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'I definitely wanted to stay here': Joel Edmundson is a good...

Like Pat Maroon, the former Blue will receive his Stanley Cup ring in a pregame ceremony before Tuesday's game against Carolina.

As Carolina’s chartered plane landed in St. Louis on Monday afternoon, and the team bus made its way to a downtown hotel, former Blues player Joel Edmundson was taken back to June when the club celebrated the city’s first Stanley Cup.

“It’s definitely weird, but it was nice flying over the city, seeing the Arch,” Edmundson said. “Driving into town you see all the ‘Gloria’ stuff, or the Blues stuff in the windows of bars. It just brings back good memories and I’m happy to be here.”

“Every time I drive down (Market Street), I’ll just picture a million Blues fans just going nuts. That was probably the best day of my life, during that parade. Might have had a few too many beers, but it was definitely a great time.”

When The Athletic recently conducted a Blues player poll, it was Edmundson, in fact, whom Jake Allen selected as the player who probably had the most adult beverages at the parade.

“Eddie was the ringleader there for three or four days,” Allen said. “He partied hard, like he should.”

On Monday, Edmundson wasn’t arguing.

“Yeah, I mean you never know if it’s going to happen again,” he said. “I definitely enjoy my beers, so I was just celebrating. There were a lot of Bud Lights consumed that week.”

Twelve weeks later, however, Edmundson learned about the sobering reality of playing in the NHL, when the Blues dealt the defenseman and prospect Dominik Bokk to Carolina in exchange for Justin Faulk.

After a season in which Edmundson had become a healthy scratch, the second-round pick from 2011 needed arbitration last summer to get his contract resolved. So while it wasn’t a complete surprise that he was moved, the timing of the trade — nine days before the Blues’ season opener — was.

“Yeah, I definitely felt it coming,” he said. “I go to arbitration, and I technically won arbitration, which usually that leads to a trade, so I wasn’t surprised. I was just surprised with how quick it happened. You’re never really ready for it.”

And still basking in the glow of winning the Stanley Cup made it especially difficult for Edmundson to deal with initially.

“I was here for camp and just the feeling of the city, it was still on a high,” he said. “Whenever we went out in public, you were a big celebrity in this city. Then you go to Carolina and I was walking around and no one knows who you are, so it was just a big change for me. It would have been nice to just soak that in for an extra year or something like that.”

But there will be no lingering feelings between Edmundson and the Blues when he suits up against them with the Carolina Hurricanes on Tuesday night at Enterprise Center. In fact the opposite, because like Pat Maroon did in December, he will be receiving his Stanley Cup ring in a pregame ceremony.

“I’m looking forward to it for sure,” Edmundson said. “I don’t really know what to expect. I know the building is always loud. They definitely respect every player that comes back and plays. I saw the videos of when Patty came back and I got chills watching that video. I’m just excited for it. I’m sure it’s going to be a blur for me, but I’m going to try to soak it all in.”

Blues coach Craig Berube, who joked when Maroon returned that he couldn’t socialize with him because he was on the other team, said he would probably talk to Edmundson before the game.

“Well deserved,” Berube said. “It’s great he’s coming in here; we can present the ring to him. He was a great team guy and a good player. Things happen in the game, trades are made, that’s the way it goes. But he’s doing fine and he helped us win a Cup.”

The club wanted to make the night so special for Edmundson that when general manager Doug Armstrong notified him about the planned ceremony, the GM invited his parents, Bob and Lois, too.

“Army called me a couple of weeks ago and said they were going to do it before the game and fly my parents in for it,” he said. “That’s a first-class move by them. I definitely wasn’t expecting it, but I definitely appreciate it. I know my parents are really excited.”

It took Edmundson a while to settle in with Carolina, but he did eventually, and now he’s got four goals and 13 points in 18:18 of ice time per game with the Hurricanes, who are two points out of third place in the Metropolitan Division with 63 points.

“I would say it took me a week or two during the regular season,” he said. “It’s a different (defensive zone) we play, a little bit different structure. But I was just trying to get to know the guys as quick as you can, and once you know the guys, I feel like things translate onto the ice. It was an easy dressing room to come into. It’s a young dressing room. I feel like one of the older guys in Carolina, where I still felt like one of the younger guys in St. Louis. That was kind of weird my first few days, but I feel like it’s a new opportunity for me to be a leader and a new challenge for me.”

