This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Blows 5, Hawks 4

Once again, The Hawks snatched defeat from the jaws of victory, and this time it was despite The Blues doing their level best to hand the win over.  How about a few quick bits and we'll put this behind us and never speak of it again?  Deal.
* Oddly, neither team played especially well but both teams had a couple of players that had crazy-good games.  For STL, Alex Pietrangelo had himself a night, as did his apparent protegé, Vince Dunn, both driving The Blues' offence from the back end and taking it to the net themselves when they found their forwards not up to the task.  Best STL forward?  Kyle Brodziak.  How's that make ya feel?
* For The Hawks it was 80% Alex DeBrincat as he chalked up his third hat trick of the season.  A few other fellas played alright in fits and starts; Toews, Jurco (but guilty of a few brutal shifts to even things out) and Hinostroza each had some excellent moments but no one apart from DBC really blew me away.

* The Naughty List is longer.  Gustafsson was horrible, seemingly under the impression that playing good defence begins and ends with standing nonchalantly in front of your own net until "something happens".  Keith - iffy, at best and Oesterle was pretty poor, but he got the goal line scramble correct this time, at least.  Berubé fell back to earth after a couple of okay outings by serving up a stinker, today.
* It should have been over in regulation but for a dim call in which the referee blew the whistle for no reason apart from confusion.  The deflation that The Blues experienced after the goal review let The Hawks back into it, briefly.  The Blues seem a bit fragile, having lost a bunch of games that saw them tumble down the standings, a decline that seems to coincide roughly with Paul Stastny being traded to WPG.  With Tarasenko and Hutton both injured and the confidence level in The Blues' room probably mighty low and emotional, come-from-behind victory was just the thing they needed.
Happy to oblige, I guess...