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2002–03 St. Louis Blues season

National Hockey League team season

Field	Value
League	NHL
Season	2002–03
year	2002
Team	St. Louis Blues
Record	41–24–11–6
HomeRecord	23–11–4–3
RoadRecord	18–13–7–3
Conference	Western
ConferenceRank	5th
Division	Central
DivisionRank	2nd
GoalsFor	253
GoalsAgainst	222
GeneralManager	Larry Pleau
Coach	Joel Quenneville
Captain	Chris Pronger
Al MacInnis (interim)
AltCaptain	Al MacInnis
Scott Mellanby
Doug Weight
Arena	Savvis Center
Attendance	18,570
MinorLeague	Worcester IceCats
Peoria Rivermen
GoalsLeader	Pavol Demitra (36)
AssistsLeader	Pavol Demitra (57)
PointsLeader	Pavol Demitra (93)
PIMLeader	Reed Low (234)
PlusMinusLeader	Barret Jackman (+23)
WinsLeader	Brent Johnson (16)
GAALeader	Brent Johnson (2.47)

Al MacInnis (interim) Scott Mellanby Doug Weight Peoria Rivermen 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 and continued to serve in the role through the end of the season even after Pronger returned to the lineup.

Regular season

January 14, 2003: the Blues scored three short-handed goals in a 4–1 road win over the Phoenix Coyotes.
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.

Final standings

Playoffs

Schedule and results

Regular season

|- |1||October 10, 2002||3–4 || align="left"| Mighty Ducks of Anaheim (2002–03) ||0–1–0–0 || |- |2||October 12, 2002||2–2 OT|| align="left"| Minnesota Wild (2002–03) ||0–1–1–0 || |- |3||October 15, 2002||2–1 OT|| align="left"| Carolina Hurricanes (2002–03) ||1–1–1–0 || |- |4||October 17, 2002||7–1 || align="left"| Columbus Blue Jackets (2002–03) ||2–1–1–0 || |- |5||October 19, 2002||5–3 || align="left"| Dallas Stars (2002–03) ||3–1–1–0 || |- |6||October 24, 2002||2–1 || align="left"| @ Edmonton Oilers (2002–03) ||4–1–1–0 || |- |7||October 26, 2002||4–3 OT|| align="left"| @ Calgary Flames (2002–03) ||5–1–1–0 || |- |8||October 30, 2002||7–0 || align="left"| Nashville Predators (2002–03) ||6–1–1–0 ||

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Playoffs

|- | 1 || April 10 || St. Louis || 6–0 || Vancouver || || Osgood || 18,514 || Blues lead 1–0 || |- | 2 || April 12 || St. Louis || 1–2 || Vancouver || || Osgood || 18,514 || Series tied 1–1 || |- | 3 || April 14 || Vancouver || 1–3 || St. Louis || || Osgood || 19,699 || Blues lead 2–1 || |- | 4 || April 16 || Vancouver || 1–4 || St. Louis || || Osgood || 19,936 || Blues lead 3–1 || |- | 5 || April 18 || St. Louis || 3–5 || Vancouver || || Osgood || 18,514 || Blues lead 3–2 || |- | 6 || April 20 || Vancouver || 4–3 || St. Louis || || Osgood || 19,522 || Series tied 3–3 || |- | 7 || April 22 || St. Louis || 1–4 || Vancouver || || Osgood || 18,514 || Canucks win 4–3 ||

