Winter Classic Live Blog

by gallagher on Jan 1, 2009 11:00 AM CST

In a combined effort between two of the hockey blogosphere's biggest players, James Mirtle and Greg Wyshynski (the one and only Puck Daddy), we present to you the biggest, baddest live blog on the planet.

Feel free to jump in with your comments. The guys from Second City Hockey and the guy and girl from Winging It In Motown (yeah, yeah, we know. But you'll go check it out anyway now that I said there's a girl over there) will be at the game and sending in pictures and dispatches from the event.

And yeah, as Blues fans this is kinda like watching the guy you hate the most from your neighborhood fighting the guy you hate the most from work: You don't really want to root for either of them, but you know you're gonna watch anyway.

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does anyone else get the idea that the people doing these interviews don’t know shit about hockey (Costas, of course, is a consummate professional)?

I once shot a man just to see him die...then I got distracted and missed it.

by TheDuke32 on Jan 1, 2009 12:06 PM CST reply actions

Screw NBC… I’m watching this on NHL Network (which I didn’t know until today that I had).

Yeah, they’re Canada-centric (as evidenced by the way they slobber all over Canada’s 7-4 win over Team USA last night), but at least these guys know what they’re talking about.

I just LOVE what the Hawks did with making the Shit Wings have to walk from Elgin to get to the rink… good on ’em.

Yeah, I’m Illinois born and bred, so I’m rooting for the Hawks today.

I like what John McDonough just said about how the Hawks were the youngest team in the NHL… that’s what the Blues need to be. Of course, they’ll need a new coach before they get there…

"If we do not prepare for ourselves the role of the hammer, there will be nothing left but that of the anvil."

-- Otto von Bismarck, 1851

http://www.tomorrowsblues.net

by Tomorrows Blues on Jan 1, 2009 12:34 PM CST reply actions

NHL network isnt airing the game, just a bunch of pre game stuff.

by bzgea2 on Jan 1, 2009 12:35 PM CST up reply actions

Shit, you're right...

Oh, well… at least the re-game will be good.

"If we do not prepare for ourselves the role of the hammer, there will be nothing left but that of the anvil."

-- Otto von Bismarck, 1851

http://www.tomorrowsblues.net

by Tomorrows Blues on Jan 1, 2009 12:37 PM CST up reply actions

Make that "pre-game"

"If we do not prepare for ourselves the role of the hammer, there will be nothing left but that of the anvil."

-- Otto von Bismarck, 1851

http://www.tomorrowsblues.net

by Tomorrows Blues on Jan 1, 2009 12:37 PM CST up reply actions

"Freezing my Sergei Krivokrasov."

LOL… you’d never hear that on NBC…

"If we do not prepare for ourselves the role of the hammer, there will be nothing left but that of the anvil."

-- Otto von Bismarck, 1851

http://www.tomorrowsblues.net

by Tomorrows Blues on Jan 1, 2009 12:35 PM CST reply actions

Stan Mikita was Da Man...

…loved that guy when I was a kid.

"If we do not prepare for ourselves the role of the hammer, there will be nothing left but that of the anvil."

-- Otto von Bismarck, 1851

http://www.tomorrowsblues.net

by Tomorrows Blues on Jan 1, 2009 12:39 PM CST reply actions

ahhh scoring by going to the net. hope the blues are watching.

by bzgea2 on Jan 1, 2009 12:41 PM CST reply actions

Yo, Brian

you can comment in the live blog in the box above if you want. I know Milo and Average Joe are in there. Brad is our guy who shows up as St Louis Game Time.

SWYD

by gallagher on Jan 1, 2009 12:42 PM CST reply actions

I’m not really digging the live blog auto-scroll. I can’t read old comments because it jumps to the end when a new comment appears.

Looks like that goal opened up the game ALOT. Ice looked kind of sluggish, but maybe that was just the players passing with some timidity.

I once shot a man just to see him die...then I got distracted and missed it.

by TheDuke32 on Jan 1, 2009 12:53 PM CST reply actions

Yeah, it's pretty hectic.

I think I’m with you.

SWYD

by gallagher on Jan 1, 2009 1:00 PM CST up reply actions

Definitely a work in progress for us… we had thousands of people in there, so you can imagine what a nightmare it was to try and moderate.

by James Mirtle on Jan 2, 2009 2:32 AM CST up reply actions

CoverItLive's auto-scroll . . .

can be shut off at the bottom of the live blog. It’s the second button from the bottom left.

"I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out." - Rodney Dangerfield

by Donut King on Jan 1, 2009 1:01 PM CST up reply actions

Oh cool.

maybe i’ll have another go at it. Thanks.

I once shot a man just to see him die...then I got distracted and missed it.

by TheDuke32 on Jan 1, 2009 1:07 PM CST up reply actions

heh, guess who’s finally awake?
what’s the score at this point?

by Dooks on Jan 1, 2009 1:15 PM CST reply actions

Chicago up 3-1.

Fuck the both of them.

