St. Blouis Lose: Back Down to .500.
by gallagher on Dec 18, 2009 10:17 PM CST
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PrintI've got about 150 less frustrating things to do tonight than talk about that game some more, so here we go, high-speed style.
I've come to the conclusion that the reason that none of us can point to any one or two things that the Blues are doing wrong is because it is the intangibles that are costing this team games.
- Consistency.
- Heart.
- Desire.
- Need for the puck. Want for the puck.
- The extra gear that kicks in when a player refuses to lose or decides he has to win.
These intangibles are hard to put a finger on. Who has them and who doesn't. But to me these things show up in comments like, "Boy, that guy is flying tonight." Or, on the negative side, "Holy shit, I thought Brad Boyes was a healthy scratch. Has he been here all night?"
Here's a list of everyone I thought was showing us all the intangibles tonight:
Some other random thoughts for your consideration:
- My couple articles about players being virtually untradeable and Andy Murray being virtually unkeepable at this point weren't terribly popular a couple weeks ago. Now, I stand by them even more. What kind of value can the Blues get for anyone that they'd be willing to trade at this point? How much longer can they stand behind Murray when his team's only consistent trait is that they are wildly inconsistent? Remember everyone, this is a business being run by businessmen. What happened at your job in 2009 when business was bad?
- At what point will we have a goalie on this team who isn't a back-up trying to hold down a starter's job? Chris Mason is the king of the amazing save/weak goal game. Granted, there wasn't a ton of defense being played in front of him on a couple of those goals, but it's getting harder and harder to defend him as a true starting netminder. Don't get me started on Ty Conklin, because that would be replacing a backup trying to be a starter with another good backup trying to be a starter. You know, like replacing Manny Legace with Chris Mason.
- 14 seconds isn't a long time, but apparently it's enough to take advantage of a team like the Blues who, again, showed an incredible lack of killer instinct every time they scored a goal tonight.
- Speaking of the building-deflating quick response goals the Blues kept giving up, it sure didn't stop Towel Boy from doing his attention-boner-inducing little ceremony. The Candy Ladies knew well enough to not pass the bag of celebratory chocolate and Swedish Fish, why doesn't Towelie get it?
- Most overheard comment of the night: "Something's gotta give, right? Something has got to give."
- Runner-up: "Wait, I thought I was the last piece of the puzzle."
The Blues are going on the dreaded Western Canadian Swing (TM) starting Sunday night in Vancouver. Maybe something will have given by then.
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And one last comment: V. Lecavalier is a pussy.
It was a clean hit, asswipe.
I do not understand why guys have to freak out and go after someone after they get legally labeled. Get the guy’s number and hit him later. If rec league guys can do it, why can’t pros?
honestly, it's nhl-wide
I’m with you, I don’t care who does it. If you get rocked and there’s no penalty, go hit him back cleanly or wait and get him later.
Everyone puts their head down sometime. Just be there when they do it. The whole NHL is like this now.
Towel Boy's bullshit after the Tampa goals pissed me off
No, sorry. I don’t want to watch you count down goals that have already been negated due to awful defense.
From my view (TV may have shown better angles and replay), at least three of those goals came from Bolts being left alone on the backdoor. Hard to fault Mason on them.
Cola’s misconduct was bullshit.
I’m also curious what the hell EJ was trying to do on the play that gave up the empty netter. I mean, not that the Blues were putting anything together, but it looked like he just stopped and said “fuck it! Finish us already.”
Either way, the flashes of what this team can do were there. The long cycles in the offensive zone in the 1st, the good looking stretch passes (and HORRIBLE trapping of those passes), and a few moments of drawing out defenders on the PP to create an open shot. Yet still, these are just flashes and never seem last but a few moments. Hopefully something can bring it together.
Finally, a big FUCK YOU to the douches tonight who ignored the “wait for the whistle” rule in the crowd. If you’re not going to show common hockey courtesy, stay fucking home!
