Heading into Saturday's game against the Philadelphia Flyers, the St. Louis Blues are the only NHL team that has crossed the 100-point mark this season.
The Blues jumped from 99 points to 101 with Monday's 3-1 win over the Winnipeg Jets, beating the Boston Bruins to the 100-point mark by at least four days. The Bruins—currently sitting at 99 points, good for first place in the Eastern Conference—won't have an opportunity to join St. Louis until Friday, when Boston faces a tough Colorado Avalanche team with 93 points of its own.
The stacked Bruins don't make for much of an underdog but given that Friday's game is on the road against a very good team, they may have to wait a bit longer to cross that 100-point threshold, a mark they have hit 20 times in franchise history, including three of the last four non-lockout seasons.
Conversely, the Blues have only reached 100 points in six of their 46 seasons, most recently notching 109 points in 2011-12. The famously mediocre franchise qualified for the Stanley Cup playoffs in 25 consecutive seasons from 1979-80 to 2003-04, yet only topped the 100-point mark four times during that span, with na ...
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St. Louis Blues First to 100 Points, Eyeing Franchise Record
March 20th, 2014 by Bleacher Report Milestones Leave a reply »
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