Happy anniversary, Blues fans.
Five years ago today, your team woke up in the NHL basement. Not near the basement, or closer to it than you might have hoped – you were there, all alone, dead last in the entire NHL in total points on the morning of January 3, 2019.
We all know what happened next. The Blues turned it all around, going on an unprecedented second-half run and then winning the franchise’s first and only Stanley Cup.
Here’s the question I pitched to my editors: Can any of the teams that are in the mix for last place right now pull off the same miracle?