ST. LOUIS (KMOX) - We know it's going to take quite the effort from the St. Louis Blues to defeat the Stanley Cup favorite Colorado Avalanche in the First Round of the playoffs – but one hockey statistics website appears to be calling the series over before Game 1 even begins.
The No. 4 seed Blues will take on the 2020-21 NHL Presidents' Trophy champions in the best-of-seven series starting at 9 p.m. CT Monday night. But the series is already over, according to Hockey-Reference.com.
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Whether it's a mistake, joke, jinx or prediction – it already says on both the Blues and Avalanche franchise pages that St. Louis has been eliminated and Colorado has advanced in the 2021 Stanley Cup Playoffs. The mistake was first pointed out by Blues radio broadcaster Chris Kerber on Twitter:
It's true, there's seems to be a lot of things favoring Colorado in this game. For instance:
• Colorado won the season series, going 5-3 against the Blues
• St. Louis will be without its top scorer, David Perron for possible the entire series due to COVID-19 protocols. The Blues are hoping it was a false positive.
• Potential NHL MVP Nathan MacKinnon is healthy again for Colorado
And the oddsmakers are hardly giving St. Louis a shot either. As of Monday morning, MoneyPuck.com says St. Louis has a 0.1% chance to win the Stanley Cup – the worst of any playoff team. Colorado is No. 2 with a 16.9% chance to win.
But some people think the Hockey-Reference jinx is now, giving some supernatural help to St. Louis. Someone replied to Kerber's tweet, reminding us of the 1986 World Series when the New York Mets Shea Stadium operators congratulated the Boston Red Sox on winning the series before Game 6 was over. Then the Bill Buckner play happened and the Mets came back to win the game and the series.
This is sports and we all know anything can happen.
NHL insider Greg Wyshynski of ESPN will be on KMOX tonight at 7:15 p.m. CT to preview the First Round series. Click here to listen live.
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