Blues Lose To Hawks 6-5

by Brad Lee on Apr 7, 2010 10:12 PM CDT

Blackhawks calmly celebrate yet another goal against the Blues. Or douchebag parade. You decide. (Photo by Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images)

Stop me if you've heard this one before.

- Blues get off to a great start, look good, seem to be in command.

- Just like that the Blues fall apart. They give up a ton of goals. They play like dogshit.

- Blues, when everything seems down and out, they start a comeback. It's slow, but it's there. And it gets a little momentum.

- And just when you think they don't have enough time to pull the comeback off, they get right on the doorstep, pull nearly even.

- But in the end it was too little too late and it's obvious to everyone that as time expires, they just dug too deep a hole to climb out of.

Am I talking about the 2009-10 season or Wednesday night's game against the Blackhawks where the Blues scored first, allowed four straight goals in the first period, got down 6-1, somehow clawed back to 6-4 as time was running out, Brad Boyes scored on a penalty shot with half a minute left after Andy McDonald took a stick to the ear on a breakaway, yet Chicago held on for a 6-5 victory.

Thanks Blues for providing a microcosm of the entire season in just 60 minutes.

Ok, and Keith Tkachuk retired. More on him in the morning.

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Thanks Blues for providing a microcosm of the entire season in just 60 minutes.

sooo true.

by oic on Apr 7, 2010 10:15 PM CDT reply actions 1 recs

Pretty much sums it up.

Bah.

St. Louis Game Time . . . I need another beer.

by Donut King on Apr 7, 2010 10:20 PM CDT reply actions

Nice tribute to Walt up at Puck Padre:

http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/blog/puck_daddy/post/As-he-retires-from-NHL-why-we-appreciated-Keith?urn=nhl,232806&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

And yep. I could have watched just that one game and understood our team this season. And last. And the year before last… it’ll change, though. It’ll change.

Thrashing the Blues

Reporter: There`s a "stamp out the Beatles movement" underway in Detroit. What are you going to do about it?

Paul McCartney: We`re going to start a campaign to stamp out Detroit.

by hildymac on Apr 7, 2010 10:23 PM CDT reply actions

It was good to see

that the boys were playing angry towards the end of the 2nd, and the third. It’s good to know they were feeling the same thing we were. how this translates to ANOTHER emotional game (Walt’s last), well, we can only guess.

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by CrossCheckRaise on Apr 7, 2010 10:31 PM CDT reply actions

.... and I'm outta here

I’ll have a final Road Music for the Nashville game, then probably a retrospective after the
regular season’s over.

Good Night, all.

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by CrossCheckRaise on Apr 7, 2010 10:33 PM CDT reply actions

OW.

From Joe Strauss on Twitter:

If Cardinals don’t win a playoff game in six years there’s a call for new ownership. With the Blues, it’s a call for a group hug. #Mayberry

Good grief. Maybe that just has to do with the unrealistic standards of fans as opposed to the team itself. God. We’re all from the same town, and we all want the Blues and Cards to do well, so what the hell is the problem?

Thrashing the Blues

Reporter: There`s a "stamp out the Beatles movement" underway in Detroit. What are you going to do about it?

Paul McCartney: We`re going to start a campaign to stamp out Detroit.

by hildymac on Apr 7, 2010 10:40 PM CDT reply actions