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Our Nightmare Will Not End

You know you want to touch it, Lidstrom. Touch it.

By Brad Lee

Dear reader, let me breakdown what has happened to me personally during the 2008 playoffs in a hypothetical manner.

Say you're a hockey diehard who gets mixed in with the wrong crowd and somehow gets inspired to write for an underground hockey newspaper sold outside your favorite team's home games. And say the shady guy who is in charge of it starts a blog and somehow you find the time to make some witty funny potty-mouthed insights. And the blog somehow gains a small, but hungover rabid following. And hypothetically, you write one headline about a Detroit Red Wings player being a coward and the Wingnuts come out the woodwork. So you hypothetically fight back. You make some pronouncements. You declare that the Wings are too soft and too Euro and not defensive enough to win the Stanley Cup. Oops.

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Next to my desk is the free Blues calendar they gave away on opening night. The player featured for the month of May is Fragile Jay McKee. Granted, it's better than the months when Doug Weight and Bryce Salvador were on the calendar and both had been traded, but Fragile Jay has this glassy-eyed stare about him. He's probably looking for the puck or trying to find a teammate down-ice to miss with an errant breakout pass. But you could also sense on his face this quite desperation, a feeling of gloom or despair. I am mirroring this expression today as the Red Wings have advanced to the Cup Finals. Only the messiah of the NHL, his Russian friend and a three-named goalie stand in Detroit's way. I have never rooted for a Pittsburgh team more than I am right now.

Detroit cannot win this thing. They just can't. Our server for this blog might suddenly burst into flames. It would be one of the darkest days in Game Time history, alongside the Great Copier Meltdown of '07 and that one time we predicted the Blues would probably make the playoffs. It would be Yzerman from the neutral zone over Jon Casey's shoulder all over again.

As Blues fans, we know that the Red Wings have been on a terrific run for more than a decade now. They epitomize what it means to be a great team. And any great team will have its fair share of hatred from rival teams.* It's just a fact of life. Why do you think the Patriots have been raked over the coals for months about this spygate thing?

*As much as Wings fans will not admit, the Blues and Wings do have a rivalry. I don't care if the Detroit fans think it's one-sided. Why do you think so many Wings fans show up in St. Louis for games? Why do the Blues play harder against them than almost any team? Why do you think we'll get some gloating around here if they win?

We're almost at Defcon 1 around here, just waiting for the bomb to drop and a parade to be launched in Detroit. Won't help our bar bills this month. Please hold us in your thoughts during this trying time. And for good measure, here's a photo you can provide some captions for along with your "fuck Detroits" in the comments. What do you suppose Chris Osgood and Marty Turco would say to each other after the Wings elminated the Stars?
Nice beard, Christine.

Star-divide

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Look at the difference in equipment size for Turco and Osgood. Is Ozzy related to the Michelin man?

(Granted, it could just be the camera angle.)

by Brad Lee on May 20, 2008 10:40 AM CDT reply actions   0 recs

Turco: Dude, weren’t you in The Buddy Holly Story?

by Scot C on May 20, 2008 12:08 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

Turco is sporting is home, dark playoff beard, while Ozzy is wearing his matching white/invisible playoff peach fuzz.

I thought they dropped bombs during parades in Detroit, not before them.

by Chris Gift on May 20, 2008 12:09 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

No Brad you are quite correct. He has what appears to be spikes sticking out of his shoulders which makes one wonder if he’d not in fact borrowing one the members of Gwar’s shoulder pads. In fact in one game this season I saw perron rip a shot over said shoulder spike and normally it’s a perfectly placed goal. Not this time. This time it hit the spike and the puck was sent flying over the mesh behind the boards.

