Thursday links: Where we hope the Blues can touch a Flame even if it's red hot

by averagejoe on Nov 5, 2009 5:15 AM CST Comment 23 comments

What a shitty Wednesday. Arrived an hour early for a football game I was covering. The team I cover lost making kids and grown men cry. I had to drive to freaking Iowa to get WiFi and, oh, I got pulled over for doing 35 in a 30 -- even though I though the speed limit was 45. Then the WiFi wouldn't work. Sigh. You know what can make things better? Blues hockey.

Blues news

Here's a preview for tonight's tilt between the Calgary Flames and your St. Louis Blues. [Sporting News]
As Gallagher said: the Danes are coming. Lars Eller will make his debut tonight. Over/under on minutes played set at 5 -- the Cam mark. [St. Louis Post-Dispatch]
T.J. Oshie is back and, presumably, a few pounds lighter. [Belleville News-Democrat]
I gotta agree with Bernie, the Blues big names need to step up. [St. Louis Post-Dispatch]
For the first time in links history, a Today show interview is linked. David Backes teaches Meredith Veira how to play hockey. [Today]
For more on the Flames go here. [Matchsticks and Gasoline]

Hockey news

Six games last night means six winners. Find out who by clicking. [Yahoo! Sports]
Thursday night must be hockey night. [Yahoo! Sports]
Peter Forsberg might be going to the KHL. [The Denver Post]
Much ado about blackface. [Puck Daddy]
Once again, it appears sports teams are getting preferential treatment. [TSN]
An OHL player is suspended for the season after a boarding hit. Yowza. [TSN]
Shane O'Brien and Dane Byer received lighter suspensions. They will both miss one game. [TSN]
Thrashers goaltender Kari Lehtonen is out. [ESPN]

Other links

Our favorite horse fucker is going to prison. [Associated Press]
Dodge Viper ... or Daffy Duck?[Buzz Feed]

Video

After getting a ticket tonight, there is only video that sums up how I feel: (Language NSFW)

Note: If you're a cop or friends of a cop, please know I'm just kidding. Another video after the jump.

Maybe, maybe the Blues can play like this tonight.

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A ticket for doing 5 over the posted speed limit?

I’ve worked with law enforcement for almost 8 years now…. Ur lucky to even get pulled over at 10 over. Most departmets SOP’s won’t even back the officer up on his/her radar/laser certification unless the offender is doing 8 over.

So, if you got the ticket for speeding… You must have been a total dick to the cop. Haha.

"Brad Winchester playing on a line with Perron and Berglund is like the fat kid who you invite to play one day because you didn't have enough skaters, yet you don't have the heart to tell them to leave the next few times you play. Damn you Andy Murray." -Author Unknown

by -DJ- on Nov 5, 2009 6:17 AM CST via mobile reply actions 0 recs

Wow, yeah...

I’m afraid I’d have to be that guy and go challenge that shit. The cop probably won’t even show up, and seriously – do they really need the money that badly to where that’s even a legit reason to pull someone over?

The most I’ve gotten pulled over for was 14… the cops usually tend not to notice 5 over. Too much paperwork, for too little reward, and here you don’t even get points on your license for it.

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 5, 2009 9:23 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Small-town cops...

… tend to write more tickets for out-of-towners than for locals. They figure the chance of the ticket actually being contested in court is pretty small.

I got pulled over in south-central Missouri a few years ago. The officer not only gave me the ticket, he gave me a prepaid envelope to mail in the fine.

by BleedBlue42 on Nov 5, 2009 9:43 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Oh, wow.

Prepaid? That’s kind of nice, except for the fact that he gave you a ticket.

The cops here troll for people with out of state plates, or like you said… if you’re in a small town, watch out. Our plates have the county on the bottom, so if you’re in central to south Georgia, and they see a metro Atlanta county, they go nuts. I guess they assume that we have money since we can afford fancy stuff like paved roads and stop lights and whatnot.

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 5, 2009 10:10 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

I once

got stopped going 65ish in a 60 (it actually may have been closer to 70) on MO-54 north of I-70 …at the time, we still had our Virginia plates since we had just moved BACK to Missouri. The state trooper asked where we were going.. I quickly said we were driving through Mexico on our way to Paris…. he knew we were “local” at that point and gave us a pass.

I love Missouri, where else can you drive from Mexico to Paris in an hour?

You can't call me a fair weather Blues fan.

by DanGNR on Nov 5, 2009 10:20 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Mexico to Paris in an hour? Pssshhh.

