Tuesday Links: Alex Pietrangelo is my own personal Jebus edition

Tough road ahead, but not over just yet. Perhaps last night’s game turns the corner for this team

Does anyone know who that team was that beat Vancouver last night? Whoever it was played a good game and scored two PPG’s. I wish their games were televised so I could see them play. Can you imagine having a team like that in St. Louis?

Blues won, Kansas lost, and returning to our television screens was a man who promised to layeth the smacketh down on just about everyone in wrasslin’.

Because I know I do, holy shit. I feel like if I look out the window I should see Lake Michigan. Fuck I want to go camping so bad!

And I missed a really good game last night. Maybe I am cursed or something.

That is all.

IF Nik Zherdev actually hits the wire & makes it to our spot & we don’t take him, we then know that ownership is as big an issue as we feared, right? I know he’s no dynamo, but he’s offense.

47-15-4-19 +7 & I think he’s also league minimum salary. His mins are low in PHI, 12:07, 18:43, 14:56, 10:46, 7:59, well, dropping atleast. They just got Versteeg & hed be top6, for sure here & lots of PP time..?

They’ve fanned the flames of hope again.

That is all.

should have a little cameo on “It’s Always Sunny.” Maybe karaoke night at Paddy’s?

hailing the 7’s on 7th. they ran out of individual numbers to honor, now they move onto groups that kinda did enough if you add their stats together.

Blues To Honor Four No. 7s on March 7 vs. Columbus
Berenson, Unger, Mullen and Tkachuk will be honored in a pregame ceremony

next up the pat hickey 61 days of summer extravaganza!!!

and of course the scott young and the seven deadly ex 7’s ( Red Laurence, Cliff Ronning, Dan Quinn, Nelson Emerson, Alexei Kasatonov, Greg Gilbert, Ricard Persson, Mike Van Ryn) [ fine there is 8. scott will fight two of em at the same time. what? they did that in the movie too. well um.. the blues will pay van ryn several million to basically stand around then. just like they did originally!]

.all this to end with the 50 ways to leave chris mason training camp (push him under the bus gus, pull the deal off the table mabel, waive him away sergei!)

did i forget any?

Simma… simma…

I honestly don’t see a damn thing wrong with honoring Berenson, Unger and Mullen… or Tkachuk, for that matter. Joe Mullen’s in the Hall of Fame, Red Berenson and Garry Unger ought to be if they aren’t already, and Tkachuk probably will be as soon as he’s eligible, like him or not.

I’m not pleased about the Blues not including Emerson and Ronning in that group, but maybe they were asked and declined. We don’t know this. And in any case, while Ronning and Emerson were fine players, their accomplishments in the game don’t measure up to those of Mullen and Tkachuk (two of the best Americans ever to play the game ), or Unger (the long-time Iron Man record holder ), or Berenson (one of the first, if not the first star to come from the college ranks ) and his six goals in one game.

They “honored” Bobby Plager’s number 5, and still allow players to wear it. Same with Doug Wickeneheiser’s number 14. What’s wrong with honoring as a group several players who are, honestly, legends, who all have a huge place in Blues’ history, and who all happened to wear the same number with the franchise?

And as long as the four players are not specifically mentioned on the banner — if one is raised to the rafters — then there’s justification to say that Ronning and Emerson — and even Greg Gilbert, if you’re so inclined — are included in that honor.