the biggest concern is this: how bad do the wings suck? no one knows, now if the wings are central division leaders again this year, those two games are VERY important. if the wings scuffle for a playoff spot, or fall out, those two games become two games against the cleveland coyotees. points is points, but there is no milestone in beating a dead horse. it reallty shouldnt matter if the dead horse was a plow puller or a preakness winner. dead is dead. are the wings class or ass this season?

the wings kept most of their vaulted “o” in place, but their d, and their net minding are questionable for 2010. both were exposed by the blues. but if every team exposes osgood and howard, it won’t be much of an accomplishment

and just what questions did the blues answer?

1: resiliancy. that is definately an important question to answer, and it made me proud to be a fan

2. power play will be ok. and by ok, i mean ok, yea we scored a lot, and kt did what he did early last season, but the pk? the shortie given up? the blues will score on the power play, but they need to make sure they win special team games by cleaning up some lapses at the pp blue line, pp line changes, and the pk.

3. AM got the team ready to start the season. he hasn’t always accomplished that. but i have to say, the blues were well schooled in what they wanted to do against the wings

4. hositle crowds don’t phase the blues. always a plus. although offically a home-and home series, we all know the blues were deep in enemy territory for this series, and it didn’t shake their confidence, neither did a few horrid calls, which in the past, would often destroy the blues momentum for 60 minutes. Tony calls it a “hard nine” i guess the Blues play a “hard 60”. they should. they did. if they continue that, talent will out and the arena will be rockin every single game. looking forward to THAT.

still have questions about youth and, to my mind, netminding. too early to answer. blues goalies outplayed the wings, but does that say ANYTHING? sydor was pretty shakey in his one area (and his one area is “don’t suck”). Scared me a few times doing some high school crap (getting stick caught in net, losing stick about 3 other times to phantom hockey ghosts, etc) hope the youngsters were not watching sydor to learn their skillz

what is with coming out ‘dead as a fish in the desert’ both games? THAT is something that shouldn’t happened twice in a row, assuming it should happen ONCE in a row. better not happen three times, or AM is going to explode all over some people (and i think it will be perron just cos andy’s familiar with doing that)

this team still has a place for “jeff” weaver. which means something. and that something isn’t good. not that weaver sucked, in fact he played better than sydor, but he is tiny and was purchased before last season as a mentor. a mentor tied to PEORIA. don’t forget, for virtually the same amount of extra money we could have just kept mckee and had him instead of weaver and/or sydor.

who is going to fight? i’ve no problem being kingless- being camless. but will we want winchester, backes, kt? jackman?? group drop effort, or not? if we fight by committee, every fight is going to put the blues at a talent disadvantage as they will send send a regular to sit for 5 minutes next tot he other teams goon.

Fuck. Detroit.

That is all.

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More epic than a flying lip with Jennifer Connelly

I didn’t really think that the Blues laid an egg. If you swapped Luongo and Mason I think that the Blues would have swept the Canucks.

It’s a good start to the season and it’s kind of a big deal because it gets the team some momentum and self-belief. Does that count for much? Who knows but it can’t hurt.

Why do Tuesday and Wednesday have to be in my way this week! I gave up 2 tickets in 114 to sit with my 307 family, and Thursday cannot come soon enough!!!

I’m so pleased to see those Winged Fucks go down twice like this early in the season. But I’m equal parts livid that I have to congratulate you guys for doing it.

But they’ve had the same issues for the past 2 years. They were able to cover it up with an incredible puck-moving defense, and their puck possession kept the true scoring chances against Osbad down. Lidstrom may still be smart, but he’s lost a step or two, and they are a little young on defense. There are a bunch of support guys they lost up front, and the gruesome twosome are also getting a bit long in the tooth. They may still know how to win, but aging cores can undermine a foundation.

I think that until they fall in the pisser completely (oh please let it be soon!) Fuck Detroit has to be considered the class of the Central. I’m with CT, though, if Huet is the answer in goal, then Chicago looks like the team to beat.

But this team isn’t far away. A good second-pair to go with EJ (was it me, or did Sydor look amazingly slow and uncoordinated last weekend?), an NHL-ready Petro instead of Weaver and a game-stealing goaltender, and you are looking at a serious, perennial Stanley Cup contender.

Oh, and does anybody else think that Columbus is overrated at the start of the season?