For longtime St. Louis Blues fan Gary Brewer Jr., Thursday marked the first time in years he could skip work and partake in home opener festivities. This year, the main party took place at Union Station in Midtown.

He and his wife, Heather Brewer, went all out.

“[Heather’s] like, you're off. We're getting a [Sky Suite], we're hanging out. We're going to actually enjoy ourselves,” Brewer said. It’s only fitting: The couple had their first date at a Blues game exactly 10 years ago.

“I didn’t know hockey. I was always a baseball girl, and so I'm sitting there, and I'm realizing, ‘Oh my gosh, I'm with this crazy person.’ Because he's jumping up, he's screaming, he's yelling things like ‘zebra’, ‘moose’ — because Brian Elliot was the goalie back then — and I'm like, ‘I am never doing this ag

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