Blues To Open Season in Sweden

by gallagher on Feb 19, 2009 8:31 AM CST Comment 24 comments

Just as we'd all expected, the Blues will open the 2009-2010 season in Sweden, making at least one Game Time reader very happy.

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Look, it has its own logo!

Also making the trip are the Blackhawks, Panthers and Red Wings. The Blues will play a home-and-home (isn't that more like just an away-away?) against the Red Wings.

No word on how anyone expects Game Time to publish a home paper for that.

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Bullshit. I know we have some dudes in Europe who are down for the GD Threads but sorry folks, this is something I can NOT get behind. Forget my disdain for European players. Why the hell does the league focus on gaining fan in Europe when they need to focus on the U.S.? They do such a shit job in the states of promoting the league, not to mention all the chances they are taking by heading over there.

This just pisses me off.

Thrillin' Booties and Punchin' Faces.

by Answer Man on Feb 19, 2009 8:56 AM CST reply actions 0 recs

I finally figured it out...

The Answer Man is none other than Don Cherry!!!

Grapes, they done ya wrong in Denver back in ’81, sir.

"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://www.tomorrowsblues.net

by Tomorrows Blues on Feb 19, 2009 10:03 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Vroom Vroom, party starter!

Fuck Detroit

by Poor College Student on Feb 19, 2009 8:56 AM CST reply actions 0 recs

I'd volunteer to be a vendor during the Blues' "home game"

but I don’t know how to make change with that money. And it all looks like it’s from a board game, so somebody could hand me $10 bill from Euro Monopoly and tell me to keep the change and I would be all like, “Yeah! How far is Amsterdam from here?”

“Four Euros of good karma” doesn’t have the same ring to it.

www.stlouisgametime.com

by Brad Lee on Feb 19, 2009 9:50 AM CST reply actions 0 recs

Fuck this shit

they play on my birthday against detroit for once, but they do it in FUCKING SWEDEN…HORSECOCK!!!

You say 'Tomato', I say 'FUCK DETROIT', so lets call the season off

by RFJCC on Feb 19, 2009 10:00 AM CST reply actions 0 recs

Here is the EXACT reason why this idea of a European game is Dog Dick. Actual relatively “life long fans” (quotes because you are a younger dude i could be wrong though. if that is the case please ignore my flagrant use of quotation marks) get the shaft on their birthday. ’Nuf said.

I’m even more pissed now. Can’t wait to his the weights at lunch today.

Thrillin' Booties and Punchin' Faces.

by Answer Man on Feb 19, 2009 10:30 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Oh im a life long fan...

and i can wait to hit the babies after lunch today

You say 'Tomato', I say 'FUCK DETROIT', so lets call the season off

by RFJCC on Feb 19, 2009 11:15 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

*can’t

You say 'Tomato', I say 'FUCK DETROIT', so lets call the season off

by RFJCC on Feb 19, 2009 11:16 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

No word on how anyone expects Game Time to publish a home paper for that.

That’s what the Intarwebz is for…

BTW, the Bleak Hoax and Panthers are playing in Helsinki… that’s in Finland, for those of you that flunked geography…

"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://www.tomorrowsblues.net

by Tomorrows Blues on Feb 19, 2009 10:00 AM CST reply actions 0 recs

See... it could be worse...

We could be the ‘Hawks and be playing a team that isn’t even in our conference and that we see about 2x a century, which basically makes the whole thing totally pointless.

Oh, and we could be playing in Finland. Yaaaaay. At least our game makes sense. Who outside of Sunshine cares about the Panthers regardless of how well they play?

Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand. --Homer Simpson

by hildymac on Feb 19, 2009 11:11 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Randy Moller cares.

For instance . . . “WE’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BOAT!” or “I GO TO WORK LIKE A DOCTOR!!!!”

Poor College Student has a FanShot on this.

"The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive." -- W.C. Fields

by Donut King on Feb 19, 2009 1:13 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

I’M A LEAD FARMER!

Got your “Moller-isms” ready for tonight, DK?

Fuck Detroit

by Poor College Student on Feb 19, 2009 1:48 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Oh hellz yes.

Although I’ll be bringing just stuff Moller has said that I know about thus far.

Dooks brings the photo goodness with suggestions for Moller.

"The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive." -- W.C. Fields

by Donut King on Feb 19, 2009 1:56 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Second verse, different from the first:

No word on how anyone expects Game Time to publish a home paper for that.

Make Marcus do it all. And make him e-mail us copies of whatever he comes up with.

Let's go Blues!!!

by Milo. on Feb 19, 2009 10:07 AM CST reply actions 0 recs

Y' know, getting Marcus invokved in the European distribution of GT might not be such a bad idea...

"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://www.tomorrowsblues.net

by Tomorrows Blues on Feb 19, 2009 10:10 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

"involved"

"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://www.tomorrowsblues.net

by Tomorrows Blues on Feb 19, 2009 10:11 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

I'll do it in Swedish.

by Marcus E Pettersson on Feb 19, 2009 5:39 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

oh. so i wonder what time they’ll be playing that friday game since they are 7 hours ahead of us? i mean i can see them playing saturday evening there and it being a matinee for us…but the friday?! am i going to have to call off work for a friday matinee game?

by oic on Feb 19, 2009 11:11 AM CST reply actions 0 recs

Does this mean they’re going to install a cannon in the arena in Stockholm for the Blues’ home opener?

by Chris Gift on Feb 19, 2009 11:34 AM CST reply actions 0 recs

why? we’re not playing Columbus

by Dooks on Feb 19, 2009 1:37 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Birthday Present??

How bout you guys raise some green and send me there as a ‘international correspondent’ for my birthday

You say 'Tomato', I say 'FUCK DETROIT', so lets call the season off

by RFJCC on Feb 19, 2009 1:39 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

I’m obviously very excited about the games. Very excited.

Although, I understand AM and the rest of the unbelievers. As I see it, the NHL doesn’t really have to bring games over to keep people over here interested. Hockey’s the no2 sport here in Sweden already, football (you call it "soccer") is no1. There’s plenty of NHL games on TV, I know a lot of people who stays up all night to follow the NHL. So, I don’t really get this “promoting the game overseas” thing.

Not that I’m complaining though.

by Marcus E Pettersson on Feb 19, 2009 5:48 PM CST reply actions 0 recs