Wednesday links: Celebrating Matt D'Agostini edition

by averagejoe on Oct 13, 2010 5:01 AM CDT

It's nice when the off-day features write themselves.

Blues news

From my source at FSN The Blues are being dicked around by FSN to show more meaningless college football. If you care about Kansas/Kansas State I don't want to know you. [Fox Sports]
David Backes and I both love dogs. We could totally be best friends. [KTVI]
The Blues are bonding by throwing punches. [St. Louis Post-Dispatch]
Matt D'Agostini is trying to make a name for himself and not just be the due the Blues got in that minor deal. [St. Louis Post-Dispatch]
A cool video preview for the Blues. It's nice to hear T.J. Oshie say he's maturing off the ice. [Morning Skate]

Hockey news

Niklas Hjalmarsson is getting a two-game vacation for his hit on Jason Pominville. [TSN]
The NHLPA is looking at the Devils and their roster issues. [TSN]
From Healthy Scratch: The Devils are the way they are because they trusted Lou. [Yahoo! Sports]
It looks like, the Devils are going to be playing a few men down down for a while. [In Lou We Trust]
James Wisniewski is getting two games off for being funny. [TSN]
The Wings have lost an old, veteran defenseman. Not that one, the other one. [TSN]
Jeff Finger is on waivers. [TSN]
The DISH/FSN fiasco isn't just a local issue. [Five for Howling]
Scores.[Yahoo! Sports]
Schedule. [Yahoo! Sports]

Other links

Fortune cookies provide endless entertainment. My favorite? You look pretty.[Fortune Cookie Fail Blog]
From Ryan: Chad Ochocinco is not a smart man. [Miami News]
Did you know Michael J. Fox wasn't the original Marty McFly? It's true. [Film Drunk]
Some people really go above and beyond when carving pumpkins. I usually just got with the whole two triangle eyes and jacked up mouth look. [theCHIVE]

Video

Paperwork Ninja has some Jr. Blues fight videos to share.

And finally, the Blues 2010-11 intro video. I shouldn't have laughed as much as I did. Payne writing and looking to the camera, Halak as "Big Papa", the whole thing is intentional comedy.

And that'll do it for the links today. gametimelinks(at)gmail.com

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Tufte handled himself quite well in his scrape . . .

Blankenship? Not so much. Then again, in that fight he looked like he was a damn midget.

Honestly I didn’t know they allowed fighting in the NAHL anymore, what with them being kids and all.

St. Louis Game Time . . . I need another beer.
And I can also write things in 140 characters or fewer.

by Donut King on Oct 13, 2010 7:09 AM CDT reply actions

Blankenship got the worst of the second fight.

He doesn’t back down, though, and I was beginning to wonder if he wasn’t going to try throwing his opponent or somesuch. They don’t allow fighting, but it tends to happen quite a bit anyway. Tufte is a decent fighter, winning more than he loses.

Mind you, this was all within the first minute and a half of regulation play during the October 9th game. The Jr. Blues started the night with two fights and ended the night with a win against Janesville and taking two out of the three-game series. Whatever the coach told them to get them out of the funk that saw them lose six of their first ten games, it worked against Janesville. I’m really hoping to see them win against Traverse City, too. If they get over .500 in their winning percentage, I think they’re going to go back to the playoffs and have a decent chance of winning.

by Paperwork Ninja on Oct 13, 2010 8:03 AM CDT up reply actions

Devils

I didn’t see it coming but NJ limited to icing 15 players due to cap space is hilarious. I almost feel sorry for the 15 guys having to pull extra shifts but certainly not $Kovy$.

by Outrfaz on Oct 13, 2010 7:45 AM CDT reply actions

Nice to see they put some CAM SMASH in the Blues Intro video.

Let’s hope it’s not the only time we see footage of Cam on the ice this year.

by Paperwork Ninja on Oct 13, 2010 8:10 AM CDT reply actions

I love how

throw down the stick then gloves, then they carefully place their helmets on the ice.

2 days suspension for lewd action on the ice? They gonna start suspending for profane language?

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 Oct 13, 2010 8:53 AM CDT reply actions

Well, yeah, those helmets are pricy...

