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Blues captain Backes: ‘We’ve got some soul-searching to do’

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After blowing a 2-0 series lead and allowing more goals in Game 4 than they had in the previous three games combined, St. Louis is a hockey club looking for answers.

Just ask the captain.

“To score three on [Los Angeles] was fine and dandy but to give up four, that’s not our style,” David Backes told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch following Monday’s 4-3 loss at Staples. “We’ve got some soul-searching to do, look in the mirror and bring a better effort and more composed effort when we get home on Wednesday.”

Not too long ago, the Blues were in control of the series.

Granted, it wasn’t much control -- their margin of victory in Games 1 and 2 was razor-thin -- but they put themselves in prime position by winning the opening two games, as teams leading 2-0 have historically gone on to win 87.3 percent of the time.

Now, they find themselves dead even in a best-of-three.

As for the Kings, it seems as though their approach to the series is really paying off.

That approach? This actually isn’t a series.

“We haven’t looked at it as a series,” head coach Darryl Sutter said following Game 4. “We’ve looked at it as one game at a time because everybody talks about the series and everybody talks about last year, which really has no bearing on anything.

“You just literally play a game at a time.”

The Blues and Kings will resume things on Wednesday at the Scottrade Center (9 p.m. ET, CNBC).

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