St. Louis Blues and hockey hall of famer Brett Hull posted one of the greatest individual seasons of all-time during the 1990-91 season with St. Louis when he netted 86 goals on his way to a Hart trophy.
Hull's goal-scoring record for St. Louis may be the single-most unreachable record that has been set by a Blues skater. The forward posted these numbers on one of the most successful regular-season teams in club history.
The Blues in the 1990-91 campaign went 47-22-11 which was good for 105 points and a second-place finish in the Norris division. Hull was almost solely responsible for the entirety of the team's scoring on this team.
After Hull's 86 goals, the next closest goal scorer on the team registered 27 goals (Geoff Courtnall) while Adam Oates (25) was the only other St. Louis Blue to reach at least 20 goals that season.
This level of production by a single player is unheard of in today's NHL. Even the best players in the league, like Connor McDavid and Nathan MacKinnon, have complementary pieces that are able to work with to elevate their games.
What's even more unbreakable about Hull's record is the way the game has changed in the last 30 years. Today's NHL players are bigger, faster, and stronger, and rule changes have helped goaltenders more so than scorers.
Of the top-10 single-season goal-scoring leaders in St. Louis Blues history, the most recent entry in that ranking was placed during the 1993-94 season when Hull netted 57 goals for the Note.
The St. Louis Blues do not have an elite-level goal scorer who can even come close to the production that Hull has scored over the course of his career. Jordan Kyrou's career-high in goals was 37 in 2022-23, and he has 150 career tallies.
Hull's top two scoring campaigns of 86 and 72 goals put Kyrou's career total in the dust. Until the Blues draft and even more elite goal scorer than Auston Matthews, Hull's record will likely never be broken.