Either that or there’s some kind of new etiquette that says “Okay, refs, this is your last chance to break this up before the fight starts.”

by Paperwork Ninja on Oct 13, 2010 9:44 AM CDT up reply actions

OT

Fingers crossed they get all those Chilean miners out. Number 13 just came out.
A tribute to what the human can endure physically and mentally.
I can’t even begin to imagine being down there for over 2 months.

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 Oct 13, 2010 9:00 AM CDT reply actions

NHL "Wheel O' Justice"

Here’s what I can’t understand…

How is this fair?

Hjalmarsson = 2 games suspended for almost killing someone on the ice (the dude was taken off on a stretcher for crying out loud – I mean, did you SEE that hit? I did. OWCH)

Wisniewski = 2 games suspended for a gesture.

WTF is the logic behind this? What does it prove?

Put your big girl panties on and deal with it!

by BluesFanFromNE on Oct 13, 2010 9:10 AM CDT reply actions

if proves checks and hits may

break some bones but sexual actions invite lawyers to bumrush buttman.

I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth ... while there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

by Childhood Trauma on Oct 13, 2010 9:36 AM CDT up reply actions

Hjalmarsson had no intent to cripple the guy...

While it was clear that Wisniewski believe that Avery had intent to blow.

It’s all about interpretation these days and rules with unintentionally funny wording.

by Paperwork Ninja on Oct 13, 2010 9:52 AM CDT up reply actions 1 recs

This Thursday game on FSN's secondary channel...

I’ve got New Wave Communications down here in Randolph County. Channel 21 is AMC for me, so the game will air on AMC?

I really doubt that. Better bring my radio back home.

I once shot a man just to see him die...then I got distracted and missed it.

by TheDuke32 on Oct 13, 2010 9:14 AM CDT via mobile reply actions

The intro is (allegedly) to "fire up" the fans...

…I remember when all it took was Norm Kramer hitting the bass pedals to intro his version of the “St. Louis Blues” (song) as the team was about to hit the ice…

Singing fan since 1967!

"In this game, don't nobody know nuthin' about nuthin'." -- attributed to Lawrence Peter "Yogi" Berra

by The Ol Goaler on Oct 13, 2010 9:26 AM CDT reply actions

David Backes is holding a puppy

Your argument is invalid.

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

by Carnie on Oct 13, 2010 10:45 AM CDT reply actions

Rather eerie listening to ATL/LA last night...

Chris Mason took a one-goal lead into the third period… and six minutes later the Thrashers had a one-goal deficit.

by BleedBlue42 on Oct 13, 2010 10:49 AM CDT reply actions

I was watching the game knowing that....

the softie was coming.

Ooop, there it was.

Halak the goalie we have now very much.

Just a chew toy for the hockey gods

by spectr17 on Oct 13, 2010 11:13 AM CDT up reply actions

Sounded like the Thrashers took the ice for the third period...

… with the Andy Murray Memorial Third Period Don’t-Shoot-Just-Play-Defense mindset.

Halak our new goalie too; but coming out in the 3rd with an aggressive attitude is every bit as important to the success of the 10-11 Blues.

by BleedBlue42 on Oct 13, 2010 1:36 PM CDT up reply actions

Scripted fights where they lay their buckets down suck

I just can’t bare to watch that shit.

What have they done to my game?

Just a chew toy for the hockey gods

by spectr17 on Oct 13, 2010 11:15 AM CDT reply actions

I was also hoping for footage of the goal that took an excessively long time to set up.

But it was worth it. Beautiful shot that want from low left to upper right in front of the goalie. Still, though, the guys want to fight so they fight. There had been a lot of nastiness going on between the teams the first two nights.

by Paperwork Ninja on Oct 13, 2010 11:28 AM CDT up reply actions

DAN O'NEIL - I loathe you.

I was reading the D’Ags article and got hung up on the line, “The play was set up by a home-run pass from Blues defenseman Alex Pietrangelo, the kind of long-distance dial-up that makes Pietrangelo special.”

Home run pass?, Wait… who wrote this? *scrolls up * Fucking Dan O’Neil.

Ernie Hays for Mayor.

by FlickAuVin on Oct 13, 2010 11:22 AM CDT reply actions