Joke Was On Us

I was at the ballgame (a buddy of mine couldn’t make the rescheduled rainout) and saw the blues game was 3-0 on the bottom of the big scoreboard. I mentioned to a friend that I was at the wrong game… but boy did the Blues prove me wrong by the 7th inning.

Is the season over yet? Maybe we can just forfeit the last three games.

Pdub brings up an interesting topic: Which St. Louis area team that isn’t Mizzou football do you take the most pride in right now. It isn’t exactly like taking your pick of a BMW, a Mercedes or a Cadillac.

for all of you grammarians…add a question mark between the words “now,” and “It” in the previous post. I figure that since other people are reading this, we should at least attempt to use proper usage, punctuation, and spelling when we poost stuff.

FUCK!!! That is all.

It’s not that he allowed 4 goals on 18 shots; he allowed at least 3 of them on STOPPABLE shots. I don’t know if I can blame the team’s lack of offense after the first period completely on, well, the Blues offense. When you have to put the opposition’s best player in your own net, that has got to have an effect on team morale and the way they approach the game, especially when he starts folding within 10 minutes, and Tootoo’s goal NEVER should have happened.

“Oh shit, we gotta lock down our own end because the human sieve’s it at it again.” Not to mention the feeling on the opposing bench, “hey their goalie’s on our side!” It’s a bad combination. This team has people whose heads are fucked right now.

Paul “even if I shoot it it won’t go in so I’d better pass” Kariya needs an off-season.

Hannu “nothing between the” Ears Toivonen hasn’t been the same since the Colorado massacre. It’s amazing because he’s the same guy who could have beaten Pascal “Fugly, but usually Superman against the Blues” Leclaire twice, and who started out that road trip with a higher save percentage than Manny (I know somebody is going to jump in my shit if I got that wrong, so fire away.)

Barrett “lotsa bad decisions” Jackman has his new contract—maybe he can finally find his spot in the new NHL.

And as far as the refereeing goes, this team will have to start winning more games (and scoring on the power play) before they get any respect.
The Perron call was brutal, and the Kariya call (the Preds hadn’t been whistled the whole game, so they had to call something, without actually giving the Blues an advantage) but the Predators are fighting for a playoff spot, while the only thing the Blues can do is to worsen their position in the Stamkos lottery.

That game was pure embarassment. Hannu doensn’t warrant a spot at the end of any NHL bench, and should be jettisoned as such.

I thought that E.J. and Jackman (who’s pairing was on the ice for all 3 regulation goals on Hannu) did an admirable job of limiting chances to being extremely stoppable. If you want to argue that everyone was simply beat on the turnaround from Fiddler to tie the game… okay, but Hannu simply flopped and allowed that one to go high as well.

Hinote, McClement, and Janssen were on the ice for 2 of those 3 in regulation… Hinote and McClement appeared to be participating in some sort of collapsing trap, while Janssen meandered around looking for something to assault. People bitch about Tootoo being a useless piece of shit, but at least he has a sliver of goal scoring ability. Be honest with yourself… wouldn’t you rather have Tootoo on this team than Janssen? I’d like to take door #3 on this one, but, gun to my head, I’m taking the guy who can at least offer anything positive to the team and to the game at large from his position.

The Janssen sideshow is embarassing, but he was bailed out last night by an even more embarassing showing from Hannu.

Adam hit the nail right on the head. Jannsen is both a sideshow and an embarassment. Stempniak is scratched while we get stuck watching this nonsense.

I’d love to see Hinote and Backes on a line together.

Oh, man… I forgot about Dutchie getting the scratch amongst all of the other happenings. You could write a book about last night.

I thought the prize sounder was annoying. They awarded a prize right after Fragile Jay took his penalty. “Blues penalty, #77 Fragile Jay McKee, 2 minutes for hooking…” then we here the “tada” thing go off.

Whatever it takes, right?

How long is Janssen going to last? At least DJ King has a clue of what to do when he’s near the puck or an opposing player has it around him. Janssen skates around saying “Which way did he go George which way did he go? Can I board him, huh, George? Can I elbow him, huh George? Can I charge him, huh, George?”

ears got lucky, he could have ,llet in 5 more. he is flat on the ice longer than jiri fisher was anytime any pred thought about putting a puck towards the net.

again, the preds did what the blues did 3 seasons ago. blues havent sniffed the playoffs sniff. the preds are currently IN IT.

so don’t bleeding tell me the blues can’t get a coach as average as trotz to lead this mess. and if an average coach can’t get or kepp this team motivated for more than 25 games in a row, why in the world do we keep resigning these people?!?!

i do have to say this, you’r not supposed to push anything past your ear smaller than your elbow, and it is certain ears has designed his style with that in mind, there is no less than elbow sized holes available…

Stempy was scratched? My oh my.

Let’s scratch him when the season’s over and unsalvageable! That’ll teach him!

I think I’m glad I was busy at the basement sale and only actually saw 30 seconds before Nashville tied it through them calling off Fragile’s goal. (FRA-GI-LEE – “It must be from France”). We were so busy from 4:30 when the doors opened up until we were almost out of everything going into the third period. Definitely see a different side of people when there are bargins involved and they were so awesome bargins. I thought we were going to have to cut a Steve Dubinsky stick in 2 until one kid said the Florida Panther stick was cool enough for $10 – he was only 8 so he didn’t care – he was happy with a “real” stick. I threw in a backpack and he thought he was the coolest kid around.
Stempy was scratched? Because it was punishment or was he hurt?

Looking forward to Saturday to say my goodbye’s to my “hockey family” at Scotty and then getting ready to start working back at Riverport. (it’s how I afford my hockey habit) :)

Tka-choke blew this game. He coughed it up for the tie. Blame Ears all you want, but when a vet makes a crap play out of a routine one, you have no chance. He flat sucked.

YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO HELP US!!!!! DAMMIT! Blowing a 3-goal lead and losing is the FURTHEST thing from helping! :)

Believe me, Zanstorm… Andy Murray really hates the Canucks. We’ll have to see what he cooks up for tomorrow night’s conclusion to the stuttering home and home to grant Nashville yet another 2 unearned points.

StLooFrenchy – I’m more or less with you on Tkachuk. He hasn’t had a terrible statistical season, but when you’re playing in-between the guy who was supposed to be the team’s best forward and the guy who clearly is, it’s hard to look bad. He manages to do it from time to time, though.

good news is that Legace is expected to start again Thursday night

I think this game was a great mini representation of our season.
Starts out with great promise and fanfare, then went to mediocre with hopes of holding on, then laying the egg.
Of course, the refs were bad, the team went defensive, and they screwed the pooch by not losing in regulation….sighh….
DD

I didn’t notice Stempy was scratched. He’s been missing from the lineup the last 70-someodd games anyway. He needs to figure out that “the enemy of good is Lee Stempniak” until he decides to start moving his feet and making things happen.