The fans are the reason we get into this business. The fans here are worth a goal a game to the Blues.

The good news for St. Louis fans is I understand what we did right in New York with the Rangers, and I also understand what we did wrong. Where we started to go wrong with the Rangers is when we got away from a drafting, developing, being careful about a team chemistry approach with an owner that just wanted us to buy every big name in the business. That doesn't work in hockey. I knew it then, I especially know it now.

I succeeded in turning a building into a business.

It enhances the whole game experience to have a soccer-specific stadium. That's what we'll do.

Next season we will move ahead and begin working toward the ultimate goal of a Stanley Cup championship. That's what I think is very possible and I want our fans clearly to know that.

Sports fans have been mistreated for a long time. They have overpaid for inferior food and they have had poor service.