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This decade has not been particularly kind to the St. Louis Blues. After winning their first Stanley Cup in 2019, the Blues were cruising through the following regular season and even hosted a fantastic All-Star event.
That was about the last, good thing to happen once the numbers flipped over to 2020 and then 2021. The Blues playoff bubble was burst with a horrendous showing against the Vancouver Canucks in 2020.
The 2021 regular season was awash with inconsistency and injury and the playoffs were close games individually, but ultimately they got swept.