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Blues end 52-year Cup drought with 4-1 win over Bruins

BOSTON - They shed their gear as they hopped over the bench boards, sticks and gloves helicoptered in the air as their yells filled the TD Garden silence.

With that, the St. Louis Blues shed more than half a century of can't-win stigma. No longer will their legacy be reduced to black-and-white newsprint history, the players formerly known as the background tableau in the flying Bobby Orr photo from 1970.

The Blues delivered the city's first Stanley Cup with a 4-1 win Wednesday over

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