Tuesday links: Home again, home again edition

by averagejoe on Jan 12, 2010 5:00 AM CST

The Blues are back home tonight. Are the home woes gone?

Blues news

At 7 p.m. tonight at the Scottrade Center in St. Louis, the Blues will welcome the Blue Jackets to town. For the love of God, I hope this team wins at home. [CBS Sports]
T.J. Oshie hopes to break out under new head coach Davis Payne. [St. Louis Post-Dispatch]
Prior to Oshie de-teething Keith Tkachuk, Walt had never lost any teeth in the NHL. [St. Louis Post-Dispatch]

Hockey news

Every game last night was decided by one goal. Technically. The Calgary/Colorado game was a shootout. [Yahoo! Sports]
Tuesday's schedule. [Yahoo! Sports]
While you were sleeping, Alex Burrows of the Canucks went off on referee Stephane Auger. Burrows claims Auger was out to get him, and the facts kinda back up Burrows. You have my word, that this will be a huge hockey story. [The Province]
The Kurtenblog Twitter went off on Auger. Good times. [@KurtenBlog]
I was going to link to this because of the blurbs about teams dealing with too many goaltedners, and then I read how Scott Burnside claims Curtis Joseph is a good player, but not a Hall-of-Famer. You sir, are greatly mistaken. As someone who watched CuJo carry the Blues in the playoffs (and the Oilers), the man who is fourth all-time in wins in, without a doubt, in. [ESPN]
The Islanders are better this year. It's amazing what a No. 1 pick that can score goals (and other pieces added to the puzzle) can do for a franchise. [Lighthouse Hockey]
The Maple Leafs penalty killing is historically bad. [Behind the Net]
As the Kovalchuk turns. Ilya, shit or get off the pot. I'm not a Thrashers fan, but I'm tired of hearing about this. [Bird Watchers Anonymous]
Since I feel like ranting today (damn you Burnside), how in the fuck can 29-year-old Mike Danton be allowed to play college hockey? Dude was a pro ... shouldn't his amateur status be gone? I'm all for letting him into the school to get an education and if someone wants him to play hockey, that's fine but he shouldn't do both. He's more than a decade older than his peers. [TSN]
Ed Jovanovski, better known around these parts as the man Matt Walker bloodied, has been suspended two games. [ESPN]
Taylor Hall is better than Tyler Seguin — for now. [TSN]
Theo Fleury, still trying to figure out how to use the internet, apologized for ripping the Flames on his blog. [TSN]

Other news

Sometimes the crazy fan makes sense. [Cracked]
The Simpsons predicts the future. [Best Week Ever]
From Classic 17, a wife transcribes her husbands sleep talk. I have a friend who talks in his sleep. We once had a conversation and I had no idea he was sleeping until he asked, "Is that a Game Boy?" [Sleep Talkin' Man]

Videos

First up, BleedBlue09 wants to relive a time when the Blues actually won at home.

Second video, this is just bananas. A well-done mash from way out of left field. Barney Fife approves. (Side note: I may be the only person under 25 that has seen every episode of The Andy Griffith Show — black and white episodes only.)

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Burrows and the Ref

Hopefully that referee gets fired. That is some bull. I hate non-objective calls, like so called equalizer penalties. Seems like this sort of stuff is becoming more rampant this year. Watch Bettman fine or suspend Burrows though for making comments.

by NaJaKwa on Jan 12, 2010 9:35 AM CST reply actions

Burrows is an infectious vagina.

Alexander Burrows – excuse me, Alexandre, sorry for the misspelling, please don’t run to the media! – is the embodiment of everything that’s wrong in hockey.

This episode started in December, when Burrows embellished a hit and faked an injury. Auger called him out on it last night; and instead of taking his lumps like a man, Burrows hitched up his skirts and ran crying to the media. So now we have a situation where a hockey player not only admits to manipulating the officials, but he’s now whining that he’s a victim of an official manipulating him back.

Don’t get me wrong, there are two guilty parties here. If Auger had it in for Burrows, that’s incredibly unprofessional. But if Burrows had an actual Y chromosome in his body, he wouldn’t have been diving and embellishing injuries in the first place.

by BleedBlue42 on Jan 12, 2010 3:20 PM CST up reply actions

I think you meant to say

if he had 2 X chromosomes he wouldn’t dive and embellish.

