Tuesday Morning Links

by averagejoe on Mar 10, 2009 6:00 AM CDT

It's game day for the Blues. The Dallas Stars come to St. Louis for a big game (aren't they all lately?). Let's get to the Links.

Blues news

Blues. Stars. Tonight, only on ... well it's on two channels. But the Game Day Thread will be here. Do come and enjoy.
In case you were wondering, Chris Mason will be in net tonight. And forever, apparently.
According to Andy Murray, the key for tonight is a fast start.
Nice story on the man who is the voice of the Blues, Tom Calhoun. Not to be confused with Tim Calhoun.
Not good news about Alex Pietrangelo. Not bad, I just don't like to see him struggling.
Former Blues d-man compared to current Blues d-man.
In Dallas, Mike Modano has been called out. Brendan Morrison as well.
The fine folks at Defending Big D really miss Brad Richards.

Hockey news

The usual: Standings. Last night's results. Tonight's action. The Blues need the following teams to win: themselves, Washington (against the Preds), and San Jose (against the Wild).
After all the shit in Montreal, former Blue Guy Carbonneau got the boot. General Manager Bob Gainey will take over. Habs Eyes on the Prize offers their take on the firing.
My boyhood idol allowed goal No. 2500 last night. I have a feeling this won't be on his final highlight real.
The Sporting News has this weeks power rankings. The Blues check in at 21.
Gallagher already covered this in an awesome post, but the GM's are talking about things like fighting.
Who here has money to burn?

Other things

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Video

Let's get some Dallas Stars hate going here. Jeff Finley never was much, but he got a lot of respect from me here. I hate Derian Hatcher.

That'll do it for the links. Come back for more posts and, of course, the GDT.

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On the Van Ryn comp

Looking up Colaiacovo’s stats, I did not realize he had 23 points in his 46 games with the Blues. Granted the tiny sample but that’d put him in the top 40 for D-men in points per game. I mean obviously that’s not world beating but that’s better than I thought.

I also made this mistake of running across Erik Johnson’s name from last year with his 29th ranked .48 points/game—-as a 19 year old rookie uggggh fuck golf carts.

Not afraid to nitpick

by joker24 on Mar 10, 2009 8:51 AM CDT reply actions

Nice article on Tom Calhoun.
Loved the video. Hatcher was a cheap shot artist who used his size to pick on little guys.
Ready for tonight. Let’s hope they show up for all 3 periods.

by luvhockey on Mar 10, 2009 9:40 AM CDT reply actions

GO BLUES!

Still rooting for you guys to make the playoffs. And altho the Sharks have been in a little slump, I’m sure they’ll (we’ll) pull thru for you tonight. GO SHARKS!!!!

Ever get the feeling we are on a collision course with reality?

by ang6666 on Mar 10, 2009 12:58 PM CDT reply actions

I just read...

That Blake & Nabokov will both be out for the Blues/Sharks game on Thursday night. They’ve also lost 4 of their last 5, which doesn’t help us in the standings.

Win tonight Sharks, but then get really tired and play badly on Thursday!!! ;>P

Yeah, there were horses, and a man on fire, and I killed a guy with a trident.

by HuntsvilleBlues on Mar 10, 2009 1:40 PM CDT reply actions

Uh hello!! not going to happen. The Sharks let the Blues win last time, but they won’t make that mistake again. As much as I would like to see the Blues make the playoffs, not at the expense of seeing the Sharks lose a game. Love you guys, but!!!!! my love has limits. :)

Ever get the feeling we are on a collision course with reality?

by ang6666 on Mar 10, 2009 1:47 PM CDT up reply actions

Well, with Mr. Boucher in net...

Your guys had better be diving in front of those center ice shots, if ya know what I mean. =)

Good luck, and hopefully you take out a few Wild players on your way over to the Lou.

Yeah, there were horses, and a man on fire, and I killed a guy with a trident.

by HuntsvilleBlues on Mar 10, 2009 1:55 PM CDT up reply actions

gotta admit, that would be histerical to see a d-man sliding in front of the goalie on every line change dump in.

by Dooks on Mar 10, 2009 2:38 PM CDT up reply actions

Jeff Finley never was much, but he got a lot of respect from me here.

I don’t get the Jeff Finley snubbing around this site. I always thought he was a rather solid #3 defenseman for the Blues

by Dooks on Mar 10, 2009 2:42 PM CDT reply actions

that was kinda my point.

he wasn’t much. he was solid. he never put up any kind of stats. to me, he wasn’t bad, but he wasn’t good. he was a cog in the machine. i never really had any opinion on him, except for in this case.

however, i dont think he was a No. 3 d-man. He was more like a 5-6, but that’s just my opinion. he was a hell of a lot better than christian laflamme who is also in that clip.

by averagejoe on Mar 10, 2009 3:46 PM CDT up reply actions

I once referred to him in an article when paired with Pronger as

the equivalent of putting a monkey with paper plates taped to his feet out there. No matter how bad he was, Pronger would make him look good.

Now that is, of course, being mean in an attempt to be funny, but really he was more of a 5/6 or even 7th defenseman. He played in the three spot by default because No. 44 could make him better than he was. Just a solid, safe belueliner. Matt Walker before we had Matt Walker.

SWYD

by gallagher on Mar 10, 2009 4:28 PM CDT up reply actions