ST. LOUIS -- Steve Deal staked his spot at the corner of Market and Broadway streets at 10 p.m. on Friday for the St. Louis Blues Stanley Cup championship parade and rally, which began around noon on Saturday.

BOSTON -- Patrice Bergeron, Brad Marchand and David Pastrnak each was dealing with an injury while completing the Stanley Cup Final for the Boston Bruins.

BOSTON -- David Perron stood on the ice after the St. Louis Blues defeated the Boston Bruins 4-1 in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final at TD Garden on Wednesday with a smile that reached from ear-to-ear.

BOSTON -- The Stanley Cup Final is over, and a party 51 years in the making in St. Louis is in full rage.

The St. Louis Blues are Stanley Cup champions following a 4-1 win against the Boston Bruins in Game 7 at TD Garden on Wednesday, and they and their fans will have memories to cherish forever.

The St. Louis Blues' 4-1 win against the Boston Bruins in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final at TD Garden on Wednesday gave them their first championship in their 51-season history.

The Boston Bruins' attempt to win the Stanley Cup for the first time since 2011 came to an end with a 4-1 loss to the St. Louis Blues in Game 7 of the Cup Final at TD Garden on Wednesday.

ST. LOUIS -- Ryan Burrus had a St. Louis Blues Western Conference Champions hat on his head and a smile on his face.

BOSTON -- Glenn Hall is bursting with pride about the St. Louis Blues' first Stanley Cup championship, their 4-1 Game 7 victory against the Boston Bruins on Wednesday coming 52 years after he was the first player selected by the club in the 1967 NHL Expansion Draft.

Mike McKenna has been a professional goalie for the past 14 seasons and has played for seven NHL teams and 13 minor-league teams. Most recently he played in the Philadelphia Flyers organization, playing one NHL game with them this season. He also played 10 games with the Ottawa Senators in 2018-19.

He knows about the most important position in the playoffs and a lot about the men who play it and those trying to score goals against them. So NHL.com asked him to share his insights during the Stanley Cup Playoffs.

In his last column from the Stanley Cup Final, McKenna breaks down a bit of the performance from each goalie, Jordan Binnington of the St. Louis Blues (32 saves) and Tuukka Rask of the Boston Bruins (16 saves) in the 4-1 Cup-clinching victory by the Blues in Game 7 at TD Garden on Wednesday. He also talks about just how deeply the win resonated in St. Louis and the communities surrounding it, and among his circle of friends who have supported the Blues for decades.

BOSTON -- At some point Wednesday, Hall of Fame defenseman Larry Robinson wanted to bail out of the ninth-floor TD Garden press box, go downstairs, lace up his skates and join the St. Louis Blues lineup.