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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	78	36	57	93	0	32	7	2	4	6	2	2
2	D	80	16	52	68	22	61	3	0	1	1	0	0
61	LW	79	24	43	67	12	56	6	2	2	4	0	2
39	C	70	15	52	67	−6	52	7	5	8	13	0	2
19	RW	80	26	31	57	1	176	6	0	1	1	0	10
7	LW	56	31	24	55	1	139	7	1	3	4	−1	14
33	C	80	22	27	49	22	38	7	1	2	3	−2	2
26	RW	51	9	29	38	16	20	2	0	0	0	−1	2
29	D	81	8	25	33	−1	48	7	2	3	5	0	2
10	RW	80	20	10	30	−7	66	7	1	4	5	0	23
22	LW	61	16	14	30	−1	38	7	4	2	6	−3	4
5	D	82	3	16	19	23	190	7	0	0	0	−2	14
25	LW	68	4	6	10	7	28	7	0	1	1	1	6
27	D	71	2	8	10	7	95	7	0	0	0	1	2
9	LW	66	6	3	9	0	114	7	2	1	3	3	6
46	D	47	0	9	9	1	45	5	0	0	0	−1	4
21	RW	15	2	5	7	1	8
12	C	28	3	3	6	−8	18	2	0	1	1	1	0
6	D	22	2	4	6	1	10
34	RW	79	2	4	6	3	234
18	C	28	0	6	6	3	4
32	C	17	1	3	4	1	8
37	D	64	1	3	4	−2	46	6	0	0	0	1	6
44	D	5	1	3	4	−2	10	7	1	3	4	3	14
63	C	11	2	1	3	−1	0
43	D	20	0	3	3	3	8
13	RW	5	0	2	2	−2	0	6	0	2	2	2	8
15	LW	1	1	0	1	0	0
35	G	38	0	1	1		2
20	RW	8	0	1	1	−2	6
28	D	16	0	1	1	0	38
55	D	4	0	0	0	−3	0
30	G	6	0	0	0		0
40	G	30	0	0	0		0
15	C	1	0	0	0	−1	0
50	G	2	0	0	0		0
17	C	17	0	0	0	0	12	6	0	2	2	3	6
30	G	9	0	0	0		0	7	0	0	0		4
45	G	1	0	0	0		0
1	G	8	0	0	0		0
23	LW	3	0	0	0	1	0

Goaltending

- = 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.	Player	Regular season	Playoffs	GP	W	L	T	SA	GA	GAA	SV%	SO	TOI	GP	W	L	SA	GA	GAA	SV%
35	Brent Johnson	38	16	13	5	844	84	2.47	.900	2	2042	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
40	Fred Brathwaite	30	12	9	4	631	74	2.75	.883	2	2042	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
1	Curtis Sanford	8	5	1	0	148	13	1.96	.912	1	397	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
30	Chris Osgood	9	4	3	2	241	27	3.05	.888	2	532	7	3	4	183	17	2.45	.907	1	417
50	Reinhard Divis	2	2	0	0	34	1	0.72	.971	0	83	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
30	Tom Barrasso	6	1	4	0	132	16	3.28	.879	1	293	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
45	Cody Rudkowsky	1	1	0	0	10	0	0.00	1.000	0	30	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—

Awards and records

Awards

Type	Award/honor	Recipient	Ref	League
(annual)	League
(in-season)
Calder Memorial Trophy	Barret Jackman
NHL All-Rookie Team	Barret Jackman (Defense)	title=Postseason All-Star Teams	url=https://records.nhl.com/awards/phwa-all-star-teams?season=20022003	website=records.nhl.com	access-date=December 21, 2022}}
NHL First All-Star Team	Al MacInnis (Defense)
[NHL All-Star Game](2003-national-hockey-league-all-star-game) selection	Al MacInnis
Doug Weight
NHL Player of the Week	Brent Johnson (December 30)
NHL YoungStars Game selection	Barret Jackman

Milestones

Milestone	Player	Date	Ref	First game	500th game played
Petr Cajanek	October 10, 2002
Tom Koivisto
Curtis Sanford	October 17, 2002
Cody Rudkowsky	October 24, 2002
Matt Walker	December 10, 2002
Christian Backman	February 11, 2003
Peter Sejna	April 6, 2003
Chris Osgood	April 3, 2003

Transactions

The Blues were involved in the following transactions from June 14, 2002, the day after the deciding game of the 2002 Stanley Cup Finals, through June 9, 2003, the day of the deciding game of the 2003 Stanley Cup Finals.

