By now, you’ve probably seen the asterisk.
Or the parentheses, which is how one TV graphic listed the 1967-68 St. Louis Blues in context with the Golden Knights and making it to the Stanley Cup Final as an expansion team.
At first blush, mentioning those Blues with these Knights might seem like heresy, or at least more audacious than Stu “The Grim Reaper” Grimson becoming a practicing attorney after serving his last game misconduct.
There were only 12 teams then, and six — St. Louis, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Minnesota, Pittsburgh and California/Oakland were new. They played amongst themselves in a separate division.