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Hope in short supply for frustrated Blues
LOS ANGELES -- Down 3-0 in the Western semifinal series, and coming off a game dominated by the opposition, St. Louis Blues coach Ken Hitchcock is looking for light at the end of the tunnel.
It's getting harder to locate.
With mediocre goaltending, frustration setting in, undisciplined penalties piling up and the Los Angeles Kings seemingly gaining momentum with each successive Stanley Cup playoff game, the only cure-all Hitchcock can see for a Blues team unaccustomed to being pushed around is to dig deeper, fight harder.
"I think we're getting done to us what we've done to teams all year," said the coach-of-the-year finalist, whose Blues soared to the No. 2 seed in the West and were in the hunt for the Presidents' Trophy until the last few days of the season.
"We have to have a better response and learn to fight through this stuff."
Thursday's 4-2 loss included a spate of retaliatory penalties the Blues took that a more mature team might have turned away from.
-- Postmedia News
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition May 5, 2012 C3
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