Thursday links: Miller > Hiller edition

by averagejoe on Feb 25, 2010 5:00 AM CST

I watched four hockey games yesterday. It was awesome.

Blues/hockey news

Anthony Peluso is going to Alaska. And that concludes your Blues news. [OurSports Central]
Nashville has chosen Pekka Rinne to be its No. 1 goalie. [TSN]
The Stars put Alex Auld on waivers. He's a backup goalie, so I'm going to assume the Blues will put in a claim for him.[TSN]
I hate the Tampa Bay Lightning. Assistant coach Wes Walz was fired, but the head coach, Rick Tocchet, didn't like the move. [TSN]

Olympic news

Results from Wednesday, plus today's schedule. The US women take on the Canadian women for the gold. [NBC]
Even with Switzerland hanging around, the States stuck to its game plan and came out a winner. [ESPN]
Team America 2, Jonas Hiller 0.[ESPN]
Watching Ryan Miller wins games, it makes me wish the Blues had a goalie who was truly elite. [WaPo]
If you aren't NBC, you have to go to great lengths to talk to Olympians. [NY Mag]
The Team USA bandwagon is pretty full. [San Jose Mercury News]
Fuck it, we'll do it live! NBC to show Friday's game against the Finns live for everyone. [LA Times]
Canada took Russia out back for a good ass beating. [ESPN]
The Russians entered the tournament all big and scary. They leave outed as a fraud. Terrible game for the Reds last night. [Puck Daddy]
Mike Milbury is a disgrace. He tries to be edgy and controversial, but he comes off as just a moron. [Mediaite]
Things I didn't know before I had the links gig -- speaking off, last Saturday was the one-year link-a-versary -- Answer Man reads gossip blogs. He sent along these pics of Mike Comrie and Hilary Duff that are everywhere. [The Superficial]

Other links

This is nerdy, but cool. An interactive scale to see just how big (or small) things are. [Documaga]
Ever thought Wikipedia articles were too long? This site is for you. [Ten Word Wiki]
Police sketch artists are sometimes terrible at their jobs. Finding a good cartoonist is hard. [Huffington Post]
Admiral Ackbar would be a pretty cool mascot. [Not a Trap]

Videos

The United States plays Finland in a big game in the Olympics. Where have I seen that before?

Saw this a week ago, but forgot about it. Thanks to Simpson316 for passing this along.

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Watch it there

My best friend’s name is Hiller. Connection? No clue.

Summer time is such a bore,
Come Winter, it's hockey galore.

by Tenso on Feb 25, 2010 7:59 AM CST reply actions

hockey game should be good. Canada has won the last 8 meetings between the 2 teams I think.
Working today but will get to see most of it unlike the men’s game yesterday and tomorrow.
Gotta break out the tape again and follow along on the thread. It worked out pretty good but I occasionally couldn’t figure out which ‘wow, shit and fuck’ went with which scene. Then I’d read a little farther and realize I was behind when a little bit more info came across. So for tomorrow try to be a little more descriptive ok? LOL

I understand that NBC pays big money for the rights to the olympics but COME ON. Having to interview someone on a street corner is taking it a bit far. Ridiculous.

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 Feb 25, 2010 8:26 AM CST reply actions

Let's hope the Fins

that showed up for the Swe game show up tomorrow. I’m very nervous. Will this trivia note come true?

The two previous times the Americans won on Feb. 24 they captured the gold medal (1960 and 1980)

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 Feb 25, 2010 8:57 AM CST reply actions

So....2nd City...who's your dealer?

…because you ma be high.

You could have an awfully heated discussion right now about the best US player, Parise or Kane. I could make a case for either, but won’t argue the point.

He isn’t talking about he best US player in the Olympics is he? Because Kane most certainly is not — unless I’ve been conked on the head and just dreaming of regularly-scheduled missed shots, soft giveaways and an overall squishy and aversive physical-game from Ms. Kane.

