St. Louis Blues Hockey Legends – Details, episodes & analysis

Chaser takes time out from his battle with leukemia at Siteman Cancer Center to be our first legend. He gives a health update, tells stories of his youth hockey days in Porcupine Plains, Saskatchewan. He provides details on his rise to the NHL, and how it happened. And, you'll hear about the Blues-Wings battle in '93 that featured the goalie fight and much more with Detroit enforcer Bob Probert. Many thanks to Kelly for being our first legend on this podcast.

This episode is essentially a test run with a few stories. 1) How I got the PA job with the Blues. and 2) My embarassing Wayne Gretzky story. I'm looking forward to doing this podcast with many outstanding guests and their stories. I hope you enjoy it and tell your friends to give it a listen. Thanks, Tom

Keith Tkachuk shares childhood memories, thoughts on being the father of two NHL stars, and other rememberances from a likely Hockey Hall of Fame career.

From not being allowed to play on Sundays to the NHL and a Blues star in many ways for 40 years. We get the lowdown on a 100 point season in junior hockey and his path to the NHL and becoming a Blues executive.

Susie Mathieu not only was PR Director for the Blues, she practically ran the team single-handedly for a time. The stories are priceless. Enjoy!

Would the Blues have made it without him? No way to know for sure. But many would say hockey in St. Louis would not have been nearly as exciting and interesting had he not been the team's broadcaster in those early days.

You see him regularly on the Blues game telecasts analyzing from the studio. You know he's a former player. But do you know his full story as a person and great player? It's a major part of Blues history and it's all here in episode 11. Enjoy!

Many believe, with good reason, that he is the greatest hockey coach of all time. He led the Blues to the Stanley Cup finals in the first three years of the team's existence. He won the Cup in Montreal, Pittsburgh and Detroit. He's 91 and still going strong. Enjoy Blues and hockey history in our conversation with William Scott Bowman OC.

The first Blues superstar forward and later one of college hockey's all-time great coaches. We visit with "The Red Baron" about his famous 6-goal game, his early exposure to hockey in Saskatchewan, and his transition to coaching legend. He's 85, but you'd never know it...still sharp as can be. Enjoy!

From his early days struggling to make his kids teams in Alberta, to eventual NHL stardom, Garry shares the stories of his time...including that awful day in '77 when he lost a good friend, and we all lost a Blues star, in another Blues Hall-of-Famer Bob Gassoff. Enjoy the Garry Unger story!