Thursday links: Worst game ever? Worst game ever. edition

by averagejoe on Nov 11, 2010 5:00 AM CST

Pretty much sums things up, eh? (Photo by John Grieshop/Getty Images)

If you were to tell me at 6 p.m. on Wednesday that the Blues would give up eight goals to the Blues Jackets, lose by seven and lose T.J. Oshie to a broke ankle in the next three hours I wouldn't have believed you. That all just happened. Ugh.

Blues news

The winner of the Dan O'Neill unrelated lede goes to ... the United States Census. If you had that in your pool, please claim your prize at the front desk. [St. Louis Post-Dispatch]
T.J. Oshie broke his ankle and will need to go under the knife. Just the worst news really. [Morning Skate]
JR Live! at 1 p.m.[JR Live]
The Blues 7-defender lineup was working but I think that may change tonight. [St. Louis Post-Dispatch]
Eric Brewer bristles at being called old, but he's leading the young Blues' d-corps. [BND]
Davis Payne said the Blues are just not a hot goalie. Note: This was before the debacle in C-Bus. [BND]
John Davidson is going to be on the radio. [NHL]
Nick Drazenovic got the call before Wednesday's game. With Oshie sidelined, I think Draz might get to put on the uni. [PJ Star]
From the Rink got the "Look at the Blues!" article out just in time for the team to shit the bed. [From the Rink]
There was much rejoicing in the land of Columbus—and rightfully so. Also, I'm glad I'm not the only to notice the game got out of hand and the refs took too long to take control. [The Cannon]
The Blues and Blue Jackets had a pre-game fight ... over soccer. I'm going to guess the Blues lost that one, too. [Puck-Rakers Blog]
Davis Payne has been named to the ECHL All-Decade Team as the head coach. Not too bad. [Blues]

Hockey news

Marian Gaborik is back after missing 12 games with an injury. [ESPN New York]
Being an NHL defender at a young age is a tough job. Just ask the Blues. [TSN]
Hoo boy this is bad. Ilya Kovalchuk might have topped Dennis Wideman in the shootout fails book. Kovie will be in the KHL next year if this keeps up. [Puck Daddy]
The Puck Father breaks down the new All Star Game. [Puck Daddy]
The NHL, Twitter and what should be done. [Puck Daddy]

Other links

Patrons of a comic book store are surprisingly geeky. [Our Valued Customers]
Bored and need something to do? Let the internet be your guide. [What The Fuck Should I Do Today?]
Pictures from the first atomic bomb ... or game photos from last night in Columbus. You decide. [theBrigade]
Two hundred video game characters are recreated to look like Mega Man. Cool, if you're a nerd. [Joystiq]

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Get better T.J. Oshie. Fast.

Just remember the Blue Jackets' game was just one game. The Blues are back in action tonight. Be here. Or else.

Happy Veterans Day, everyone. Thank a Vet if you see one. I know we have a few around here—Gallagher, Tomorrows Blues, Spectr. Thanks.

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Lets bounce back tonight

Time to shake off last night as a horrid night and move on

Baltimore Blast - 6-time MISL/NISL Champions
Let's go Blues!

by UIWWildthing on Nov 11, 2010 7:20 AM CST reply actions

agreed. let’s hose those predators.

by NaJaKwa on Nov 11, 2010 11:10 AM CST up reply actions

The Blues, however, are the one visiting club with a history of circumnavigating the unwritten code in Columbus, an NHL source said.

That is fantastic. Who cares about unwritten codes in Columbus?

The Once and Future King

by FlaGators on Nov 11, 2010 7:43 AM CST reply actions

after serving up 8 last night....

the Blues are still under 2 GAA for the year at 1.9…good for 2nd in the NHL…

Hey…if you have to give up 8 goals, I’d rather give up 8 in one game then give up 4 and 4 over two games….or 3, 3, and 2 over three games….right?

Let’s get back to that 0 and 1 goal against a game, shall we?

by hockeyno93 on Nov 11, 2010 8:05 AM CST reply actions

I like O'Neill's

little whitty-isms.

History books tell us Columbus sailed the ocean blue. On this night, Columbus (9-5) frequently sailed right past the Blues, who fell to 9-2-2.

Columbus led 2-0 with 9:30 remaining, and a wake-up alarm was ringing for the Blues. They rolled over and went back to sleep.

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 Nov 11, 2010 8:07 AM CST reply actions

Man

Well at least we’re back in our barn tonight. Hopefully the team remembers they play tonight. I’m going to be there with Ms. Bluestiger (taking her to her first Blues game ever) So lets keep our unbeaten at home mojo going please.

Barret Jackman is my hero.

Fueled. These new shores burn. Shadow, my sweet shadow, to you I look no more.

by BluesTiger on Nov 11, 2010 12:08 PM CST reply actions

Holy crap that game was harsh last night.

Kerbs and Chaser couldn’t help but laugh about the lopsided play last night, either. I haven’t seen a game that bad in a while. Tonight, though, it’s the Jr. Blues for me.

by Paperwork Ninja on Nov 11, 2010 12:30 PM CST reply actions

Wow.....

I missed last night altogether……..I might be moving Units in the Hospital….from the Emergency Room to the CICU….Cardiac Intensive Care……..So I worked Tuesday night, then did 3 hours of CPR renewal, then stayed to meet the CICU manager and then meet eith the EU manager……I was at work a total of about 22 hours yesterday so when I got home I collapsed……I woke up last night to an 8-1 debacle and the Osh is now out?

FUCK ME……………..

Im resisting the urge to hit the panic button…….wil not do it will not do it……but man we need Frenchie back more than ever now…..

I still maintain Vladimir Konstantinov got what he deserved...If you can't handle that then kiss my ass......

