Wild v Blues GDT

would’ve been all over this, but unfortunately, I had to work. Heard the national anthem up to the first commercial break on the radio. the canned air horn/crowd chanting “Let’s Go Blues” was particularly loud over the airwaves. great stuff! heard Btewer was back in the lineup. sucks we lost despite that.

Check it. My Answer Friend was having her 40th b-day party at the Brentwood Legion Hall. Rad party. I actually saw a dude air guitar to Van Halen.

I kept going to the car to check the score. I am still enraged. Blues lost to the gayest named team ever.

Back to the ice cold Buschies aka “Shrubs”.

Well, nice for Wagner to get a goal.

good things happened even in the loss though. the late second period wild goal pretty much was the mistake the blues couldnt overcome. so, if nothing else, at least even in losing the team hasnt looked like it ws incapable of winning pretty much since andy murray came here.

did tape the game so ’ve seen it only live, but i think this is the game that does point to a little bit of a problem. realisitcal, finishing, the first line looks solid, even when it doesnt finish all its chances. but the second line still looks flukey, not completely “gelled” … something on most nights

remember andy murray had the last change so he should have been setting the lines to make our scoring look good and theirrs to look bad.

iwe got the anit perron way to fast for me to respond there, but you all know how i feel. this organization doesnt DESERVE 8 more games with perron to make a choice, and if this team thinks perron SHOULD be here, he belongs on the second line starting now. end of story,

perron = second line 90% of the games or he goes to juniors.

I agree with you trauma. WTF is DJ King doing in the NHL first of all and secondly in the line up for like two minutes and not hammering somebody b/c it’s like you’d put him out there to score. So players end up getting double shifted. We could put four solid lines out there and have the ability to score on each line but for some reason certain players are over valued on our team who do not have the ability to score. And one of those players who is supposedly a player who can shut down the opposition’s top line is a lifetime -80. So I guess I’m as confused the refs were last night.

Also last night was a sellout??? I’m not buying that one. There was a row of seats behind my seats that was empty the whole time.

just because there were a few empty seats doesn’t mean it wasn’t a sellout. some unfortunates bought tickets and didn’t show up.

DJ King serves a very valuable purpose if he’s doing what he’s supposed to — kick the crap out of the other teams players. If he’s used in any other way he’s quite useless.

I agree with Chris and Trauma, let the kid play already.

Dwayne DJ King was in the lineup on Saturday night for one reason: to counter Derek Boogaard.

Boogaard sat on the bench within arms reach of Lemaire for the duration of the game, as King sat on the other side within arms reach of Murray. King played his normal rotation of shifts, whereas (I, again, don’t feel like looking it up) Boogaard maybe logged 3 minutes, but I still had the feeling that King would have been readily available had Boogaard taken a run at someone (i.e. Doug Weight).

Now – that’s not to say that I agree with King being in the lineup. In my opinion, Jamal Mayers should be an adequate deterrance and Perron should be providing scoring chances every night on the second line.

On an interesting note, the apparent hockey-genius son of Scotty Bowman himself who sits behind me in the cheap seats actually changed his mantra from “SHOOOOOOOOOOT IIIIIIITTT!” to “PAAAAAASSSSSS IIIIIIITTT!” This may be a bit pre-mature, but I think that he may have recognized that when the Blues are on the power play, that there are still a number of paid, professional hockey players that are actively trying to stop them from scoring.

The Blues didn’t exactly play precision hockey, but the Wild didn’t give them a single break.

It was good to see Brewer back on the ice – the genius behind me apparently thought that Brewer would hear him from 73 rows and an entire seating level from the ice, and as you might imagine, he’s no Brewer fan. I particularly enjoyed him calling Brewer a “WORTHLESS PIECE OF SHIT!” when his stick snapped on a one-timer.

Now that I think about it, I liked going to the games more when the Blues sucked and assholes like that preferred to stay home and continue molesting animals.