Tuesday Links: Late Lunch Edition

by bradflick55 on Jan 31, 2012 1:53 PM CST

I don't like late lunches... or long periods of time when the Blues don't play.

Blues News

The only blues we're singing are the "why do we have to wait until Friday" blues. [Kamloops This Week]
Andy McDonald has shed his red, no-contact jersey in practice. [P-D]
More Elliott love. [NHL]
Our Red Wing "friends(?)" preview the remainder of the season for the contending Central Division teams. That means everybody but Columbus. [Winging It In Motown]
Tom Stillman is still on track to buy the Blues. [SBN STL]
Ben Bishop (yes, a goalie) was named the MVP of the AHL All-Star Game. [Blues]
David Backes flew 700 miles to rescue three strays. The man loves dogs. [FOX2]

NHL/Hockey News

With the All-Star Game in the books, the trade deadline is the next big event on the NHL calendar. Who will make moves? [SBN]
12 names who will be trade bait for the next month. [CityNews Toronto]
Is Jeff Carter untradeable? [Puck Daddy]
Nobody's really worried about getting a new CBA finished. [SBN]
The Devils and Islanders will play the first NHL game in Brooklyn during next year's pre-season. [Bloomberg]
Conference breakdowns. [Eastern] [Western]

Other Stuff

More sarcastic Amazon.com product reviews. [Cracked]
I love Stephen Colbert. [Buzzfeed]
Rally Squirrel is back. [Big League Stew]

Tuesday Video

I need one of these dog assistants.

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need blues hockey

My internets will be back on next month. See you later.

by tlg80 on Jan 31, 2012 3:51 PM CST via mobile reply actions

Craziest thing.

This post shows up on the SBNation app but doesn’t show on the regular version of the website.

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by Paperwork Ninja on Jan 31, 2012 4:21 PM CST via Android app reply actions

Fixed.

I re-published it, like, 7 times and it finally showed up on the main website.

Kent Huskins cares. Do you?

by bradflick55 on Jan 31, 2012 11:03 PM CST up reply actions

day 7 of the no Bloozockey siege

im sitting in a dark room flickin the light swich on n off. I feel like dustin hoffman in the movie papillion, cut off, alone, Blackhawk demons comin at me in the night. when will it end?

Just a chew toy for the hockey gods

by spectr17 on Jan 31, 2012 4:33 PM CST via Android app reply actions

i think ill take ninjer's advice

n take in a local EHL game 2nite, our Ontario Reign vs Alaska Aces. We have any prospects to keep an eye on with AK? Looks like i missed some brawling last night, they ended up with like 3 players on the bench.

Just a chew toy for the hockey gods

by spectr17 on Jan 31, 2012 5:08 PM CST via Android app up reply actions

Minor league hockey is always your friend.

It’s hockey. It knows you need it.

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by Paperwork Ninja on Jan 31, 2012 6:42 PM CST via Android app up reply actions

Well there are 3 NHL games on here tonight

unfortunately none include the Blues. :(

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by sirensofsilence on Jan 31, 2012 6:14 PM CST via Android app reply actions

Wow.

It took over 10 hours for me to see this on the regular website. That’s amazing.

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by Paperwork Ninja on Jan 31, 2012 11:07 PM CST reply actions

I contacted SBN regarding the issue.

Like I said higher up in the comments, I had to re-publish the article multiple times before it’d show up on the front page.

And yeah, “publish on front page” was checked from the get-go.

Kent Huskins cares. Do you?

by bradflick55 on Feb 1, 2012 2:10 AM CST up reply actions

Has SBN gotten back to you on the publishing issue?

It’s one of those internet anomalies.

Let's Go Blues!
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by Paperwork Ninja on Feb 1, 2012 8:22 AM CST up reply actions

I thought I missed an entire day

I kept looking, nope, no thread. This morning I see people posted yesterday.
I was feeling rather crazy and concerned.

Hockey players wear numbers because you can't always identify the body with dental records.

It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all. Laura Ingalls Wilder

by luvhockey on Feb 1, 2012 8:14 AM CST up reply actions

Not only dogs...

but Backes apparently loves burritos too. Besides the Qdoba burrito contest with Oshie they show at games, he’s making “sugaritos” with skittles and fruit roll-ups? Nice!

by Mr. Particle on Feb 1, 2012 6:58 AM CST reply actions

Voted Backes

It was a tough decision

Hockey players wear numbers because you can't always identify the body with dental records.

It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all. Laura Ingalls Wilder

by luvhockey on Feb 1, 2012 8:17 AM CST up reply actions

I haven't tried either burrito yet.

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by Paperwork Ninja on Feb 1, 2012 8:25 AM CST up reply actions

they are fake

neither played by the rules, you have to pay like 5x more to actually buy one since they have like 15 proteins in them.

yea let me half a burrito. 1/2 chicken, 1/2 steak., 1/4 duck, extra cheese, liver and onions, fried spam. pork, spam, turkey loaf, spam and spam

that will be 37.40 plus tax

And a harvest of righteousness is grown from the seed of peace planted by peacemakers.

by Childhood Trauma on Feb 1, 2012 12:57 PM CST up reply actions

So Jeff Carter

He wants out of Columbus. We could use a sniper. Do you think we try and go for him, or no? If we do what do you give up?

Barret Jackman is my hero.

In remembrance of Pavol Demitra and all our fallen Blues brethren.

by BluesTiger on Feb 1, 2012 11:42 AM CST reply actions

He's a $5.2 million per year cap hit until 2022.

Capgeek shows his numbers. Can we afford a guy like Carter? Can we afford someone who plays worse if he goes to a team he doesn’t like?

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by Paperwork Ninja on Feb 1, 2012 12:41 PM CST up reply actions

and he left his game a long time ago

And a harvest of righteousness is grown from the seed of peace planted by peacemakers.

by Childhood Trauma on Feb 1, 2012 12:58 PM CST up reply actions

I dunno . . .

While I’d honestly love to have either of them playing for my team, if I must have one, I get Rick Nash. He has the advantage of top-flight finishing ability as well as the ability to not be a whiny little fucking bitch when things go wrong. (Yes, I’m looking at you, Jeff Carter.)

That said, I have a feeling that neither of them will be coming to the Blues, though the speculation makes for good copy.

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by Donut King on Feb 1, 2012 1:03 PM CST up reply actions

If Columbus left him on the curb

I wouldn’t pick him up.

If you’re a rich team that can spend to the cap every year, maybe you take a chance. But even when they get a new owner, the Blues will still need to be judicious where they spend their money. Acquiring Carter’s albatross of a contract merely hurts out ability to retain players like Pietrangelo and Shattenkirk later on. Meanwhile everything about Carter, on and off the ice, screams toxic. There’s a reason he’s well on his way to being run out of two cities in two years.

by PersonalJustice on Feb 1, 2012 1:15 PM CST up reply actions