Blown Lead, Blown Opportunity: Blues Fall Again

Fuck fuck fuck!

You know what migh tbe the worst part? I don’ think overall we played that bad in the 3rd. The goal of Conklin was incredibly flukey. Your gonna give up a PK goal once i a while no matter how good your D is (Though I do blame Johnson for the incredibly stupid penalty), and the shortie came in desperation mode which, yes, we should have defended it better, but they were just too focused on that. Not to say we played overly well, but we didn’t quit out there. And we still blew the lead. Fuck!

they ask questions everybody already knows the answer to and expect players to give them some great universal truth in their responses. Waste of fuckin time.

“The final piece of the puzzle was supposed to be us, but over 19,000 of us showed up tonight for a 5 pm Sunday game. Somehow I don’t think it’s us anymore.”

hahaha

and he has a big giant FAIL now.

Time to make a move before this season swirls the bowl for good. Missing the playoffs is just not acceptable.

if this happens again before the New Year, I really don’t see him keeping his job by the Chicago game on the 2nd. If he’s still behind the bench by the Olympic Break, we better be on a fucking win streak!

I got the last minute chance to go to the game, and while minus a few mental lapses and soft goaltending (all of them coming in the third period for the most part), it wasn’t that shitty of an effort. But those days are over – “Just win baby,” and the Blues aren’t getting it done for whatever reason. They can’t keep shitting the bed at home and going out on the road and fixing it everytime – and we’ve been saying that for over a month!!!

And the worst part: Ryan Miller didn’t start, so I didn’t even get any Fantasy points for the bed-shitting! Fuck Detroit!

How the fuck is it murrays fault that Conklin decided to kick a goal in his own net, or we decide to let them have score short handed or boyes missed cleanly on a wide open net for the second night in a row. Some of the goals we have been letting in the last couple weeks have been pretty damn soft. The oilers friday night fuckup game, yeah we started sucking but those goals we let in should have been stopped. Tonight Conklin played alright but he wasn’t great by any means. If we had our goalie stand on his head when we needed them to for the last month we would have another 4 wins or so in the bank and everyone would be all gumdrops lollipops and rainbows.

We have been doing a lot of stupid crap on the ice both offensively and defensively and playing incredibly inconsistant but thats sort of what young teams do. We didn’t draft Ovie, Crosby, Malkin so our young players gotta figure out how to make shit work. You all thought it was glorious that we had such a great young team, now you gotta live with everything being a young team implies. Backes who most don’t even consider a young player anymore just finally figured out how to put pucks in the net last year. It doesn’t help that our veterans are playing half assed as well. If we fire Murray then what? Is the new coach gonna tell Boyes how to knock in gimmes, Mason how to grow his beard out or Johnson how to commando roll out of golfcarts correctly? What is the new coach going to say to make the players stop sucking?

at city hall lot. so bad start to night.,

bad finish due to blues suckatudinal commitment.

and it is commitment

puck battles blues won while they took the lead? most

puck baattles blues won once they had the lead? zero

how in the world can 22 guys suddenly decide none of them wants the puck?

and do it game in game out at home?

was soi ready to see a win, gave out 10 pucks in like no time, team had come ff a good trip with a loss (whihc actually made me think they wouldnt come in and take a game off, that the loss would have motivated them some)

blues played a 1-1 game after one. and probably had a better fate than they may have deserved with a lead going into 3rd, but then, holy shit. what did they do in the third? why is perron still doghoused? why is kt still a center, anyone watch him wave during a game, i swear he resets his lines offensive and defensive responisbilties more often than hunter s thompson popped a pill. i like kt, and his leadership, but bloddy hell give the fast skater with the job discription of “center” the defensive and transitional center responsibilties already

and we might wanna worry about mason letting in a soift one or two finally, but really so is ty. it isnt about wether a goalie will give up 2 softies a week it is about the d and o making sure two softies a week dont result in 4 lost points.

something has to blow because the fans already have. we might talk about their patience and look at the ticket sales numbers being reported as good and all, but as a lower bowl guy i’m telling you all right now, attendence is dropping faster than the blues playoff chances, and i’d think despite the rosey public front, the blues management and ownership knows that pretty damn well. again they may want a lot of things, but when they decide to push a panic button it will be econopmics that makes them do it.

in fact I didn’t even get to see any of the game because of family from Iowa coming down and visiting. Shit happens and family’s important to me. So sue me.

From the looks of it I didn’t miss much, though.

Anyway, I did some research, with the help of these kind folks . . . and I find out that 365 days ago, we’d played 36 games in the ‘08-’09 season and had gained 31 points. If you push ahead a couple days . . . you’ll find that the Note had the same number of points at the 38-game mark, which is where we’re at now . . . and this year at the 38-game mark, we have 39 points.

Some of us sure don’t act like this team’s at least 8 points better than last year. This is probably because of the expectations, the fact that the division we play in is MUCH more competitive than even LAST year and several other factors.

I guess what I’m trying to say is . . . in the words of Jules Winnfield, “BITCH BE COOL!”