St. Louis Blues Halloween: David Perron Is Jason Voorhees

It’s the spookiest time of the year with ghouls and goblins about. With that, one of horror’s biggest fiends is quite similar to a St. Louis Blues winger.

The St. Louis Blues normally have a game around Halloween to keep the focus on the ice. With 2020 being what it is, it lets us do a little nonsense for fun.

So, why not figure out what horror/Halloween characters match up well with the Blues? Hockey can be a frightening sport, after all.

On the surface, David Perron doesn’t seem anything like Jason Voorhees. If anything, you might think it was Jordan Binninton that resembled the Friday the 13th slasher.

Both of those men wear masks. Both are cold blooded and appear from nowhere to either kill people or kill shooter’s dreams.

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However, beyond just the blood and gore, the one thing that Jason is most well known for is never dying and ALWAYS coming back. The guy was involved in 12 films, being the star of 11.

So, while the French-Canadian forward is a little happier and less stabby than Jason, he embodies that relentless aspect. Perron just keeps coming back.

Perron was drafted by the Blues way back in 2007. While he had great promise and showed skill, he never quite latched on to the type of game the franchise wanted him to play and could not score enough goals to justify his presence otherwise.

So, like the father of some horror movie heroine, Ken Hitchcock sent the monster away, but only for awhile.

Perron learned how things could be different and found solid success in Edmonton. Nevertheless, consistency was always out of reach, just like Jason trying to knock off that last person in his films.

So, the Blues brought him back. They resurrected his career and made him more of a star than he was before, similar to Friday the 13th Part III, which is actually the first time Jason wore his trademark hockey mask.

Vegas tried to spoil things by stealing Perron away in the draft – ok, the Blues let him go so they could protect Ryan Reaves and then trade Reaves to Pittsburgh, but I digress. That was not enough to put Perron down.

He would not be killed and returned to life once more once Vegas let him reach free agency. Perron returned to the Blues again, as we all know.

Like Jason, whose body count seemed to grow ever higher in each film, Perron upped his goal totals. In the year the Blues won the Stanley Cup, he scored what was then a career high 23 regular season goals. He upped that to 25 in the pandemic-shortened season.

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Perron doesn’t share the look of the hulking brute. He clearly shares his perseverence.

Nobody has come back to life more than Jason, except maybe Dracula. Perron won’t let anything keep him down either.

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