Who's Up Next? Blues Beat Rangers.

You answered thought #1 with thought #2. The scoring will come IF and only if we get the power play going. When Brad Boyes was scoring 30+ goals like 5 years ago or whenever, a lot of his tallies were on the PP. Same for McDonald and Berglund two years ago, for that matter. More cross-ice one-timers from the faceoff dots, etc. We don’t try for that anymore.

The Crombeen penalty… 5 minutes seemed harsh. Wasn’t really malicious and Stepan did half the job by putting himself low and off-balance. Even a double minor would’ve been more appropriate.

Really, I’m just pumped we can keep winning on the road here with so many of our regulars out injured. I don’t care if they are ugly, close wins, or not. I mean, we’ve got Oystrick and Nikitin out there killing penalties or taking the point on the power play, and doing a half decent job of it.

That was an unlucky check. If Stepan doesn’t catch the bad edge that’s just Crombeen running him along the boards… I can understand the 5 minutes though and I’d expect the same if the players were reversed.

Other than that, I was listening to the Rangers broadcast tonight and I liked their Backes = The Hulk replay where they explained that “you wouldn’t like him when he’s angry.”

even if Stepan isn’t injured, I don’t see how The Beej doesn’t get at least 1 for that hit. Even if it really wasn’t totally illegal.

Then again, maybe I’m a pessimist. Which at times I am. But I fully don’t expect him to be playing Wednesday regardless. Just a sinking feeling.

I’m pumped.

I can’t wait until Christmas to get in town and see this TEAM! Wish I could be catching more action than I am.

GO BLUES!

1. i used to have to try and explain how pre-buttman low scoring hockey was actually fun to watch. well. just re-watch those two games. 1-0 and 2-1 games can be fun to watch. should be fun to watch.

2. winning=brilliance. last year .pleau- idiot. macinnis. idiot. murray. idiot. jarmo idiot. wait a sec the blues are the best in hockey? drafting is incredible, trades are incredible, coaching is incredible, the chopper’s input is right on the trolley, jd and checketts do know when they have a good team. how in the world did all the blues management parts get so smart in 3 short months.

3. we are not one finisher away from being a great team. we are a great team. still. a finisher would be an excellant xmas present.

Yeah or scoring needs to get going. The above mentioned players need to start catching fire in the worst way. That being said, I think one of the most dangerous things about the team right now is that teams don’t know how to defend them because they don’t know where the scoring is coming from.

I know a sniper coming in would be amazing, but if we keep winning, I don’t care if one shows up or not.

I think one of the most dangerous things about the team right now is that teams don’t know how to defend them because they don’t know where the scoring is coming from.

This team reminds me somewhat of the 1980-81 club, which had ten players score at least 20 goals. Five of those guys had 30-plus, though… so in keeping with the forced negativity theme here (to appease the Hockey Gods), yeah, this team needs to get some of the goal-scorers moving. Boyes, Backes, Perron, Oshie, McDonald… I’m looking in your direction.

This team could, however, just as easily be the 1979-80 Blues, who had five 20-goal scorers and six more guys who hit double figures.

Also, the 1979-80 and 1980-81 Blues featured the goaltending tandem of Liut and Staniowski, both of whom had better goals-against averages in 1979-80 than in 1980-81…

…but the 1979-80 club lost 34 of 80 games because of less goal-scoring, where the ’80-81 club was 45-18-17 despite Liut giving up 199 goals in 61 games for a 3.34 GAA. He had a 3.18 in 64 games in 1979-80.

That was a different era, thiough, where a GAA of around 3.00 was the standard, and anything below 3.00 was outstanding.

B.

I wont be on at all wednesday and I might not even get to see any of the game……I have to stay over after work tuesday night into wednesday for CPR recert……so I wont be home wednesday till like 1pm after working from 7pm tuesday till 7a wednesday……..and I gotta get some sleep cause Im back into work at 1015 wednesday night so i gotta fit soem sleep in there