Blues Vs. Kings Open Thread

While I will be unable to watch the game tonight (too much work and too much snow to go to a bar), I will spend the hours reliving my brush with fame from Saturday’s game. Yes, fellow Gametimers, I was honored to be chosen as the contestant on the Lucky Puck Shuffle in the midst of what was otherwise a forgettable game. OK, so maybe it’s not all that exciting, but I have a few notes I thought I would share:

1. Yes, I won.
2. I more than covered the price of two tickets with the winnings from my prize of scratch-off lottery tickets.
3. Angella was intrigued by the Gametime I was reading when they approached me during warmups. She actually asked to look at it and seemed to not be repulsed by what she read.
4. Goddamn, Louie, the Tidy-Bowl-Rat’s head is huge. He sat in front of me for about 5 minutes blocking most of the game. (Judging by what I could see, I didn’t miss much.)
5. I tried to get Gametime on the Jumbotron after my win, but I think they cut away.

St Louis Game Time: Not Offending Angella For Over One Game.

Nice work on winning the Shuffle – I just wish it still had the glitch where it was always one number lower than its starting position.

I did the lucky puck shuffle before the lockout when it was still the bouncing pucks and hosted by That One Guy, Todd Thomas.

I did not get it right and was booed by the section.

Epilogue: While walking out, someone I went to elementary school said, “Hey, are you the guy who did the puck thing? I was in your second grade class!”

or center ice on the puter! woo! 6×4 screen!!

I’ll be rounding up the Blues fan contingent of students here at Maryville U (population…eh, about 5 or 6) and heading to Buffalo Wild Wings.

Yesterday King, Perron, and Stastny (and Louie! Don’t forget Louie!) showed up on campus at the Bleed Blue Blood Drive and were striking up all manner of conversation with the donors (including me). Got to shake King’s hand (man is it mangled as hell…impressive) and learn that Perron really does sound French. Good times.

Got ’em to sign pictures for the ladyfriend, too!

so there’s no way to watch a live stream online (for free)?

everyone sounds a bit up beat and chipper considering…must be the thought of steve stamkos in a blues’ jersey.

Dooks, look into Sopcast.

HeyooooooooOOOO!

woo some jump and a goal.

then again crappy team with a nobody in net

again this team needs to stop putting forwards on the point, 5 on three and the best chnce was for the kings (ok they had one back by then) but our only d opinches and misses, 2 on 1 vs kariya.

thank god they were tired and didnt make a single pass

Looked like it was all about setting up McDonald

woywitka just became a construction cone for a play. thougth eh could skate better

ah kings feed mentions the media (slaten for 1) saying andy has lost the team, and andy has responded with the typical yaday yada yada.

ugly goal <1 min left, many was sliding back, gave a rebound.

got the sopcast thing. having trouble finding the nhl channel(s)

he never gave a rebound it was a pass that deflected off the blues dman’s skates and frolov came in and saw it when no one else did

www.myp2p.eu

Check the forum for NHL games. This one is TVU not sopcast I believe.

Boss, I think that needs to go in the banner:

“St Louis Game Time: Not Offending Angella For Over ‘X’ Games.”

So, Jessica, is she decent-looking? And was she reading the “Tomorrow’s Blues” section… ;-)

B.

Where did LA find this Ersberg kid… he’s so obscure, even I had never heard of him before.

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Marcus, if you’re there… got a scouting report on Erik Ersberg?

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yeah Brian, I’m surprised Bernier or Quick wasn’t called up instead.

I found a live radio stream on nhl.com

Season 2006-07
HV71 ended the regular season as the second placed team after Färjestads BK. HV choose to meet Brynäs IF in the quarterfinals and manged after seven games (4 wins and 3 losses) to continue to the semifinals. The team faced MODO Hockey and even with home advantage HV did not manage to proceed to the finals having lost four out of seven games.

During the season the newly acquired defenceman Johan Åkerman was a trendsetting player and also made his national debut for Sweden at the age of 34.4 HV’s starting goaltender, Erik Ersberg, had his breakthrough and played for the national team; and was awarded with the Honken Trophy as Sweden’s best goaltender.5 During the off-season he signed with the NHL team Los Angeles Kings.

ok that one was ugly too :)

consulting my “The Hockey News 2007-08 Yearbook”:

Erik Ersberg, 8/3/82, from Sala, Sweden, 5’11", 182 lbs, signed as a free agent on 6/1/07, last team was HV-71, played 41 games (record not shown) and had a 2.39 GAA & .908 sv%
actually listed as 3rd in the depth chart

kt 2 on one, d takes the pass, kt scored. that one was nice at least…

sweet we’re tied up

HATE that slow pom-pom-pom

those of you that have visual on the game, do they appear to be motivated and/or attempting to win this game?

