Fred Hucul

[lidstrom5]

Original Blue Fred Hucul has passed away at age 93. He was in the lineup for the first game in Blues history and assisted on the first Blues goal in their history scored by Larry Keenan.

[hockey jedi]

I've been a Blues fan since day 1. I never heard of this guy. I thought you meant Fran Huck, but I looked it up. Good find. Sad news.

[PPG]

You probably were a fan on day 1 but not a hard core die hard fan yet.
I didn't become a fan until the playoffs that year and I remembered the name, but couldn't pick him out of a team picture if my life depended on it....LOL

[DawgDad]

Yeah, I remember him but vaguely at best. RIP.

EDIT: One reason I remember him is back in college in the early 70's we'd kill time going round robin with each person naming a current or past Blues player. Pretty soon, though, all of us knew all of the player names.

[Russdv14]

I hate threads like this because it usually means the player has died who we grew up seeing. Freddy Hucul, a left handed defensemen . Nice stamped he assisted on the Blues first goal.
RIP.
Yeah-Fan from Day 1 with a scrapbook full of newspaper articles about the Blues

[Blues Dave]

I remembered Fred Huculs name as soon as I saw it in this thread. Sorry I don't remember any interesting stories. I'm glad you guys let us know when a former Blue should be remembered. They deserve it.

[lidstrom5]

I wrote him TTM over the years requesting his autograph and one time he sent me a program of the Blues first game and another time a set of the Blues team issued B&W postcards from year one he was in. Quite a guy.
Think he might still hold the record of years between NHL goals at 14. He also played a few games with the St. Louis Flyers when they were a Hawks AHL team.
Was jersey number 2 with the Blues.