Wednesday links: David Backes is rooming with Kane edition

by averagejoe on Aug 19, 2009 6:00 AM CDT

I'm feeling a bit under the weather so if the links suck, blame my immune system.

Blues news

Young Erik Johnson has a lot to prove at Team USA camp. [ESPN]
Keith Tkachuk gets praise for being old. [NHL.com]
Wrassilin fans at Scottrade chanted "Let's Go Blues!" Monday night. [Wrestling] (Thanks Hildymac)

Hockey news

"Local" product Paul Stastny is one of many to play for the country he wasn't born in. [SI]
Patrick Kane is trying to get back to normal. He's also rooming with David Backes. Now is your chance to be a legend, Dave. [NHL.com]
Speaking of Kane, 20 Cent is working on a plea deal. Probably a fine, some community service and that'll be it. [TSN]
A match made in Heaven: Todd Bertuzzi and the Detroit Red Wings. [TSN]
Had this discussion with NatetheGreat. earlier this week, where are the American goalies? Tim Thomas, Ryan Miller and Jon Quick? Really? [ESPN]
Team USA gets some spiffy new duds. [Puck Daddy]
I agree that D3 is the best of the Mighty Ducks movies when it comes to hockey. [Melt Your Face Off]

Other links

Football in the Groin — oh yeah. [Football In The Groin]
Cat in Georgia gets a GED making her the fifth most successful person in the state. [10connects.com]
Gangsta babies — I still loathe them. [ManoFest]
How to REALLY disappear. Surprisingly, dying isn't the answer. [Wired.com]

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Here is a YouTube clip of the LETS GO BLUES! chant from the WWE thingy...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0h3_-Iif3w

Fuckin awesome (btw, wrastling sucks)

"Brad Winchester playing on a line with Perron and Berglund is like the fat kid who you invite to play one day because you didn't have enough skaters, yet you don't have the heart to tell them to leave the next few times you play. Damn you Andy Murray." -Author Unknown

by -DJ- on Aug 19, 2009 7:29 AM CDT reply actions

btw, wrastling sucks

Sir, you could not be more profoundly incorrect…

“Wrastlin,” as you so colloquially put it, is truly The Sport of Kings.

"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 Aug 19, 2009 9:42 AM CDT up reply actions

its also the sport of getting drunk with your room mate on monday nights instead of finishing your lab report

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

by RFJCC on Aug 19, 2009 10:19 AM CDT up reply actions

If you think David Backes is gonna crack some skulls this year, gimme a hell yeah!

by Poor College Student on Aug 19, 2009 11:02 AM CDT up reply actions

The Sport of Kings?

Horse racing used to be “the sport of kings”. Then it died.

I guess the kings jumped into rasslin’ at that time; they’re pretty well down the path to killing it too.

by BleedBlue42 on Aug 19, 2009 3:10 PM CDT up reply actions

D3

is also the overall worst of all the Ducks movies.

by Busch Ice on Aug 19, 2009 10:20 AM CDT reply actions

true

but, the at least the hockey is real.

by averagejoe on Aug 19, 2009 10:34 AM CDT up reply actions

Hmm... if that cat can get a GED...

… then I bet I can get my cat a masters’ degree. You know, since teachers here in GA were getting fake ones too.

http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/top-news/index.cfm?i=35660&CFID=20582149&CFTOKEN=71698262

And, BTW, I am really irritated that cat knocked me down to #5. Someday, though, I hope to unseat Travis Tritt for the title of most successful person in Georgia. Or at the very least just get out of this state. Six of one, half a dozen of another.

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 Aug 19, 2009 10:33 AM CDT reply actions

So if Backes is rooming with Kane . . .

why haven’t we seen an obituary for Kane yet? C’mon David, you’re doing it wrong!

“The Death Star in Star Wars is actually just a close up of David Backes’s left testicle. The right one was used as a stunt double.”

One day, David Backes and Albert Pujols will combine forces to become the most awesome piece of violent force known to man.

by Donut King on Aug 19, 2009 12:28 PM CDT reply actions

The man himself

David Backes does not hunt because the word hunting implies the possibility of failure. David Backes goes killing

His tears also cure cancer, too bad he has never cried

"I quit because I didn't feel like the Detroit Lions had a chance to win. It just killed my enjoyment of the game."
-Barry Sanders
(Soon to be the Detroit RedWings - Henrik Zetterberg '11)

by DasBlues74 on Aug 19, 2009 8:08 PM CDT reply actions