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2001–02 St. Louis Blues season

National Hockey League team season

Field	Value
League	NHL
Season	2001–02
year	2001
Team	St. Louis Blues
Record	43–27–8–4
HomeRecord	27–12–1–1
RoadRecord	16–15–7–3
Conference	Western
ConferenceRank	4th
Division	Central
DivisionRank	2nd
GoalsFor	227
GoalsAgainst	188
GeneralManager	Larry Pleau
Coach	Joel Quenneville
Captain	Chris Pronger
AltCaptain	Al MacInnis
Doug Weight
Arena	Savvis Center
Attendance	18,968
MinorLeague	Worcester IceCats
Peoria Rivermen
GoalsLeader	Keith Tkachuk (38)
AssistsLeader	Pavol Demitra (43)
PointsLeader	Pavol Demitra (78)
PIMLeader	Reed Low (160)
PlusMinusLeader	Chris Pronger (+23)
WinsLeader	Brent Johnson (34)
GAALeader	Brent Johnson (2.18)

Doug Weight Peoria Rivermen The 2001–02 St. Louis Blues season was the 35th for the franchise in St. Louis, Missouri. The Blues finished the regular-season with a record of 43 wins, 27 losses, 8 ties and 4 overtime losses, enough for 98 points. The Blues qualified for the playoffs for the 23rd consecutive season, and defeated the Chicago Blackhawks, four games to one, in the Western Conference Quarterfinals before losing the Western Conference Semifinals to the eventual Stanley Cup Champion Detroit Red Wings, also in five games.

Regular season

Final standings

Playoffs

Schedule and results

Regular season

|- |1||October 4, 2001||3–3 OT|| align="left"| @ Columbus Blue Jackets (2001–02) ||0–0–1–0 || |- |2||October 6, 2001||2–2 OT|| align="left"| @ Nashville Predators (2001–02) ||0–0–2–0 || |- |3||October 11, 2001||5–6 || align="left"| Los Angeles Kings (2001–02) ||0–1–2–0 || |- |4||October 13, 2001||5–2 || align="left"| @ Toronto Maple Leafs (2001–02) ||1–1–2–0 || |- |5||October 17, 2001||2–2 OT|| align="left"| Dallas Stars (2001–02) ||1–1–3–0 || |- |6||October 19, 2001||3–2 OT|| align="left"| @ Minnesota Wild (2001–02) ||2–1–3–0 || |- |7||October 20, 2001||2–1 OT|| align="left"| Pittsburgh Penguins (2001–02) ||3–1–3–0 || |- |8||October 22, 2001||2–3 || align="left"| Calgary Flames (2001–02) ||3–2–3–0 || |- |9||October 25, 2001||5–1 || align="left"| New York Rangers (2001–02) ||4–2–3–0 || |- |10||October 27, 2001||1–4 || align="left"| @ Ottawa Senators (2001–02) ||4–3–3–0 || |- |11||October 31, 2001||1–0 || align="left"| @ Colorado Avalanche (2001–02) ||5–3–3–0 ||

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Playoffs

|- | 1 || April 18, 2002 || 1–2 || align="left"| Chicago Blackhawks || 18,807 || Blackhawks lead 1–0 || |- | 2 || April 20, 2002 || 2–0 || align="left"| Chicago Blackhawks || 19,143 || Series tied 1–1 || |- | 3 || April 21, 2002 || 4–0 || align="left"| @ Chicago Blackhawks || 20,532 || Blues lead 2–1 || |- | 4 || April 23, 2002 || 1–0 || align="left"| @ Chicago Blackhawks || 18,019 || Blues lead 3–1 || |- | 5 || April 25, 2002 || 5–3 || align="left"| Chicago Blackhawks || 19,999 || Blues win 4–1 ||

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Player statistics

Scoring

Position abbreviations: C = Center; D = Defense; G = Goaltender; LW = Left wing; RW = Right wing
- = Joined team via a transaction (e.g., trade, waivers, signing) during the season. Stats reflect time with the Blues only.*
- = Left team via a transaction (e.g., trade, waivers, release) during the season. Stats reflect time with the Blues only.*

No.	Pos	Regular season	Playoffs	GP	G	A	Pts	+/-	PIM	GP	G	A	Pts
38	LW	82	35	43	78	13	46	10	4	7	11	3	6
7	LW	73	38	37	75	21	117	10	5	5	10	1	18
39	C	61	15	34	49	20	40	10	1	1	2	0	4
44	D	78	7	40	47	23	120	9	1	7	8	5	24
2	D	71	11	35	46	3	52	10	0	7	7	3	4
61	LW	80	23	22	45	8	36	9	0	2	2	−1	2
48	RW	67	19	22	41	11	26	10	3	0	3	−1	2
19	RW	64	15	26	41	−5	93	10	7	3	10	1	18
10	RW	80	11	15	26	8	87	8	0	0	0	0	8
29	D	81	3	21	24	9	55	4	0	0	0	0	2
21	RW	77	9	8	17	9	99	10	3	0	3	−1	2
32	C	71	7	10	17	−2	41	10	0	0	0	−1	6
9	LW	64	6	7	13	2	100	9	0	1	1	0	20
27	D	66	5	7	12	3	78	10	0	1	1	−1	4
17	LW	52	5	7	12	4	26	1	0	0	0	0	2
15	C	41	4	7	11	3	6	2	0	0	0	0	0
13	C	15	6	4	10	2	8	10	0	3	3	−2	4
12	RW	56	4	6	10	−2	22
43	D	48	2	8	10	10	18	9	0	0	0	−2	0
25	LW	23	2	4	6	2	2	10	0	0	0	0	6
37	D	78	0	6	6	12	30	10	0	0	0	−1	8
34	RW	58	0	5	5	−3	160
35	G	58	0	4	4		2	10	0	0	0		4
4	D	30	0	3	3	6	2	7	0	0	0	0	4
6	D	23	0	3	3	1	28
42	RW	9	0	3	3	0	4
47	D	8	0	2	2	−1	9
33	C	8	0	1	1	−2	4	1	0	1	1	1	0
46	D	8	0	1	1	3	4
40	G	25	0	0	0		0	1	0	0	0		0
30	G	1	0	0	0		0
6	LW	2	0	0	0	−2	2
5	D	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	2
26	C	1	0	0	0	−2	0

