Friday Links

by averagejoe on Jun 12, 2009 2:00 AM CDT Comment 16 comments

It's Friday. Awesome. Game 7? Even better.

Blues news

Remember those fan award? Here are the results. [Blues]
Are the Blues really the ~~second~~ (its hard to read at 1 a.m.) least viable team in the NHL? I find this hard to believe. [Canadian Press]

Hockey links

This is is. Last game of the season. The big one. For all the marbles. [Preview]
A look at the players involved in Game 7s before. [PensBurgh]
Cue up some Queen and David Bowie ... under pressure. [Puck Daddy]
Bill Guerin is awesome. [Puck Daddy]
It's tough for Marian Hossa, and not just because he has a girls name. [TSN]
Marc Crawford is the new man in Dallas. That didn't take long. [TSN]
The Phoenix Coyotes news of the day. [TSN]
Second City talks about Matt Walker. [Second City Hockey]

Other links

Family Guy fans will appreciate this. Really, fans of comedy will. [BlaccuWeather]
Wow. Wow. I think even a gay guy would call these too much. [MANties]
Prison has to be the worst place to have a 55-hour erection. [Asylum]
Once again, my inability to grow a beard is keeping me for getting with the ladies. [Batteries Feel Included]
This is fucking stupid. [Princess Unicorn]
This is for the stalkers out the there. You know who you are. (NatetheGreat. is one of them) [Virtual Globetrotting]
To quote the great Bart Simpson: "I was myself with a rag on a stick." Thanks NatetheGreat. [Consumerist]

Video

Hildymac brings us a timely video. Seriously, fuck Detorit. Alternate version here.

That will do it for me. Come back this weekend. No. 51 in your program, No. 1 in your hearts, PCS will be helming the ship. Send him some stuff to gametimelinks (at) gmail.com. Adios.

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I'm inclined to think

That the numbers Ted Von Richtofen was looking at must have been from the 05-06 through 06-07 seasons. The 07-08 season showed a marked improvement in ticket sales, and the 08-09 season had solid turnouts for most every game including 29 sellouts.

If not…then I’m inclined to think that he’s just a raging idiot.

by SouthernBlue on Jun 12, 2009 7:48 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

I’m inclined to think that he’s just a raging idiot.

Bing-fucking-O.

I wouldn’t wipe my ass with this ridiculous article.

"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 Jun 12, 2009 11:32 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Joe, I think you may have misread that article. It says the Blues are the least financially viable market in the NHL. While I too find that hard to believe, it is a bit troubling. But really, less financially viable than Phoenix, Tampa Bay, and Columbus? Really?

by hullnoates on Jun 12, 2009 8:31 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Yo

thanks for the correction sir. It’s hard to read at 1 a.m. Plus, I’m not good with numbers. I did fail stats twice in college.

by averagejoe on Jun 12, 2009 3:23 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

it's so cooooooold in the D

how da fuck do we ’poseda win this game?

2009 offseason reading: "Nate the Great and the missing powerplay."

by NateTheGreat. on Jun 12, 2009 9:25 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Oh, and congrats to Dallas for putting "Squeaky" behind an NHL bench again...

Not.

"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 Jun 12, 2009 11:34 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Glad to see you noticed my Facebook picture, Joe.

by Poor College Student on Jun 12, 2009 12:01 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

The 'batteries feel included' link

got me with the phrase:
“This whole situation will be backed up by the Terminator franchise”

SWYD

by gallagher on Jun 12, 2009 12:10 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Also, I've been in one of the houses on the stalker site...

and no, it wasn’t Christian Backman’s.

SWYD

by gallagher on Jun 12, 2009 12:19 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Dude is on drugs. There is no WAY that St. Louis is the second least financially viable team out there. What about Nashville, Columbus, Tampa Bay… I could go on.

Barret Jackman is my hero.

Good, bad, I'm the guy with the gun.

by BluesTiger on Jun 12, 2009 12:53 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

I’d love to see what sort of basis this “financial viability” article used to arrive at these conclusions. Is there a formula? Was he just picking a team with a random dart throw? Inquiring minds want to know!

by Poor College Student on Jun 12, 2009 12:57 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Perhaps actual market size...

… vs. money made in that market? Who knows… the fact that the Blues are broadcast on KMOX, though, makes our market size about 2/3rds of the country. Eat that, Toronto.

Seriously, i bet that’s part of the qualifications. Teams like Tampa, Atlanta, Columbus (barely) have larger overall metro populations. Of course, the fact that 99% of Tampa’s population has no clue what’s going on despite the fact that their team won the Cup 5 years ago says a lot regarding the viability of their market.

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.

by hildymac on Jun 12, 2009 2:20 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

i think its probably cherry picking

i gotta believe that the research was probably forced into proving the Coyotes suck. We just got drug along for the ride. It’s probably something like income, which would be high in say Tampa … but they arent fucking hockey fans in Tampa.

by averagejoe on Jun 12, 2009 3:23 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

That could be it as well...

There are officially 10 fans in Tampon Bay. They “road trip” to Atlanta about once or twice a year, get drunk, be assholes, and start the occasional fight with an 8 year old kid. They can make the Sabres fans look cool.

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.

by hildymac on Jun 12, 2009 4:04 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I can say this because I'ma college professor....

…but if this Rechtschaffen got any business degree in a North American university then he is a dim wit.

If he got an MBA he’s a retard.

After all, look what MBA’s have given us: An airline industry that now offers less service for more money and then wonders why no one wants to fly; a lending industry that decided lending jumbo mortgages to people who obviously couldnt afford them was a great ‘business model’; and they have this wonderful scheme for something called “Ballpark Village.”

Moron.

by Rich of GASL on Jun 12, 2009 3:26 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs