The St. Louis Blues are off to a rocky start -- what's going wrong with this team that should be fighting for a playoff spot on paper?

Tom's Two Cents - a new series by Guest Writer Thomas Rupp. In this series, you will get passionate, honest, occasionally sarcastic Sports takes from a diehard Sports fan. Football, Baseball, Hockey, and Golf are Tom's specialties - and if you read Bean's Blog for the Laughs - Tom is your man.

The NBA and NHL Playoffs are being played in lock-step - but fans couldn't be more split and the narrative couldn't be more divisive. But are they really so different?

St. Louis Blues Bounced back to even the series 2-2 going into Game 5. What do they need to do to finally take a lead in this series?