St. Louis Blues Top 10 Moments Of 2019 Stanley Cup Final

5. Game 4

With most of these, we tried to pick out specific moments.  However, with some, it is just too hard to single it down to one small point in time.

That is the case with Game 4.  Everything about it just felt sort of special.

The Blues already had their first ever win in a Stanley Cup Final.  Game 2’s overtime victory was special because we just wanted that one win.  Clearly, all Blues fans wanted to win the whole thing, but there was a small part of us that just wanted to win at least one game so the entire getting swept in the past thing could be put to rest.

Losing Game 3 by an embarrassing 7-2 score sort of reinforced that.  It was Game 4 that really put Blues fans in a position to where they could honestly say we might win this.

So much was memorable from that game.  Whether you enjoyed it or thought it was low brow, the Brett Hull semi-drunken (compared to how he was later in the series) intro was something we will remember.  Wayne Gretzky, who only had a cup of coffee with the Blues but manages to sneak in the building from time to time, was there too.

Then there, was the game.  It was everything you want in a hockey game with teams trading goals back and forth through the second period and going into the third with a tie game.  Boston’s tying goal being shorthanded was a little more than some could bear, but still.

St. Louis would not be deterred by setbacks any longer.  They got the game winning goal with 9:22 remaining in the third period and then scored an insurance goal about eight minutes after that.

Not only did the Blues get two goals in the third, but it was key players that scored them with Ryan O’Reilly and Brayden Schenn netting the scores.  The Blues were not fortunate on this night, but had their stars step up at the most critical time.

This game was important on so many levels.  As mentioned, it gave fans and likely the team the belief they could and might win it.

It signaled to the Bruins that the Blues would not roll over and hand them another Cup, even though Boston had dominated in their previous two wins.

It also gave fans another thing to celebrate.  This was not just a win in a playoff series.  This was the first time anyone had ever witnessed a Stanley Cup Final game win in the city of St. Louis.

The Blues had been to four championship series and only won one game prior to that night.  Fans in attendance finally got to go home happy after seeing a victory and Gloria played into the night.