2002–03 St. Louis Blues season
2002–03 St. Louis Blues | |
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Division | 2nd Central |
Conference | 5th Western |
2002–03 record | 41–24–11–6 |
Home record | 23–11–4–3 |
Road record | 18–13–7–3 |
Goals for | 253 |
Goals against | 222 |
Team information | |
General manager | Larry Pleau |
Coach | Joel Quenneville |
Captain | Chris Pronger Al MacInnis (interim) |
Alternate captains | Al MacInnis Doug Weight Unknown |
Arena | Savvis Center |
Average attendance | 18,570 |
Minor league affiliate(s) | Worcester IceCats Peoria Rivermen |
Team leaders | |
Goals | Pavol Demitra (36) |
Assists | Pavol Demitra (57) |
Points | Pavol Demitra (93) |
Penalty minutes | Reed Low (234) |
Plus/minus | Barret Jackman (+23) |
Wins | Brent Johnson (16) |
Goals against average | Brent Johnson (2.47) |
The 2002–03 St. Louis Blues season was the 36th for the franchise in St. Louis, Missouri. The Blues finished the regular-season with a record of 41 wins, 24 losses, 11 overtime losses and 6 ties, good for 99 points, and the team qualified for the Stanley Cup playoffs for the 24th consecutive season, only to lose in the Western Conference Quarterfinals to the Vancouver Canucks in seven games.
Captain Chris Pronger missed most of the regular season, with an injured wrist. Al MacInnis filled in as interim captain.
Off-season
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Regular season
- January 14, 2003: the Blues scored three short-handed goals in a 4–1 road win over the Phoenix Coyotes.[1]
- April 6, 2003: In a game against the St. Louis Blues, Patrick Roy of the Colorado Avalanche played the last regular season game of his career. The Avalanche won the game by a score of 5–2. It was Roy's 1,029th game, and his 551st victory.[2]
Final standings
No. | CR | GP | W | L | T | OTL | GF | GA | Pts | |
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1 | 2 | Detroit Red Wings | 82 | 48 | 20 | 10 | 4 | 269 | 203 | 110 |
2 | 5 | St. Louis Blues | 82 | 41 | 24 | 11 | 6 | 253 | 222 | 99 |
3 | 9 | Chicago Blackhawks | 82 | 30 | 33 | 13 | 6 | 207 | 226 | 79 |
4 | 13 | Nashville Predators | 82 | 27 | 35 | 13 | 7 | 183 | 206 | 74 |
5 | 15 | Columbus Blue Jackets | 82 | 29 | 42 | 8 | 3 | 213 | 263 | 69 |
Note: CR = Conference rank; GP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; OTL = Overtime loss; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; Pts = Points
Bolded teams qualified for the playoffs.
Playoffs
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Schedule and results
Regular season
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October: 6–1–1–0 (Home: 4–1–1–0; Road: 2–0–0–0)
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November: 7–6–1–1 (Home: 3–3–0–1; Road: 4–3–1–0)
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December: 7–4–3–1 (Home: 4–0–1–0; Road: 3–4–2–1)
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January: 8–4–1–2 (Home: 3–2–0–1; Road: 5–2–1–1)
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February: 4–3–2–2 (Home: 3–2–1–1; Road: 1–1–1–1)
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March: 9–4–2–0 (Home: 6–2–1–0; Road: 3–2–1–0)
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April: 0–2–1–0 (Home: 0–1–0–0; Road: 0–1–1–0)
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Legend:
Win (2 points) Loss (0 points) Tie (1 point) Overtime loss (1 point) |
Playoffs
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Western Conference Quarterfinals vs. (4) Vancouver Canucks: Vancouver won 4–3
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Legend:
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Player statistics
Regular season
- Scoring
Player | Pos | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | +/- | PPG | SHG | GWG |
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Pavol Demitra | LW | 78 | 36 | 57 | 93 | 32 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 4 |
Al MacInnis | D | 80 | 16 | 52 | 68 | 61 | 22 | 9 | 1 | 2 |
Cory Stillman | LW | 79 | 24 | 43 | 67 | 56 | 12 | 6 | 0 | 4 |
Doug Weight | C | 70 | 15 | 52 | 67 | 52 | -6 | 7 | 0 | 3 |
Scott Mellanby | RW | 80 | 26 | 31 | 57 | 176 | 1 | 13 | 0 | 4 |
Keith Tkachuk | LW | 56 | 31 | 24 | 55 | 139 | 1 | 14 | 0 | 5 |
Eric Boguniecki | C | 80 | 22 | 27 | 49 | 38 | 22 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
Petr Cajanek | RW | 51 | 9 | 29 | 38 | 20 | 16 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
Alexander Khavanov | D | 81 | 8 | 25 | 33 | 48 | -1 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
Dallas Drake | RW | 80 | 20 | 10 | 30 | 66 | -7 | 4 | 1 | 2 |
Martin Rucinsky | LW | 61 | 16 | 14 | 30 | 38 | -1 | 4 | 4 | 3 |
Barret Jackman | D | 82 | 3 | 16 | 19 | 190 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Shjon Podein | LW | 68 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 28 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Bryce Salvador | D | 71 | 2 | 8 | 10 | 95 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Tyson Nash | LW | 66 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 114 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Christian Laflamme | D | 47 | 0 | 9 | 9 | 45 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Jamal Mayers | RW | 15 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Steve Martins | C | 28 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 18 | -8 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Tom Koivisto | D | 22 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Reed Low | RW | 79 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 234 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Steve Dubinsky | C | 28 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Mike Eastwood | C | 17 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Jeff Finley | D | 64 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 46 | -2 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Chris Pronger | D | 5 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 10 | -2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Justin Papineau | C | 11 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Mike Van Ryn | D | 20 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Valeri Bure | RW | 5 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | -2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Peter