Oilers At Blues Third Period Live Blog

by Brad Lee on Jan 2, 2008 9:29 PM CST

By Brad Lee

Blues and the Oil Can are tied 1-1 after two periods. The wife probably won't like that I'm live blogging, my E key sticks and I've seen about half the game so far. Let's rock.

20:00 Larry Pleau told the Edmonton broadcast that Emmanuel was hit in the back of the head by a puck that richotted off the post. Felt woozy, came out after the first period.

16:34 Both teams playing a little conservatively. Garon is suddenly letting up a few less rebounds.

14:38Â Dustin Penner got loose on a breakaway, faked right, went left and scored past a sprawling Hannu Toivonen. Ugh. 2-1 Oilers.

11:35Â Brewer drew a penalty skating into an Edmonton forward. "Brewer is a big boy, and skating into him could get you hurt," one Edmonton broadcaster said. The wife said, "Maybe Brewer will get hurt."

10:50 Edmonton just got a 2-1 shorthanded, but the puck came off the stick. "We've said tonight that they have bad ice here in St. Louis." Thanks, pricks.

9:45 Mayers puts a shot on net, Garon stops the rebound. Maybe you have to shoot it harder than that, Jammer. "Garon knows what the Blues are trying to do on the power play, keep crossing the box." No, I think they want to slam it into the box. Or something like that.

8:56Â David Backes gets his fourth of the season. Mayers from behind the net, he centered and Backes came swooping in to scoop the puck home, his first in nine games. All tied at 2-2.

And the Edmonton broadcasters keep calling No. 21 Jamal Myers.

You too can buy a trip to see the Oilers in Florida. Charter flight, stay at the team hotel, meet and greet with players. The only bad part is you have to fly from Edmonton.

Strike that, leaving Edmonton is always a good thing.

6:35 Blues lead in shots 27-17. And Edmonton has won too many games in the shootout.

6:07 Smid got his stick up on Backes. Hopefully he's bleeding. Come on, bleed, dammit! Cut him!

(no blood)

4:41 Damn, the Blues suck on the power play.

Childhood Trauma Says:
January 2nd, 2008 at 9:46 pm e

http://images.sportsline.com/u/photos/hockey/img10006246.jpg
almost the gordie howe hatrick, get that assist!!!
And as I was pasting that, the Oilers almost got the lead. Nojinxnojinxnojinx.

2:17 ANOTHER Blues power play, this time for cross checking. Kariya was camped out waiting for the centering pass and he got the stick to the back.

AND NOW THEY'RE PLAYING THAT MOTHERFUCKING COTTON EYED JOE SONG. THE TV IS ON MUTE FOR THE MOMENT. FUCKERS.

They're playing the "It's time for another Power Company That Can't Turn Your Power Back On Power Play!" song. The wife said, "They're playing that fucking song again. And I'm not even talking about the Cotton Eyed Joe Song."

END OF REGULATION. At the end of the power play, Stempniak carried the puck in deep, it got to Mayers who was streaking in...and he put it over the net. Sonofabitch.

Now they're showing highlights from the last Blues-Oilers game that went to the shootout when Edmonton won.

FYI: every shootout game so far for the Blues has involved Toivonen. He's 1-2, but he's only allowed two goals. Yes, that's right, in the win he shut them out and allowed one goal in each of the other two shootouts, and the Blues were held scoreless each time.

4:21 Why is McKee out there? Are they playing for the shootout? And Kariya ALMOST got a shot alone in the crease, but Moreau swept the puck away.

3:24 Blues controlling the OT so far. That's just asking for a jinx.

2:28 Perron is actually playing in OT. And Tkachuk almost stickhandled his way into the net but the defense collapsed on him.

1:58 Backman showed a glimpse of physical play battling with Horcoff in front of the net. That's weird.

1:31 Walker hooked Moreau down in front of the net to prevent a spin move. "Ohhhh, that's a cheap one right there. The Oilers got lucky." Yeah, considering Moreau grabbed Walker's stick too.

:37 Edmonton waaaaaay too slow moving the puck around.....before Dustin Penner slammed the puck homeÂ with 21 seconds left. Stoll took the big shot from the point and Penner was there to collect the rebound. Lucky chance. Edmonton sucks about as bad as St. Louis on the power play.