Edmundson was also a little uncomfortable initially because he was without most of his personal belongings. He was on his couch eating a pregame meal before a Blues exhibition game when he got called about the trade. He grabbed whatever he could before catching a flight to Carolina just five hours later.

“I was living out of a hotel, so I just made do with what I had,” Edmundson said. “I had a bunch of stuff in my apartment here, and my parents came here to it clean up. Then I told (Jordan Binnington), (Zach Sanford) and (Robby Fabbri) what I wanted them to pack in my truck. They threw everything in there and the shipping company came and picked my truck up.”

Of course, Edmundson’s ex-teammates couldn’t just send the truck on its merry way without planting a few practical jokes.

“They left a few things in there that would make me laugh,” he said. “I have this wooden hand that you can do anything with. I usually (move the fingers to make the symbol of) rock on. So I open my middle console a couple of days after I get my truck and it’s a middle finger looking at me. They just left the middle finger there for me. Then in my passenger seat was my fake Christmas tree with all the decorations still on it. I got a really good laugh out of that.”

The rest of Edmundson’s stuff is still in storage in St. Louis, and the plan is to pick it up this summer. But he’ll spend Monday and Tuesday unpacking the memories. One of the most lasting, aside from winning the Cup obviously, was being among the group of players that helped make “Gloria” the team’s victory song and, really, a cultural phenomenon.

“The ‘Gloria’ story just because I was one of those five guys that was in that bar in Philly,” Edmundson said. “I think just the media team for the Blues and the whole city rallied around that song and they did a good job of getting that song out there. When you have something like that to build around … looking back, I’m definitely happy I was part of that ‘Gloria’ crew.”

He didn’t miss the ‘Gloria’ crew enough, though, to get a tattoo of the song’s name, like one of his former teammates.

“I was thinking about it all summer,” Edmundson said. “I drew up a couple tattoos. I don’t know if I would have had ‘Gloria’ in it, maybe a little Stanley Cup tattoo. But no tattoos on me right now.

“I think (Oskar) Sundqvist did that for us … I think him and a couple of his buddies back home just had a few beers one night and all got ‘Gloria’ on their arms.”

Edmundson acknowledged missing the whole club.

“They have a special group here,” he said. “That was the biggest thing for me, leaving those guys. Obviously I made a lot of friends in the city, so just getting up and leaving out of nowhere, it was definitely hard.

“I still talk to the guys all the time. I text them, I Snapchat them, we’re always communicating with each other and stay close. We definitely have that extra special something … I definitely cut the cord, but it’s definitely nice to catch up and see how your buddies are doing.”

After sitting down with The Athletic on Monday, Sanford was picking Edmundson up from the Hurricanes’ hotel and was going to meet a few of them for dinner.

“We came in together,” Blues defenseman Colton Parayko said. “We kind of started off together and just kind of bonded right off the hop. We spent a lot of time together trying to figure things out, trying to get things sorted out in this league. He’s not only a good player but a really good guy, someone you love having on your team. We were fortunate enough to come into the league together, come onto the same team and then win a champion ship together. Pretty special and I’m looking forward to seeing him.”

Edmundson wishes he could have continued on with the Blues after winning the Cup together, but he realizes it’s a business. After breaking into the NHL and earning a roster spot out of training camp in 2015, he seemed to be a little less consistent last season, which led to a drop in his ice time.

“It’s a tough league,” he said. “If you’re not playing the way you should be, there’s always a guy that’s playing his game at that time. You start to trickle down the lineup and you start to fall out. I was in and out of the lineup a couple of times, and that’s when you start thinking, ‘Oh, I might get traded’ and stuff starts to play in your mind. You try to push that away, but it obviously sits there. When you go out and play, you’re trying not to make a mistake and you end up making more. But I think they treated me fairly here the whole time I played here.

“They have some good, young defensemen coming up, a great D core. I was lucky to play here for four years. But going to Carolina, it’s been a great fit for me and I’m having a great time there … I definitely wanted to stay here, I loved it here in St. Louis, but it’s a business, so I understood that. You always have a chip on your shoulder. I got traded in the (Western Hockey League) and my season took off after I got traded. I was definitely looking forward to the trade for those reasons. I don’t think I’ve switched my game at all, (but) I definitely have a chip on my shoulder.”

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