I can go from Japan to Cuba in 20 minutes.

by BleedBlue42 on Nov 5, 2009 10:25 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

i think this is the case

i was really nice and friendly. i tried to explain that i was on deadline and in an unfamiliar place. i told him i was looking at street signs for main street and the last speed limit sign i saw was 45. he saw my license which still says im from pacific (probably about 3 hours away) and was like yeah … you’re gonna get a citation.
it’s bull shit but what are you gonna do?

by averagejoe on Nov 5, 2009 12:04 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

This is your sloppy second post.

/obligatory for game day w/the Flames.

Let's go Blues!!!

by Milo. on Nov 5, 2009 6:43 AM CST via mobile reply actions 0 recs

I just got one two days ago for going 5 over!

going 45 on woodson in a 40! Fuck the police!

by duncan dip on Nov 5, 2009 7:04 AM CST reply actions 0 recs

haha

I remember when i started driving my mom told me in the woodson terrace area to do the speed limit because they pull people over for doing 2 over the limit lol,

I am friends with cops, I am about to go be a cop, i wont be that dick that pulls people over for that, but my biggest pet peeve is people who dont use their turn signals…WATCH OUT!!!

Pujols takes out "I" in BIG and "A" in MAC, previously considered to be an unyielding, consonant threat

by DESTROYER on Nov 5, 2009 7:26 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

BLINKERS.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

saw the new south park last night and people who don’t use blinkers are fags.( Not a gay joke just a observent one )

by Go_Blues on Nov 5, 2009 4:40 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Watching the hit on the OHL player

the hit was clean, the player was gliding in for the last 10 or more feet. I don’t understand why the 20yo was still in the juniors but it was a clean hit.
I hope the 16yo kid gets better soon.
No soccer or work tonight. No will the Blues get off their asses and win.
Will be here tonight folks after missing the last 2. My post average took a hit while out of town last weekend

by luvhockey on Nov 5, 2009 10:05 AM CST reply actions 0 recs

I promise I'm not avoiding you. :)

I probably won’t be here except for the last few minutes, since I have to go watch the Thrashers hopefully take care of the BJs. I am recording tonight’s game, though… I hope that it’s a lot better than the past few. I watch hockey to enjoy myself, not to wind up in the fetal position on a nightly basis.

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 5, 2009 10:12 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Some of the games

are as painful childbirth of my second son.
Nothing can be as painful as the first son.

by luvhockey on Nov 5, 2009 11:24 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Do you use that as the "mom guilt trip?"

Mom still fusses at me that I was late and managed to get all upside down and discombobulated. Actually, she says that explains a lot in general.

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 5, 2009 12:46 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

i was

a month late

Pujols takes out "I" in BIG and "A" in MAC, previously considered to be an unyielding, consonant threat

by DESTROYER on Nov 5, 2009 1:40 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Oh most certainly LOL, it's a Mom priveledge

First son was 2 wks late and did not want to come into this scary world. He is still very cautious, like to size up situations….
Son #2 was 7 wks early, practically fell out , hit the ground running and is still an independent cuss.

by luvhockey on Nov 5, 2009 2:04 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Mom just said I liked it b/c it was warm and comfortable...

… and that’s why I refuse to get out of bed in the AM.

I can see her argument…

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 5, 2009 4:16 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

best cure for that?

get a job that starts at 3 p.m. i cant stress how awesome it is to wake up on my own every day.

by averagejoe on Nov 5, 2009 5:10 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

ok im not tryin to be an asshole

but that OHL hit was not boarding.. the player was facing the play when he got hit the only problem i had with it was he did bring his hands up and make a little contact with his head.. so you give him a roughing call and since he got hurt on the play i could even be ok with a game misconduct.. but how in the flying fuck did he get suspended for the season??? thats a horrible ruling.. hell the nhl coulda done better than that

If you have a donkey and i have a chicken and youre donkey ate my chickens feet what would you have.... 2 feet of my cock in youre ass!! haha

by bleedblue2009 on Nov 5, 2009 11:56 AM CST reply actions 0 recs

maybe charging

the player spun around before getting hit. one of the problems with the bording call is that players feel safe putting their back to the play when they shouldn’t feel safe OR turn away from the play. the reason for the suspension may have been the injury but also

hockeydb

07 and 08 —169 pen minutes each season vs 5 points.

A strong anvil fears no hammer

by Childhood Trauma on Nov 5, 2009 1:33 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs