Hitchcock set a good example. Pittsburgh’s was popular, but the other four were widely panned. He followed protocol and waited to be asked in.
The turnaround in such a short period of time was noted.There’s no disputing that the Blues have done marvelous things this season, on and off the ice.On the ice, they’ve performed above and beyond expectations, catapulting to the top of the National Hockey League standings and then battling through injuries to remain among the top teams.They’ve also made a series of fine moves to reconnect with fans. Despite finishing the regular season with 105 points (2nd in the NHL), despite seeing #1 overall Chicago and #4 overall Calgary bounced in the first round, despite seeing #3 overall Los Angeles bounced in the second round, despite having a clear path to the Stanley Cup with no remaining team having finished with 90 points during the season….St. Of the 26 teams in the league now, excepting the expansion teams, 10 or 11 have had new uniforms developed in the last two years. Mike Keenan was the Blues’ (controversial) coach/GM at the time, and it’s been said that the only positive thing that he ever did was prevent the Blues from wearing said alternate jerseys. The motivation is to make the team better. Davis Payne coached the Blues for 137 games from 2010 to 2011.
The mustard yellow Dallas Stars alternate, the Minnesota North Stars with italicized green names, and my own Blue Jackets prototype with the chevrons on the sleeves…it’s all fun and interesting. All that’s been established is that they were not scrapped as a result of a Mike Keenan locker room meltdown, but we’re not any closer to the basic answer.In an article way up at the top from when the white alternate hit the ice in 1997-98, there was a snippet that said:The old ones were the brainchild of former Blues President Jack Quinn. Outside of that, their first 20 years were mostly spent summing up the term “middling”; they were never really Cup contenders outside of a year or two, and they weren’t really horrendous outside of a year or two. He was regarded as a franchise-caliber defenseman if he’d ever get his head on straight, but there were absolutely questions about whether that would ever happen. But week’s later due to a conflict with the Rangers GM, Keenan resigned. In their place were Grant Fuhr (who had played just 49 games in the previous two seasons, most of them poor outings), Chris Pronger, Brian Noonan, Jay Wells, Shayne Corson, and Dale Hawerchuk. “There are 18 other ones. “There have been some anxious moments as far as getting the (players’) gloves and pants, and those anxious moments were as recent as early this week. . They’d worked around a couple of pretty basic colors for most of their history, red was added in only as a trim color in 1984 (their 18th season of existence), and then these extremely garish ones with diagonal stripes and huge splashes of red come along at the same time that Mike Keenan arrives. I know the trendy thing in sports is the ‘total entertainment’ package, but I maintain that hockey fans want to be entertained by the players on the ice. Poised to take an insurmountable 3-0 series lead, Detroit was instead stunned when enforcer Tony Twist tied the game up. “It’s doing very well for the Florida Panthers. (Unless we’re talking about the Islanders’ wavy jersey with the traditional crest, for which the NHL bent every jersey-related guideline they could to help out a team that had made a stupid mistake. Instead, his arrival slowly gutted the team … In overtime, Blues defenseman Igor Kravchuk scored, and it was now a 2-1 series.
And if not, where did this particular yarn come from in the first place?The St. Louis Blues have one of the more interesting franchise histories in the NHL. . First of all, I wouldn’t set myself up like that. “They’re a lot better than the old ones,” he said. He came in and declared that the fans were going to have to get used to change. I have never met or spoken to Mr. Quinn – although I would very much like to – so the following is speculative.Here is what I believe happened, mostly because it makes logical sense and mostly because it fits with the evidence.It’s been over 20 years since Mike Keenan was fired, a near-total regime change took place, and the new one put an axe to everything that had come to symbolize the Keenan-era Blues.On the ice, the team has never once worn uniforms with red on them.