If you look at sports as a whole it is males that tend to do this more than women.
Soccer would be the most obvious difference. But also hockey, basketball and probably others.

Hockey players wear numbers because you can't always identify the body with dental records.

It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all. Laura Ingalls Wilder

by luvhockey on Jan 12, 2010 4:40 PM CST up reply actions

I can attest to that

"I wanna be an achiever like Bad Horse.... I meant Ghandi" ~ Dr. Horrible

by Carnie on Jan 12, 2010 4:57 PM CST up reply actions

That mashup . . . you gotta be kidding, right?

That’s fucking hilarious!

"Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday." -- Don Marquis
The Blue Note Zone - BY Blues fans, FOR Blues fans!

by Donut King on Jan 12, 2010 10:35 AM CST reply actions

That is Epic

'I would not be bothered if we lost every game as long as we won the league.'
MARK VIDUKA

by Jstats on Jan 12, 2010 2:06 PM CST up reply actions

Gearing up for tonights game

I’ll miss the first hour or so which really pisses me off.

It will be interesting to hear what happens in the Burrows/Auger story. The NHL refs office is notorious for letting NOTHING out about anything that goes on with refs. Will they be forced to ‘open their books’. Somehow I don’t see that happening.

Why the hell didn’t we make this list? Someone needs to check into this bullshit.

“It’s amazing what a No. 1 pick that can score goals (and other pieces added to the puzzle) can do for a franchise.”
Do I detect a bit of a dig here?

Hold down the fort tonight. So mad at myself that I didn’t check the Blues schedule before making an appt for my son. STUPID STUPID STUPID

Hockey players wear numbers because you can't always identify the body with dental records.

It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all. Laura Ingalls Wilder

by luvhockey on Jan 12, 2010 12:04 PM CST reply actions

Quote of the day from the Burrows article:

Burrows fingered referee Stephane Auger and said he approached him before the game.

by Busch Ice on Jan 12, 2010 12:58 PM CST reply actions

"It’s amazing what a No. 1 pick that can score goals (and other pieces added to the puzzle) can do for a franchise."
Do I detect a bit of a dig here?

Eh … kinda. My main point was that by kidding a player like Tavers and getting better goaltending and better player from other youngsters, it makes sense that the Isles would be better this year. They HAD to get better.

But, yeah, I am tired of watching the Blues not score goals. It’s amazing how we have no one on the team, or even in the system, who you can call a goal scorer. Boyes is too streaky, but he might be the closest.

by averagejoe on Jan 12, 2010 4:11 PM CST up reply actions

ej

by any objective stat. isn’t having a great year this season. his defensive and two way stats and corsi ratings and gfoi vs gaoi and penalties for/against etc etc are just bad. again, i see potential there, but it isnt the everynight " help the team win today" stuff that massive prospect forwards generally will have already brought to the table.

we will have to see if payne can find a way to unleash ej on the o while bringing up his defensive and 2-way play.

again d men develope slower so the saying goes, so here is the extra rub, if the blues get players for 3 years before making them millionaires, isn’t that another reason to pick “faster” developing forwards? ej is literally going to be a top paid d-man on our team (i suspect) and has done literally nothing to earn that spot. he will have had (probably) two 30 point years under his belt. whihc is good, not 4 million dollars a year good though.

i hope they can get him a 2 per, but since they are talking with him already (and not perron) i suspect the blues feel he is the contract they need to make the room for…

A strong anvil fears no hammer

by Childhood Trauma on Jan 13, 2010 3:03 PM CST up reply actions

2 things

1. i’m 26 and have also probably seen every andy griffith show episode, and probably all of the color ones two, its like crack to my wife. it doesn’t matter if she saw the episode a day ago she will still sit through it and watch it again, untill i get the remote. and i enjoyed the hell out of that.

2. The espn guy is on crack. If cujo isn’t a hof who is? roy and broduer? i think, wait no there our lesser goalies in the hall now. I remember watching cujo as a blue and still being pissed as hell when they let him go. to this day they haven’t gotten anyone that is any better than him

"Chuck Norris CAN divide by zero"

by elirock83 on Jan 12, 2010 2:41 PM CST reply actions