I always wondered why we never tried Christian Backman at the wing when we had him and were hurting for forwards. Could have worked out, wouldn’t have really mattered much if it didnt.

By next week Walt will be out with drinker’s elbow, Boyes will be home sick with DT’s from scoring withdrawls, and Perron will go down with a punch to the vagina.

When are the open tryouts? I think the Answer Man may finally get his shot.

well at least we stole boyes, i mean that offensive extra wideman guy just has a measly 5 goals so far this season. pah!

on the plus side st louis chris wideman leads all d in scoring at the pwoerhouse hockey hotbed of miami at ohio, so we will get him here off a waiver wire in about 6 years

Jeezis! Winchester has 46 PIM in 13 games. can we afford to take this guy on?

Eminem covers the Rivermen for the Peoria Journal-Star??

FUCK DETROIT.

I also thought I read somewhere that Yan was hurt but maybe I confused him with the 10 others on the shelf.

Have you seen tomorrow’s lineup?? I’m scared.

Time for Plan B:

Hurt the other team’s star players to make us feel better. With the lineup we’re putting on the ice, it just might work….

Fuck Detroit and all those dirty mobile auto makers.

It’s a conspiracy I tell you. Saah Palin is in it with Gary Bettman and Mike Illich. They knew the Blues were going to win the cup this year, so they sabotaged the team. But it will all backfire when the Blues finish last and select yet another puck-moving defenseman. Bwaahahahaha.

You said it before I could Pagan – this is DEF the curse of Sarah Palin!! I’ve been saying it for weeks – It’s almost laughable if it wasn’t so painful. Maybe the owners will think harder next time they mix politics with sports. I’m cringing now thinking of what the score board will look like after 1st period.

The way our season has been going, we’ll finish dead last, and then get passed by friggin’ Tampa Bay & Atlanta for the top two picks in the stupid lottery. If I have to see that stupid grin on the face of Dave Andreychuck again like we did with this year’s Stamkos Sweepstakes, I’m going to frickin throw something, then promptly piledrive my television into the toilet.

By the way, they invited Obama & Biden to drop the puck as well… Just fyi…

I don’t blame Palin, it’s not her fault (obviously). I blame the stupid arena worker who should be fired for not moving the rug in the first place!!!

I call it, “The Idiot Arena Worker That Didn’t Move The Slipperly Rug Curse”.

PLEASE videotape this for us to see!

as far as the curse goes, aside from the injuries, Legace was in top form before the rug slip as well. now, not as much

yeah dooks that was sarcasm. Manny hasn’t looked like Manny all season. This sux!!!

Maybe the Blues should call up Eller and tell him to come over to the NHL!!! Get his career injuries out of the way this season as well.

I’m glad the Lightening got Stamkos that way Davidson and company wouldn’t feel like they were disappointing the fanbase when they chose a defenseman. They just disappoint with their call ups.

Maybe it’s time to sign Freisen to a contract. He’s out there and available. Maybe he could suddenly rediscover his scoring touch??? I am begining to think anything is possible. I’m starting to leave benhind logic and say there’s a hidden meaning in all of this. Maybe it’s we should all become Red Wings’ fans because well there’s now only enough jobs in the state of Michigan to fill half of their areana up. Thus the Red Wings will become the St. Louis Red Wings and the Blues will become the Kansas City MeatPackers—…….Maybe I died over in Iraq and I’m in a hell where the world is flipped upside down and the once always playoff Blues never make it again.

There’s a level to rebuilding where suddenly the high draft picks don’t want to come here.

Man, when you put it that way Chris, I actually might just piledrive my television into my toilet.

Fuck Detroit.

Punches to vaginas

Pile-driven TV’s in toilet

And an offer for AM to skate for the Blues. Best column on the site yet.

Brad- they should have my number but I’ll call them this morning to make sure they know I’m available tonight.

Maybe we should all become Red Wings’ fans…..

smacks Chris D
snap out of it!!!

Thanks Dooks….I needed that. Damn now that my senses revivied I look back and become horrorified out of my wits again. Red and white’s not so bad….a socialist in the White House…hammer and holy fuck what is happenning? Going to see my shrink today…I need to find a way to cope with all of this senseless loss….it’s worst than the fucking war man….(they say humor is last refuge of the….AHHHHH!!).

I predict we stomp the Ducks because of the mounting and growing frustration of the Blues regulars. Meanwhile all those trying to prove play great games and are willing to stomp some Ducks players.

Well if it makes you guys feel any better, Brewer was NOT on the ice this morning…

http://www.stltoday.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=588610

Did the Hockey Gods finally crack a smile???

Also, this just in…

The Blues third jersey has been recently redesigned.

It looks something like this…

http://ahlstore.com.ismmedia.com/ISM3/thumbcache/fe949a3fd904378441a05a3eae134beb.500.jpg

3rd jersey… it took me a second, but I got it Hunts

thought this was the new third jersey?

http://www.costume-shop.com/images/products/80061.jpg

half of are players ARE and the other half are seeing one!

i hesitate to even write this for fear of bringing the wrath of the hockey gods down on the blues (even more), but we have all of these injuries and fragile jay is not one of them? what are the odds? i know, i know, when he inevitably blows out some joint or cracks some brittle bone, it will be all my fault for even mentioning it.

i think the blue need to spike the water bottles at practice with some calcium and glucosamine, maybe even throw in a little tamiflu for good measure. if they’re looking for a good price, i’m sure they could call flash for some references in so co.

hopefully they ordered enough third jerseys so all the peoria guys get one. is there a quick way to re-stitch “berglund” to read “winchester”? either way, it’s been too long since i’ve been to a game, so bring on the ducks tonight.

Chris D wrote:
There’s a level to rebuilding where suddenly the high draft picks don’t want to come here.

That would be cool. Then the Blues could draft Lindros and trade him to the Flyers for Forsberg and a shitload of other players. Wait. That already happened a decade ago and it wasn’t the Blues who got anything.

Answer-Man wrote:
Punches to vaginas
Pile-driven TV’s in toilet
And an offer for AM to skate for the Blues.

Sounds like an episode of the A-Team and A stands for Answer, fool.

Now you just need to show up at Drinkscotch in a black van with a blue stripe and have the rest of the Answer Team charge out for bombs and machine guns and win the game without harming a single person.

Just kidding about the not harming anyone stuff. Go ahead and decapitate Parros and Jovo.

am called paul kariya’s “lower body injury” a hip flexor that isnt respding as they hoped during pregame..

looks like Crombeen will be the first north american to wear 26 since Petr Stastny

no game day thread?

Live blog is up at the top of the front.

whoops spoke to soon