"I've got a bad feeling about this..."

by dablues7 on Nov 11, 2010 12:43 PM CST reply actions

So...

At lunchtime hubby told me he heard that Oshie’s ankle is just fractured, not broken. I haven’t been able to track down any recent updates and I’m usually the one informing him of all the Blues news.

Anyone hear anything yet as to how bad it really is??

I’m sitting here depressed today – hopelessly clicking around wanting to discover something new about the Blues, that last night was just a bad dream, that Oshie really isn’t hurt, etc etc…and I almost don’t want to watch tonite after suffering through ALL of last night’s game…but I’ll be here. I bleed Blue.

Put your big girl panties on and deal with it!

by BluesFanFromNE on Nov 11, 2010 1:47 PM CST reply actions

Fracured according to the Blues website...

“St. Louis Blues Executive Vice President and General Manager Doug Armstrong announced Thursday that T.J. Oshie is out indefinitely after suffering a fractured ankle in Wednesday’s loss in Columbus.”

Get off your knees, ref! You're blowin' the game!

by o.O on Nov 11, 2010 2:26 PM CST up reply actions

Those 2 words

are pretty much interchangeable.

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 Nov 11, 2010 5:10 PM CST up reply actions

To Spec, TB, and Gallagher

..and any other vets that frequent the site.

Thanks.

Make this shit green and let these guys know how much we appreciate what they’ve done for our rights.

AMERICA, FUCK YEAH!

#SilentJay4Selke
@ProdigiousOne - twitter
Halak to Move it Move it

by ilikeboyes on Nov 11, 2010 2:08 PM CST reply actions 8 recs

That includes my father...

… who won a government-run lottery in 1966 and was rewarded with a twelve-month all-expenses-paid trip to Southeast Asia.

Thanks, Dad.

by BleedBlue42 on Nov 11, 2010 2:43 PM CST up reply actions

Holy crap... my uncle won that exact same lottery...

What a coinkydink. :)

My dad had four kids already by 1966, and was working at Granite City Steel, which was at the time considered a “vital to the war effort” sort of position. Also had a ruputured disk in his back from playing HS football…

Needless to say, Dad was 4-F, for which I’m very thankful.

Uncle (dad’s brother, two years younger) made it back fine, fortunately.

"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 Nov 11, 2010 3:32 PM CST up reply actions

Thank you for thinking about us vets today

Huge thank you from me to all the vets out there for stepping up.

Now please, no nasty comments from the peanut gallery and the first one who cracks wise on my bus driver uniform gets it. We all couldn’t look like Popeye or Audi Murphy, someone had to keep those planes in the air.

1st pic. Airmen Basic spectr17 at the tender age of 18 at Lackland AFB in beautiful San Antonio TX. I never got to see the dayum town because the one day we had base liberty to go into town I was under armed guard in CQ cuz some ahole double setback fingered me as the leader of a shower party against him. Me almost getting kicked out the 3 weeks in is a whole nother story. Anyhoo, I was finally cleared of the charges and got to to join my mates marching in the blazing TX sun in August while fending off them fucking fire ants.

The 2nd pic was is when I picked the lock to the drill instructors office one weekend to take some souvenir shots with my new Polaroid Pronto camera. I musta made $150 in beer money that day at $5 a pop for everyone in my flight. All was well until one day a goof left his locker open and our T.I. found the goof’s pic of him in the instructors hat. My azz was grass and I did pushups EVERY day, ALL day until I graduated for that stunt.

Ahem, in best Froggy from Our Gang voice.

Off we go into the wild blue yonder,
Climbing high into the sun;
Here they come zooming to meet our thunder,
At ‘em boys, Give ’er the gun! (Give ’er the gun now!)
Nothing’ll stop the U.S. Air Force!

Just a chew toy for the hockey gods

by spectr17 on Nov 11, 2010 4:14 PM CST up reply actions

You sir

were and still are Trouble—with a captial T
LOL

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 Nov 11, 2010 5:14 PM CST up reply actions

Thank you sir for your service :)

I’m sure there are plenty other “Service” stories to be told, or some left untold!!

And, you? A trouble maker? Never!!

Put your big girl panties on and deal with it!

by BluesFanFromNE on Nov 11, 2010 6:14 PM CST up reply actions

I know Spec could tell some Germany stories...

…because I know I can, and so could everybody who ever went over there.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…

And thanks to all for appreciating us. People like you guys and gals are why we did what we did.

"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 Nov 11, 2010 6:45 PM CST up reply actions

...and before anyone asks, no, I don't have my Basic Training photo from Ft. Knox.

Mom and Dad have it… and they’re under strict orders to never show it to anybody. :)

I’ll see if I can find one or two of me in Germany, though…

"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 Nov 11, 2010 6:48 PM CST up reply actions

To ALL our vets & current military

THANK YOU!!!

Missin’ my gramps a little more than usual today.

Put your big girl panties on and deal with it!

by BluesFanFromNE on Nov 11, 2010 6:13 PM CST up reply actions

Here's a video my sis made of her time in the service....kid did a great job...

Holly’s VIdeo

She had some pics of Gramps in there at the end…he got to go on her first Tiger Cruise & was like a kid in a candy shop.

Truth be told, her video made me cry.

Put your big girl panties on and deal with it!

by BluesFanFromNE on Nov 11, 2010 6:23 PM CST up reply actions

By the way, that "Our Valued Customers" site is about the funniest thing I've seen today...

As one who’s been known to purchase the occasional comic book (X-Men, Avengers, Thor), I’ve seen many customers very similar to some of the ones described on that site.

The Fantasy Shop on Lindbergh FTW!!!

"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 Nov 11, 2010 3:36 PM CST reply actions