They came out really strong but then when the Kigns got two goals they looked defeated. been back and forth since I guess.

I hope EJ is ok

kt seems to have jump tonight, and not just becuase he score. in fact the stars for the blues looked interested. kariya, boyes, mcdonald.

again cam sits. and king plays. so we traded bryce to scare king? oh well.

there is just no anticipationg that the blues mucking lines will actually score, which is a shame since lee is one of the grinders these days.

woywitka was a speed cone, wlaker was -2, they had their ice time gutted too, but ej left so will be interesting to see which one of them andy murray will trust in the third.

KT wants his 500 goals

Hope EJ is ok too, he got up and made his way off the ice quick

oh EJ is back

Yeah RJ!

Tkachuk has 41, he could actually hit 50 for once

ej back for power play, so nothing major, but ugly pwoerplay.

in typical Blues fashion, a goal just after the power play expires

make fun of the unscoring ability of the mucking pair of lines, and they score. oh well. :)

Couldnt tell who RJ collided with after the goal but managed to get a face wash in, nice.

seems to be how it works it this town. we downtalk Tkachuk all the time, and he quietly amasses 41 goals

going to be interesting end of the game now

With Green Goblin and Dr Bunsen behind the bench how can we go wrong.

41 goals for KT? when? where?

thought I heard the radio guy say that when he scored

46 points by my count on KT

then again, I’m hearing impaired so if I’m quoting wrong, my bad

but hey, we got a one-game winning streak to bank on going into a 9-game road trip!

boyes still leads the blues and he is just over 30… still………lol

kt needs only a few to hit 500 though..

Maybe he was referring to how old he looks out there.

A few things from the game tonight:
1) People in the upper deck who throw shit down into the lower deck are dicks. I’m not even talking about the rag-fag… there were some geniuses who snuck some cans of beer into the game and acted like they were the first in hockey history to do so. God knows that when I want to get fucking wasted, I sneak 2 beers in via my sleeves. Christ.

2) I’m going to miss Ryan Johnson. To me, there’s no indication that he’ll be targeted for a new contract at the end of the season, and I’ll be sorry to see him go.

3) If the Kings are awarded the #1 overall pick and they bite on Stamkos, I’d be surprised. They have next to nothing on the blueline, and they’ll have absolutely nothing when Blake finally crawls off and dies. From what I’ve seen, there are some nice defensive prospects in the draft, and the Kings are in sore need of them – which leads me to…

4) Where in the fuck is Dan Boyle? How do you mis-place a 6’7" hockey machine?? He played C for the team when he was up in Jan, but proved that he could play D throughout his time at Boston College. Aside from the #1 pick, I just don’t understand what the Kings have to lose by giving the monster some ice-time.

5) I still can’t believe that Dan Cloutier landed a gig for $3.1M/year to sit at the end of the bench and open the door for real hockey players to get on and off of the ice.

Adam, I think those same dicks throw shit on me too, and I SIT in the upper bowl. (319) The last few games I have noticed it more and more.
Wish we had freakin ushers at every portal…freakin cheap Blues guys not paying someone $30 a game to watch it. At least I didn’t have anyone trying to start the wave this time around.
DD
PS, I loved the 6 on 3 the last minute of period.
PPs, I especially loved the ref waiting to make the 2nd call AFTER the LA player looked at him to complain about a stick being knocked out of his soft hands.

just looked it up, woy and wlaker both had less than 15 min that included the blues going without ej for a few shifts, in addition, last three games, woy has gone from 18 minutes to 14 minutes to 12 minutes.

yikes!!

and the blues are forced to dress him and walker. and andy still wont play them!

season is over….

so why?

ahem Brian Boyle

Dan Boyle is in Tampa Bay where he belongs

ok ok i know why on wlaker, but woy? you would think they would want to see him, even though he has made some sluggish plays recently

Thanks, Dooks – I wasn’t in the mood to look anything up.

I love it when a commenter responds to himself and gives himself an answer like Trauma did.

this thing made me type that second one in twice cos i was “posting too much- slow down”

I’m not sure if anyone knew this already, but since the Prospect Department is asking

Angella used to do for the River Otters what she does for the Blues now. During the River Otters’ last season before folding, Angella picked me to do the equivalent of the Lucky Skate Shuffle at the River Otters game. While she sat next to me for several minutes waiting for that stoppage in play to come around, I noticed that she is “decent looking”. You could certainly do a lot worse.