From career-high point totals to a look into the future, take a look below at some of the statistics and figures that highlighted the 2022-23 St. Louis Blues campaign:
1.06 – Pavel Buchnevich led the Blues this season with 1.06 points per game, his career-best scoring rate and making him the only Blue over one point per game. Buchnevich posted an 11-game point streak from Feb. 23 to March 17, the longest on the team this season and second-longest of his career after a 12-game streak last year.
3.5 – The Blues have a 3.5 percent chance to pick No. 1 overall in the 2023 NHL Draft this season. The exact pick will be revealed at the annual Draft Lottery on May 8 at 7 p.m. CT on ESPN. The Blues have not picked in the Top 10 at the NHL Draft since 2008, their highest pick since then being Jaden Schwartz at No. 14 in the 2010 Draft.
5 – Five players made their NHL debuts for the Blues this season – Nikita Alexandrov, Will Bitten, Matthew Kessel, Hugh McGing and Tyler Tucker. Other young Blues with notable impacts this year include Alexey Toropchenko (19 points in 69 games), Jake Neighbours (10 points in 43 games) and Joel Hofer (three wins, .905 save percentage in six starts).
14 – Fourteen members were inducted as the inaugural class of the Blues Hall of Fame, honoring franchise legends dating back to the very beginning.
19 – The Blues got 19 goals from trade acquisitions Sammy Blais and Jakub Vrana this season, sharing the highest goal total for trade-acquired players in the League. Kasperi Kapanen – claimed off of waivers – also provided a spark with his new team, recording 14 points in 23 games with the Blues.
20 – Blais posted 20 points in 31 games for the Blues this season following his trade from New York. That sample alone proved career highs in both points and assists, while his full-season games played total reached a career-best 71. On March 2, Blais agreed to a one-year, $1 million contract extension for next season.
37 – Jordan Kyrou reached a career-best 37 goals this season, an increase of 10 over his previous best from last season. With 73 points on the season, Kyrou became the fourth Blue in the last 26 years to post consecutive 70-point seasons, joining Vladimir Tarasenko, Pavol Demitra and Brett Hull. He was one of 54 players in the NHL this season to score at least 30 goals, the most in the NHL since 1993-94.
44 – Brayden Schenn‘s 44 assists marked a career high, with Schenn joining Justin Faulk as the only two Blues to play all 82 games this season. His 10 assists in the final 11 games of the season shared No. 11 in the NHL, trailing the League lead by just three. In addition to his assist numbers, Schenn also hit the 20-goal milestone for the seventh time in his career.
50 – Justin Faulk recorded a career-high 50 points this season, playing in all 82 games for the third time in his career. Faulk led the Blues defensemen and shared No. 19 among all NHL blueliners in points this season, also setting a career high with 39 assists.
61 – Jordan Binnington played in 61 games this year, starting a career-high 60 for the fifth-highest total in the NHL. Along the way, he passed Brian Elliott and Greg Millen to move into No. 5 on the all-time franchise leaderboard – now at 223 games played for his career. With a win against Nashville on Dec. 12, Binnington also became the sixth goaltender in Blues history to win 100 games with the club.
70 – The Blues scored 70 goals in their last 19 games of the season, the third-most in the NHL over that span dating from March 9 to April 13. Their 10 wins in that time shared No. 11 in the League as they closed out the season strong.
104 – Robert Thomas recorded 104 assists across the last two seasons, leading all Blues and sharing No. 20 in the NHL. With his 40th assist of the season on March 11, Thomas joined Blues Hall of Famer Bernie Federko as the only players in franchise history to post back-to-back 40-assist seasons before turning 24 years old. Thomas also won a career-high 52.9 percent of his faceoffs this year, his first time over 50 percent.
354 – Craig Berube currently ranks No. 3 in Blues history with 354 games as head coach, also ranking third in wins with 193. He trails Ken Hitchcock on both leaderboards by 59 games and 55 wins, respectively. Across his career, this season Berube became sixth individual in NHL history to coach at least 500 games after a playing career with at least 1,000 games.
768 – Doug Armstrong reached 768 career wins this season, the longest-tenured general manager in the NHL and ranking No. 14 in League history for wins as a GM. Armstrong is 32 wins shy of becoming the 11th GM in NHL history to reach 800 career wins.
