St. Louis Blues Top 10 Players of the 2010 Decade

Brian Elliott

These are in no particular order as far as importance to the team or the decade, but we’ll start off with a slightly controversial name. Brian Elliott was never one of my personal favorites and I openly admit that I was on the opposite side of the goalie wars, supporting both Halak and Allen against him.

That said, you cannot argue with what he accomplished with the Blues. Despite being brought in as a backup and slightly as a reclamation project after poor years in Ottawa and Colorado, the man known as Moose flourished with the Blues.

In his first season, he played in 38 games and started 36, so he was not seeing just junk time. He went 23-10-4 and both he and Halak won the Jennings Trophy for the best goals against. In that one season he had more shutouts than the next two seasons combined.

In fact, Elliot currently sits atop the shout list for any Blues goaltender with 25. Allen is not far behind, but Elliott did it in far fewer games.

Elliott also has the best save percentage (.925) of any Blues goaltender to play 100 games or more. He only trails Jacques Plante‘s .931 overall and Plante only played a total of 69 games with the Blues.

Moose’s contribution to the Blues making it to the conference finals for the first time in 16 years cannot be denied either. He was a huge reason they beat Chicago in that opening round and posted a .921 save percentage during that entire run.