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DENVER — Inside a quiet elevator in a silenced arena, the doors opened to reveal the biggest Blues fan there is. Tom Stillman, hockey-loving chairman of the Blues, stepped into a Ball Arena elevator to go down to ice level, where it had just happened. It, of course, being the impossible. “That was hard on the heart,” Stillman said. “But it showed the team has a lot of heart.” Even before puck-drop, it was hard to believe the Blues would win this game. After their embarrassing showing in Game 4 at home, Game 5 at Ball Arena was supposed to be a Colorado coronation — finally, the Avs would retur…