St. Louis Blues win their 1st Stanley Cup

Patrick Smith with the Stanley Cup.
(Image credit: Patrick Smith/Getty Images)

The St. Louis Blues defeated the Boston Bruins 4-1 Wednesday night in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final, winning the team's first NHL championship.

The Blues went 51 seasons before capturing the title, and held the record for playing the most games in NHL history without winning the Stanley Cup, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. The Blues made a magnificent comeback over the last several months; on Jan. 3, they had the fewest points in the league.

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.