Sejna | LW | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Brent Johnson | G | 38 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Eric Nickulas | RW | 8 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 | -2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Matt Walker | D | 16 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Christian Backman | D | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Tom Barrasso | G | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Fred Brathwaite | G | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Daniel Corso | C | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Reinhard Divis | G | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Ryan Johnson | C | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Chris Osgood | G | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Cody Rudkowsky | G | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Curtis Sanford | G | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Sergei Varlamov | LW | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
- Goaltending
Player | MIN | GP | W | L | T/OT | GA | GAA | SO | SA | SV | SV% |
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Brent Johnson | 2042 | 38 | 16 | 13 | 5 | 84 | 2.47 | 2 | 844 | 760 | .900 |
Fred Brathwaite | 1615 | 30 | 12 | 9 | 4 | 74 | 2.75 | 2 | 631 | 557 | .883 |
Curtis Sanford | 397 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 1.96 | 1 | 148 | 135 | .912 |
Chris Osgood | 532 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 27 | 3.05 | 2 | 241 | 214 | .888 |
Reinhard Divis | 83 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.72 | 0 | 34 | 33 | .971 |
Tom Barrasso | 293 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 16 | 3.28 | 1 | 132 | 116 | .879 |
Cody Rudkowsky | 30 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 10 | 10 | 1.000 |
Team: | 4992 | 82 | 41 | 30 | 11 | 215 | 2.58 | 8 | 2040 | 1825 | .895 |
Playoffs
- Scoring
Player | Pos | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | +/- | PPG | SHG | GWG |
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Doug Weight | C | 7 | 5 | 8 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 |
Martin Rucinsky | LW | 7 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 4 | -3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pavol Demitra | LW | 7 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Alexander Khavanov | D | 7 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Dallas Drake | RW | 7 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Cory Stillman | LW | 6 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
Chris Pronger | D | 7 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Keith Tkachuk | LW | 7 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 14 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Tyson Nash | LW | 7 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Eric Boguniecki | C | 7 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | -2 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Valeri Bure | RW | 6 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Ryan Johnson | C | 6 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Al MacInnis | D | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Steve Martins | C | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Scott Mellanby | RW | 6 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Shjon Podein | LW | 7 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Petr Cajanek | RW | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Jeff Finley | D | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Barret Jackman | D | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | -2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Christian Laflamme | D | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Chris Osgood | G | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Bryce Salvador | D | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
- Goaltending
Player | MIN | GP | W | L | GA | GAA | SO | SA | SV | SV% |
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Chris Osgood | 417 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 17 | 2.45 | 1 | 183 | 166 | .907 |
Team: | 417 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 17 | 2.45 | 1 | 183 | 166 | .907 |
- Pos = Position; GPI = Games played in; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalty minutes; +/- = Plus/minus; PPG = Power-play goals; SHG = Short-handed goals; GWG = Game-winning goals
- Min, TOI = Minutes played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T,T/OT = Ties; OTL = Overtime losses; GA = Goals-against; GAA = Goals-against average; SO = Shutouts; SA = Shots against; SV = Shots saved; SV% = Save percentage;
Awards and records
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Transactions
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Draft picks
St. Louis's draft picks at the 2002 NHL Entry Draft held at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto, Ontario.
Round | # | Player | Nationality | College/Junior/Club Team (League) |
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2 | 48 | Aleksei Shkotov | Russia | Elemash Elektrostal (Russia) |
2 | 62 | Andriy Mikhnov | Ukraine | Sudbury Wolves (OHL) |
3 | 89 | Tomas Troliga | Slovakia | HK Spišská Nová Ves (Slovakia) |
4 | 120 | Robin Jonsson | Sweden | Bofors IK (Sweden) |
5 | 165 | Justin Maiser | United States | Boston University (Hockey East) |
6 | 190 | D. J. King | Canada | Lethbridge Hurricanes (WHL) |
7 | 221 | Jonas Johnson | Sweden | Västra Frölunda HC (Sweden) |
8 | 253 | Tom Koivisto | Finland | Jokerit (Finland) |
9 | 284 | Ryan MacMurchy | Canada | Notre Dame Hounds (SJHL) |
See also
References
- ^ "St. Louis Blues at Phoenix Coyotes Box Score — January 14, 2003".
- ^ Patrick Roy, winning, nothing else, p.483, by Michel Roy, translated by Charles Phillips, 2008, John Wiley & Sons, Mississauga, ON, ISBN 978-0-470-15616-2
- ^ Dinger, Ralph, ed. (2009). The National Hockey League Official Guide & Record Book/2010. Dan Diamond & Associates. p. 162.
- ^ a b "2002-03 St. Louis Blues Schedule". Hockey-Reference.com. Retrieved November 24, 2022.
- ^ "2002-03 St. Louis Blues Statistics - Hockey-Reference.com". hockey-reference.com. Retrieved 2009-06-15.