Breaking down every single-season 102-point scorer for the St. Louis Blues
The St. Louis Blues have had a lot of triple-digit point scorers since their founding in 1967, and if we were to list everyone who hit the century mark, we’d be writing a novella here. Instead, we capped it at the 102-point threshold, as six players in team history hit that mark, and three of those six did so multiple times.
You’ll also notice that many of these occurred around the same time frame, showing us just how exciting it was to be a Blues fan in the late 1980s and into the early to mid-1990s. Anyway, we won’t keep you waiting any longer: Which players finished with 102 or more points in a single season, and who did so multiple times?
Brendan Shanahan, 1993-94
Few teams were more entertaining to watch in the regular season than the 1993-94 St. Louis Blues thanks to a pair of playmakers wearing the uniform. And fewer were more fun to watch than Brendan Shanahan, who hit the 102-point mark for the first and only time in his career.
Overall, he scored 52 times and put up an unprecedented seven short-handed goals. Add in the fact he got 397 pucks to the net that season, and it’s easy to see how Shanahan crossed the half-century mark in goals and also reached 50 assists.
Adam Oates, 1989-90, 1990-91
If you check out Adam Oates’ career stats, you’ll see he hit 102 points not once but twice for St. Louis, with the first coming in 1989-90. That season, Oates scored just 23 goals, but his 79 assists propelled him over the century mark or better yet, right at the 102-point mark.
Oates, one of the better playmakers in NHL history, built off that successful 1989-90 season the next year, scoring 25 goals and logging 90 assists for 115 points. In doing so, he earned Second-Team All-Star honors and hit one of his best shooting percentages of 18.0.
Bernie Federko, 1980-81, 1983-84, 1984-85, 1985-86
Blues fans will always look back fondly at Bernie Federko, and he had not one, not two, not three, but four 102-plus-point seasons during his run in Gateway City. In 1980-81, he finished with 31 goals and 73 assists, good for 104 points, but the following two seasons saw him dip below the 102-point threshold, even if he still put up gaudy numbers.
However, a bounce-back campaign awaited in 1983-84, when Federko put up 41 goals and 66 assists for 107 points and a 20.9 shooting percentage. He didn’t quite hit those numbers the following year, but 30 goals, 73 assists, and 103 points are definitely stats to be proud of, as were his 34 goals, 68 assists, and 102 points in 1985-86.
Doug Gilmour, 1986-87
Doug Gilmour only climbed over the 102-point threshold once with the Blues, accomplishing the feat during the 1986-87 season when he finished with 105 points, 42 goals, and 63 assists. Those efforts led to serious consideration for several NHL awards, including a fifth-place finish for the Hart and sixth for the Selke.
Gilmour played one more season with the Blues in 1987-88, and while he didn’t score triple-digits in points, he still ended with 36 goals and 50 assists, good for 86 on the season. He would, however, hit triple-digits again in the early to mid-1990s with the Toronto Maple Leafs.
Craig Janney, 1992-93
Craig Janney spent parts of just four seasons with the Blues, but he made the most of it, earning 233 points in 186 games. A whopping 106 of those points came in an 84-game season that saw Janney end the year with 24 goals and 82 assists, showing us that his 36 points in 25 games the previous year were just a preview of what was to come.
No, Janney didn’t reach the same milestone in 1993-94, his final full year in St. Louis, but he still finished with 84 points and 16 goals in just 69 games. Again, not a bad look, and a milestone he would never again reach throughout the rest of his career.
Brett Hull, 1989-90, 1990-91, 1991-92
If Brett Hull isn’t the best player in St. Louis Blues history, he at least made his case with three straight 102-plus-point seasons, and he came just one shy of making that four straight. Anyway, 72 goals and 41 assists in 1989-90 were good enough for 113 points before he parlayed that into a 131-point showing the following year that saw him score 86 times alongside 45 helpers.
The 1991-92 season saw a smaller output of points, but 109 was more than good enough for this list’s criteria. He scored 70-plus goals for the third straight season, this time hitting the mark evenly, along with 39 assists.
As you may have guessed, Hull’s efforts were recognized in this stretch, as he earned the Hart and Pearson in 1990-91, and in each season he finished in the top three for the former in 1989-90 and 1991-92.
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