There was a lot to process with the Blues this season.
New records set. League leaders. Historical seasons.
Let's take a look at some key numbers heading into the first round of the playoffs.
1-2-1: Blues record this season against Winnipeg. They lost 3-2 on Oct. 22, won 4-1 on Dec. 3, lost 4-3 in a shootout on Feb. 22 and lost 3-1 on April 7.
2: Number of Blues players in the last 30 years with three straight seasons of at least 30 goals and 30 assists. The list is just Jordan Kyrou (36 goals and 34 assists) and Vladimir Tarasenko. Brett Hull and Brendan Shanahan also did it in the early 1990s.
3: Number of Blues expected to make their playoff debuts on Saturday, as Jake Neighbours, Zack Bolduc and Jimmy Snuggerud have never played in the Stanley Cup playoffs before. If Tyler Tucker or Matthew Kessel enter the lineup at some point, it would also be their first playoff game.
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5: Number of forwards, including Robert Thomas, with at least 60 assists in each of the last two seasons. It’s a list that also features Nikita Kucherov, Nathan MacKinnon, Connor McDavid and David Pastrnak. Three of them have won Hart Trophies, and Pastrnak has won a Rocket Richard.
6: Number of goals scored by Pavel Buchnevich in his eight games since returning from a four-game absence. All of Buchnevich’s goals during that span came at even strength, tied for third-most in the league since March 29.
8: Points out of the playoffs the Blues were at the 4 Nations break. At the break, the Blues were closer to a top-five pick in the draft (three points from Buffalo) than they were to the wild card-holding Canucks eight points ahead of ѿý.
10: Number of games since the break that Jordan Binnington has allowed two or fewer goals. His 13 wins since the break are behind only Darcy Kuemper’s 15 wins, and Kuemper started five more games than Binnington did.
12: Number of wins in a franchise-record win streak. Following a loss in Pittsburgh on March 13, the Blues ripped off a dozen consecutive wins, breaking the record of 11 straight wins set by the 2019 Blues. The Blues outscored opponents by 3.43 goals per game in the first seven wins, and then pulled out five straight one-goal victories.
12 again: Number of wins in the current franchise-record home win streak. When the Blues host Game 3 on Thursday, they will have gone more than two months without losing at home. The last team to beat the Blues at home was Winnipeg in a 4-3 shootout win on Feb. 22. The Blues have not lost in regulation at Enterprise Center since Feb. 6 against Florida.
12 again: Number of games in Robert Thomas’ current point streak. Thomas finished the season with the league’s longest active point streak, and it’s only fitting since he led all NHL players with 41 points since the 4 Nations break.
13: Number of games since the break that Jim Montgomery has started the fourth line. In half of the games since the break, Montgomery has turned to Alexey Toropchenko, Radek Faksa and Nathan Walker to set the tone early for the Blues.
15: Number of consecutive seasons a Jim Montgomery team has made the postseason. The streak dates back to 2010 when Montgomery was an assistant coach at RPI. The only time Montgomery hasn’t coached in the postseason (in college, as a head coach in the NHL or as an assistant in the NHL) was in 2020, when he was fired before the Stars reached the Stanley Cup Final.
17: Number of games Colton Parayko missed in March and April due to a knee injury before returning on Saturday in Seattle. Despite playing 64 games (Paryako also missed one game due to illness), he set new career highs in goals (16) and points (36).
19: Number of goals Zack Bolduc scored under Jim Montgomery after not scoring any with Drew Bannister behind the bench. Bolduc was fourth among rookies in goals scored.
41: Points after 4 Nations break, the most in the NHL. The Blues went 19-4-3 in the last 26 games of the season, a 129-point pace across an 82-game season. The last time the Blues won 19 games in a 26-game stretch, it was 2019, before ѿý won the Stanley Cup.
56: Number of goals for at 5 on 5 that Cam Fowler has been on the ice since arriving via trade. It’s the most in the league, and the Blues own a plus-23 edge in Fowler’s minutes at 5 on 5.
5,462: Number of career games played by the six Blues defensemen expected to be in the lineup. The Blues will enter the series with one of the most experienced defensive groups, led by Ryan Suter (1,526 games played), and Cam Fowler and Nick Leddy (both at 1,042).
