Friday links: Closing out the home portion of the season a few weeks too early edition

by averagejoe on Apr 9, 2010 5:00 AM CDT

I just realized, this will be my last meaningful edition of the links for a few months. Sigh. Let's get to it, friends.

Blues news

Blues vs. Ducks tonight. [Sporting News]
Who are the core players on the Blues? Not Chris Mason. [STLtoday]
Brad Boyes talks about the season, Keith Tkachuk. [CBC]
The Blues are still heading in the right direction. Maybe. [St. Louis Post-Dispatch]
Lars Eller and Jonas Junland are back with the big boys. Lars is Skeet, but what's Jonas' nickname? [St. Louis Post-Dispatch]
Roman Polak is a beast. So is Barret Jackman. [The Globe and Mail]
According to JR's Twitter: "The St. Louis chapter of the Pro Hockey Writers Association has nominated Erik Johnson for the Masterton Trophy, which honors perseverance." [Twitter]

Hockey news

Mike Modano knows how to make an exit. [Puck Daddy]
The Penguins kinda close out Mellon Arena with a win. [ESPN]
Pat Burns is out of the hospital and at home. [TSN]
Eric Staal picks up a hat trick on free hat night. [TSN]
From Poor College Student: North Dakota is no longer the Fight Sioux. Somewhere T.J. Oshie sheds a single tear. [ESPN]
Results. [Yahoo! Sports]
Games. [Yahoo! Sports]

Other links

Answer Man shares a pretty funny site featuring awkward erections. Good stuff. [Awkward Boners]
Broomball is the next sport that will take over the world. The last quote is golden — the man who said it will be doing the links this weekend. [St. Louis Post-Dispatch]
From Poor College Student: Bring back Mitch. [Facebook]
Tiger Woods has a new creepy commercial that is ripe for parody. Internet, do what you do. [Next Round]
Unnecessary photo censorship. [Unreality]

Video

Pixels are going to take over the world, or at least NYC.

Mr. Broomball has the links this weekend. Go Blues.

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Modano

I hope Walt can go out the same way. Kinda weird that the Ducks are the visiting team as both of them take their bows.

The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong. But that's the way to bet. - Damon Runyon

by baroose on Apr 9, 2010 8:11 AM CDT reply actions

I caught part of the Dallas game last night

Mo got 3 minutes of standing o that brought him to tears. Awesome to witness.

Old school

Just a chew toy for the hockey gods

by spectr17 on Apr 9, 2010 6:41 PM CDT up reply actions

If the building

isn’t rocking like the old barn those people aren’t true hockey fans.

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 Apr 9, 2010 8:27 AM CDT reply actions

The Blues would be a big bunch of idiots not to bring back Mason. What are you kidding me? We finally have for the first time in many years a bonafide #1 goaltender who is – OK not perfect, has an off-night here and there – but a freakin stud, a goalie we can count on. Not Brodeur but you can count on him and have confidence in him. Unlike Turek, Johnson, Brathwaite, Lalime…. you don’t wince and cringe every time the puck goes near him.

- a Tale from my Creased Mind

by jpratte on Apr 9, 2010 9:01 AM CDT reply actions

Well sometimes we wince

Not sure who else they’ll get to bridge the gap for a few years though.
There are some young goalies out there but will they be any better?
If we scored a few more goals those games he kept us in would be won.

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 Apr 9, 2010 9:09 AM CDT up reply actions

Well, yes

Obviously you cannot expect a goalie to hold the opposition to two goals or less every damn night. We should have plenty of goals from the forwards we have. What I think we’ve been sorely lacking in since the days of MacInnis and Pronger is offensive production from the defense. And I’m not even talking about goals. Offense starts with the defense. We have lots of great defensemen but most of them are the stay-at-home type.

- a Tale from my Creased Mind

by jpratte on Apr 9, 2010 9:31 AM CDT up reply actions

This has been linked a few times here

but here is a bit of a twist

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 Apr 9, 2010 9:07 AM CDT reply actions

morning woods

i thought the colbert report had two EXCELLANT mashups with woods (definitional mashup by the by)

check em out if you wish

WOODS MASHED

A strong anvil fears no hammer

by Childhood Trauma on Apr 9, 2010 9:44 AM CDT reply actions

So Jax and Polak are the number 2 and 4 defenseman in the league

Yet if you posted that on the STLPD boards, we’d still have idiots complaining about it. Man, the hate towards our team that supposed “fans” have really annoys me.