Goaltending

No.	Player	Regular season	Playoffs	GP	W	L	T	SA	GA	GAA	SV%	SO	TOI	GP	W	L	SA	GA	GAA	SV%
35	Brent Johnson	58	34	20	4	1293	127	2.18	.902	5	3491	10	5	5	252	18	1.83	.929	3	590
40	Fred Brathwaite	25	9	11	4	543	54	2.24	.901	2	1446	1	0	0	0	0	0.00		0	1
30	Reinhard Divis	1	0	0	0	4	0	0.00	1.000	0	25	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—

Awards and records

Awards

Type	Award/honor	Recipient	Ref	League
(annual)	League
(in-season)
Lester Patrick Trophy	Larry Pleau
[NHL All-Star Game](2002-national-hockey-league-all-star-game) selection	Pavol Demitra
Chris Pronger

Milestones

Milestone	Player	Date	Ref	First game	1,000th game played
Mark Rycroft	October 4, 2001
Justin Papineau	March 7, 2002
Reinhard Divis	April 7, 2002
Barret Jackman	April 14, 2002
Mike Keane	January 17, 2002

Transactions

The Blues were involved in the following transactions from June 10, 2001, the day after the deciding game of the 2001 Stanley Cup Finals, through June 13, 2002, the day of the deciding game of the 2002 Stanley Cup Finals.

Trades

Date	Details	Ref
To St. Louis Blues	To [Calgary Flames](2001-02-calgary-flames-season)
To St. Louis Blues	To [Atlanta Thrashers](2001-02-atlanta-thrashers-season)
To St. Louis Blues	To [Edmonton Oilers](2001-02-edmonton-oilers-season)	title=Blues Acquire Doug Weight, Michel Riesen	url=http://www.stlouisblues.com/news/0001/010701.html	website=St. Louis Blues	access-date=March 15, 2023	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040813205242/http://www.stlouisblues.com/news/0001/010701.html	archive-date=August 13, 2004	date=July 1, 2001}}
To St. Louis Blues	To [Carolina Hurricanes](2001-02-carolina-hurricanes-season)
To St. Louis Blues	To [Colorado Avalanche](2001-02-colorado-avalanche-season)
To St. Louis Blues	To Atlanta Thrashers

Players acquired

Date		Player		Former team		Term		Via		Ref
Mike Keane
Rich Pilon
Steve McLaren
Ed Campbell
Jamie Thompson
Christian Laflamme
Marc Bergevin
Ted Donato

Players lost

Date		Player		New team		Via		Ref
Alexei Gusarov
Pierre Turgeon
Dwayne Roloson
Todd Reirden
Pascal Rheaume
Mike Peluso
Chris Murray
Jaroslav Obsut
Vladimir Chebaturkin
Reid Simpson
Sebastien Bordeleau
Michel Riesen
Dan Trebil
Ted Donato

Signings

Date		Player		Term		Contract type		Ref
Alexander Khavanov
Jamal Mayers
Scott Mellanby
Doug Weight
Keith Tkachuk
Darren Rumble
Cory Stillman
Pavol Demitra
Eric Boguniecki
Al MacInnis

Draft picks

St. Louis's draft picks at the 2001 NHL entry draft held at the National Car Rental Center in Sunrise, Florida.

Round	#	Player	College/Junior/Club team (League)
2	57	Jay McClement	Brampton Battalion (OHL)
3	89	Tuomas Nissinen	KalPa (Finland)
4	122	Igor Valeev	North Bay Centennials (OHL)
5	159	Dmitri Semin	Spartak Moscow (Russia)
6	190	Brett Scheffelmaier	Medicine Hat Tigers (WHL)
8	253	Petr Cajanek	RI OKNA Zlín (Czech Republic)
9	270	Grant Jacobsen	Regina Pats (WHL)
9	283	Simon Skoog	Mörrums GoIS IK Jr. (Sweden)

Notes

References

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(January 17, 2002). "Blues outduel Canucks".
"Hockey Transactions Search Results".
(June 23, 2001). "Blues Trade Roman Turek To Calgary".
(June 24, 2001). "Blues Trade Lubos Bartecko To Atlanta".
(July 1, 2001). "Blues Acquire Doug Weight, Michel Riesen".
(December 5, 2001). "Blues Acquire Defenseman Steve Halko And A Fourth Round Draft Selection In The 2002 Entry Draft From Carolina In Exchange For Defenseman Sean Hill".
(February 11, 2002). "Blues Acquire Left Wing Shjon Podein From Colorado In Exchange For Forward Mike Keane".
(March 18, 2002). "Blues Acquire Center Ray Ferraro From The Atlanta Thrashers In Exchange For A Fourth Round Selection In The 2002 Entry Draft".
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(September 10, 2001). "Canadiens sign forward Reid Simpson".
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(October 12, 2001). "Hammarby värvar NHL-back".
(March 19, 2002). "NHL - Trade roundup: Wings land Slegr from Thrashers".
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(June 30, 2001). "Blues Resign Scott Mellanby".
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(July 18, 2001). "RUMBLE READY".
(July 18, 2001). "Blues Re-Sign Cory Stillman".
(August 19, 2001). "Long-running soap opera of Lindros, Clarke over".
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