Fifty years ago when I watched my first live NHL game at the Old Barn on Oakland, I never dreamed I would one day be watching the St. Louis Blues playing hockey at Busch Stadium, the home of the Cardinals. And yet, here we are, outside in the chill of an early January winter, welcoming in a new year at an outdoor hockey game.
And how appropriate it is that the Blues’ opponents today are the much-loathed and despised Chicago (or Shitcago as my wife likes to say) Blackhawks, currently the biggest arch rival of the Note now that the octopus-loving Detroit Red Wings have relocated to the Eastern Conference.