Anyway, I’m going to be at the game tonight. It will be cool/sad to see big Walt in his last home game as a Blue. I’m going to predict there’s not a dry eye in the house during his retirement ceremony tonight.

I don’t know if I’m prophetic or not, but I had a dream last night where we raped the ducks like 10-1. Lets hope I am.

Barret Jackman is my hero.

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

Crosby and Malkin. Two girls, one cup.

by BluesTiger on Apr 9, 2010 10:10 AM CDT reply actions

Loved the broomball article.

Sometimes the fraternities down here use it as a rush event. It’s awesome to watch drunk guys swat at a little ball on ice.

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 9, 2010 10:14 AM CDT reply actions

wait who's doing links?

I’m on the other team mentioned in the article, the Bodkins.

http://www.stlouisgametime.com/

by cold on Apr 9, 2010 11:00 AM CDT up reply actions

The last guy quoted -- the beer guy

Tim is the weekend link master.

St. Louis Game Time

by averagejoe on Apr 9, 2010 11:09 AM CDT up reply actions

isnt the beer guy the second last quote?

the last guy was they cant sit down for standing up guy, or were they the same?

A strong anvil fears no hammer

by Childhood Trauma on Apr 9, 2010 11:20 AM CDT up reply actions

the article ends like this:

If losing a broomball game had any consolation, it was summed up by Tim Wiemers, 22, of west St. Louis County.

“It sure makes the beer taste good.”

St. Louis Game Time

by averagejoe on Apr 9, 2010 11:58 AM CDT up reply actions

Nothing more true has been spoken:

Roman Polak is a beast. So is Barret Jackman.

Hear hear, Joe.

And define “meaningful”. The links are ALWAYS meaningful, in-season or off-season. Fa’reelz.

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

by Donut King on Apr 9, 2010 10:26 AM CDT reply actions 1 recs

RE: Joe's comment, and T-Money's approval of said comment...

"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 Apr 9, 2010 5:39 PM CDT up reply actions

Anyone know?

I remember getting an email or something about there being a Basement Sale sometime this week. Is that at tonight’s game or was that earlier this week?

by oic on Apr 9, 2010 2:05 PM CDT reply actions

earlier

maybe tonioght too, not sure, but at the bj’s game they had the large pregame one

A strong anvil fears no hammer

by Childhood Trauma on Apr 9, 2010 2:21 PM CDT up reply actions

are the blues doing anything for walt for this game?

this line:

A press conference will be held on Tuesday, April 13 for the media and for Blues fans in the atrium at Scottrade Center at 12:30 p.m.

plus the blues site not having anything specific in motion listed for tonight makes me think anything they do tonight will be brief?!?

anyone heard anythign specific?

A strong anvil fears no hammer

by Childhood Trauma on Apr 9, 2010 2:57 PM CDT reply actions

They are.

Following the game…

Big story: Keith Tkachuk announced earlier this week that he will hang up his skates at the end of the season. Since the Blues aren’t playoff-bound, that means the veteran power forward’s final home game will be Friday. The team will pay tribute to him afterward. Tkachuk is ninth on the team in scoring this season, with 13 goals and 30 points in 66 games.

From Here.

PC Load Letter? What the fuck does that mean?

by DanGNR on Apr 9, 2010 3:01 PM CDT reply actions

thanks

th april 13th is from a different article on the blues site, i guess they will also do something then… or maybe they will announce him taking a job with the blues?!?!?

A strong anvil fears no hammer

by Childhood Trauma on Apr 9, 2010 3:23 PM CDT up reply actions

Perhaps announcing that they have fixed the escalator.

PC Load Letter? What the fuck does that mean?

by DanGNR on Apr 9, 2010 3:44 PM CDT up reply actions

fingers crossed

by oic on Apr 9, 2010 5:12 PM CDT up reply actions

See left... >>>>>>>>>>

I tell you, I am shocked… shocked… that the Gary Bettman Wheel O’ Justice actually came up snake-eyes on a member of the Pittsburgh Fucking Penguins (™).

Sid must not have swallowed last night.

"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 Apr 9, 2010 5:36 PM CDT reply actions