The Blues finished the 2019-2020 regular season as Central Division champions, and led the Western Conference going into the playoff bubble. The round-robin dinged the Blues’ chances of going into the official playoff rounds as the top seed, and St. Louis got knocked out in six games by the Vancouver Canucks.
It might feel odd to choose a MVP for a team that didn’t go all of the way, but there’s nothing that says that a Hart Trophy winner has to be on an eventual champion, so that rule applies here, too. As disappointing as the playoffs were, the regular season was a generally solid effort for the team.