The Blues had an extremely impressive performance in a dominant Game 7 win against the Dallas Stars. Unfortunately, hockey fans subscribed to Charter missed out on most of the final period as the cable provider experienced a widespread outage.
The outage plagued a huge section of the country at one point:
5/11/16: the night of the #CharterOutage 💩 pic.twitter.com/FzqenftLWC
— Empire Studios (@EmpireStudiosNY) May 12, 2016
Blues fans were upset (rightfully so), but they thankfully didn’t miss too much. The Blues entered the third up 5-0 and the team mostly coasted to a 6-1 final. Can you imagine if this game was close or went to overtime? Twitter users had #CharterOutage trending almost immediately, but the outcry would be even worse had the game been a close battle.
Some fans got creative during the outage:
https://twitter.com/TriciaDiebold/status/730591231294603266
A lot of fans were angry:
Awesome 6-1 win for my #STLBlues to advance to the conference finals, but I wanted to SEE IT! #CharterOutage #LGB #WeAllBleedBlue
— Kristy Creighton (@kcpirana) May 12, 2016
But many kept their sense of humor:
And who doesn't love the traditional handshake line? #charteroutage #stlblues #WeBleedBlue @StLouisBlues pic.twitter.com/otX27aMRsn
— Chris in St. Louis (@ChrisInSTL) May 12, 2016
Even the most angry Blues fans won’t mind once they remember their squad is heading to the Western Final for the first time since 2001.
