People always assume teams in a back to back are dead tired and have no legs. Blues had legs until the third.
I watched the STL feed and I recall them quoting Hitchcock saying he feels as if his team feels it in their legs more in that 3rd game of a three games in four days stretch rather than in the 2nd of b2b's
Either way, they're still not at full capacity. I consider wins over divisional rivals
big whether they're on 2nd game of b2bs or playing a backup. If the situations were flipped, then it would be
huge.
It's funny. Now you look at a single game and be like nah it's just one game. At the end of the regular season you look at those last games as very important if you're fighting for a PO- or WC-spot. Win few more of these "4 point games" and the situation could be a lot easier come spring.