Chicagoan in the Lou.
100% agree
Next game I’m at, I’m going to march my unhappy ass over to his section, and ask him, “WHAT THE FUCK, YOU STUPID NARCISSISTIC PIECE OF SHIT!?!”
The Blues just give up the goal they just scored, TWICE, in the Tampa Bay game, and you STILL DO YOUR BULLSHIT!?!!!!!!!
DID YOU NOT NOTICE EVERY FAN STANDING AND CHEERING SUDDENLY FALL INTO THEIR SEATS IN SHOCK??
GODDAMN IT!…I booed the Blues for the first time in my life, and I hate myself for it…and that asshole gets all of the attention he wants, and sleeps well in his bed, alone I’m sure (or I hope) because of it, while I will toss and turn over the fact that I vocally let the Blues know how I feel…
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I was talking about Towel Man
While eating dinner with my girlfriend at Sybergs. I told her I would take 50/50 odds that Towel Man has vanity plates that celebrate the quasi-celebrity he thinks he is. If I had to make a specific guess, I’ll go with “TWL MAN”. Anyone want to bet against it?
by Merry CRasmus on Dec 19, 2009 12:38 AM CST up reply actions
actually i thought
towel boy had more balls, or whatever he stuffs his pants with, than the blues team.
individual glory? dude i wish the blues so so ass fucked i saw individual glory form one or two of them.
occasionally.
then we could work on tema glory
A strong anvil fears no hammer
by Childhood Trauma on Dec 19, 2009 8:57 AM CST up reply actions
WoodN!
I’m almost ready to hear all your negative bullshit.
Ok, I’m going to betd now. If only Henry Miller’s Used Unit was still around.
www.stlouisgametime.com
Ive been saved
You can have a bunch of negative if you bleed Blue right now, If the Blues could win, I could be positive guy!
Worse
You all shunned him to Second City Hockey, and everyone there was mean to him too.
Chicagoan in the Lou.
I'm drunk enough
I already got into a fight with my wife over something stupid.
Fuck this team. Fuck Daryl Sydor. Fuck the guys that don’t try hard every night. Fuck FSN for showing the game at 12:25 a.m. after I’m already fucking two sheets.
This team will miss the playoffs by a wide margin. Andy Murray will be begging to be put out of his misery. Ship some vets at the deadline. Get some guys who give a shit.
I loved last year’s team. I hate this one. They’re pretenders.
Honestly, I only have strong feelings for Backes, Oshie, Johnson, McClement, Perron and McDonald. Everybody else, I don’t care.
I don’t care.
It’s a good thing we don’t have a paper until after Xmas because these guys…they deserved to get ripped to shreds.
And finally, Towel Boy, I don’t get it. Twice the Blues allowed a goal before you did your thing. I don’t care if the whole fucking building is expecting you to come out. THe strobe light is flashing. The camera is on your spot. Fucking stay in your seat. Wave them off.
One more. Fuck you Blues for putting on a show that you you gave a crap by reducing the lead to one in the third. That’s just toying with the paying customers.
I’m going to pass the fuck out now. Coach Murrya, update your resume. You deserved better.
www.stlouisgametime.com
by Brad Lee on Dec 19, 2009 12:30 AM CST reply actions 7 recs
rec'd
"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
And again...
"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://futurenotes.blogspot.com
by Tomorrows Blues on Dec 19, 2009 11:46 AM CST up reply actions
That was the most coherent drunk rant I've ever read.
And 110% correct.
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.
That was fugly tonight
The Blues best unfuck themselves real fast or we’re done early this year.
back under my desk as Brad tosses the furniture around
Some days its just not worth chewing through the restraints
What was our record last year at this time?
Anybody know? That’s not a leading question or anything, I was just genuinely curious to compare the two.
http://blues.nhl.com/club/teamseasoncomparison.htm
14-14-05 now, while we were 13-17-03 at this amount of games last year. 33 to 29 points. Take it how you will.
