St. Louis Blues Top 5 Worst Teams In Franchise History

2. 2005-06

Record: 21-46-15
Some might be scratching their heads as to why this team is up so high. They won one more game than the 1977-78 team.

That’s about where the comparisons ended. The Blues were gutted, physically and emotionally prior to this season.

Chris Pronger was dealt away when the owners decided to make the team a shell of itself in order to make a small payroll look better to prospective buyers. There were still a couple good names on the team, but it just was not there for anyone coming out of the lockout.

To show how bad things were for the Blues, their leading goal scorer was Mike Sillinger. I consider myself a devout fan, but I completely forgot Sillinger even played for the Blues.

It was a good business decision, but the Blues traded Sillinger away. It’s hard to rally behind a team when they trade away your leading scorer even if it makes sense in hindsight.

That’s, perhaps, what made this team so bad. Not only were they bad, but they were bad when the excitement for hockey’s return was so high.

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After missing an entire season, fans were foaming at the mouth to see the return of their favorite teams. Think how badly we want hockey to return during the dog-days of the summer and then amplify that by 100.

Then, suddenly, you’re slapped in the face by reality. You have a bad team with no prospect of turning it around.

The Blues finished with the worst record in the NHL. Even the team that sits atop our list can’t claim that feat.

It was the beginning of a long dry stretch. This team was the first of three straight to miss the postseason and they’d miss five years out of six.

It was almost enough to turn one away from the game after being spoiled with that long stretch of playoff runs. Almost.

1. 1978-79

Record:18-50-12
Some teams can claim others had fewer wins. Some can claim others had fewer points.

This team can’t do any of that. The only thing they can claim is Colorado was worse that season.

The 1978-79 Blues team was an improvement over their predecessor in one category. They scored over 50 goals more. Unfortunately, they allowed almost 50 goals more as well.

Nothing went right for this incarnation of the Note. They set a franchise record for futility with the fewest wins and least amount of points in team history. Even the lockout year teams had more points than this particular one.

The Blues just had too much of a gap from top to bottom. In an age when guys were starting to put up 100 points for fun, only Federko came even close. St. Louis had plenty of good guys, but they were built more like a team in today’s age as opposed to the offensive juggernauts of the late 70’s to early 80’s.

The one good thing about this team was it was the darkness before the light. The Blues almost doubled their win totals the next season and did not miss the playoffs for a quarter century.

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If you had told fans they’d have to endure this season before they got 25 years of playoffs, most would have accepted it. You never know that at the time though, so this one had to be hard to sit through.

No matter how much potential talent you have on a roster, 18 wins just does not cut the mustard.