Top 15 Playoff Performers in St. Louis Blues History

12. Craig Janney

 21 games (1992-94), three goals, 18 assists, +3 rating, no penalty minutes, two game-winning goals (one in overtime)

When the Blues traded away Adam Oates during the 1991-92 season, they got back a playmaking forward who was a pretty good setup man in his own right: 24-year-old Craig Janney. While he was a slight step below Oates in terms of productivity, he was still a very dynamic complement to Brett Hull, especially during the playoffs, where he averaged a point per game during his short three-postseason tenure with the Blues.

Janney was consistently productive during the playoffs, collecting a point per game in each of the three postseasons that he spent here, but his most standout performance came in 1992-93, when he accumulated two goals and nine assists in 11 games. Those two goals were both game-winners, one of which came 10:43 into overtime of Game 4 in the Division Semi-Finals, allowing the Blues to sweep the Chicago Blackhawks and advance to the second round against the Toronto Maple Leafs.

Unfortunately, Janney’s run in St. Louis was much too short, as the Blues abruptly traded him in an attempt to resolve an off-ice feud between him and star scorer Brendan Shanahan in 1995. Just like Oates, it will forever be a mystery as to what a Blues team would have looked like long-term with offensive talents as powerful as Hull, Janney, and Shanahan all together.

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