Blue Jackets At Blues Open Thread 1/8/08

I just read that Jackman is off the IR and Wagner was sent packing to the AHL.

Yep. Saturday night Stevie Wonder went back to the AHL. He needs to play, the Blues have 6 NHL vets + the future best two-way defensemen in the NHL, and as good as he’s been, that’s a tough lineup to crack.

jamal mayers is the best fourth liner in the nhl. ice cream? when the fuck did we get ice cream? oh yeah fourth line, not, err…the second. but for a game or two not too worried. just why in the hell in linglet in the ahl????

Remember that Perron beat out Linglet, and David’s not exactly at the top of any scoring categories. Plus Murray can’t yell at 2 kids to stop taking the extra-long shifts, can he?

(Where was the open thread for the Sat. night 1-0 win? Now I can’t remember anything about it… maybe a look at my free “smiling Erik Johnson” figurine will job my memory… ok, now I remember: The game was terrible, and b-o-r-i-n-g. Most exciting play of the night was in the pee-wee game between periods: goalie stood there completely oblivious as all the skaters came at him from the left, and the shot missed the empty net. Wait, was that in the pee-wee game or not?)

Not only did Wagner go back to the “A” this weekend, he scored an important goal in Peoria’s 4-3 win on home ice vs. the Quad City Flames.

Those two teams are REALLY starting to develop a strong dislike for one another. You go, Nikolay Lemtyugov…

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Hey I think the Jay and the Americans line should stick together.

Blues really controlly the flow and Zherdev just limped to the dressing room.

Heather wrote:

“Hey I think the Jay and the Americans line should stick together.”

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I second that motion, Heather. These guys have a lot of chemistry together, and they should be allowed to keep it going and work through any slumps that any or all of them might enter at any time.

I think that could still end up being a VERY dangerous line in a short time, if Coach just leaves them alone and doesn’t do a Quenneville, splitting them up and benching them any time someone misses a pass or goes in offside…

Oh, and my heart absolutely bleeds for Zherdev…

…not.

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40 more minutes of sitting ion the lead!

backes is the one who hit zhedev, didnt look like uch of a hit, even the ohio guys couldn’t complain. it was a bit akward and the z was admiring his pass, MIGHT have been an unintentional knee to knee, or z hitting the ice could have messed it up

I just tuned in and must say that I HATE when I only have the other city’s feed on DirecTV!
The Columbus clowns insunuated that it was knee to knee btw Bakes & Zherdev.
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i agreed before they said it :) inadverdant and still not a certainty but the hit was ackward and limbs were flailing. eh. z is back on the ice. literally no harm, no foul.

blues pp really sad although they are about to go on ontherone their first pp of the second lead to a bj breakaway that the ohioians claimed had manny beat (which im not sure it did) but the puck rolled off the stick. oh well

wow this is like watching third world county children starve to death in front of your eyes. seems so immoral to not watch, but i’ve got no choiuce, i gotten stop looking at that thing the blues are claiming is a man adantage,..

Free tacos! Make plans to drive to Scottrade tomorrow afternoon.

I love hockey reporters…

it was the first time the Blues had scored more than five goals in a game since Dec. 9 when they lost 9-5 at Colorado

Watching Columbus play is usually like watching paint dry, but the Blues were effective in neutral ice tonight, and really showed compete on the dump in, especially the Jay & the americans line. They got some good speed into the offensive zone and actually translated that into scoring chances.

Perron got pounded, but scoring is always the best comeback. What was sweeter was that I got to sit next to a couple of miserable Columbus fans (heh). They got up and cheered when Nash scored a goal (1. How do you lose track of somebody as big as Nash on the ice? 2. If Rick Nash is a 40-goal scorer and a -30, does that really mean he’s really a 10-goal scorer?) The Tkachuk line gave them fits all night-in both zones, and
Brewer and Salvador played great against them.

GASP! There it was. I said it. I gave Eric Brewer a compliment. Here’s hoping he earns more of them. I’ve had enough of the afraid-of-making-a-mistake, no-confidence, mentally-fragile Eric Brewer.

6-1, eh? Dammit, I’m having taco’s tonight. Free or not! Celebration!

thank god the flood gates opened.

as to you mr. particle if it were that easy to compare what one player does to another based on one player’s play in a different league to some how out of this garner an equation would be so simple half the guys in the league would never make it.

remember i have no problems with you, but facts are facts, the blues are having trouble scoring consistently. all year. they had one good game scoring for a along time and even before that the scoring was still suffering.

fact is, though i love jamal mayers, he is the best fourth liner in the league. which means he really doesn’t belong on the second line. he did all right tonight but it goes against his grain and his grain doesn’t rub the walt or kariya the right way either.

i’m happy. as you can note, i did say the blues will break out of their offensive slump and do well. that said, i still think we need an offensive type of player. at, if i remember correctly 25 or 26 linglet’s not so much a kid anymore.

and our power play still sucks. but as you saw more movement more chances. it opens the ice.

great game. legace again played awesome. that was over nine straight periods without a goal btw in case anyone forgot.

also i have a photo on my phone i need to down load of this one creep who sat two rows behind me in section 123 during the second period. I HATE YOU! i did not realize the blues had recently hired play by play and commentators through out the building to in an obnoxious loud voice announce every play. what i don’t get is his voice was silent during the cheers but loud and clear describing each play as it happened and what should happen. thanks dick head for taking away from my enjoyment of the game. but then again you made my seat buddies laugh at my one liners at your expense. such as, imagine what that guy would be like during sex, “that’s i’m moving to the right, you move left ah, almost had it, shoot it shoot it, i’m coming i’m coming…ahhh” and so forth. but you have to imagine a loud, obnoxious voice doing it.

Ah the old section 123 problems again. I’m planning a boycott of that section.