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It's sounding like Detroit, Quebec City, and Philadelphia are front runners for the first expansion. If all goes well for this league, I'd think St. Louis would be in the 12-15 range.

Interesting tidbit I noticed watching Frozen Four today - it is hosted by “University of Vermont”. Apparently because Tom Stillman went to Vermont and that’s the university partner they went with. Just kind of odd to see on the ice

Nonetheless, great event to have in St. Louis this weekend. Hopefully good publicity for the city and good activity downtown

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Apr 11, 2025

delmar2debaliviere2downtown wrote: ↑

Apr 11, 2025

Interesting tidbit I noticed watching Frozen Four today - it is hosted by “University of Vermont”. Apparently because Tom Stillman went to Vermont and that’s the university partner they went with. Just kind of odd to see on the ice

Nonetheless, great event to have in St. Louis this weekend. Hopefully good publicity for the city and good activity downtown

Compared to Blues games it was notable;

• how nearby parking lots weren't that full
• the wave of pedestrian traffic after the game was huge. Appears a lot of people stayed at the Hilton, Lowes and  Westin. Like the sidewalks were so full people were walking in Market Street

Parking lots weren't that full because 1) Neither game individually had 18k. They both had about 10-13k, so the overall traffic was more spread out and 2) Literally like 90-95% of the attendees are from out of state, so many people don't have a car at all and are staying overwhelmingly downtown or in the central corridor (spoke to a few groups who took Metro from the CWE). So, it's actually really natural for this event to generate a lot more foot traffic than the Blues or a generic concert. Reminds me a bit of Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis when I worked there with all their non-NBA basketball events.

After today, this has got to be the best Enterprise Center event for economic activity since the NHL ASG? Maybe March Madness in 2016? Just based on out of state visitors, foot traffic, etc. Makes me excited for the Figure Skating Championship next January. There was a Fox 2 article today about Tom Stillman saying he wants Enterprise to host a Men's Basketball Regional (Sweet 16 and Elite , which would be pretty big if it does happen.

The Sports Commission was also doing surveys to see what people think of St. Louis. I wonder if they'll release their findings from that.

(Edited to add) Also worth mentioning that STL is getting a significant amount of hate due to the appearance of empty seats on TV and your typical "STL is a sh*t city" mantra on the typical social media platforms. Obviously people who aren't actually attending, but in the end, those views are what will win the day.

Surprised to hear there were any available seats.  Secondary ticket pricing seemed REALLY high (unless all tickets were really expensive)

The arena was sure filled for the final game & looks like those empty seats were because the first game on Thursday went to double over time so more than likely people were going to go to the 2nd game stayed at their hotel or likely left early during the 2nd game since it ended almost close to midnight. I have no doubts St.Louis was a great host city & seems most of the b*tching coming from arrogant Boston natives. I’m glad their team lost they suck pickles.


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Boston's turnout was really low. Was basically a Western Michigan home game.

Would say 60% WMU, 25% BU, 5% DU, 10% Misc.

Just based on following the last couple weeks of online college hockey discussion, I think it’s a niche, really dedicated fanbase that believes their main event should maximize that niche, dedicated fanbase so it should be in a market where those fans mostly exist - Minnesota or the northeast. I get that sentiment to an extent but also think to grow the game you have to try different things. SLU absolutely should have a hockey team (I’ve thought the armory would be an awesome venue for this) but I don’t think St. Louis is a bad untraditional market to try. There’s a lot of local high school hockey and the Blues have been really successful in growing their brand.

I think that first Thursday game was also held at an awkward time, maybe a bit early. Overall, just happy to see weekend events downtown that keep us going

and yes not the last home game against Utah but the home game  before that I actually saw TWO black families (mom dad 2 kids) in FULL Blues regalia 

First four playoff gametimes:

Game 1 - Saturday 4/19 @ 5p
Game 2 - Monday 4/21 @ 6:30
Game 3 - Thursday 4/24 @ 8:30
Game 4 - Sunday 4/27 @ 12

Memphis Grizzlies are going to Nashville after this is done, just seems like what the city is going for in the long term. Would make zero sense to do this for the Predators alone.

This guy is going straight to prison as soon as the plane lands in Winnipeg.

I've been watching the team flights, the Jets flew Air Canada into Lambert but out of Cahokia Downtown-Parks Airport for the return trip and no more than a couple of hours after they lost on Sunday.

The Blues just left STL for YWG on a Ravn Alaska 757, not sure if this is their usual choice for their charter flights.

Blues lost in double OT last night against the Jets and it was probably the biggest playoff collapse I've ever seen in the nearly 30 years I've been a fan of hockey.

So close.

It was a game of inches. The Blues gave a up a lot of games late this season. No doubt they should have beat the Jets. While the future is bright, it is hard to look ahead after that collapse. 

I don’t call it a collapse they weren’t even picked to make it the playoffs let alone take on the presidents trophy winner the way they did. I think it was a series of misfortunes. Now if that were the jets losing to the blues in that fashion it be one of the biggest collapses in NHL history. I didn’t like our chances against Dallas anyways & the Blues will maintain their 15 game home win streak for next season. Either way I’m very proud of this team & what they were able to overcome. Could the Blues actually make a run for the best record in hockey next year & make a finals run next year? Something to be excited about.


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If you're up by 2 goals in a game 7 against any team and piss it away I'm calling it a collapse.

Sure we were playing with house money because we weren't even supposed to be there but it's just unacceptable to not be able to close it out.

We'll hopefully be better for it next year, but Jesus that was horrible.

It was a collapse. “Played not to lose” the last 3 minutes and blew it, Parayko and a couple others then also missed some point blanks with numbers in the first OT.

You know it’s a collapse/choke when the big story of the day in the national media is a first round Jets-Blues game 7.

It was an epic collapse but I’m more optimistic about the future for the Blues than I have been in some time. Getting all those young guys some playoff experience will really pay off.