Wednesday Links: Brett Hull Says Things Edition
Man, my Internet is just absolute garbage right now. It's like it goes to strip clubs all night and forgets to show up at my computer in the morning. Too soon?
Blues News
- When Brett Hull speaks, we listen. Do you agree with him this time when he says that the whole team is to blame for Oshie's absence? [P-D]
- Usually, Oshie's energetic play gets the Blues going. Craig Phelps thinks that his absence will spark players to step up. [The Hockey Writers]
- Oh, and the Blues lost a game last night or something. [P-D]
NHL/Hockey News
- Shawn Thornton got cut with a skate blade and the Blackhawks taunted him for it. What a bunch of cheesedicks. [Puck Daddy]
- The Hurricanes avoid being put on Wysh's Death Watch for one more day. [Puck Daddy]
- However, if Carolina loses tonight to Montreal, the idle Tampa Bay Lightning will clinch a playoff birth. [ESPN]
- Doug Weight is done for the season and will probably retire. You'll probably see a career retrospective here in due time. [Newsday]
- Change "Patrick Kane" to "David Backes" and we've got a better article. [Puck Daddy]
- Teemu Selanne feels embarrassed to score a hat trick. [OCRegister]
- Phoenix fans want Winnipeg to have a team again as long as its not the Coyotes. [MSNBC]
- Todd Bertuzzi's latest controversial, dick-move hit will not be reviewed by the NHL. What. [Detroit News]
- The Avs have a big decision this off-season: suck less or suck more? [Denver Post]
- If the Bruins win the cup, Mark Recchi will hang 'em up. [ESPN]
Other Stuff
- Feeling down? Check out this 8track mixtape and let science work its magic. [8track]
- The Best Quotes of All Time! [DirJournal]
- I bet this poster sums up most of our lives. [Piccsy]
Wednesday Video
An oldie, but a goodie. Clark, the Canadian Hockey Goalie.
Fuck Detroit.
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Happy "Punch a Red Wings fan in the Face/Cock/etc Day"!!!!
Lets face it, even there are those that dis-spell this rivalry…Red Wing Fans need to be elbowed in the cock.
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Anyone who says "Nuff said" or "Need I say more?" needs to be elbowed in the cock.
by I_AM_SPARTACUS on Mar 30, 2011 11:37 AM CDT reply actions
Just what I wanted to see to start my day... an article kissing Patrick Kane's candy ass...
Wyshinski ought to be keelhauled for writing that piece of shit.
"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 Mar 30, 2011 12:20 PM CDT reply actions
Fuck Detroit
Let’s beat the fuckers tonight so at least they aren’t the ones who officially send the Blues to their tee times.
Also, Fuck Detroit
Baltimore Blast - 6-time MISL/NISL Champions
Let's go Blues!
Brett Hull knows what he's talking about.
I’ve heard there were a couple times when Brendan Shanahan couldn’t be found, and it was actually Craig Janney’s wife who tracked him down and drove him to the rink.
by BleedBlue42 on Mar 30, 2011 12:24 PM CDT reply actions 3 recs
I'd still love to see Davis Payne sitting at his desk...
scribbling over Oshie’s face on all those team posters with a Sharpie and writing “Mr. Can’t-Wake-Uppington” with an arrow pointing to him. I can also hear him grumbling something like “Stupid move, young man… only twelve thousand posters to go… thanks, Teej, you just caused me to reschedule the accountancy conference call with Bylsma…”
Because that’s what a good coach does, right?
Let's Go Blues!
Support your local NAHL team. Seriously.
by Paperwork Ninja on Mar 30, 2011 12:31 PM CDT reply actions
Brett Hull likes to talk to stir up a shitstorm.
All of us who were fans of the Blues during his heyday with the team KNOW this.
This is why I put little stock into what he says. I think he’s just stirring up shit here.
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Who's this Brett Hull feller you guys are yammering about?
Ya, showing the age of my Blues fandom here. I never saw Hull play hockey as a Blue.
1998-99 was my 1st year her in the Lou.
PC Load Letter? What the fuck does that mean?
if brett hull
was as concerned with the stars ressing room as the blues, wouldn’t he still be a co-gm??
And a harvest of righteousness is grown from the seed of peace planted by peacemakers.
by Childhood Trauma on Mar 30, 2011 1:10 PM CDT up reply actions
I think Hull's right... to a certain extent...
I would agree that this team is young, and that they have a unique opportunity here to bond and grow together into a real force in this league.
Speaking only for myself, if I were 25 years younger and skating for the Blues, knowing Oshie’s habits and history, I’d have gone to his place myself and dragged his hungover ass out of bed. He might not have been able to skate or participate in the practice, but he’d have damn sure been there, at least…
There’s some merit to the idea that the young guys ought to all be looking out for each other and keeping each other on the straight and narrow (most of the time)… but there’s also an issue of personal responsibility.
