Like any other NHL franchise, the St. Louis Blues have made plenty of good trades, and plenty of bad trades. The recent trade history for the Blues has been very good, and was a key factor in their success last season. Let’s discuss their three best and worst trades in franchise history.
Blues’ Worst Trades
Giving up on Brind’Amour
Two seasons after being the ninth overall pick, Rod Brind’Amour was traded to the Philadelphia Flyers. The Blues traded him and Dan Quinn for Ron Sutter and Murray Baron.
Rod Brind’Amour, Carolina Hurricanes (Amy Irvin / The Hockey Writers)
Baron was a solid defenseman for seven seasons with the Blues, playing nearly 20 minutes per game over that time, while Sutter had 37 goals in 163 games over three seasons in St. Louis.
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Brind’Amour played nine seasons in Philadelphia, scoring 601 points. He then played 10 seasons with the Carolina Hurricanes, where he won two Selke Trophies and was the captain of the 2006 Stanley Cup championship team. He finished his long career with 1,184 points in nearly 1,500 games, including 452 goals. Who knows what may have happened if the Blues had held onto him?
Trading Joe Mullen to Calgary
Joe Mullen was traded to the Calgary Flames at the deadline in 1986 after four and a half good seasons with the Blues, where he scored 151 goals. Mullen went to the Flames along with Terry Johnson and Rik Wilson for Eddy Beers, Charles Bourgeois, and Gino Cavallini.
Johnson and Wilson spent a lot of their time in the minors after the trade from St. Louis to Calgary. Beers played 24 games with the Blues after the trade, and that was it. Bourgeois played 127 games over three different seasons for the Blues, scoring 24 points from the blue line.
Cavallini worked out pretty well for the Blues in this deal. He played nearly seven seasons in St. Louis, tallying 211 points in 454 games.
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However, Mullen won a Stanley Cup with the Flames, and…
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