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50 Most Outstanding Players in St. Louis Blues History: 40-31

By Patrick Karraker

Oct 2, 2016; Saint Paul, MN, USA; Minnesota Wild assistant coach Scott Stevens during a preseason hockey game against the Carolina Hurricanes at Xcel Energy Center. The Wild defeated the Hurricanes 3-1. Mandatory Credit: Brace Hemmelgarn-USA TODAY Sports
Oct 2, 2016; Saint Paul, MN, USA; Minnesota Wild assistant coach Scott Stevens during a preseason hockey game against the Carolina Hurricanes at Xcel Energy Center. The Wild defeated the Hurricanes 3-1. Mandatory Credit: Brace Hemmelgarn-USA TODAY Sports /
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Doug Gilmour St. Louis Blues
Oct 7, 2015; Toronto, Ontario, CAN; Toronto Maple Leafs former player Doug Gilmour signs autographs outside of the Air Canada Centre prior to the home opener against the Montreal Canadiens. Mandatory Credit: John E. Sokolowski-USA TODAY Sports /

35. Doug Gilmour

Forward, 1983-88; 384 games, 149 goals, 205 assists, minus-9 rating, 264 PIM

Doug Gilmour was just one of the numerous Hockey Hall of Famers who played in St. Louis but are better known for having played somewhere else. Though he was often passed over for his size and fell to the seventh round in the 1982 draft, he broke into the league with the Blues for the 1983-84 campaign (his age 20 season) and immediately began delivering results.

Gilmour played in all 80 games that season, scoring 25 goals with 28 assists and a plus-6 rating. He proceeded to put up more than 50 points while thriving in his own zone during his next two seasons, then he really broke out during the postseason of his third campaign, 1985-86. Over 19 games, he had nine goals, 12 assists, and a plus-3 rating.

He then came back in 1986-87 and had arguably the best season of his career, scoring 42 goals with 63 assists over 80 games. He earned votes for the Hart, Lady Byng, and Selke trophies and was the most productive player on the team by a modest margin of 33 points. Unfortunately that Blues team wasn’t too deep and got knocked out after the first round of postseason play, because it would have been interesting to see what Gilmour could have done with a talented group around him.

Gilmour came back and played one more season for the Blues in 1987-88, putting up very respectable offensive numbers (36 goals and 50 assists over 72 games) despite posting an uncharacteristic minus-13 rating and relinquishing the team point lead to the resurgent Bernie Federko. He did thrive during that postseason, though, scoring three goals and adding 14 assists over 10 games as the Blues advanced to the Division Finals.

Gilmour became involved in sexual assault allegations over the summer of 1988 and was hastily shipped off to the Calgary Flames, costing the Blues two key scorers (him and Mark Hunter) in exchange for a trio of players who never really did anything in St. Louis. He eventually moved past those off-the-ice concerns and went on to become a two-time All-Star and Selke Trophy winner while collecting 1,414 NHL points on his way to earning a spot in the Hall of Fame in 2011.

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