Way too much passing trying to get the empty net tap-in. Boyes and Backes need to be more selfish; both of them passed up absolutely golden opportunities trying to pass. Frankly, Boyes has seemed to want to pass the puck and he should focus on being a trigger man. This team has made two mediocre young, not-ready-for-prime-time goalies look brilliant. Now, the only positive I saw this game was that the team finally got back to basics after 110 minutes of uninspired, disorganized hockey in St. Louis.

i got called a bandwagon fan tonight by one of my faggot friends on facebook because i was pissed at how bad we were playin.. are you serious? we play like crap im gonna be pissed off because i know we can be better than that.. im a diehard fan and nobody is gonna tell me im a bandwagoner.. all i know is we need to step it up.. thank god we got 4 days off.. we need it.. LETS GO BLUES!

The cost of a 24 oz. jobber went from $9 last year to $9.50 this year. As the vendor correctly noted to me, “All they did was cut my tips in half.”

Nice. All the more reason to bring a flask, buy a soda, and slip the vendor a few bucks for his troubles.

At Nassau Coliseum, the 24 ouncer must be poured into two separate cups (and that’s all you can buy at a time), because it is “two beers.”

/OT tangent avoiding the issue of two crappy games

Fuck. Shit. Damn.

/Tonight’s game sucked.

I think Patrik Berglund is fighting off a serious bout of the Sophomore Slump, but he’s the only one of the two fighting it who has been benched over it.

Bought the paper. I agree. I think people put the purple robe on the aforementioned unmentioned sophomore way too soon.

/Paper was great tonight. Extra Kudos to Brad Leigh Lee for making me laugh ‘til I cried for ripping on the Kings’ team website. An apt description, indeed.

Not to commit a faux pas by saying practically the same thing twice in one thread, but…

You really hit the nail on the head here. I’m not a hockey expert by any stretch of the imagination, and sometimes this week I wondered if we really were as bad as we looked to me, or if my lack of hockey IQ was skewing my view.

But your bulletpoints were dead-on. We’re not playing like we want it. It’s listless, effortless, and some people we’re really depending on stepping up (Looking at YOU, #9) aren’t doing so.

I’m not Panic-Button-ing it…yet. But we cannot continue to give up what should be easy points like this when we have multiple games against the likes of Detroit, Chicago, San Jose, the Canadian teams, etc.

Brad Boyes did a good job tonight of hitting the 4×6. Instead of trying to pick corners, he put the thing on net and it turned into secondary chances. Boyes will get his share of great goals this year, but hitting the 4×6 vs missing high will result in way more team goals and I was glad to see it.

The fourth line seemed to be the only one I recall giving a fuck tonight. Janssen needs to start a fight or something, we just arent playing like we care. Ohp pass intercepted and sent back time to try it again, look at that another pass blocked and sent back, one more time. Four games in, we will turn this around pretty soon and go on a tear so this is only a hiccup but still I don’t like getting excited for bad hockey.
The players I can think of tonight that I liked
Mason – Good blocking
Cola – Dove a couple times to block shots and intercept passes. When he took the net off, he did it to break up a one timer pass on a breakaway. The pass didnt happen but he shut the passing lane down.
Perron – He kept trying to weave through players and do it all alone, was fighting for pucks. Didn’t work too well for him but he played like he cared.

Main thing I noticed on the positive end on the radio feed was that Mason had a solid game, Perron was trying his damndest to get things going, and our 4th line continues to work. I don’t recall hearing much of anything about Pietrangelo, but that might be a good thing.

But man, so many names just didn’t seem to be mentioned at all during the course of the game. Walt, Oshie, Backes, I’m looking at you. Kariyas name was mentioned, but it seemed to be negativly, so that’s even worse. After our offense put up 9 goals in 2 games in Sweeden, we’ve just been completely flat since coming back to the States. Lets hope we can get a remedy to that soon.

All the Blues and Cardinals did was exacerbate things.

Fuck. Ass. Shit.

some acknowledgment to Roman, I think he played hard on both nights.

yea the blues looked scared even-strength and on the power play after falling behind. way to much overpassing AND not enough passing, as, occasionally, someone whould just try to bull through 3 kings on their own(usually perron)

listless and sloppy, however, are compliments, they contain the seeds of their own acceptance, they make it seem the game was worth it. the blues were listless and they were sloppy, they were also unmotivated, scared, unwilling to play physical, lazy and, apparently, depressed about the cardinals.

of all THAT lazy is untolerable, and unwilling to get physical, in this town, is close on the heels.

again, how can a team whose #1 job should be outworking the other team get outphysicalled for 60 minutes?

again, how long can the blues allow sloppiness on the power play? as that game contained the “second” shorties in the blues short season (perron never got off his point position when the kings broke out 2 on 1 and skooled him)

is andy murray covering his “my teams only play well half the year” with a “2 games on, 2games off” grid to confuse us?

the only thing i expect from this years blues team is what they promised me 4 years ago, hard work.

i expect hard work to be rewarded in the standings now, something it wasn’t always able to do under the previous administration, but if the blues don’t start showing up how can they expect me to?