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The Blues returned in Game 2. Welcome back, boys. In clobbering the San Jose Sharks for a 3-0 victory that evened their first-round Western Conference playoff series at 1-1, the Blues played like the spirited, tenacious unit that defied expectations to rise to the elite level of the NHL.
"I was proud of the way we fought back," Blues coach Ken Hitchcock said. "And if we didn’t, this was going to be a short series."
The Blues’ challenge, of course, will be to make it last throughout the remainder of a best-of-seven series that’s starting to boil.
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