TJ Oshie gets paid a lot of money to drag his frosted tips out to St. Louis Mills and practice, so that he can be better in actual game situations.
Can we all come to a consensus here, at least, that TJ hasn’t been consistently the player we all want him to be, and know he can be, this season? And, if that’s the case, then in’t this the time to fish or cut bait with Oshie?
Either he comes back from the suspension very publicly humble, apologizes to his teammates and fans, assures them it won;t happen again, and goes out and plays TJ Oshie hockey every minute of every shift from here on out…
…or the Blues look into trading him to try and fill one of the holes they still have in the roster. They’re not likely to get Paul Stastny straight up from Colorado for TJ (unless Armstrong takes Colorado’s GM out drinking again, like he did before they made the Johnson-Stewart deal), so they probably won’t be able to swap TJ for a #1 center. But I’m willing to bet that they could move TJ straight up for a left defenseman that would work with Pietrangelo on the top power-play unit and could play first-pairing minutes, too.
"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 Mar 30, 2011 1:11 PM CDT up reply actions
I've had a feeling for a while...
… that Oshie could find himself sporting a different logo on his uniform next season. When Armstrong says that he’s watching everyone, not just the Peoria callups – I think that’s a pretty pointed remark, aimed squarely at everyone whose contract ends in a few weeks.
Yes, Teej missed a huge chunk of the season. No, we fans don’t have any idea where his ankle really is in terms of being healthy and pain-free. But from an outsider’s perspective, it’s pretty easy to look at Oshie as having the worst performance-to-expectation ratio of this year’s RFA class; and his O-show at practice puts him into an even more precarious position.
i feel like one zach parise
would look pretty good in a blues sweater. if oshie’s gonna be a jerk, i’d love to deal him and some extra to the devs for mr. zach.
Next in the Nate the Great mystery series: Nate the Great searches for a free-agent forward who doesn't blow dicks.
by NateTheGreat. on Mar 30, 2011 2:39 PM CDT up reply actions
oh and just a p.s.
while hull never missed a practice or curfew, Todd Ewen Suspended by St. Louis for one game and sent home during 1987-88 season for violating team curfew following a loss at New Jersey on the night of Nov. 5, 1987. Ewen’s Blues teammate Perry Turnbull was also suspended for the same incident.
and for no good reason. line items from the anally complete old skool draft central site on brett hull
Made his NHL debut in Game 3 of Calgary’s Stanley Cup Finals series at Montreal. He hit the post on his first NHL shot in that game.
Became first St. Louis player to be voted by fans to the starting lineup of an NHL All-Star Game when he achieved feat in 1990.
Broke Wayne Babych’s St. Louis record for most goals in one season when he scored his 55th goal of the 1989-90 season during Blues’ Feb. 15, 1990, game vs. Quebec. Fans threw so many souvenir Blues caps on the ice after the goal that the remaining 5:53 of the second period was tacked on to the start of the third period so that arena workers would have time to clear the ice
Missed 1991 NHL All-Star Game with sprained left ankle, an injury suffered when Joel Quenneville fell on his leg during St. Louis’ Jan. 15, 1991, game vs. Washington
Scored a goal in 67.8 percent of all St. Louis games during the 1989-90 and 1990-91 seasons, the greatest ratio of goal-scoring to games in back to back seasons by any NHL player.
Missed St. Louis’ 1994 training camp with a mild case of Epstein-Barr virus that caused enlargement of is spleen, an illness diagnosed during his preseason physical
Has never missed playoffs during his NHL career
Hull publicly lashed out at St. Louis fans for booing Adam Oates because Oates was trying to get more money out of the team. Hull referred to those Blues fans as “losers” and said he wanted to “rip the head off” one particular fan who was waving a derogatory sign that made fun of Oates. Hull also made it clear that he was not happy with the team for allowing the Oates contract dispute to end with Oates’ Feb. 7, 1992, trade to Boston. The Oates trade was particularly rough on Hull, who lost his best friend as a teammate as well as the player he credited with much of his success. After the trade, he told Hockey News reporter Dave Luecking that he felt “empty.”
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And a harvest of righteousness is grown from the seed of peace planted by peacemakers.
by Childhood Trauma on Mar 30, 2011 1:32 PM CDT reply actions
Totally repped The Inglorious One...
On the Puck Daddy Comments, saves puppies, gorgeous wife (who is a saint), 30 goals/60 points pace with 100+ PIMS, engineering major = Real American Hero
Hull is talking to Oshie and the team telling them that kinda shit wont win ya the Cup in St Louis . Be more professional and good things will come Be a team good things will come.
by Blue Note on Mar 30, 2011 8:45 PM CDT via mobile reply actions

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