The Stanley Cup Final brings a strange twist of finality to the local radio broadcast scene.

The Blues soon are leaving KMOX, their radio home for 43 of the 52 years they’ve been in the National Hockey League, in part because they are weary of being subservient to the Cardinals on the station’s priority list. Their broadcasts have been shipped elsewhere when the baseball team has played at the same time.

But now in a strange twist, some of the final broadcasts in the team’s stay at KMOX (1120 AM) will bump the Cardinals off “The Mighty MOX.” The Redbirds will be sent to KYKY (98.1 FM), the station the Blues have been shuffled to in recent seasons when the teams have played simultaneously. There will be as few as two and a maximum of four overlapping games during the Final.

Blues broadcasts, conducted by Chris Kerber (play-by-play) and Joey Vitale (analysis), are moving to local sports-talk radio powerhouse WXOS (101.1 FM) next season.

KMOX’s contracts with the teams call for the Blues to take priority only during the Stanley Cup Final, and interestingly their first trip there in 49 years coincides with the team’s last days at that station.