Friday links: Enjoying the Reasoner for Taffe swap a little too much edition

by averagejoe on Jul 23, 2010 5:00 AM CDT

It's always nice to see Chicago get worse AND see that the Blues actually sold high on two prospects.

Blues news

The Blues are hoping David Perron becomes a home-grown goal scorer. [St. Louis Post-Dispatch]
Jeremy Rutherford chatted. Not a lot of new info here — only real news is that D.J. King doesn't like what the Blues are offering. [JR Live]
What kind of deal will Erik Johnson get? A short one is my prediction. [STLtoday]

Hockey news

Marty Reasoner, a former Blues first-round pick, was traded for the second time this offseason. He's going to Florida, in exchange for Jeff Taffe, a former Blues first-round pick. (H/T ilikeboyes) [ESPN]
Matt Walker, along with stealing Gallagher's heart, creates rivalries. [Raw Charge]
Second City does it's "Hey, the Blackhawks made another salary dump, where do we stand now." post. Still not good for them, but good for us. [Second City Hockey]
One of my least favorite offseason posts it the prediction post. They're never right and most are way, way, too homer biased. BWA agrees. [Birdwatchers Anonymous]
Jeremy Roenick and the Hatcher boys (Kevin and Derian) are in the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame. [TSN]
Ondrej Pavelec has a new deal in Atlanta. Have fun hanging out with weird beard. [TSN]
Since no one will sign an offer sheet, the Ducks and Stars are playing tough with Bobby Ryan and James Neal respectively. [Puck Daddy]

Other links

Some of the best fictional twitter accounts out there. Why follow real people when you can follow fake people! At least these are fake-fake accounts and not someone trying to be real. [Buzzfeed]
There are some really, really bad website urls. [manofest]
BrewDog's has a new beer that has 55 percent alcohol. Oh, and the bottle is a dead animal. And it costs $760 per bottle. I still want some. [AdFreak]
If I ever saw a gold-plated car, I'd really, really want to key it. Or steal it. Or kidnap the owner. [theTHROTTLE]

Video

NapalmFairy has today's video: It's white guys rapping.

More media voting and some Friday F-Yous to come later today. Do come back.

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RFA offer sheets

I would give up a 1st, 2nd and a 3rd for Ryan or Neal in a heartbeat. Pay that man his money

by MMouse on Jul 23, 2010 5:55 AM CDT reply actions

Deej don't like the offer?

Deej gon’ leave then.

St. Louis Game Time . . . I need another beer.
And I can also write things in 140 characters or fewer.

by Donut King on Jul 23, 2010 6:21 AM CDT reply actions

The Deej needs to realize that the Blues don't really need him, so he's probably going to have to take whatever they offer.

Some teams have overpaid for fighters this offseason and he could try to go get an offer sheet from another team. The problem with that, of course, is that no team wants to pay King and have to give up compensation to the Blues to get him.

He’s kind of screwed here.

SWYD

by gallagher on Jul 23, 2010 11:22 AM CDT up reply actions