St. Louis Blues Trivia
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50 free St. Louis Blues trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
The St. Louis Blues were dropped into the NHL because Chicago's owners wanted to unload a decrepit arena, reached the Stanley Cup Final in each of their first three seasons, and then waited 49 years to get back. This Blues trivia quiz covers the whole ride: the W. C. Handy song behind the name, Scotty Bowman's first job, Glenn Hall and Jacques Plante, the Plager brothers, Ralston Purina and the Checkerdome, the sale to Saskatoon the league killed, Harry Ornest's 26-man payroll, the Monday Night Miracle, Brett Hull's 86 goals, Keenan and Gretzky, the 25-year playoff streak and Jordan Binnington's run from last place to the 2019 Cup. There are questions on the arena, the Blue Note, the trumpet logo, Louie the polar bear, the Towel Man, 'Gloria', the organist and the day Missouri made the Blues its official hockey team. Easy questions for casual fans sit beside genuinely hard ones about the 1983 lawsuit and the Eagles who came before. Every answer was checked against encyclopaedic and reference sources before publishing, and each question carries a citation. For more, try our NHL trivia and hockey trivia pages.
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Q 01The St. Louis Blues are named after a song by which composer?
W. C. Handy
W. C. Handy said his 1914 song grew out of a chance meeting on the streets of St. Louis with a woman grieving over her absent husband, whose lament became one of its key lines.
Q 02The original Ottawa Senators moved to St. Louis in 1934 and played one money-losing NHL season under what name?
St. Louis Eagles
St. Louis Eagles were left in the NHL's Canadian Division to keep the divisions balanced, so costly rail trips to their Canadian rivals sank them after a single last-place season.
Q 03Which city lost out to St. Louis for the last 1967 expansion slot at the insistence of Chicago's owners?
Baltimore
Baltimore had applied and St. Louis had not, but the Black Hawks' owners also owned the run-down St. Louis Arena and pressed the league to put a team there so they could sell it.
Q 04Which American power forward, a Blue for most of the 2000s, scored his 500th NHL goal in 2008?
Keith Tkachuk
Keith Tkachuk got it on the final day of the season, into an empty Columbus net, to become the 41st player to reach 500.
Q 05Which assistant took over as Blues coach in November 1967 after Lynn Patrick resigned?
Scotty Bowman
Scotty Bowman took the expansion Blues to the Cup Final in each of his first three seasons, left in 1971 after a dispute with the owners, and went on to win a record nine Stanley Cups as a head coach.
Q 06Whom did the Blues face in the Stanley Cup Final in both 1968 and 1969?
Montreal Canadiens
Montreal Canadiens swept both series: the playoff format guaranteed one of the new expansion teams a place in the Final, and the Blues lost all 12 Final games they played from 1968 to 1970.
Q 07Which veteran goaltending tandem won the 1969 Vezina Trophy for St. Louis?
Glenn Hall and Jacques Plante
Glenn Hall and Jacques Plante were 37 and 40 that season, and Plante had been retired since 1965 when the expansion Blues persuaded him to come back.
Q 08Which center, acquired for Red Berenson, scored 30 goals in eight straight seasons and set the iron-man record?
Garry Unger
Garry Unger played 914 straight NHL games from 1968 to 1979, a record at the time, and the streak ended only when his coach in Atlanta kept him on the bench for a whole game.
Q 09Which St. Louis company bought the debt-ridden Blues and their arena in 1977?
Ralston Purina
Ralston Purina stepped in to keep the team in St. Louis, but by 1983 it wanted to cut its losses and agreed to sell to a group that planned to move the Blues to Saskatoon.
Q 10From 1977 to 1983 the St. Louis Arena carried which name?
The Checkerdome
The Checkerdome took its name from its owner's checkerboard logo, and the old name came back when the team and the arena were sold in 1983.
Q 11Which WHA founder tried to buy the Blues in 1983 and move them to Saskatoon?
Bill Hunter
Bill Hunter had agreed a price and planned a new arena in his home city, but the NHL's governors refused to approve the move, and the Blues stayed in St. Louis under a new owner.
Q 12The Blues are the only team ever to skip an NHL draft; which future Hall of Famer went fourth overall that year?
Steve Yzerman
Steve Yzerman was chosen while the Blues' table sat empty: their owner, at odds with the league over a blocked sale, sent nobody and the team forfeited every pick.
Q 13Which former NHL linesman bought the Blues in 1983 and kept them from folding?
Harry Ornest
Q 21Which team later matched the Blues' run of 25 straight playoff seasons?
