Wednesday links: So wait, the Blues can win at home? That's allowed? Awesome. Edition
by averagejoe on Jan 13, 2010 5:00 AM CST
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Sounds like I missed a heckuva game last night. Goals, fights, ejections and, most importantly a win by the Blues at home. Sweet.
Blues news
- Blues win at home thanks to a fast start. Also, the pic on this article is pretty sweet with all the guys brawling. One day Perron is going to get a fighting major and it will be awesome. [St. Louis Post-Dispatch]
- B.J. Crombeen shortened the shaft of his stick and has been scoring goals. Yep, I just used B.J. and shaft in a sentence and it was completely appropriate. [St. Louis Post-Dispatch]
- Keith Tkachuk couldn't eat solid food while being out with a busted mouth. [Belleville News-Democrat]
- Yan Stastny is back in Peoria. [Peoria Journal Star]
Hockey news
- Tuesday's results. [Yahoo! Sports]
- Four games on the slate for tonight. [Yahoo! Sports]
- Martin Brodeur just refuses to age and get crappy. Dude made 51 saves in an "epic" goalie dual. [In Lou We Trust]
- Curtis Joseph officially retired from the NHL on Tuesday. It's always an odd moment in your life when your childhood idol hang 'em up. [Pension Plan Puppets]
- Islanders 6, Red Wings 0. HA HA HA HA HA HA HA (pause for breath) HA HA HA HA. Awesome. [Lighthouse Hockey]
- Alex Burrows has been fined and the matter is closed. Move along. Nothing to see here. [Puck Daddy]
Other links
- Hungry? Like competition? Here are 40 (40!) eating contests you can enter. [Coupon Sherpa]
- As technology advances, computer printers don't. [The Oatmeal]
- Eggs with faces shouldn't be funny, but it is. [Holy Taco]
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Regular contributor Cross Check Raise is pretty excited for the "A Team" movie. He passed along the trailer, and I'll share it.
Don't know about you, but I'm fried up. Hit me (and PCS) up at gametimelinks(at)gmail.com if you have some good stuff.
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Pulled this off a comment on Puck Daddy
He’s got a point.
“In Dreger’s post on TSN.ca, he says that the "NHL has great respect for its on-ice officials and considers Auger one of its best". Fine. But on the NHL Official’s site, on Auger’s own bio page, it says he’s been an official since 1994 and has worked a total of 10 playoff games. Ten playoff games in 15 years.
Picking other officials, Mike Leggo — official since 1996, 33 playoff games.
Kevin Pollack — official since 1997, 93 playoff games
Brad Watson — official since 1993, 103 playoff games
Don VanMassenhoven — official since 1992, 101 playoff games
For such a respected official, they sure don’t put Auger to work when it counts. "
I couldn’t find on the NHL Officials site the schedule for refs. Was Auger supposed to work a game last night?
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
the nhl has
13 officials going to the olympics, auger ain’t one.
they got tape on a conversation HAPPENING. they do’t, as far as i know, have tape of what was said. if auger gets busted for personally throwing a game, it will ruin the hockey betting industry! ruin it!
10’s of people thrown out of work….
A strong anvil fears no hammer
by Childhood Trauma on Jan 13, 2010 4:11 PM CST up reply actions
Love Detroit's ass kicking.
God, last night was the first really good night for hockey in a LONG time. Listened to the Blues game on the way home from the Thrashers – I was really shocked to hear Walt out there. Tough buzzard… I’m glad that we got the slump busted with the BJs – they seem to be an easy target for us.
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.
A tap on the goalie pads for Cujo...
…although my boyhood idol retired a l-o-n-g time ago..
As far as I’m concerned, “Mr. Goalie” still hung the Moon!
"In this game, don't nobody know nuthin' about nuthin'." -- attributed to Lawrence Peter "Yogi" Berra
He was the man
His stacked pads saves on break aways were something to behold.
That must have been later in his Blues career, I’m used to seeing him without the mask.
Just a chew toy for the hockey gods
All those food challenges are fine and dandy . . .
but the folks at Schiappa’s in O’Fallon, IL think they’re for people with sand in their vagina.
"Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday." -- Don Marquis
The Blue Note Zone - BY Blues fans, FOR Blues fans!
