Hockey Legends Podcasts
with Tom Calhoun
Blues HOF Player & Coach Jimmy Roberts – Blues Hockey Legends
We chat with Red Berenson about his late, long-time friend and hockey buddy on this one. -- Goalies were picked first in the 60s expansion draft, but after that, Jimmy Roberts became the first skater picked by the Blues to start their franchise. Jimmy played a key...
80s Fan Favorite: Perry Turnbull – Blues Hockey Legends
The Blues picked 2nd in the 1979 NHL entry draft and selected a big (for the time) forward Perry Turnbull. He wore the number 9 jersey and quickly became a favorite of many fans with his scoring touch and rough-and-tumble style of play.After a trade to Montreal, and...
The Man on the Zamboni: Ice Man-Jim Schmuke – Blues Hockey Legends
Nearing retirement, Jim Schmuke shares some of the behind-the-scenes stories from his years of ice maintenance, driving the Zam, and building maintenance for the Blues and their buildings. Also, a one-in-a-million story of how grabbing a game puck that made its way...
Bob Gassoff Jr. – Blues Hockey Legends
Rising Blues star defenseman Bob Gassoff tragically died in a 1977 motorcycle accident at a team post-season party. Many think it was an event that may have prevented the Blues young stars of the era from winning a Stanley Cup. Gassoff's son Bob Jr. was born two...
Name Game with 4 Legends – Blues Hockey Legends
It’s another “name game” pod with four of our recent legends…where we ask them to react to the names of people from their hockey lives. We throw rapid-fire names at the great, and mostly-retired, anthem singer Charles Glenn. Early Blues scoring superstar and Hall-of...
Laila Anderson, 2019 Stanley Cup Inspirational Hero – Blues Hockey Legends
Laila was accepted as a sort-of team mascot during the Blues 2019 Stanley Cup run as she was battling a life-threatening auto-immune disorder. She required a bone marrow transplant and recovered in time to be part of all the fun. We chat with Laila and her father...
Memories and Stories from Tom’s Bar – Blues Hockey Legends
Quite a few items have been accumulated at the man-cave bar of your host in 39 years as Blues PA guy. So, on this episode, the term "legend" takes on the meaning of "unauthenticated story". I hope you enjoy this visit to Tom's Bar.
Top Show Stories of 2025 – Blues Hockey Legends
This episode is a roundup of some of the great stories told by our Legends in the early days of the podcast. The Legends podcast launched in November of ’24 with popularity and downloads increasing greatly in the past few months. Many fans may have missed some...
Wayne Babych – Blues Hockey Legends
Wayne Babych was an amazing athlete, who decided on a hockey career, even though he had other options. He was a shooting-star when drafted by the Blues and had instant success as part of the renowned “kid line” with Bernie Federko and Brian Sutter in the late 70s. If...
