Blues Do Just Enough To Lose

I’m speaking out of turn here a bit, because I was not yet a St. Louisan during the day, but is it a stretch to say that Oshie is our new potential Sutter?

Seems like everything I hear about the Sutter days is a reflection of the praise I hear about Teej in his early days.

Let a kid know.

We made it to Google’s #1 with “Fuck Detroit” …

Let’s do it again with “Fraser Sucks”!

BTW — Fraser’s officiating is usually bad, but we wouldn’t have even noticed it unless the Blues on-ice performance was even worse (which is was Thursday night).

“it” — not “is”

Happy Halloween!
Fuck Detroit.
Fraser Sucks.

The Boss wrote:

I’m speaking out of turn here a bit, because I was not yet a St. Louisan during the day, but is it a stretch to say that Oshie is our new potential Sutter?

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No, I don’t think it’s a stretch at all.

Oshie’s not as flat-out mean as Brian Sutter was, but that will come as Oshie gets his feet wet in the NHL. He has all the other tools and attributes as far as I can see.

B.

hey Brad, they have played better. But some of the blatant calls that were not made all seemed to be on the Blues.

1) That shoulder grab-and-jerk on Perron first period.
2) The elbow to Tkachuk’s jaw end of the first period.
3) The high stick on Perron in the third (although it did lead to Carolina getting a roughing penalty) Nice to see Perron get mad and clobber somebody.

Oh, and the replay on Kariya’s game-turning penalty shows a smart play by the Hurricanes player. He chicken-winged Kariya’s stick between his arm and his body, and then lost his balance and fell down. I know, hard to pick up at game speed in real-time.

On another tack, did anybody else think that the ice was shit last night? It looked soft. The puck didn’t settle, players lost their edges a lot… Now that we have team speed and more skill, mushy ice hurts us.

a loss is a loss, but i’d rather lose this way than how we did against the kings.

Goalie guy I agree as well as some others where the stick became paralel to the ice etc.. But the Blues might have one not only with more pressure but how abotu shots on goal.

Holy fuck why is Brewer ever put on the ice when the team requires a goal????? There was a one-timer he lined up and shot over ten feet wide and got good wood. I didn’t know that was possible. Mike Weaver is mini Brewer. How many times do you think it would take for him to realize that you can’t shoot the puck through someone’s shin pads. I can’t wait to see Weaver out of the lineup again. Missing Chris Porter while I try to understand the playing of Cam the imbecile and Hinote.

Tkachuk playing center for a whole game creates a lazy Tkachoke. By the third period he looked smoked. He also was sick the last few days. So I’ve got an idea, hey Walt go play center. Backes looked retarded everytime Kariya slipped him the puck in the low slot he was too amazed to do anything with it.

Perron finally played a good game from start to finish. He continues to get raped on the ice and the officials don’t want to call anything.

Bring in the JUndland!!!!!!!!!!! We need defensemen and any player on this team that when the shoot from the point to hit the net or if the shooting lane is blocked to shoot the puck into the open lane and thus getting the puck deep. Jeebus it’s really not that difficult. And if you decide to be retarded and try to shoot it through an opposing player take the shot in the nut level, stomach level area where there’s not much padding.

According to Murray, Tkachuk played center against Florida because he (Murray) liked the matchup with Tkachuk playing there vs. Nathan Horton (it was in Jeremy Rutherford’s chat yesterday on stltoday.com). The Blues won that game pretty convincingly, it was 4-0, but could have been even higher than that.

After three days off, and one of the best performances of the year so far, why not leave him at center?

During the 3rd period, McClement took a few shifts at center on the 2nd line with Tkachuk on the left and Backes on the right.

You also have to give Carolina credit for playing a good game. To paraphrase Dick Vermiel “You know, there’s guys in the other dressing room that are getting paid lots and lots of money to kick our butts.” They only allowed nine shots over the course of the first two periods, and Cam Ward played decent enough in the third to get the shutout.

The shot that Brewer missed the net by “over ten feet” was a set play, and Brewer aimed wide on purpose for a deflection. Murray was on KMOX Monday night talking about how they are going to be getting away from being predicitible on the PP by setting up Boyes on the one-timer.
 
This seemed like a “trap” game to borrow a phrase from college football. Back to back nights last weekend, and Pittsburgh this weekend.

It seems that once again, the fast start, like last year, has set expectations high for fans when we should realize that anything better than 10th or 11th place in the conference should be looked at as overachieving for this team.

In other words, lighten up.

and this just in, crosby questionable for scottowel centre match-up!

lol be another 3 years then i guess

Gift, with a young team, you are going to have nights like this. You hope they even out, but if they don’t, it’s still a valuable learning experience. I saw the effort, even if the result was disappointing. Still wonder about KT playing center, if only because he’s been so good at wing.

Yes, Carolina played a good game, but at the same time, they weren’t that good-they were beatable, and it’s difficult to muster much offense when you get whistled for own zone and neutral-zone penalties putting the other team on the power play.

Chris D: We have one offensive defenseman on our team right now. Mike Weaver isn’t it. Eric Brewer isn’t it. Unfortunately, coach doesn’t have all the confidence in the world in Steve Wagner.

Last night was a growing pains game. Not quite good enough to win on an off-night. There are going to be a few more of those this year, fewer next year, and maybe just one or two the year after that. I’m in it for the long haul.