I"m in
I think I may be able to choke down about 5 pounds of pizza, anyone want to team up with me?
by Bleedbluecp2 on Jan 13, 2010 4:36 PM CST up reply actions
i hardly think thats
enough laughly at detroit… HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
thats a little better lol
If you have a donkey and i have a chicken and youre donkey ate my chickens feet what would you have.... 2 feet of my cock in youre ass!! haha
and i fuck up at spelling lol
enough laughing*
If you have a donkey and i have a chicken and youre donkey ate my chickens feet what would you have.... 2 feet of my cock in youre ass!! haha
by bleedblue2009 on Jan 13, 2010 11:32 AM CST up reply actions
last nights game + all inclusive tix =
best hangover ever.
by ilikeboyes on Jan 13, 2010 11:39 AM CST via mobile reply actions
The ovation for CuJo when they put the message about him retiring on the video screen
Was pretty fantastic.
Chicagoan in the Lou.
From the Lighthouse Hockey comments
Carlo Colaiacovo is UFA next year. St Louis is not done but Isles should talk to the Blues on his availability. Blues have tons of d prospects and I’m sure they want one ot two them to get playing time in March if they fall out of it. Offer a 3rd round pick.
As if. This belongs on Puck Daddy’s “perfect hfboards trade of the week” list
The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong. But that's the way to bet. - Damon Runyon
Oh, lord, just a 3rd round pick?
Um… no.
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.
hes at least a 2nd
or a 3rd with cash considerations lol baseball talk..
Pujols takes out "I" in BIG and "A" in MAC, previously considered to be an unyielding, consonant threat
I've actually thought about doing a detailed writeup of our Defensemen position going into this off-season
With “Will we re-sign Colaicovo” as a big discussion point. Trading him away (esspecially in a lopsided deal like that one) sure doesn’t make any sense.
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Every once in a while someone in the East brings up the Blues’ depth on defense … and then issues a low-ball offer. People seem to know there’s enough there to covet, but don’t have any sense of what it’s worth. (Actually, I guess that’s the source of all fake trade proposals: “I want what you have but don’t want to pay for it with what you want.”) Someone was coveting Petro earlier (since he “hasn’t made the team yet”), and I had to explain that, even if you offered the world, Petro only leaves over JD’s dead body.
For this Cola one, you’d have to throw in “plus DiPietro for Polak and a 3rd” to make it hfboards-of-the-week-worthy though. Picks for UFA rental proposals are like baseball card commons.
Lighthouse Hockey: Under contract through 2021, knees and hips be damned.
haha, see, just mentioning including Polak and a 3rd made me lul very very hard
But I’m the worlds biggest Polak fan, so…
The Blues are in a difficult position defense wise, because there is so much depth there. This off-season, Colaicovo and Weaver, both of which have been very solid to good this season, are UFA’s, EJ is a RFA (but trust me, he’s not going anywhere), and Pietrangelo, Junland and Stratchan are waiting in the wings, along with guys like Warsofsky, Cole, Rundblad, and whoever else will eventually be in position to make a claim for PT. And while Weaver is expendable I guess (Though I really like little Mike), Cola has played too well to just figure in as a “let him go” type of guy, but might be too expensive to re-sign, but we won’t know till the off-season which would be too late to trade him.
Wow, that long winded. Case in point, the Blues depth at defense is almost becoming a problem because we don’t know what to do with everyone.
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But I’m the worlds biggest Polak fan, so…
I hereby challenge you to a duel, sir. Winner gets to carry Polak’s water bottle and cook him svíčková once a week.
The Blues’ blueline crunch really is amazing. Selfishly, I’d say they should re-sign Cola and then deal from strength. But that’s assuming he is still happy and doesn’t totally want to break the bank; a big UFA payday and another injury could quickly turn him into a bad contract.
Lighthouse Hockey: Under contract through 2021, knees and hips be damned.
I hereby accept your duel. Though doing so over the internet is somewhat difficult.
I would think Cola is happy with the Blues. After the hell that was his career in Toronto, he got a fresh start here without the boatloads of pressure, and it seems to have done him wonders. I’ve kinda been of the mindset that Cola worked too hard up north, in a sense that he never gave his body a chance to take a break because he was always pushing himself due to being a first round pick in the biggest pressure cooker the NHL has, which was probably only made worse by the fact that he was from Toronto himself, and that led to injuries. Lets just hope my thought process proves true, but even if he leaves, I’d cheer for him.
I guess having an insane influx of young talented defensemen isn’t really a problem, but sooner or later guys like Junland and Stratchan are gonna get pissed. Still, when you have defensemen like EJ, Cola, Polak, Pietrangelo, Stratchan, Junland, Cole, Warsofsky, etc., all of which are very young, and show a lot of potential, it’s hard to complain that much. Just gotta hope you keep the right guys.
