Love the Blues

Hello friends,

I'd like to thank you all for giving a few minutes of your time to consider loving the blues this year or atleast hating us less.  We are a young hard working team that doesn't get a lot of national attention but are constantly striving to imprint ourselves on the hearts and minds of everyone who is a fan of hockey.  We have a "determined style of play, a willingness to do what it takes, and an unsung level of talent that will lead us to greatness.  We are an exciting hockey team that will always be worth coming back too.

Our team is built from the ground up after a disastrous sale and a tough lockout we are finally making our way back to the top.  We have a group of young scorers that will look like great pickups in the last round of your fantasy draft.  Backes, Oshie, Perron, Berglund lead the youth upfront, every one of those players is destined for greatness.  Anchored by a third line consisting of Jay McClement the best defensive forward IN THE WORLD, with his good buddies Crombeen and Steen the Een brothers will wreck your scoring line.  Our defense is anchored by the unsung yet steady hands of Barret Jackman and Roman Polak some of the toughest dudes you will ever meet.  The raw Pronger like potential of Eric Johnson and the lovable Carlo Coliacovo whos ready to explode at any time.  We will be bringing up fresh faces on the blue line this year like Alex Pietrangelo the best prospect in hockey, the workman that is Tyson Strachen, the enigmatic Nikita Nikitin, or the defensively stalwart Ian Cole.  We have a management group that's dedicated to patience and doing the job right.  There won't be any crushing year end explosions of the roster or boneheaded shortsighted transactions that leave the franchise crippled and coming up short like so many others.  Our head coach is Davis Payne a guy who has payed his dues in the minors and is apparently the hockey equivalent of the manager from Metalocalypse, keeping the team on course and taken care of.  We have all the tools necessary to become one of the best in the league.

Everything hasn't gone completely smoothly in our rise to the top.  Last year was a setback for the team in wins, standing and scoring.  There was a unsteady starts to the season brought on by third period collapses, weak play at home and just a string of bad breaks.  It unfortunately cost previous coach Andy "The green goblin" Murray his job, who was replaced by the aforementioned Davis Payne to much improved results.  The young players we had counted on the previous year took steps back in terms of scoring and unfortunately at times effort but though it was a stretch rougher than an detroit public street things started to look bright again.  Its easy to swing opinnion on the matter too far one way or the other, are the team a bunch of bums who party too much and don't take the job seriously?  Or are they a bunch of hard working young kids who had some poor luck and difficult times figuring out how to make it in the NHL?  Next year we will find out.

We will make you love us.  There will be no dark clouds this season no slow starts or questions about effort.  The blues will march into the season the hard hitting, penalty killing, never say die team they are and have always been.  Theres a reason Tony Twist and Kelly Chase are still loved in the blues.  Barclay Plager was the far more talented brother but you know who still gets talked about the most?  His brother Bob who would punch you in the head if you don't show respect.  We have immortalized last second acts of fanatacism like the MLK day goal.  The Monday Night Miracle will be remembered forever.  Last year with 8 seconds left Carlo Coliacovo pulled a spinorama with our own net empty on a penalty kill to tie a game we eventually won in overtime.  Shaking his hands in the air, the look of excitement on his face with the team rushing him.  He had the look of the happiest man on the planet on his face.  I will remember that game because Nabokov didn't knock the net off its post like Thomas did afterwards and Heatley wouldn't drop the gloves with Backes which would still result in a meme inspiring string of savage canadian beatings leading up to the olympics.  Half our roster is or will be on an olympic team someday, go ahead and count, I'm not joking.  We are the St.Louis blues, one of the most exciting and lovable hockey teams in all the land.

We have history and style, a love for singing about unsung heroes and a ton of statues outside our house.  We are the guy that brings his own case to the party(the big 36s not the 24), we always brings something to the table and never take away.  Though its true you won't see ESPN writing walls of text about us like our name was Boston, Pierre Maguire squealing our name on saturday nights, or Gary Bettman planning any major events in our fair town but we are worth your time and effort to get to know and come to love.  While we still need to finish with more than 90 points this year to make the playoffs the bright side is that would have been good enough for 6th in the East.  I hope you will give the blues a chance because we will always be first in your heart.