"I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out." - Rodney Dangerfield

by Donut King on Jan 1, 2009 1:16 PM CST up reply actions

well if I HAD to root for one of them, I’d have to go with Chicago. FUCK Detroit in the goat ass!

by Dooks on Jan 1, 2009 1:17 PM CST up reply actions

besides I have Brian Campbell and Martin Havlat on my fantasy team

by Dooks on Jan 1, 2009 1:19 PM CST up reply actions

Mike Milbury?! wtf

by Dooks on Jan 1, 2009 1:15 PM CST reply actions

that guy looks like Gallagher

by Dooks on Jan 1, 2009 1:23 PM CST reply actions

cool, strong guys playing chess on a board where the pieces are as big as they are

by Dooks on Jan 1, 2009 1:29 PM CST reply actions

god those jerseys suck

by Dooks on Jan 1, 2009 1:30 PM CST reply actions

O_o echo (echo) (echo) (echo)

by Dooks on Jan 1, 2009 1:31 PM CST reply actions

fuck Hudler, fuck detroit

by Dooks on Jan 1, 2009 1:34 PM CST reply actions

seriously, it’s not fun liveblogging by myself

by Dooks on Jan 1, 2009 1:37 PM CST reply actions

they Manny’d Huet

by Dooks on Jan 1, 2009 1:38 PM CST reply actions

the coaches look gay in those fedoras

by Dooks on Jan 1, 2009 1:39 PM CST reply actions

fuck Hudler again, fuck Detroit again

by Dooks on Jan 1, 2009 1:55 PM CST reply actions

Fyuck Datsuck, Fuck Detroit

by Dooks on Jan 1, 2009 2:04 PM CST reply actions

bullshit! I noticed “Bufflin” didn’t have a Reebok logo and tried to get into the site for like 10 minutes, and it kept saying service unavailable. THEN they announce that he’s the guy.
fuck, I didn’t know there was a cutoff time, at least not before the game ended

by Dooks on Jan 1, 2009 3:05 PM CST reply actions

LOL, to me it looked like nobody had the goddamn logo. I was like “oh that guy doesn’t have it, oh wait neither does that guy, oh wait maybe it’s the other guy, ok… I guess don’t fucking know who it is.”

FUCK DETROIT IN EYEBALLS

"Go to sleep bitch! Die motherfucker die! Times up bitch close your eyes!" ~Eminem

by Carnie on Jan 1, 2009 3:20 PM CST up reply actions

Welcome to

Dooks’ World.

by Brad Lee on Jan 1, 2009 3:06 PM CST reply actions

haha

holy crap

by cold on Jan 1, 2009 3:09 PM CST reply actions

where the hell is/was everybody??

by Dooks on Jan 1, 2009 3:12 PM CST reply actions

ah, some of us were commenting with the Live Blog.

by cold on Jan 1, 2009 3:19 PM CST up reply actions

liar, I was the only onre here

by Dooks on Jan 1, 2009 3:20 PM CST up reply actions

The Cover It Now live blog. You had to click on it to start it. Interesting experience.

by Brad Lee on Jan 1, 2009 3:46 PM CST up reply actions

oh that thing at the top?

thought that was a video feed of the game. I found it on NBC so I didn’t botther clicking it.

I feel so blonde.
I would be if I weren’t bald anyway

by Dooks on Jan 1, 2009 3:49 PM CST up reply actions

I watched the game.

And I have to say that life tore me a new one there >.<

And did anyone else hear what Osgood said about going to the bathroom during the commerical? I nearly died laughing.

And Huet made me fucking laugh. He was smiling excessivly and then when they pulled him he almost went nuts, he was so pissed off after that. HAHA

FUCK DETROIT IN EYEBALLS

"Go to sleep bitch! Die motherfucker die! Times up bitch close your eyes!" ~Eminem

by Carnie on Jan 1, 2009 3:17 PM CST reply actions

Liked the live blog, but sometimes it was like farting into the wind. Too much action to carry on a good game of comment tennis.

/Dooks: Sorry you wound up talking to yourself for much of the Winter Shittacular

Let's go Blues!!!

by Milo. on Jan 1, 2009 3:18 PM CST reply actions

Thanks for stopping by. And there were some Game Time references from unknown screen names which was entertaining.

Hectic. That’s what Sean and I called it. I sent some suggestions to Mirtle about a next time. If there is a next time.

by Brad Lee on Jan 1, 2009 3:47 PM CST up reply actions

Too many jake oafs at the “official” live blog. I like ours here better, where there are a few people, but no so many that you can’t keep straight who said what when.

Next year, they need to have this thing at Coors Field and have the Blues and the Avalanches play… I don’t know if we here in St. Louis are far enough north, or have a resonable guarantee of good cold weather on New Years Day, to host the game here, but I’d sure like to see one at Busch Stadium.

No one that has been it it already (EDM, MTL, BUF, PIT, Chi, DET) should be in it again until everyone’s had a chance to be in it.

Of course, Bettman and the rest of the Madoffs that run the NHL will want their little favorites playing in it every time, so count on seeing those fucksticks in the used-tampon-colored outfits in this game at least twice more before the Blues ever get so much as a sniff..

"If we do not prepare for ourselves the role of the hammer, there will be nothing left but that of the anvil."

-- Otto von Bismarck, 1851

http://www.tomorrowsblues.net

by Tomorrows Blues on Jan 1, 2009 5:43 PM CST reply actions