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

by TheDuke32 on Feb 25, 2010 10:40 AM CST reply actions

Definitely not Kane

but Parise is a solid choice (if we’re talking skaters; Miller obviously has to be in the discussion if we’re talking all around)

by Perrowned on Feb 25, 2010 11:19 AM CST up reply actions

Are they insane?

I believe Kane has 1 point in the Olympics and about 40 “trying to do too much” turnovers. He looks like a cupcake wrapped in vagina. He’s a less explosive, worse shot version of Kessel.

Not afraid to nitpick

by joker24 on Feb 25, 2010 11:32 AM CST up reply actions

*they did get one thing right

Erik Johnson is a beast. If only he’d use his slap shot…

Not afraid to nitpick

by joker24 on Feb 25, 2010 11:33 AM CST up reply actions

kane has been terrible

he was supposed to be on the top line with yan’s brother and parise. instead, hes on the third line. hes not producing and taking weak-ass back-handed shots.

after watching him do nothing but beat the blues, i figured he did that against everyone. i was wrong. soft, soft player. toews looks far better than him.

by averagejoe on Feb 25, 2010 11:41 AM CST up reply actions

Perhaps Rafalski?

for his four consecutive (and instrumental) goals…as a D man.

by Busch Ice on Feb 25, 2010 11:41 AM CST up reply actions

Oh you could have a heated discussion

but it would be about who hasn’t been better than Kane. Personally I’m going with Tim Thomas. He just hasn’t brought the style, the sartorial sensibilities, the facial hair; that I’ve come to expect from a backup. He’s no Ty Conklin.

by PersonalJustice on Feb 25, 2010 11:49 AM CST up reply actions

I like in the comments

Is Kane out of sync or is team USA out of sync with Kane?

Not afraid to nitpick

by joker24 on Feb 25, 2010 11:52 AM CST up reply actions

Dude hasn't been right since he scored with that goth chick after the opening ceremony...

… and then woke up next to Johnny Weir.

by BleedBlue42 on Feb 25, 2010 12:08 PM CST up reply actions 1 recs

Rec'd like Chelios on the Tollway...

"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 Feb 25, 2010 5:55 PM CST up reply actions

Pretty sure he meant best US player in general

Because Kane has been invisible during the tournament. Even Puck Daddy has taken notice.

However, I’d also wonder what kind of role the different styles of play between the Hawks and Team USA have to do with it. The Hawks play a wide open counter-attacking game that relies on stretch passes and speed. Team USA has been grinding it out using big bodies in front of the goal to screen shots or pound them in off a rebound. Kane isn’t built for that kind of hockey. As Jackman figured out in the 3rd Blues-Hawks game this year: if you want to stop Kane you need to just knock him down because if you give him a clear look he will score.

Chicagoan in the Lou.

by Mike Martin on Feb 25, 2010 12:21 PM CST up reply actions

Yeah, I assume that's what he was going for. No one could be that thick-skulled/fan-blind...

I had this exact discussion today with someone at work about the problem for Kane and you nailed it too. He’s a puck carrier and when you aren’t stretching the defense, there’s no room to carry the puck except into the defense or to the side/back boards.

But boy does he look bad (or weak) compared to the hard-nosed stand-‘em-up-knock-’em-down forwards we’re seeing succeed for the US.

I’m sure he’ll get back to the Hawks next week and go on an amazing (or sickening, depending on what jersey you’re wearing) scoring streak once he gets back to that system.

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

by TheDuke32 on Feb 25, 2010 1:06 PM CST up reply actions

Whaddya expect from a bunch of homers... ;-)

“Candy” Kane sucks rancid ass.

And he looks like a prepubescent mama’s boy.

"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 Feb 25, 2010 5:57 PM CST up reply actions

BRING ON SUOMI, MOTHERFUCKERS!!!!!

That is all.

"Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday." -- Don Marquis
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by Donut King on Feb 25, 2010 12:27 PM CST reply actions

Finland:

An independent country since Russia and Sweden stopped fighting over it.

by PersonalJustice on Feb 25, 2010 12:34 PM CST up reply actions

just saw this earlier

Team ~~Detroit~~ Sweden got beat today which i would think gives canada a pretty easy semifinal game… rematch for the gold??? that would be a crazy good game

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 Feb 25, 2010 2:35 PM CST reply actions

i really

think we shouldnt be over looking finland as an easy win considering their goalie is Kiprusoff and has some very talented NHLers

Pujols takes out "I" in BIG and "A" in MAC, previously considered to be an unyielding, consonant threat

by DESTROYER on Feb 25, 2010 2:46 PM CST up reply actions

oh im not

i think canada has it pretty easy but the way we have won most of our games i know we still have to beat finland before we worry about canada but it would be a hell of a gold medal game if thats the way everything shakes out

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 Feb 25, 2010 3:09 PM CST up reply actions

not you specifically

but the nation as a whole watching this from the bandwagon are so blind from that first canada game that they arent seeing how powerful finland is dont really know the caliber of that team, and dont see that if we play canada again? i dont think we are going to win it. I know Russia was flat, but still that game was between the two most talented teams in the tourny thats scary that they won 7-3 off the likes of Nabakov and Bryzgalov

Pujols takes out "I" in BIG and "A" in MAC, previously considered to be an unyielding, consonant threat

by DESTROYER on Feb 25, 2010 3:11 PM CST up reply actions

Avenge Salt Lake!!!

Just a chew toy for the hockey gods

by spectr17 on Feb 25, 2010 3:17 PM CST up reply actions

Russia is not one of the two most talented

thanks to their decision to take a bunch of KHLers. It could be argued that they have one of the two most talented offenses, to be sure, but their defense and goaltending are not first rate.

Finland looked flat against Sweden in their qualfying loss, and weren’t gaining much traction for most of last night (the same could be said for the US against Switzerland). I think we’ll win, but it’s definitely not a game to be overlooked.

by Perrowned on Feb 25, 2010 4:36 PM CST up reply actions

Russia's weakness was their defense...

… and it got exposed by a lack of backchecking and a goalie possessed by the ghost of Roman Turek.

I think Canada’s biggest weakness is their goaltending. Brodeur got exposed, but Luongo hasn’t had to play under any real pressure yet.

by BleedBlue42 on Feb 26, 2010 2:23 AM CST up reply actions

Better Duff Pix?

Those kind of sucked. Any chance there are some with her getting it “dog fashion”?

North Co! North Co! North Co!

by Answer Man on Feb 25, 2010 2:44 PM CST via mobile reply actions

Cam suspended 5 games

Via James Mirtle of the Globe and Mail.

(Don’t know how to link individual tweets, but it’s there)

Chicagoan in the Lou.

by Mike Martin on Feb 25, 2010 3:30 PM CST reply actions

For hitting a guy who admired his pass for about 3 seconds?

Yeesh, I’d never make it in today’s NHL.

"Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday." -- Don Marquis
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by Donut King on Feb 25, 2010 3:39 PM CST up reply actions

there is a cure to getting run like that

You can also bait in run around dude too.You make the pass and gaze longingly, sucking the other guy into lining you up. Right as he’s about to waffle your azz you stick out the butt end and impale him like a weiner at a 4rth of July BBQ. To the unknowing it looks like you get creamed but they carry the other dude off. No penalty for you and run around dude spends the rest of the game getting his ribs x-rayed

Just a chew toy for the hockey gods

by spectr17 on Feb 25, 2010 3:55 PM CST up reply actions

That's the issue

Is that it was about 3 seconds after the pass. Not really surprised Janssen got 5 for being and “enforcer”.

Not afraid to nitpick

by joker24 on Feb 25, 2010 7:27 PM CST up reply actions

for future ref

click the time stamp. thats how you grab anything on the net.

by averagejoe on Feb 25, 2010 3:51 PM CST up reply actions

Where da white wimmens at?

No GDT for the wimmens gold medal game?

I saw 2 Canuck goals in replay, just tuned in. Is it 2-0 Canucks end of one? Finn wimmens beat Sweden 3-2 for the gold earlier, they even had a fight in that game. Whoa.

Just a chew toy for the hockey gods

by spectr17 on Feb 25, 2010 6:16 PM CST reply actions