It wasn’t very long ago that the Colorado Avalanche were categorically the NHL’s worst team. Back in 2016-17, the club notched only 48 points — 21 fewer than any other team that year, and still the only full-length season below 50 points by a team in the NHL’s post-lockout era. According to Hockey-Reference.com’s Simple Rating […]
No player has scored 130 points in an NHL season since Mario Lemieux and Jaromír Jágr each achieved the feat for the Pittsburgh Penguins in 1995-96. When they reached the milestone, the all-time greats became just the fourth pair of linemates — and the only pair of linemates that didn’t include a guy named Wayne […]
Before the end of last season, the St. Louis Blues were the most disappointing team in recent NHL history. In fact, they were among the most disappointing teams in recent North American sports history, period. They were almost always good, and they kept getting close to hockey’s summit — but they always seemed to fall […]
It feels extremely weird to write this, but the St. Louis Blues are Stanley Cup champions. It took them more than half a century — in that time there were three failed Cup bids and a subsequent 25-year playoff streak that included zero Cup appearances — but this current group of Bluenotes will forever have […]
The St. Louis Blues won Game 4 of the Stanley Cup Final Monday night, tying their series with the Boston Bruins at two wins apiece. Before the series began, the Blues had never won a Stanley Cup Final game. Now, they’re just two wins away from lifting the Cup. Then again, so are the Bruins. […]