Say it ain't so, Paulie. There are still 26 teams that don't hate you.

Blues news

• Somehow I missed this story: Paul Kariya may hang 'em up. [St. Louis Post-Dispatch]
• The Blues, like every team, will have to make some tough decisions with free agents. [Bellville News-Democrat]
• Jeremy Rutherford will be chatting today. [STLtoday]

Hockey news

• From Donut King: Tore Vikingstad is done with international competition. DK wonders, do the Blues still have his rights? Anyone? [Twitter / SGPV Rosenborg:]
• The Capitals beat the Canadiens to take control of the series. [TSN]
• Moscow Dynamo, a Russian team on par with like the Maple Leafs or the Habs, is done. [TSN]
• Blackhawks are desperate. Awesome. [TSN]
• Boston is up 3-1 on Buffalo after a double-OT win. [TSN]
• I went to bed before this game was over — Vancouver was leading LA 5-4 in the third. [TSN]
• Your Lady Byng finalists: Pavel Datsyuk, Brad Richards and Martin St. Louis. Why do we still have this award? [ESPN]
• Jeff Carter and Simon Gagne, who are both pretty good, are going to be out with injuries for the Flyers. [ESPN]
• The Avalanche will be without Peter Mueller and Milan Hejduk in Game 5. Man if San Jose messes this up, people will they they are chokers. [ESPN]
• The Maple Leafs have signed Jussi Rynnäs. Who? Read to find out. [Pension Plan Puppets]
• The Second City guys share some thoughts while the Blackhawks are down 2-1 to Nashville. [Second City Hockey]

Other links

• Actual stupid SkyMall products get actual reviews. [Gadling]
• Apparently, a cool thing to do is take pictures where you at locations where you are barred from visiting. There are some pretty cool pics on this list. Art is worth the crime, I guess. [Web Urbanist]
• Some out of context comic book panels are pretty funny. [Manofest]

Video

I think we may have run this before, but whatever. It makes me laugh and it's the summer. From hullnoates.

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