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You dont know
Which of those kids will pan out though. We might have 2 or 3 busts and some of them might just be average. Id like to see us cycle up 2 rookies or so a year until we find one that works or we think will benefit from staying up here working 10 minutes a night. Some of them might get anxious to make the NHL but if we really have to we can trade them for their whatever position we need equivalent from another team.
which is the problem with re-signing guys like Cola
The only way you know if these players will live up is if you give them time in the NHL. But, right now, the only ones we know for a fact out of our young core are NHL ready are Polak and EJ (and, honestly, I’m a lot more cautious of EJ then most are around here. Boat loads of potential, but no results yet, though I imagine he will figure it out)
You won’t be able to tell what you have in guys like Petro, Stratchan, Junland, Cole, etc. etc. until you see them get minutes in the NHL. And even then, it usually takes a defensemen a year or two to develop to a standard of what he could be capable of. Which is why keeping guys like Cola is a risk, because you be stunting the growth of a defensemen who could end up being better then he is.
Personally, I think our best option is to re-sign Cola (after negotiating new deals for Eej, DP, and Steen), and attempt to buy out Brew’s contracts if possible to open up a spot. And I like Brewer more then most, so that’s kinda awkward for me to say
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I think you have to open up two spots next year.
The logjam isn’t going to break itself up; at some point, management has to commit to playing the kids and letting them sink or swim in the NHL. The Blues are looking at three or more prospects who could be capable of making the leap next season, and potentially a couple more the year after that; opening up just one slot doesn’t create enough room to evaluate everyone before contracts start expiring.
I think we’ll probably see Brewer bought out, and wave goodbye to one of Colaiacovo or Weaver.
Can't believe none of ya'll caught this...
Don’t know about you, but I’m fried up. Hit me (and PCS) up at gametimelinks(at)gmail.com if you have some good stuff.
Fried? Been spendin’ too much time in the sun averagejoe? Or are you filled up with some tasty concoction like fried chicken or fried ice cream!!!??
Normally I let typos go…it happens…but that one made me laugh…which was pretty hard to do today.
Lets Go Blues
Put your big girl panties on and deal with it!
Mmm... fried ice cream...
Can’t find it anywhere down here that’s decent, though the sushi place by me has a tempura fried ice cream that is just unreal.
Man, and now I want sushi. Look at what you did!
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.
alex burrows....cocksucker?
or extremely talented at cocksucking? stay tuned……
Seriously, anyone who has ever played hockey at any competitive level knows that certain refs make certain calls and have guys they just don’t like.
Here’s a simple solution, don’t be a dickhead on the ice, don’t dive, don’t pull another person’s hair in a fight (a burrows specific complaint), don’t take penalties behind the play to make the ref look bad, don’t bitch about every call and call him a fuckstick, and guess what, they won’t be looking to give you a 2 and 10 everytime you touch the ice.
Every professional sport is the same way, and the fact that Burrows decided to bitch about something that every other player in the NHL deals with every game, makes him look like even more of a whiny asshole, which I didn’t think was possible. Shame on me I guess, I underestimated him.
eh my solution makes it fun
at least for me everytime the ref was with in a good distance i put the puck into his mid section. or ran over him while trying to fight for position…yes adult league refs hold bias’ too
Pujols takes out "I" in BIG and "A" in MAC, previously considered to be an unyielding, consonant threat
Personally, I completely disagree
I’m far from a Burrows or Vancouver fan, but, personally, if what he said is true, and I do believe him because you would have to be mighty stupid to say what he did if it wasn’t true, he should have spoken out about it, and more should have been a big deal in the league. Officials that affect the outcome of games by themselves should be fired.
Honestly, the very idea that this happens in every league is a problem with said leagues, not a problem with a player speaking out against it. By that standard, we should be pointing out Jose Canseco for calling out steroid users instead of the actual steroid users, or the people who exposed the ref in the NBA who fixed games instead of the ref himself.
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It's not a problem with said leagues
it’s a problem with human beings. I defy you to pick out refs for any type of sport that aren’t going to be biased at some point or another.
At least how it is now, you show some respect for the game, for the opposing team, and for the officials, and you won’t be the one getting fucked over.
I just realized...
my suggestion for ‘Mr. T’s Be Somebody or Be Somebody’s Fool’ link week wasn’t used. Boo.
I once shot a man just to see him die...then I got distracted and missed it.
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