Road Music: 03/30 @ Detroit Red Wings

by CrossCheckRaise on Mar 30, 2011 3:30 PM CDT

I'm sure glad i went to the game last night, a last minute decision. It's good to see the youngsters taking the opportunity to make their case for next year's roster. Even with the OTL, I can at least feel like the team skated hard and generally put forth a serious effort. There may be nothing to play for, in regards to the team's place in the standings, BUT these matches don't happen in a vacuum, either. They all have an effect on the rest of the league. For example, DeTaint is on top of the Central Division, a familiar spot for them. The only challenger for that is, oddly, Nashville. I don't know about you, but I think that'd be hilarious, if the Blues contributed in some way to Detroit losing that spot. It would be a great extended-middle-finger to the schmucks in Michigan.

Fuck You / Cee Lo Green

The Enemy: We know these putzes pretty well, so there's really not much to add here. The important, current details are thus: per today's post-practice press releases, Jimmy Howard is not playing tonight, so Joey MacDonald gets the start. In his 14 games this year, he's gone 2.13 /.930 and is 1-1-0 in his career against St Louis. This is the first time we've seen him this year. He will be backed up by Thomas McCollum, recently called up from the ECHL. Also notably absent tonight will be Pavel Datsyuk, who is still hurt and day-to-day. Both are targeting a return against Nashville on Saturday, so we've got that going for us, which is nice.

Further Reading:

Winging It In Motown

Blues vs Red Wings coverage

DeTaint is Eastern time, so it's an early puck drop: 6:30 PM St Louis time. The broadcasts are on the usual outlets, FSMW for TV, and the mighty KMOX 1120AM for radio. The GDT thread should be around shortly beforehand. Until then, this is your own version of the pregame warmup. Get together here, chat, get your hate on, and take comfort in knowing that there's another generation of GameTimers coming, as evidenced by today's video. Tell us, little girl, what do you think about Detroit?

Ellie's amazing vocabulary pt. 2 (via fuel9000)

LGB!

-CrossCheckRaise

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/rage
I was looking forward to being able to watch this game on TV, but the assfucks will be playing on some stupid ass HD channel that I don’t get. Mother fucker.

I’ll be late for the party because I have a fucking exam. /end rage.

I am a direct descendant of Buffalo Bill Cody -- Everything makes so much more sense now.

by Carnie on Mar 30, 2011 5:10 PM CDT reply actions

So, Hockeys Future updated the Blues prospect list

Top 5 exactly how you’d expect (Tank, Jaden, Shat, Allen, and Cole in that order; Petro lost his prospect card) Notable is Ponich jumping into the 10 spot, with him and Cundari rounding out our top 5 defensive prospects list, as well as Sonne going from top 5 to the 20 spot, barely being on the list.

Curious what TB thinks about the list if he’d like to give his opinion.

Breaking News: I'm currently in the process of writing "I will not say and/or type "that word" 1,000 times.

by Novacain on Mar 30, 2011 6:02 PM CDT via mobile reply actions