St. Louis is no longera baseball town.After 52 years of futility, the Blues captured the city's first Stanley Cup on Wednesday night.This is the most amazing moment, said publisher Brad Lee via text me sage. So many years of hoping and wishing doesnt seem real.For fans like Lee, who hasbeen a supporterof the team for 30years, this moment may have been a long time coming but they were all ready for it.Red shirts for the Cardinals were swapped for different shades of Colorado Avalanche Jersey blue. Statues linedMarket Street donning giant Bluesjerseys. Buildings throughout St. Louis County were covered in "Let's Go Blues"banners. Public transportation added "Let's Go Blues" tothe digital signage on the front of its buses. Ted Drewes Frozen Custard offered up the Bluenote special, a concoction ofblueberries, lemon cream and graham crackers served as a concrete or sundae, and "Gloria" () could be heard blasting from bars along Washington Avenue and from cars with their windows rolled down in the warm Midwest nights.Yes,St. Louis is now officially a hockey town.STANLEY CUP FINAL: "You could feel the excitement in St. Louis over the past couple of weeks," Blues senior advisor to the GM, former team captain and defenseman and Hall of Famer Al MacInnis told Sporting News. "Just the buzz in the city and everybody talking about the Blues and hoping for this day to happen. We've had disappointment over the years and there's not a group of fans that deserve a Stanley Cup more than the St. Louis fans. They've been loyal for the last 50-plus years and this is very, very special for everybody involved."I think it's fair to say Hall of Famer Bernie Federko knows a thing or two about whether the epitomize the spirit of St. Louis Jackie Spiegel (@jackiespiegel93) Those fans also showed up in Boston, over 1,000 miles from home. While the players skated around the ice reveling in their win with Lord Stanley's Cup, echos of that "Lets Go Blues" chant resonated around the building. The fans, dre sed in the varying jerseys the franchise has worn for more than a half-century, banged on the gla s andcheered on theirteam around the lower bowl ofTD Erik Johnson Jersey Garden.A cloud has been lifted in St. Louis, noted Ron Baechle, otherwise known as the Blues "Towel Man," via text. Still has not sunk in yetthat we have done this; not just won the Cup but the only team to come from dead-last in January to be champions. Remarkable; would be hard movie to believe even if Disney wrote it.MORE: Whichever Disney movie you did choose, this one had the usual arc:Excitement for what's to come in training camp and preseason.Trouble and impending doom ahead head coach fired, players fighting in practice and the team sitting dead-last in the NHL the morning of Jan. 3.Heroes battlingback Jordan Binnington's rise, an 11-game win streak and making the playoffs.Happine s and pure unadulterated joy at the end.Like Cinderella, who could not have imagined shed end up with the gla s slipper, the Blues were not expecting theyd end up with silverware in the end."You don't think about the Cup in November," said head coach Craig Berube, who took over after , standing near the goal crease his team succe sfully defended for two periods Wednesday night."You think about getting your team back on track ... and getting moving in the right direction."He also added that"just to get into the playoffs was just an achievement in itself but I felt good. Our guys weren't satisfied with that. I knew that going into the playoffs we could probably do something, make a little bit of noise and here we are, it happened."It happened because while theteam could have packed it in and conceded that the 2018-19season was a wash, they didn' Matt Duchene Jersey t. Forward that the turning point was when GMDoug Armstrong told them if things didn't change there'd be moves. This Blues team is a tight one, and every manon the ice following their Game 7 win stre sed that thewin was due to one thing: their teammates."We believed in each other," said Brayden Schenn, mentioning how the team came together after a rookie party in Miami."It was all four lines. Everyone contributed throughout the playoffs and that's what you need to win," added forward Oskar Sundqvist."We did that today and the whole playoffs. We've been working hard for this." (interim) head coach Craig Berube spoke on the ice after Rene Robert Jersey winning the Stanley Cup Jackie Spiegel (@jackiespiegel93) STANLEY CUP FINAL 2019:Working hard goes hand-in-hand with the city of St. Louis and its 318,000 citizens. It's where the Mi si sippi and Mi souri Rivers meet serving as the "Gateway to the West" which is even more fitting now as the Blues are the gatekeeper of the Western Conference. But, it's also an area built and defined by a hardworking, pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps, blue-collarmentality, something the Blues epitomized this season and especially in the playoffs."Most teams would have folded after losing at home, Game 6 when you had a chance to win it and then all of a sudden coming to of all places Boston to win your first Stanley Cup," said a sistant coach, and 10-time Stanley Cup champion, Larry Robinson."I think that just says what this team is really made of. We were talking, I said 'You couldn't write a Patrick Roy Jersey book about our year this year.' From last place to all of a sudden holding the Stanley Cup up, it's been just fantastic. So, sohappy for this group of guys and more so happy for the city too. It's just a great sports city."Spoke with a sistant coach Larry Robinson after the game last night.The Hall of Fame defenseman now has 10 Stanley Cups. It never gets old. Jackie Spiegel (@jackiespiegel93) STANLEY CUP FINAL: Now, this great sports citywill get a chance to revel in itsCup victory, and we all know they'll do it well; after all, St. Louis is the home to Anheuser-Busch, too."It means everything; 52years, everybody keeps talking about it how we havent had a Stanley Cup,"Blues legend Bernie Federko told Sporting News."A lot of people gave up so many times. When you see what this team did starting in January.The resolve and resiliency that they have to be hoisting the Stanley Cup now means so much not only to the team but to all the fans in St. Louis who have been following this team for years and years."