Which NHL team is based in St. Louis, Missouri?

The St. Louis Blues are the NHL team based in St. Louis, Missouri. They play in the league's Western Conference and Central Division, with home games at Enterprise Center in downtown St. Louis.

The Blues entered the NHL in 1967 as one of six expansion teams added that year. Their name comes from “Saint Louis Blues,” the influential blues song written by W. C. Handy and published in 1914. The musical connection is one of the franchise's defining pieces of identity.

The team reached the Stanley Cup Final in each of its first three seasons, but lost all three series. Decades later, St. Louis finally won its first Stanley Cup in 2019, defeating the Boston Bruins in seven games. That championship made the Blues the last of the 1967 expansion teams to win the Cup.

The other choices are based elsewhere: the Stars in Dallas, the Predators in Nashville, and the Blackhawks in Chicago. All four teams compete in the NHL's Central Division.