Hopefully Pittsburgh will exploit Detriot’s main weakness—goaltending. One can only hope they crush Osgood so badly they bring Hasek back in and then eventually put Lindstrom inbetween the pipes when the situation becomes ridiculously hopeless.

by chris d. on May 20, 2008 12:44 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

Actually as I have friends in Michigan, the reason for so many Detriot fans found in St. Louis is because it was so hard to get tickets to games and St. Louis is realitively close. After that, having spoken with some people sporting Detriot jersies at Blues games, I found out they became Wings fans because unlike the Blues they had won Cups. Very sickening. But I thought you should know.

by chris d. on May 20, 2008 12:46 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

C’mon, don’t be sad. At least you don’t have to go to the locker room and wtch Maltby and Draper fuck.

by answer-man on May 20, 2008 1:00 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

Maltby and Draper might f**K, but they’ll do it with something you in St Louis can’t do. F**k with the Stanley Cup besides you. Give it up already.

by JP on May 20, 2008 3:59 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

I know I’m going out on a limb here, but humor me for one freakin’ minute. WHEN the Blues make the Stanley Cup Finals, the last thing I’ll be thinking about will be any loser teams that didn’t make the playoffs that season. Yet here are the Wingnuts gloating on our site. AND THEY HAVEN’T EVEN WON YET.

Hey JP, thanks for confirming Maltby and Draper are butt-buddies.

I have a new marketing slogan for Detroit. “Red Wings hockey: Check your sense of humor and ability to detect sarcasm at the door!”

by Brad Lee on May 20, 2008 6:03 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

Lindstrom?

by Chris Gift on May 20, 2008 11:44 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

“hey Marty, if you guys hadn’t beat the Sharks, they would’ve beat us, you know”

by Dooks on May 21, 2008 12:22 AM CDT reply actions   0 recs

Here’s a short list of shit I won’t be doing when my team is in the Stanley Cup Finals:

1. Anything that falls under the headline of “Family Event.”
2. Work.
3. "Going to the fucking Red Wings e-hangout to read about what they think about my team.

If the Red Wing ‘fans’ spent half as much time worrying about their corpse of a downtown as they do worrying about what we think of them then maybe they would have moved past Baghdad on the Travel Channel’s list of “Great Vacation Spots.”

by gallagher on May 21, 2008 1:31 AM CDT reply actions   0 recs

lol

Wing fans crack me up! And I’m famous for not having a sense of humor. Amazing.

by Marcus Pettersson on May 21, 2008 7:08 AM CDT reply actions   0 recs

Anyone lifting weights getting siked up for the Finals?

God damn… I feel alive.

by Nathan on May 21, 2008 8:00 AM CDT reply actions   0 recs

Nathan wrote:

"Anyone lifting weights getting siked up for the Finals?

God damn… I feel alive."

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Another product of the world-class Detroit public school system?

(insert “rolling eyes” icon here)

B.

by GT Prospect Department on May 21, 2008 9:50 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

Call me crazy, but after the way that the Blues dissed and dismissed him, I want Dallas Drake to win his Stanley and ride off into the sunset. I recognize that it might have been neccessary to let him go, but I was still sad to see him leave. So yes, I am cheering for Detroit. Fuck Jeff Taffe.

by Manbones on May 22, 2008 2:33 AM CDT reply actions   0 recs

Actually, another product of the world-class St. Louis public school system, being mocked.

by Nathan on May 22, 2008 3:53 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

i am getting sikeston’ed up for the finals meself.

i hope crosby doen’t o’fallon his face much, i know it didn’t happen afton during the regular season for him.

and if eric lindros wont give game time a series predition i bet brentwood.

anway, i’m off to cuba, via mexico, with a nod towards bourbon.

by Childhood Trauma on May 22, 2008 5:48 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

Nathan I was just up in Michigan for a month. What it taught me was that the only people in Michigan have going for them are their sports teams. Well, that and the weekly umemployment checks. Of course with all those drug companies out there all you have to do is get paid by being a test subject. Mighty great state if I don’t say so myself. Doesn’t even compare to Missouri or for that matter the rest of the United States. I hear the U.N. is going there on their current tour of third-world nations in distress. Enjoy your umemployment benefits and not being able to afford the Wings’ games.

by chris d. on May 23, 2008 12:05 AM CDT reply actions   0 recs

“We’re almost at Defcon 1 around here, just waiting for the bomb to drop and a parade to be launched in Detroit.”

At this point, apathy has set in. I need a drink…

by JGB on May 23, 2008 9:06 AM CDT reply actions   0 recs

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