Thursday night to the Wild, so the Blues may be able to build on that deflating loss. The Blues, on the other hand, lost 4-2 to the Jets in a see-saw game that they should’ve won.
And that’s the rub: the Blues play well enough in these games, just not well enough to win.
Hopefully it will go better tonight.