Tuesday links: The Tuesday links edition

by averagejoe on Sep 14, 2010 5:00 AM CDT

I'm exhausted as I compile these links. There should be a law against working hard on Mondays.

Blues news

Stefan Della Rovere, you know the warm body acquired from the Capitals for D.J. King, calls himself Sean Avery-like. [Morning Skate]

Hockey news

Devils' fans respond to getting punished. [In Lou We Trust]
The New Jersey Devils get justice, Blues style. For trying to cheat the cap, the Devils are losing $3 millino dollars, a 2011 third-round pick and a first-round choice in one of the next four drafts. [TSN]
Sheldon Souray doesn't have to go to camp. Yay! Wait, it's NOT a good thing. Oh. Sorry, Sheldon. [TSN]
Roberto Luongo is no longer the captain of the Canucks. [TSN]
Who should be the Canucks captain. My choice is Pavel Bure. [Nucks Misconduct]
The dude in this awesome photo, Kirill Kabanov, is apparently troubled. He sure looks happy to me. [TSN]

Other links

A man named Trevor says he is constantly mistaken for Barack Obama. The resemblance is scary. [I Look Like Barack Obama]
Yesterday was the 25th anniversary of Mario. Here's how he, and others, got their names. [11Points.com]
If you're gonna knock off a product, it's best to have a funny name. [Manofest]

Video

The last six seconds of this video are awesome.

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Imagine that.

The NHL actually slaps a PENALTY on New Jersey. Wow.

And it wasn’t even half as severe as the Shanahan-Stevens kerfuffle against the Blues.

Fuck if I know.

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

by Donut King on Sep 14, 2010 7:13 AM CDT reply actions

If you had asked me last week...

… I’d have said that Lamoriello getting penalized for cheating would be just as unlikely as Bill Belichick getting penalized for all those illegally-filmed practices.

Even if Lou’s punishment is pretty mild, you now have to wonder whether this means that Bettman has bigger balls than Tagliabue did.

by BleedBlue42 on Sep 14, 2010 11:13 AM CDT up reply actions

Dayum

I’ve been wanting to use kefuffle for weeks and you got it in.

Just a chew toy for the hockey gods

by spectr17 on Sep 14, 2010 8:05 PM CDT up reply actions

A couple of things...

1. SDR is a little more than just a “warm body.” DJ KIng, God love him, more closely resembles that remark.

2. The so-called “punishment” that Lucifer got for blatantly attempting to circumvent the cap, is a crock. Lamoriello has Bettman’s nutsack in his hip pocket, and the Devils got a pittance of a “penalty.”

"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 Sep 14, 2010 8:17 AM CDT reply actions

There's one downside to us having lost DJ King.

We will never have a line made up of DJ King, BJ Crombeen and TJ Oshie. This Della Rovere kid can pull the Sean Avery stuff if he isn’t too blatant about messing with goalies and doesn’t go all metrosexual on us.

by Paperwork Ninja on Sep 14, 2010 6:43 PM CDT up reply actions

I give up trying to figure out who's most at fault in the Kovalchuk/New Jersey deal...

NJ and Kovy try to make a 17-year deal, citing the long-term front-loaded contracts of Marian Hossa and Roberto Luongo as precedent.

The NHL says “back up there, Sparky” as they say that this deal is different from the Luongo and Hossa contracts. Apparently 12 years good, 17 years bad or something in terms of massaging salary cap hits.

NJ and the NHL send the contract in for arbitration. The arbiter says “Yeah, it’s a kind of- sort of violation, so fix it.”

NJ and Kovy fix the contract and re-submit. The NHL passes out tiny victory flags and guitar solos are heard ’round the hockey world as our long national nightmare is over…

Then the NHL slaps a fine and loss of draft picks on NJ and says “Nobody ever do this crap again.”

It doesn’t look to me like either side acted in good faith despite assurances to the contrary.

by Paperwork Ninja on Sep 14, 2010 8:19 AM CDT reply actions

It doesn’t look to me like either side acted in good faith despite assurances to the contrary.

I can’t disagree with that comment.

My only real gripe here is the hypocrisy of it all. You can safely bet the ranch that, if the Blues had signed Kovalchuk to that contract, Lou Lamoroiello would have been the very first one banging on the office door of his pet commisioner and crying about “blatant cap circumvention.” But instead, Lamoriello signs Kovalchuk to that deal, and then is shocked — shocked! — to discover that the NHL is investigating his intentions… which are, of course, inherently as pure as the driven snow.

"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 Sep 14, 2010 8:59 AM CDT up reply actions

I'm not much for conspiracies

But I could easily see this as fuel for the next collective bargaining negotiation. Bettman acts like he favors the owners, so why not have someone offer an outrageous contract that gets nixed for being a blatant display of cap circumvention, then use it to restrict contracts through tightened cap rules? This allows owners to go cheap citing new cap rules as to why they can’t pay the big salaries like other sports. The only drawback I see to it is that the owners can also no longer dangle huge contracts for people to move, so it might be a problem if you’re trying to build a Cup-winning team in one season. If you’re trying to build a dynasty on the cheap, though, you might be in better shape. I don’t know.

The idea of Bettman and Lamoriello putting together a scheme like this to provide leverage in CBA negotiations is ludicrous, but the way that everything has fallen together can make people wonder, especially when the penalty seems like such an afterthought. Me, I think that everyone negotiated in bad faith and the resulting drama and weak penalty is the result that satisfies no one in particular among the negotiating parties but also infuriates no one in particular.

by Paperwork Ninja on Sep 14, 2010 11:43 AM CDT up reply actions

First off.....

Sorry…I been AWOL for a couple of weeks…… the GF and I are doing a lot around the house to get ready for fall…..rescreening windows, putting the lawn furniture away, cleaning out the garage etc……..

I cant tell you how I LOVE the fact the Devs got hit with the fine and loss of draft picks…..but it still doesnt cure the sting from Stevens…….it never will……

I still maintain Vladimir Konstantinov got what he deserved...If you can't handle that then kiss my ass......

"I've got a bad feeling about this..."

by dablues7 on Sep 14, 2010 2:42 PM CDT reply actions

We could have had Chopper, Stevens and Pronger all on the same blueline for 6 years. Fucking Lou robbed us of that and a damn good chance to win it all. Hate him forever.

He raged at the world, at his family, at his life. But mostly he just raged.
Just because Jay McClement is the best defensive forward in the NHL doesn't mean he should win the Selke.

by Icion on Sep 14, 2010 2:58 PM CDT up reply actions

the only question to that is.......

do we still go out and get Chopper if we already have Stevens……granted the Pronger/Shanahan deal still happens because Shanny cant keep his dick out of his linemates wife…..I gotta question if we get Chopper……I kind of think that deal was made to make up for the fact that we lost Stevens a few seasons before…….

I still maintain Vladimir Konstantinov got what he deserved...If you can't handle that then kiss my ass......

"I've got a bad feeling about this..."

by dablues7 on Sep 14, 2010 3:12 PM CDT up reply actions