Trades

Date	Details	Ref
To St. Louis Blues	To [Boston Bruins](2002-03-boston-bruins-season)
To St. Louis Blues	To [Colorado Avalanche](2002-03-colorado-avalanche-season)
To St. Louis Blues	To [Florida Panthers](2002-03-florida-panthers-season)
To St. Louis Blues	To [New York Islanders](2002-03-new-york-islanders-season)

Players acquired

Date		Player		Former team		Term		Via		Ref
Steve Bancroft
Steve Dubinsky
Eric Nickulas
Jason Dawe
Aris Brimanis
Mike Stuart
Martin Rucinsky
Tom Barrasso
Steve Martins
Ryan Johnson
Greg Black
Peter Sejna

Players lost

Date		Player		New team		Via		Ref
Steven Halko
Scott Young
Tyler Rennette
Marc Bergevin
Ray Ferraro
Ed Campbell
Mike Eastwood
Tom Barrasso
Fred Brathwaite

Signings

Date		Player		Term		Contract type		Ref
Eric Boguniecki
Mike Eastwood
Brent Johnson
Reed Low
Petr Cajanek
Jeff Finley
Tom Koivisto
Christian Backman
Fred Brathwaite
Keith Tkachuk
Alexander Khavanov
Christian Laflamme
Daniel Corso
Jamal Mayers
Marc Brown
Dale Clarke
Cody Rudkowsky
Mark Rycroft
Cory Stillman
Daniel Tkaczuk
Steve McLaren
Keith Tkachuk
Jame Pollock
Eric Boguniecki
Jay McClement

Draft picks

St. Louis's draft picks at the 2002 NHL entry draft held at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto, Ontario.

Round	#	Player	College/Junior/Club team (League)
2	48	Aleksei Shkotov	Elemash Elektrostal (Russia)
2	62	Andriy Mikhnov	Sudbury Wolves (OHL)
3	89	Tomas Troliga	HK Spišská Nová Ves (Slovakia)
4	120	Robin Jonsson	Bofors IK (Sweden)
5	165	Justin Maiser	Boston University (Hockey East)
6	190	D. J. King	Lethbridge Hurricanes (WHL)
7	221	Jonas Johnson	Västra Frölunda HC (Sweden)
8	253	Tom Koivisto	Jokerit (Finland)
9	284	Ryan MacMurchy	Notre Dame Hounds (SJHL)

Notes

References

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(December 5, 2002). "Blues Trade Defenseman Dale Clarke To Colorado For Conditional Draft Pick".
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(July 6, 2002). "Young joins Turgeon in Dallas".
(July 12, 2002). "Rivermen Sign Three Players".
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(March 18, 2003). "St. Louis Blues Agree To Mutual Release With Goaltender Fred Brathwaite".
(June 27, 2002). "St. Louis Blues Exercise Contract Options".
(July 3, 2002). "St. Louis Blues Sign Center Petr Cajanek".
(July 10, 2002). "St. Louis Blues Re-Sign Defenseman Jeff Finley".
(July 10, 2002). "St. Louis Blues Sign Defenseman Tom Koivisto".
(July 12, 2002). "St. Louis Blues Sign Defenseman Christian Backman".
(July 15, 2002). "Forward Keith Tkachuk and Goaltender Fred Brathwaite Sign Offers".
(July 19, 2002). "St. Louis Blues Re-Sign Defenseman Alexander Khavanov".
(July 19, 2002). "St. Louis Blues Re-Sign Defenseman Christian Laflamme".
(July 24, 2002). "St. Louis Blues Re-Sign Forwards Jamal Mayers And Daniel Corso".
(July 31, 2002). "St. Louis Blues Re-Sign Forwards Cory Stillman, Daniel Tkaczuk And Marc Brown, Defenseman Dale Clarke And Goaltender Cody Rudkowsky".
"MARK RYCROFT".
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(September 12, 2002). "St. Louis Blues Re-Sign Forward Keith Tkachuk".
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(October 30, 2002). "St. Louis Blues Sign Forward Eric Boguniecki To A Contract Extension".
(February 14, 2003). "St. Louis Blues Sign Forward Jay McClement".
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