Friday Links: Black Friday edition

by averagejoe on Nov 27, 2009 5:00 AM CST

Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. I got off work super early, made myself a feast of mac and cheese and turkey sandwiches and took a post-dinner nap. It was great.

Blues news

The Blues take on Nashville tonight at the Sommet Center. The Predators are riding a seven-game winning streak. [CBS Sports]
The Funeral Home Guy breaks down the Blues T.V. mess. [St. Louis Post-Dispatch]
Against Dallas, the players who are supposed to step up did so. [St. Louis Post-Dispatch]
As you all know, the Blues are having a Brett Hull night. If you guess Hullie's Dream Team, you can win tickets. [Blues]

Hockey news

Canada dominates Thanksgiving pucks. Ottawa and Vancouver were winners last night. [Yahoo! Sports]
Lots of games tonight, but really only one important one. [Yahoo! Sports]
James Mirtle looks at the top 25 defensive forwards in the NHL. The Blues have No. 1 and No. 3. No 1 is ... B.J. Crombeen? Over Silent Jay McClement. Sure, why not. [From The Rink]
Former Blues' coach Joel Quenneville and his mustache are nearing win No. 500. [ESPN]
Someone wants Alex Ovechkin suspended for his hit on Patrick Kaleta. /consults suspension chart ... not gonna happen. [Hockey Wilderness]
Brayden Schenn gets a one-game contract and will be in the lineup for the Kings. Pretty cool.[TSN]
We need to get some of the Coach Osh money and buy the naming rights to the Nashville Preds' arena. [ESPN]

Other links

From Señor Gallagher, a mixtape from his friend DJ Cullo. As usual, good stuff. [DJ Cullo]
So Joseph Decreux made a kick-ass self portrait many years ago. Now it's a meme. And it kicks ass. [Holy Taco]
In honor of Thanksgiving yesterday, the Top 10 Turkeys. [The Shark Guys]

Videos

As we all know, today is the beginning of the Christmas season. That means, terrible Christmas music. I'll have one of my "favorites" on Monday, but since it's Friday here's a little standup to make you you hate Christmas music.

That's it for the week. Poor College Student has keys this weekend. Who will the Slumpbuster turn his attention to this weekend? GDT tonight, I'll be there. Will you?

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I've said it once, I'll say it again . . .

PUCK THE FREDATORS!!!!!

(Hey now . . . that came out wrong.)

One day, David Backes and Albert Pujols will combine forces to become the most awesome piece of violent force known to man.

by Donut King on Nov 27, 2009 9:52 AM CST reply actions

top defensive forwards

don’t forget that Backes is #21 on the list (though i would like him to make a dent as an “offensive forward”)

by breibird on Nov 27, 2009 12:08 PM CST reply actions

From the ESPN article about the Preds and Sommet:

Sommet, which handles human resources administration, human resources administration, payroll and risk management services, put its name on the arena in May 2007.

Good editor, assholes.

by Busch Ice on Nov 27, 2009 12:17 PM CST reply actions

Strickland just twittered.....

…that it looks like Brewer wont play tonight due to a “nagging” injury.

Some days its just not worth chewing through the restraints

by spectr17 on Nov 27, 2009 12:56 PM CST reply actions

steve ott flu strikes again?

by averagejoe on Nov 27, 2009 12:58 PM CST up reply actions

trade flu?

saving the product for the best price?

Some days its just not worth chewing through the restraints

by spectr17 on Nov 27, 2009 5:55 PM CST up reply actions

Maybe Brewer shouldn't fight

didn’t he separate a shoulder in a fight last year?

Some days its just not worth chewing through the restraints

by spectr17 on Nov 27, 2009 1:14 PM CST reply actions

I think he did.

It did concern me that a guy who came back not too long ago from a back surgery was roughing someone up.

Reporter: There`s a "stamp out the Beatles movement" underway in Detroit. What are you going to do about it?

Paul McCartney: We`re going to start a campaign to stamp out Detroit.

by hildymac on Nov 27, 2009 1:22 PM CST up reply actions

On the note of defense

I haven’t had a lot of time or ability to watch other teams play this year so watching the Sens vs. Ottawa, I can actually get a much better feel for the Blues style in comparison. Our forwards are infinitely better at backchecking and staying strong positionally on defense keeping teams to the outside. Murray has to get a lot of credit for making everyone give a shit about defense (even Boyes this year) and it shows with the #6 GAA. The shots we give up are so much weaker compared to the chances going back and forth in this game and that to me helps explain Mason’s high save%. Don’t get me wrong, Mason has played really well, but our team defense is just obviously better than these teams (granted CBJ suck really, really badly at defense).

On the flip side though that means our breakouts suck and we have a lot less space in the neutral zone to work. But that’s okay 5v5 given our work in our zone, that’s our style. Not to beat a dead horse, but the abomination of the PP’s inability to enter the zone is embarrassing. It’s a simple fucking formula, skate up the ice with speed to enter the zone—-we have 5 guys they have 4 guys, take adfuckingvantage of this fact. You shouldn’t be getting neutral zone trapped on the PP. How many times have we passed it to a guy standing at the boards on the blue line where he has to skate away from the offensive zone? Stop it, enter the zone with speed. But it’s fixable and watching these other teams give me confidence that we’re better than our record.

Not afraid to nitpick

by joker24 on Nov 27, 2009 2:12 PM CST reply actions