Blues now are 3-4-3 in their last 10 home games. Shit-tay. Not going to make the playoffs doing that.

Fuck.

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sorry did see you start this. havent sauid it, but i will here, apparenently Jamir Myers is now his official name, two games n a row my Myers has played a solid defensive game for us. I was just shocked to see Jay McClennon lug the puck up the ice once.

by Childhood Trauma on Jan 2, 2008 10:04 PM CST reply actions

That sucked-Edmonton stole a point. Garon left about 20 rebounds just begging to be put in. The Blues came out flat for about 3-4 minutes in the second and it cost them a goal. They gave up a home run breakaway, but Legace wasn’t there.

Ears hasn’t been the same since the Colorado massacre. He could have played the breakaway MUCH better. He overcommitted to the left. Penner would have put it into his pad if the early season Toivo had been playing.

Well, we all know this team is a work in progress. Not enough offense and not mobile enough a defense to be elite.

by The Goalie Guy on Jan 2, 2008 11:10 PM CST reply actions

still think ears is going to be a damn good goalie. he made a hell of a save in overtime. i was surprised he let that breakaway go in as well—he usually has those, but it never should have been a break away and for of manny’s greatness let us not forget that is one of his weaknesses.

anybody else impressed with backman’s game tonight? he finally played assertive, hit people and made good plays. please, please let this not be a chimera.

other than that, edmonton said in the first period—here take this game, destroy us, we suck and the blues failed to captilize and opened the door.

by Chris D on Jan 2, 2008 11:40 PM CST reply actions

I think more and more the Blues play to their competition. Excellent effort against Detroit in a game they’re supposed to lose; shitty against a shitty team like Edmonton. They are getting into a bad habit of letting crappy teams hang around and hang around and they end up giving away points. To me, that’s a veterans and coaches issue.

I hate to say it, but you seldom see the Red Wings take a team lightly. The Blues do it all the time. Giving points to the 14th place team in the West is just stupid and will make the playoff chase that much harder.

by gallagher on Jan 3, 2008 12:25 AM CST reply actions

Said Andy Murray:

“I think we had multiple chances to score, but some of the guys that we count on to do that didn’t get it done for us. Those are the same guys that play on our power play.”

by Marcus Pettersson on Jan 3, 2008 4:21 AM CST reply actions

The way the guys were trying to push the puck through the crappy ice, I thought I was watching the “Winter Classic” replay, but then I noticed how lame Edmonton’s uniforms are now and I snapped out of it.

by forgetyerskatesdream on Jan 3, 2008 8:20 AM CST reply actions

on the oilers feed, they talked to a blues player (i forgot who) who talked about the crappy ice and he said something like… it isnt like there is a lot going on at scottrade so i have no idea why the ice is always so bad

by Childhood Trauma on Jan 3, 2008 11:15 AM CST reply actions

i noticed the shit ice as well. there isn’t a reason for shitty ice except for shitty empolyees. but then again, how many road teams come to town that flat saying here take the game, go ahead see if you can score ten goals and the effort of most blues was nah, let’s keep it exciting. it was a poor effort.

by Chris D on Jan 3, 2008 2:53 PM CST reply actions

The Edmonton loss was another tough pill to swallow. I am a partial season ticket holder and sit in Section 319 Row K. I am proud to say that I’m amongst what seems to be a growing group of Brewer-Bashers (Yeah I sit right next to the guy that keeps shouting “Hey Brewer, You Still Suck!”)

Anyway, between periods we were looking at our tickets and noticed that our favorite (NOT) defenseman Eric Brewer was the featured player. Leave it to my 17 year old daughter to look at the letters on the boards behind him. To the left are the letters ‘U’ ‘R’, then there’s a picture of our pal, and then to the right are the letter ‘F’ ‘U’. Although I expect fans to continue shouting obsentities at Brewer, I was shocked to see that the Blues endorsed our feelings as well. I assume that since he stands out in front of the boards, that we can translate the photo to say, “Brewer, U R F’d Up!”

by Captain Grumpy on Jan 7, 2008 8:37 PM CST reply actions