The Panther
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Gretzky, Al MacInnis, and recently Mike Keenan (not the most objective of sources) have all gone on record as saying they think the '96 Blues could have won the Cup if Grant Fuhr hadn't gone down to Nick Kypreos's gravity-defying fall on top of him in Toronto.
This claim has always struck me as a bit far-fetched, in that St. Louis just wasn't a great team all season. But, let's imagine these 2 things happen:
1) They get by Detroit in game 7 overtime, and...
2) Grant Fuhr is healthy and ready to go for round three.
The first thing obviously could easily have happened, but as memory serves I don't think Fuhr was ready as soon as May. But anyway, in this imaginary scenario, could they realistically have won it all? In case you forgot, they would have had to have then defeated Colorado (eventual Cup winner, of course) and then Florida in the Finals.
This claim has always struck me as a bit far-fetched, in that St. Louis just wasn't a great team all season. But, let's imagine these 2 things happen:
1) They get by Detroit in game 7 overtime, and...
2) Grant Fuhr is healthy and ready to go for round three.
The first thing obviously could easily have happened, but as memory serves I don't think Fuhr was ready as soon as May. But anyway, in this imaginary scenario, could they realistically have won it all? In case you forgot, they would have had to have then defeated Colorado (eventual Cup winner, of course) and then Florida in the Finals.