What the Hurricanes did manage was to be impressively clinical with what chances they did create. It wasn't just Laumape who nailed it when he had – the Hurricanes scrum delivered a quality platform and various characters including Beauden Barrett, Nehe Milner-Skudder and Jordie Barrett had significant touches at critical times to ensure that the Hurricanes always stayed in control on the scoreboard.
But still, despite the final score, the Hurricanes didn't quite look the Hurricanes. Not the best version of themselves anyway.
They were good enough to piece together three cracking strike moves in the first half that netted them three tries. It was straight off the training ground sort of stuff – well-planned moves, executed at speed and with stunning precision.
Laumape was the key piece of weaponry, used to hit the ball at pace and split the Blues defence.
When he's used like that, he's all but impossible to stop but he was also helped by some poor defensive reading by Rieko Ioane.
The youngster is the hottest property in world rugby right now, and while his long term future may be at second-five, it doesn't feel like it is the right position for him at the moment.
He was too easily pulled into the wrong places and isolated on defence. And too often on attack, there was no space for him to exploit.
He did manage to provide one telling reminder of why he should be on the wing when he was played into space shortly before halftime and scorched 30 metres into the corner.
But while the Hurricanes were able to deliver on their set plays, their intuitive, off the cuff rugby from broken play was still not visible for the third week in succession.
They are at their best when the game is loose and unstructured and despite the fact there was plenty of ebb and flow and ample opportunity to attack a retreating and hastily put together Blues defence, the Hurricanes couldn't find their magic touch.
Their passing wasn't sharp enough to create the initial holes and their ball retention wasn't good enough on the occasions they did spark something into life.
They still look a touch vulnerable – ripe for the taking in the playoffs certainly and the Blues exposed plenty with what was one of their better attacking performances of the year.
When they were direct, particularly through Akira Ioane, they went forward and created indecision in the Hurricanes defence.
And when they went forward and offloaded, they had the Hurricanes all over the place and the panic could be seen in the way the home side fell off so many one-on-one tackles.
If the Blues had just managed to retain their composure for one more pass, or one more phase then they could have been looking at a different outcome.
So often they did all the hard work, broke deep into Hurricanes territory but got stuck five metres out.
Well beaten again, they can at least take something from their performance.
Hurricanes 42 (N. Laumape (4), J. Savea, B. Barrett tries; J. Barrett 6 cons)
Blues 24 (R. Ioane (2), A. Ioane tries; S. Perofeta pen, 3 cons)
