Anyone who was a St. Louis Blues fan in the 1990’s knows what a great, yet testing time it was. In a rare turn of events, a smaller market team had one of the best players in the league when the team acquired Brett Hull in 1987.
Unfortunately, for a myriad of reasons, the team never found the right combination of players to surround him with to win a Stanley Cup during his tenure. There were plenty of options though.
The first pairing was with Adam Oates. That duo combined for 639 points in two years, but never got past the division finals, which is essentially the equivalent to today’s second round.