I don’t think anyone was expecting that.

Seriously, do you think the Blues really thought they would return to the US with two regulation wins over Detroit?

Some other thoughts:

• Let’s just hope that being in Sweden was a bigger distraction than anticipated.  We all know Kenny Holland wasn’t hugely in favor of opening overseas, and perhaps this is why.
• Brett Lebda was positively brutal both games.  I hope he’s scratched for the home opener.
• Detroit, for all the claims of being better defensively, has rather sucked.  They’ve allowed 9 goals in 2 games.
• Comparatively, they’ve scored 6.
• I severely dislike this continued trend of falling asleep or having a meltdown in the second period.  Twice they blew leads, which lead to unanswered goal streaks by St. Louis
• Last season at least we could console ourselves with the fact that we had the best power play in the league.  Now both special teams are doing their best to fail.
• I can only hope that Osgood’s poor outing was due to his “flu-like” symptoms being worse than originally thought–he claims he’s fine. Because I’m not sure I can stomach it if both our goalies play like this all season.
• Lidstrom says the loss leaves “a sour taste” and Babcock thinks they were outplayed physically.  Cue declarations about the Wings being too soft.

I really don’t know what else to say–maybe I’m still a little stunned. I just have to keep telling myself that they’re not going to continue these trends against Chicago in a few days, another division rival.

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