NHL Update: Blues/Stars To A 7th Game

While the Carolina Hurricanes, at least a conference finalist in each of their last four ‘offs appearances (’02,’06, ’09 and ’19), won 4 straight vs the New York Islanders in one NHL “quarter,” at least one other will have a 7th game.

In their 14th playoffs clash, (each team’s first season was 1967-1968), the St. Louis Blues and Dallas Stars will play in that aforementioned #7 Tuesday night in St. Louis, the fifth time a series between the teams has gone to a game 7.

This is the twelfth best of 7 clash between the two teams and one of their two best of 5 series went the distance.

Elsewhere, tonight, both the Columbus Blue Jackets and Colorado Avalanche are slight favorites to make NBC, NHL commissioner Gary Bettman and their fans happy, by winning #6 and forcing a/two game 7’s on Wednesday.

In those series, higher seeded, Boston (Bruins) (vs Columbus) and San Jose (Sharks) (vs Colorado) won one goal games two nights ago, to take (3-2) series leads.