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<blockquote data-quote="Roundball Sage" data-source="post: 1710138" data-attributes="member: 748116"><p>Back in those days, there was nothing like the excited voices of Dan Kelly and Gus Kyle being blasted all across the cold prairielands of the Midwest and beyond on the big blowtorch AM station.</p><p></p><p>St. Louis really took to the team and to NHL hockey.</p><p></p><p>But then in the 1980's, the team had floundered so much that the Blues almost moved to SASKATOON.</p><p></p><p>And then The Suits stepped in to disallow the move because they didn’t like the look of having the ‘SASKATOON BLUES!’.</p><p></p><p>OK, we know why St. Louis has a Blues history. But Saskatoon? What’s Blue up there, except for their very cold noses much of the year?</p><p></p><p>Fortunately, the team was saved for St. Louis so the City didn’t have to lose them like they lost the Browns, NBA Hawks, the ABA team, the Cardinals, and the Rams.</p><p></p><p>As for late 1960s clueless Blackhawk management, they left Glenn Hall unprotected in the expansion draft and instead kept the younger Denis DeJordy who would soon be gone from the Hawks after that. Hall went on to be star on the Blue Notes.</p><p></p><p>Yet another ‘brilliant’ move by the same Blackhawk brain-trust that traded away Phil Esposito who became a scoring machine after leaving Chicago. And who let Bobby Hull leave for the WHA because they wouldn't pay him.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Roundball Sage, post: 1710138, member: 748116"] Back in those days, there was nothing like the excited voices of Dan Kelly and Gus Kyle being blasted all across the cold prairielands of the Midwest and beyond on the big blowtorch AM station. St. Louis really took to the team and to NHL hockey. But then in the 1980's, the team had floundered so much that the Blues almost moved to SASKATOON. And then The Suits stepped in to disallow the move because they didn’t like the look of having the ‘SASKATOON BLUES!’. OK, we know why St. Louis has a Blues history. But Saskatoon? What’s Blue up there, except for their very cold noses much of the year? Fortunately, the team was saved for St. Louis so the City didn’t have to lose them like they lost the Browns, NBA Hawks, the ABA team, the Cardinals, and the Rams. As for late 1960s clueless Blackhawk management, they left Glenn Hall unprotected in the expansion draft and instead kept the younger Denis DeJordy who would soon be gone from the Hawks after that. Hall went on to be star on the Blue Notes. Yet another ‘brilliant’ move by the same Blackhawk brain-trust that traded away Phil Esposito who became a scoring machine after leaving Chicago. And who let Bobby Hull leave for the WHA because they wouldn't pay him. [/QUOTE]
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