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Happy 4th of July!
I just got back from a week of too much booze, boating, swimming, and the like down at the Ozarks. Damn them's some good times.
Blues News:
- This is the closest I could come to "St. Louis Blues" coverage that hasn't been linked to in the previous days: The W.C. Handy song.
NHL News:
- Canucks sign Mikael Samuelsson and kindly ask him to exchange the Flying Tire for a Whale.
- Columbus, OH finally exhales and then goes back to worrying about college tackle football. Rick Nash gets a bunch of money.
- Wysh gives us a B- on his Free Agency Report Card. I hear Gallagher will do anything for that "A"...
- Mirtle discusses the $406 million in contracts given out on July 1. And thanks for the birthday wishes, folks. I got drunk and went tubing and smashed my face into some water. It was awesome.
- Give James Mirtle Marc Savard or give him death!
Other Stuff:
- That's a new kind of hurt.
- Blow shit up without leaving your computer!
- I did not know such a job existed. I can only hope there's some kick-ass insurance plan.
- Even Michael Jackson's press coverage has it's own press coverage.
- And for the fourth, here's how America began. As told by an 8 year old.
Video:
I can imagine some of you might have seen a patriotic video coming. Here's the Hendrix rendition of the Star Spangled Banner from Woodstock
Happy 4th from SLGT! Now go blow some shit up.
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4th July to all you Americans.
Being British I would just like to add that you guys out in the colonies haven’t done half bad…lol….
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Glad you went with Jimi.
I was going to e-mail the suggestion, but have been way to busy at work to do so.
You made my day. Thanks.
Let's go Blues!!!
The Blues have signed Hannu Toivonen to a 1yr 2-way NHL deal. He played with the Blues in 2007-2008 before playing in Finland last season.
Lod
Good Move
People don’t seem to realize most goalies take a while to mature, take a look at pekka rinne, another Finnish goalie, for example, an all star caliber goalie who didn’t get the starting job till he was 25-26 and the guy is a stud.
Toivonen, 25(?), has more talent than any goalie we have in our system, the key is, does he have it between the ears. Was nobody listening when Jarmo said he would rather take a chance on potential than pick up average players off waivers? I would much rather take a chance on Toivo becoming our future #1 (say…5-10%), than filling our minors with average players who never will have a chance to do anything positive for our team.
I just hope he gets a legitimate shot to take the #1 job in peoria if he does well in training camp.
(I’m not advocating giving this guy the world just for showing up, but if he shows he can handle it and earns it through his on ice showing, then why not give him a chance over a less talented player?)
People don’t seem to realize most goalies take a while to mature
I realize this, but I also realize the guy could not bounce back from a single blowout loss.
the key is, does he have it between the ears.
From what I saw in 2007-08, NO! I certainly hope that he has gained some confidence in Finland, otherwise, he would be better suited staying home and playing with himself.
why not give him a chance over a less talented player?
If you are right, let him do some good work in Peoria, then use him as trade bait.
Let's go Blues!!!
Yes, because ahl goalies who string together a couple of good games sure are worth their weight in gold…
JD’s good, but he’s not that good
The point is, he is blues property and holds much less value to any other team than he does to us, and while you may argue that there is 0% chance that he ever becomes a good nhl goaltender, I’ll happily disagree with that and would say that the slim chance that he turns it around is well worth the risk.
Peoria ain’t competing for any Stanley Cups, so why not let them take a chance and see if he can provide some value to St. Louis. Ben Bishop and Chris Holt aren’t world-beaters, and neither is Toivonen at the moment, but the “what if” factor with Toivonen is well worth it to give him another crack at it.
Likewise.
I really, REALLY hope that he’s matured, because for a 1st round drafted goalie, he has been a massive disappointment. I’m guessing it’s him and Bishop in Peoria. I guess we didn’t give Holt a QO and he became a UFA?
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.
We did...
give Holt a Qualifying Offer. He’s arbitration eligible though.
BLUE SKIES - new St Louis Blues hockey blog.
"If you prick me, do I not...leak?"
"I could be chasing an untamed ornithoid without cause."
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by drfrankentweed on Jul 4, 2009 3:06 PM CDT up reply actions
LOL
No idea…maybe there’s a trade in the works.
BLUE SKIES - new St Louis Blues hockey blog.
"If you prick me, do I not...leak?"
"I could be chasing an untamed ornithoid without cause."
RIP Lt Commander Data
Only the likes of Jimi Hendrix . . .
could deliver something so awesome on what was essentially a glorified, impromptu last-minute stage sound check.
Seriously, he’s fucking with the strings half the time he’s playing the Star-Spangled Banner there.
Another reason why he’s one of the greatest.
Hope everyone had a happy 4th!
"The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive." -- W.C. Fields

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