Greetings from The Netherlands (Europe)

by FanFromEurope on Feb 5, 2009 1:29 PM CST

Hi all, my name is Gerard. Just wanted to introduce myself to you Blues fans. I'm 27 years old and I'm from The Netherlands. That's a small country in Europe, next to Germany and famous for its capital Amsterdam! Maybe you've even been there, like many Americans have.

Since the day I got the computer game NHL 94 for my 13th birthday, I picked the Blues as the team to play with. I liked the logo, and was curious how they did in real-life in the Nationale Hockey League. Ever since that time I have followed the results and team news through the Internet. In The Netherlands (also called Holland by some) we now have a North-American sports network in our TV Cable-package. They show lots of NHL-games, sometimes even the Blues. And if they don't I sometimes look for a live stream on the internet.

So, you might think: that's a crazy Fruit Euro (as many Blues-fans would probably call me and my fellow European Blues-fans lol..). Well... I'm planning to visit the
Predators game at Scottrade as a spectator on Saturday February 21, my first visit ever to St. Louis and the Blues!! See you there.

Kind regards from a Fan from Europe. Let's go Blues!

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Welcome, Gerard

NHL 94 is a great way to fall in love with any team with a decent rating (So: Anaheim, Florida, San Jose — out).

Glad you get to go to St. Louis and your first Blues game! You’ll probably see many of the names you recognize from NHL 94 walking around the building (well, people wearing those jerseys, at least).

But where is this “Netherlands (Europe)” place you speak of? Is that south of Rolla? Or somewhere in Illinois’ nether regions? We Americans don’t get out much ;-)

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by Dominik on Feb 5, 2009 3:28 PM CST reply actions

lol :)

The Netherlands may be famous for its capital Amsterdam... But there are St. Louis Blues fans as well... ME! Cya.

by FanFromEurope on Feb 7, 2009 7:44 PM CST up reply actions

welcome! sadly the Blues aren’t as good now as they were in ‘94…..yet.
I think it’s awesome you’re going to travel all that distance to see a Blues game in person!
you should come back to this website during Blues games and a lot of us will be here commenting, joking, cheering, and cursing along with the game. it’s lots of fun

by Dooks on Feb 5, 2009 3:59 PM CST reply actions

Thanks Dooks

I know, this website. Since last season I am a regular visitor… More of a reader than a responder though. But I thought: time to change that, since I’m now coming down to see a game in person. Love to meet lots of you Blues-fans overthere in STL.

The Netherlands may be famous for its capital Amsterdam... But there are St. Louis Blues fans as well... ME! Cya.

by FanFromEurope on Feb 7, 2009 7:46 PM CST up reply actions

Make sure

You drop Gallagher an e-mail. He’ll make sure you get a copy of the paper version of Game Time.

And it would be one of the best things ever if we could arrange a FanFromEurope/Answer Man summit.

by Brad Lee on Feb 5, 2009 5:32 PM CST reply actions

I already have our in-house soft-focus expert on the case.

Expect a sweet arty from Gifter on this one.

SWYD

by gallagher on Feb 6, 2009 12:14 AM CST up reply actions

Three questions for Gallagher

Hiya Gallagher,

3 questions:

1) I hope it is a nice ‘arty’… I myself am a sportsjournalist so that’s nice :) And where can I read it? lol
2) And this ‘Gifter’ is that the guy called Chris Gift?? I visited this Gametimesite often since last season and saw somebody with that name
3) Did I read it right last season that there was something with you being a baseball-player?? Or is my memory playing games on me now??

Well guys, enjoy the game overthere against Avalanche. Probably start twenty minutes ago.. Here in The Netherlands it’s 2.50 am… (had a party from someone, you see)….

The Netherlands may be famous for its capital Amsterdam... But there are St. Louis Blues fans as well... ME! Cya.

by FanFromEurope on Feb 7, 2009 7:51 PM CST up reply actions

In response to question 3, there happens to be a baseball player who is also named Sean Gallagher. He was traded to Oakland last year and the rest of the paper decided to write a fictional story concerning our editor getting dealt, rather than the actual ballplayer.

Fuck Detroit

by Poor College Student on Feb 8, 2009 2:50 AM CST up reply actions

FanFromEurope/Answer Man summit.

Hi Brad,

Thnx for your comment. But what’s that FanFromEurope/Answer Man summit mean? Like an interview or something

The Netherlands may be famous for its capital Amsterdam... But there are St. Louis Blues fans as well... ME! Cya.

by FanFromEurope on Feb 7, 2009 7:47 PM CST up reply actions

I was thinking that you and the Answer Man should meet. And we could write about it. He’s the one who started the Phruit Euro thing.

www.stlouisgametime.com

by Brad Lee on Feb 7, 2009 10:06 PM CST up reply actions

Phruit Euro of Fruit Euro or whatever lol

Okay nice :) Since I first found GameTime site (somewhere during last season) I have always wondered what it meant and who thought of it… :)

And cool that you wanna write about it… fine by me :)

The Netherlands may be famous for its capital Amsterdam... But there are St. Louis Blues fans as well... ME! Cya.

See you all in STL for my 1st ever visit... in STL from Feb 20 till Feb 25 (as part of a USA trip from Feb 14 - March 15, including NYC, STL, Las Vegas, San Francisco and LA)

by FanFromEurope on Feb 7, 2009 10:13 PM CST reply actions

European...arriving in St. Louis...

Hi again all!

The last couple of days I have been in New York City for the start of my USA journey! Friday afternoon I will be arriving in St. Louis and then visit the game on Saturday!

And I’ll tell you something…. I LOOK FORWARD TO IT :) !!!!!! LET’S GO BLUES!

See you Saturday!

The Netherlands may be famous for its capital Amsterdam... But there are St. Louis Blues fans as well... ME! Cya.

See you all in STL for my 1st ever visit... in STL from Feb 20 till Feb 25 (as part of a USA trip from Feb 14 - March 15, including NYC, STL, Las Vegas, San Francisco and LA)

by FanFromEurope on Feb 18, 2009 2:12 PM CST reply actions