And I swear to fuck if Berglund gets traded or sent to Peoria before AM gets fired
I’m gonna flood the Blues offices with letters/emails/phone calls that would make even the SLGT crowd wince.
fire murray
never a fan but i’ve backed off firing him and the brewer captancy cos the team cancer isnt going to be solved with a first does of chemo. now i’m on it like flys on the blues horse shit play
COS
kt bitching about the entire team play a few weeks ago, boyes doing the same days ago, chase blaming the team’s “performance” on total team leadership including the youth “waiting for someone else” to do it.
the team cacer is eating the team. go under the knife now, and see what can be salvged.
this is not last season. anyone remember the monday night miracle? there was one. we dont have to ask which monday night mircale, and we aint getting 8 teams in front of us to all lay down again while the blues decide to start showing up in a month
and fire some front office.
we were the last piece? standing pat int he office season made us a cup team. bloody hell who thought that?
A strong anvil fears no hammer
by Childhood Trauma on Dec 19, 2009 9:02 AM CST reply actions
I know you and I have had our differences,
and unlike Teh MIA Observer I don’t think upper management is doing it on purpose or adamantly refusing to build a successful club…but I’m with you on your last statement.
I think all of us were fired-up in public, all jacked up from making the playoffs and seeing Mason and the Kid Line play several levels over their heads for weeks on end. But I think all of us were quietly saying to ourselves…“Really? We’re not going to get ANYONE? This is IT? This is our cup team?”
And I know we cut some dead weight in McKee & Woywitka (though I’m not entirely convinced McKee was dead weight), and picked up Sydor, but I don’t count “trading a semi-useful defenseman that the Cup winners wanted for a useless Chelios-era sack of shit that can’t even play defense” as making a move.
ej is not playin well Sydor is hindering him. why doesnt somebody see this. EJ needs to just play. so does perron and berglund. let them play AM. This system sucks everyone is over it! Adapt for fuck sakes!
by Blue Note on Dec 19, 2009 12:46 PM CST via mobile reply actions
Sydor is hindering him?
A good portion of the time Sydor is pulling his ass out of the fire when he makes a big mistake. EJ’s problem is he’s still a very young defensement who’se not at his potential yet.
As much as I am an advocate of “letting the kids play” lets not act like when they make dimwitted mistakes it’s someone else’s fault but their own
Breaking News: I'm currently in the process of writing "I will not say and/or type "that word" 1,000 times.
I'm in the fire Murray camp, myself
The team’s real problem is it’s inability to turn opportunities and puck control into legitimate scoring chances. Over and over again we get 3 on 2 breaks, 2 on 1 breaks, or possession in the other team’s zone and we don’t get anything out of it. There’s that element missing from this team; the inability to find the open guy in the crowd and hit him on the tape with a pass the inability to finish. Either our guys are too young to know how to do it, or too old to get it done anymore. And I don’t think Murray is the guy to bring the young guys along and develop their talent to help them become legitimate NHL creators and scorers. Murray’s system isn’t designed to do that, and he seems to have no interest in changing to take advantage of the players he has. We need to bring someone in who will take the team to the next level, not a guy who wished he had different players altogether.
Andy Strickland has a new blog post up....
and he is THE dumbest motherfucker on earth (not counting oshniak from hfboards). How can someone that fucking retarded be allowed to cover the blues? He is unable to put together more than a couple of sentences that make any kind of sense, and every time he asks a question at the post-game conferences, AM just looks at him like, “Who let the ruhtard in again?”
Sorry, the fact that Murray still isn’t fired is making me a little edgy.
I just foundout that I'll be going to the 2/6/10 game vs. Fuck Chicago.
Whether or not I think it’s a good thing . . . I seriously doubt Andy Murray will still be around at that time. And that might be needed.
One day, David Backes and Albert Pujols will combine forces to become the most awesome piece of violent force known to man.
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