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The Blues were one of the Expansion Six to enter the league in 1967 when the NHL doubled in size. The newcomers were hampered by restrictive rules that kept virtually all the top players with the existing teams.

Although the Blues, originally coached by Lynn Patrick, and then Scotty Bowman, made the Stanley Cup finals in each of their first three years of existence, they failed to win a game. It should be noted that the revised playoff format placed all six expansion teams in the same division, forcing one of the new teams to face an Original Six team in the finals. In those three series, the Blues lost twice to the Montreal Canadiens and once to the Boston Bruins. The first Blues teams included aging retreads like Doug Harvey, Jacques Plante and Dickie Moore, in addition to younger talent like Red Berenson and Bob and Barclay Plager. St. Louis has not been back to the finals since, only twice going as far as the Conference Finals.

Defenseman Chris Pronger (acquired from the Hartford Whalers in 1995), Pavol Demitra, Pierre Turgeon, Al MacInnis, and goalie Roman Turek, continued to make the Blues a contender. In 1999-2000 they had the best record in the NHL during the regular season, earning the Presidents' Trophy, but were stunned by the San Jose Sharks in the first round in seven games.

In 2001 the Blues advanced to the Western Conference Finals before bowing out in five games to the eventual champion Colorado Avalanche.

Despite years of mediocrity and the stigma of never being able to "take the next step", the Blues have been a playoff presence every year since the 1979-80 season. In fact, the team had only missed the playoffs three times in franchise history and currently hold the active record for most consecutive playoff appearances by any NHL, MLB, NFL, or NBA team.

Walmart heir Bill Laurie purchased the Blues in 1998, but on June 17, 2005 announced that he would sell the team.

Notable Blues players
Current stars
40 Patrick Lalime
2 Al MacInnis
7 Keith Tkachuk
39 Doug Weight
5 Barret Jackman
Aaron Downey
Trent Whitfield
Eric Brewer
Doug Lynch
Jeff Woywitka

Blues Team captains
Al Arbour 1967-70
Red Berenson & Barclay Plager 1970-71
Barclay Plager 1971-76
no captain 1976-77
Red Berenson 1977-78
Barry Gibbs 1978-79
Brian Sutter 1979-88
Bernie Federko 1988-89
Rick Meagher 1989-90
Scott Stevens 1990-91
Garth Butcher 1991-92
Brett Hull 1992-95
Brett Hull & Shayne Corson & Wayne Gretzky 1995-96
no captain 1996-97
Chris Pronger 1997-2003
Al MacInnis 2003-

Blues Hall of Famers
Doug Harvey ('73)
Dickie Moore ('74)
Glenn Hall ('75)
Jacques Plante ('78)
Peter Stastny ('98)
Wayne Gretzky ('99)
Joe Mullen ('00)
Dale Hawerchuk ('01)
Bernie Federko ('02)
Grant Fuhr ('03)

Not to be forgotten Blues
16 Brett Hull
5 Bob Plager
14 Doug Wickenheiser
44 Chris Pronger

Retired Blues Numbers
3 Bob Gassoff
8 Barclay Plager
11 Brian Sutter
24 Bernie Federko
99 Wayne Gretzky (retired League-wide)
(Note: Bob Plager's number 5 and Doug Wickenheiser's number 14 are honored by the club with banners but are not officially retired. After Wickenheiser's death in 1999, the number was unofficially retired: the last player to wear it was Geoff Courtnall.)

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