Thursday links: Hockey returns edition

by averagejoe on Nov 4, 2010 5:00 AM CDT

These long delays are brutal. I can't wait to watch some hockey tonight.

Blues news

The Blues, who have been crazy good at home this year, host the Sharks tonight. [CBS Sports]
The one place the Blues can afford injuries is on the blue line, in theory at least. Without Carlo Colaiacovo and Roman Polak, the Blues are going to put that to the test. [St. Louis Post-Dispatch]
Erik Johnson was injured at practice on Wednesday, but the official word is that he's OK. [BND]
Scott Mellanby has been working with David Perron and Patrik Berglund. Oddly enough, those two have been playing pretty damn good lately. [Blues]
Jeremy Rutherford will be chatting at 1 p.m. today. [JR Live]

Power Rankings from John

Reader John went scouring the internets for hockey power rankings.

Fox Sports, led by the second-creepiest mugshot this side of Dan Caesar, has the Blues at No. 1. [Fox Sports]
Sports Illustrated pegs the Blues as the No. 3 team in the league. [Sports Illustrated]
TSN has the Blues at No. 3. Somehow they dropped a spot, despite not losing a game. [TSN]
Yahoo!, for some reason, thinks the 7-4-0 Capitals are better than the 6-1-2 Blues. See—this is why I hate power rankings. They are arbitrary and pointless, yet they still piss me off. [Yahoo!]

Hockey news

John Carlson, the hero of the US Junior team, is dealing with expectations and reality. [Japers' Rink]
The Flames may be trading Jarome Iginla. Put him with some good players, and not Olli Jokinen, and I bet his production soars. [From the Rink]
Brenden Morrow is having a fine season for the Stars. [Defending Big D]
Ed Jovanovski scored a hat trick, the first in his 15-year career. [TSN]
Sidney Crosby drops the gloves and throws some bombs. [Puck Daddy]

Other links

This website is just a delight. People as cheese—brilliant. [CHEESE PEOPLE]
Philosoraptor iis the world's smartest dinosaur. [Banned in Hollywood]
The McRib is back. Here are five ways to make the McRib better. [Dallas Observer]

Video

From hatrk219: The mystery of the Bed Intruder has been solved.

Bed Intruder - Case Closed? ( Www.formerfatboys.com / Www.thesmokingjacket.com ) - The best video clips are right here

Blues vs. Sharks tonight. Be there or be here. You have no other option.

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Lots of shots

Both teams put some major SOG so this should be a very exciting game. Go Blues!

by Outrfaz on Nov 4, 2010 7:26 AM CDT reply actions

enough of these long breaks....

Thank God there is a game on tonight. The Hawks have played SIX more games than us….SIX! In order for the Blues to equal the Hawks in the standings, they’d have to go 0-5-1 with those games in hand….yet the Hawks are still top 10 in the power rankings. I bet if the Blues went 0-5-1 in their next six games, they wouldn’t be top 10….

#stupidschedulemakers #stupidhawksbandwagoners #fuckthehawks #thankgodforblueshockeyagain

by hockeyno93 on Nov 4, 2010 8:31 AM CDT reply actions

Iginla trade.

That guy said we could trade Boyes and another asset for Iginla. Hey Checketts, please find an investor because some blogger is giving us a gift of a trade. Could you imagine this with the Halak trade, 2 steals in the same year.

by mulax6 on Nov 4, 2010 9:11 AM CDT reply actions

If we could throw Winchester on there

Or possible Brewer, I’d say go for it, although I’d be a little bit hesitant to throw Brewer out there given how short we are on experienced D-Men here at the moment.

Barret Jackman is my hero.

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

by BluesTiger on Nov 4, 2010 10:57 AM CDT up reply actions

Yeah...

Iginla for Boyes + draft pick/prospect (no one else on current roster) where do I sign up?

by Kevin4 on Nov 4, 2010 10:59 AM CDT up reply actions

I wouldn’t want that trade. Iggy is too old and high priced at this point. $7 mill for the next three years, and he’s on the wrong side of 30. A power forward at 33 is on the decline for sure, and often rapidly.

His last three years stats.

Season .. . - GP - G - A - TP - PIM
2007-2008 – 82 - 50 - 48 - 98 - 83
2008-2009 -. 82 - 35 - 54 - 89 - 37
2009-2010 – 82 - 32 - 37 - 69 - 58

Proud member of the Popsicle Division of the Cupcake Conference.

by Bman21212 on Nov 4, 2010 11:16 AM CDT up reply actions

On the other hand . . .

he’s fucking Jarome Iginla. If you have an opportunity to pick up fucking Jarome Iginla, especially if the giving price is cheap, you go get him.

Plus, I have a feeling that his decline in the last two years has much more to do with the talent around him (that being, “a lack thereof”) than it does HIS play. Sure, a 33-year-old may be past his prime years, but he’s also playing on a team that went COMPLETELY overboard trying to protect their superstar and secondary stars – so much so that the team (or just Sutter, whichever you choose) turned themselves into a bunch of goons, all the while forgetting that they had to put goals on the scoreboard to win games. I like a fight as much as anyone, but . . . yikes.

If the price is Boyes, a 2nd rounder and someone from the defenseman surplus . . . you make that deal.

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

by Donut King on Nov 4, 2010 2:57 PM CDT up reply actions

Points Percentage Time!

Interesting, isn’t it, that Chicago is second in the West in points, and yet tied for the third worst point percentage…

Go Blues! Keep the pressure on the rest of the West!

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

by TheDuke32 on Nov 4, 2010 9:23 AM CDT reply actions

Umm...that Detroit one should be 0.750 for second best obviously...

Don’t know quite where 0.562 came from…

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

by TheDuke32 on Nov 4, 2010 9:26 AM CDT up reply actions

"Hide yo' kids, hide yo' wife..."

LOL

I always KNEW that McFly kid was trouble…

"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 4, 2010 10:50 AM CDT reply actions

Any themes for the chat with JR?

I know we did food and that seemed to work pretty well. Anything we should ask him today?

Barret Jackman is my hero.

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

by BluesTiger on Nov 4, 2010 10:53 AM CDT reply actions

I asked him about Jay for Selke...

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

by Jstats on Nov 4, 2010 1:49 PM CDT up reply actions

Good article from NHL-dot-COM...

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Clickety-click on the linkety-link

I especially liked this bit:

Their October TV ratings on Fox Sports Midwest rose approximately 34 percent from last October, and St. Louis now has the fourth-best ratings for U.S. markets, behind Pittsburgh, Buffalo and Detroit.

Good on ya’, Blues fans and St. Louisans. This is how it should be (or better!)

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

by TheDuke32 on Nov 4, 2010 2:11 PM CDT reply actions

The cheese people link was the best.

And now I need to go make a sandwich . . .

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

by Donut King on Nov 4, 2010 3:01 PM CDT reply actions

i got the shakes bad

Is there like a betty ford clinic for blues fans to detox at?

Just a chew toy for the hockey gods

by spectr17 on Nov 4, 2010 3:06 PM CDT via mobile reply actions

screw detox

I say binge tonight and feed the addiction. Rehab is for qutters

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

by Jstats on Nov 4, 2010 4:19 PM CDT via mobile up reply actions

LGB

hai gaiz

JoMilla.com

by JoMilla on Nov 4, 2010 5:46 PM CDT reply actions

hmm

someone fuck micro center for me early tomorrow, i’ll be sure to fuck em when i get home, but bloody hell they need to be fucked EARLY and OFTEN

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 Nov 4, 2010 6:23 PM CDT reply actions