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1972–73 St. Louis Blues season

national Hockey League team season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ4575398 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1972–73 St. Louis Blues season was the St. Louis Blues' sixth season in the National Hockey League (NHL).

Offseason

NHL draft

Regular season

Final standings

Record vs. opponents

Schedule and results

Playoffs

Despite having a 32–34–12 record, the Blues managed to clinch a playoff spot. However, they lost in the first round to the Chicago Blackhawks 4–1.

(W1) Chicago Black Hawks vs. (W4) St.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “1972–73 St. Louis Blues season” is national Hockey League team season. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Louis, Blues and season, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1972—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Louis, Blues and season is the immediate research focus.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4575398. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1972.

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This entry incorporates text from “1972–73 St. Louis Blues season” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.