Before the 2005-06 St Louis in the...

Before the 2005-06 St Louis in the dumpss season began, the team was bring up for sale, cornerstone defenseman Chris Pronger was traded, and star winger Keith Tkachuk was suspended for arriving at training camp revealed of shape.

How's that for a marketing campaign?

one time things got underway, the team quickly learned that Patrick Lalime was not the answer in goal and eventually hew down into a black hole of injuries and bizarre accidents befitting a team with the league's worst record.

"Early in the year where we dissipated 11 or 12 in a quarrel there were times when I didn't want to exhibit to my face in public," ghastlys captain Dallas Drake said Wednesday. "It was frustrating. You be moved like you're letting a division of people down and you await so much more out of yourself and from the organization."

** The dispiriteds missed the playoffs for the