St. Louis loves it’s local players. It doesn’t matter the sport, if you can have a local player on the team, the fans are going to eat it up.
The St. Louis Blues haven’t had a true local guy on the team since Ben Bishop. Paul Stastny sort of counts, since he lived a good deal of his young life here, but he was born in Quebec.
That’s what makes this draft so interesting. There are as many as four players that could go in the first round of the NHL draft from the St.