Sorry We’ve Been Away

Welcome back. Now wake up your Prospects Department and ask them what’s going on with the Blues’ future.

I love Mr Emmanuel Legace . I’m seriously questioning my heterosexuality. No, seriously. Not. But still. Where would we be without him?

I too am a big Emmanuel fan, but I was also impressed by Hannu Toivonen at the game Friday. It almost distracted me from the guy behind me who was explaining everything about the game of hockey to his “little lady.” While I appreciate any guy who’s patient enough to explain hockey to someone who doesn’t understand the game, this individual also happened to be a new breed of the “SHOOT” guy. Rather than yell at the Blues to shoot on their powerplay, he decided it was more helpful to yell “SHOT” every time the Canucks took a shot on THEIR powerplay, just in case Hannu forgot that they might fire the puck at him. Oh, not to mention how he would yell “FEET!” whenever the puck was in between the skates of one of the Blues players.

Still, I think the best part of Friday night (apart from the win) was watching the obnoxious Canucks fan (without the gonads to wear his team’s logo or jersey to the game) slink out with 3 minutes left in the third.

Took my brother – his first game in a couple of years. He was really impressed with the turn-around of the crowd, the Scotty and the all around atmosphere. He thinks the Rams should drop in and see how to make it a fan-friendly place again at the Ed.
We did decide the new Nucks sweaters are really ugly, but not as ugly as when they had bumble-bee yellow in the early 90’s. In the corrider we saw a kid with a maroon sweater. Which got me thinking, how many times have they changed their logo & colors? Hard to teach the kids to love their team when they keep changing. But then again I am a girl what do I know! :)
Was impressed by Hannu as well, made some great saves. I think I would have had to swat the guy screaming “Shot” and “Feet” – I’m sure the boys on the ice appreciated his help! ;)

Had the sick funk a couple of weeks back (missed the DeadWings game even) so I empathize, hope you are feeling better!

“Ears” impresses me, although his rebound control isn’t what Manny’s is. When I watch Manny play, I see a confident goaltender playing under control; he’s not scrambling as much as Blues goaltenders usually do (paging Mr. Wamsley; please come out and take a bow.)

Toivonen’s butterfly is pretty cool though, he covers post-to-post with no five hole when he’s down.

forget marek toivo’s our future starter. the kid’s the bomb. he played so great it took a perfect shot by ryan kessel to beat him. then manny on sunday played damn well again. of course his best save was saving his own ass after yet again causing my heart to flutter when playing the puck behind the net.

Was actually at the game back on Friday and I admit “Ears” was fantastic. I feel a lot more comfy with him as the backup then I was with Sanford or any of the other backups we’ve had in recent past.