Detroit Red Wings
Detroit Red Wings equalled the mark with a streak from 1991 to 2016 that brought four Stanley Cups, whereas the Blues' own run, from 1980 to 2004, never once reached the Final.
Q 22In 1999 Blues owner Bill Laurie agreed to buy which NBA team, planning to move it to St. Louis?
Vancouver Grizzlies
Vancouver Grizzlies were sold to Laurie for a reported $200 million, but the NBA stopped the move and he dropped the bid in January 2000; the team went to Memphis the following year.
Q 23Which former Rangers goalie became Blues president of hockey operations in 2006?
John Davidson
Harry Ornest, living in California, stepped in after the league had blocked a move to Saskatoon and the previous owner had handed the team back.
Q 14Whose overtime goal for the Blues in Game 6 of the 1986 conference finals capped the 'Monday Night Miracle'?
Doug Wickenheiser
Doug Wickenheiser scored 7:30 into overtime after the Blues had trailed 5-2 with about 12 minutes left in regulation, forcing a seventh game that they lost by a single goal.
Q 15Whom did the Blues send to Calgary in March 1988 for Brett Hull and Steve Bozek?
Rob Ramage and Rick Wamsley
Rob Ramage and Rick Wamsley helped Calgary win the Stanley Cup a year later, but St. Louis did better in the long run: Hull scored 527 goals as a Blue.
Q 16Which center set up Brett Hull's 86-goal season in 1990-91 with 90 assists?
Adam Oates
Adam Oates fed Hull for two and a half seasons; after the Blues traded him away in February 1992, Hull never scored 60 goals in a later season.
Q 17Which university did Brett Hull play for, scoring 52 goals in 1985-86?
Minnesota-Duluth
Minnesota-Duluth offered Hull a scholarship after two NHL drafts had passed him over, and his 52 goals that season broke the school record of 49.
Q 18Which two veteran stars did Mike Keenan bring to the Blues during 1995-96?
Wayne Gretzky and Grant Fuhr
Wayne Gretzky and Grant Fuhr had won four Stanley Cups together in Edmonton, but the reunion was brief: Gretzky played 31 games for St. Louis, playoffs included, then signed with the Rangers.
Q 19Which defenseman came to the Blues from Hartford in 1995 in exchange for Brendan Shanahan?
Chris Pronger
Chris Pronger was 20 when he arrived, and five years later he became the first defenseman in 28 years to be named the league's most valuable player.
Q 20Which team stunned the Presidents' Trophy-winning Blues in the first round of the 2000 playoffs?
San Jose Sharks
San Jose Sharks were the eighth seed, and in Game 7 Owen Nolan beat Roman Turek from just past center ice with 10 seconds left in the first period to put them two goals up.
John Davidson had been the Blues' own first-round draft pick as a goalie in 1973, and he came back 33 years later after a long second career as a television analyst.
Q 24Which coach, hired in November 2011, took the Blues to their first 100-point season in years?
Ken Hitchcock
Ken Hitchcock took over a team that had started 6-7-0, went 43-15-11 the rest of the way for 109 points, and won the Jack Adams Award as coach of the year.
Q 25Which team swept the Blues in the 2012 second round and beat them again in 2013?
Los Angeles Kings
Los Angeles Kings swept the Blues on the way to the 2012 Stanley Cup, and a year later St. Louis won the first two games of the rematch only to lose the next four.
Q 26Whom did the Blues receive from Washington in 2015 for T. J. Oshie?
Troy Brouwer
Troy Brouwer arrived with goalie Pheonix Copley and a third-round pick, stayed one season and scored the goal that won a first-round Game 7 against a former team of his.
Q 27Which defending champion did the Blues finally beat in Game 7 in 2016 to end a first-round losing streak?
Chicago Blackhawks
Chicago Blackhawks had knocked the Blues out two years earlier; this time St. Louis took Game 7 by a single goal and went on to its first conference final in 15 years.
Q 28Which forward came from Buffalo in the 2018 offseason and won the 2019 Conn Smythe Trophy?
Ryan O'Reilly
Ryan O'Reilly scored in each of the last four games of the Final, the first player to do that in 34 years, and finished with a franchise-record 23 playoff points.
Q 29Which interim coach replaced Mike Yeo in November 2018 and won the Cup that June?
Craig Berube
Craig Berube, an enforcer with 3,149 penalty minutes in his playing days, kept the 'interim' label through the whole Cup run and was given the job outright two weeks later.
Q 30Which rookie goalie's emergence powered the Blues' 2019 run from last place in early January to the Cup?
Jordan Binnington
Jordan Binnington shut out Philadelphia in his first NHL start on January 7 and went on to win all 16 playoff games needed for the Cup, a record for a rookie goalie.