In an interview with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s Jim Thomas, Tom Stillman mentioned that the Blues were very, very close to becoming a NHL hub city. As always, the league had a good conversation with the team and were impressed with the proposed set-up for the four-city hub that the NHL was briefly considering.
“The staff people from the league like working with us,” Stillman said. “Chris Zimmerman and Steve Chapman — and everybody — has developed great working relations with the league.
“From doing the Winter Classic, the Stanley Cup playoff all the way to final, the All-Star Game — we work very well together,” Stillman said.