Sunday Links: Powerful Power Play Edition

by hartigan on Feb 12, 2012 7:30 AM CST

WINNER of the dance off is Mr. TJ Oshie. I know, I'm shocked as well.

Most games that title would only be appropriate for April Fools, but Perron had 2 PP goals. Is this real life?

Blues News:

Winner Winner Very Annoying Autoplayed Video Chicken Dinner. [Post Gazette]
Goalie tandem. Elliott quotes. No "superstar." This Blues team is special. [BND]
St. Louis Blues forward Andy McDonald could return from a concussion as early as Sunday night at home against the San Jose Sharks. [USATODAY]
Hitchcock is no spring chicken, but he's out to prove younger coaches ain't got nothin' on him. [NJ.com]
More hockey! Blues host Sharks tonight! [Post Dispatch]
Fear The Fin: Currently accepting bids to purchase their souls. [FTF]

Central Division Update:

How much nurturing should a vet give to a rookie? Or should the rookie magically adapt to pro-level hockey? Does a strong team off the ice translate to a better team on ice? Or is it every man for himself when the trade deadline is looming? [The Cannon]
The Blue Jackets: Same story, different week. “The way our season has gone, I expected that puck to kind of hit the post and lay in the crease,” Blue Jackets interim coach Todd Richards said. [The Washington Post]
OFF WITH HIS HEAD! Chicago is reeling. Just downward spiraling. And the fans are a mess. [Chicago Sun-Times]
ESPN + Jeremy Roenick + Blackhawks = Hartigan didn't read it, but still recommends it. [ESPN]
Detroit is looking to win its 20th consecutive home game against the Flyers. Here's hoping they lose in regulation. [MLive]
Ever since Jeff Fisher agreed to coach the Rams, I've been in so much denial about Nashville that I honestly blocked out the existence of the Predators ... and the rest of the state. [The Tennessean]

Video:

Fun Fact: there is a rugby team in Virginia that uses a former teammates prosthetic leg to "shoot the boot," I find the hockey one much more disturbing.

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I'm going to go watch The Bodyguard today. The Kevin Costner/Whitney Houston one not the Petchtai Wongkamlao one. Although . . .

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2 things from last night 1 drink 1 sober

what is the SINGLE greatest blues play ever. i’m voting for courtnall running the kings goalie. it came up last night, and i know it is STILL underappriciated. until we actually get the cup. the greatest single play is probably very very very debatable.

and jersey foul idea

blues #1

elliut

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

by Childhood Trauma on Feb 12, 2012 8:40 AM CST reply actions

The Trashville fans put me on their hate list for saying we should run Pekkahead

Courts knew what to do and executed it perfectly. Single greatest play in Blues history? Hmmmm, let me chew on that for awhile.

Just a chew toy for the hockey gods

by spectr17 on Feb 12, 2012 2:40 PM CST up reply actions

for my new favorite pic

Is this real life?

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 12, 2012 10:59 AM CST reply actions

I have Berglund on my fantasy team

and this was listed on there. Very insightful and makes me root for him harder instead of getting down on him and thinking trade.

C Patrik Berglund has been too hard on himself at times this season. But after failing to meet offensive expectations, Berglund has been one of the team’s top players lately. After scoring the game-tying goal in the third period of Thursday’s 4-3 shootout win over New Jersey, he assisted on the game-winner in Saturday’s 3-2 OT victory over Colorado. “I think, and they said too, that I’m my own worst enemy,” Berglund said. “I’m standing in my own way sometimes and I just can’t let things get to me so easy. I told them if I get down on myself too much, let me know if it’s the middle of the game or whatever so I can bounce back. It’s a part of hockey, a lot of feelings involved … but I’m doing my best.”

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 12, 2012 11:06 AM CST reply actions

I agree with you.

A lot of Avs fans asked why us Blues fans don’t like EJ much anymore. I think it was a question of work ethic and effort. I never felt he was as good as he should have been, and I’ve stopped buying the “Defensemen take longer” argument when Petro and Kirk are so good already.

Berglund on the other hand, I don’t question his work ethic at all. I think he wanted to be an elite player this year just like we did, and when he started to get cold, he started to press, and not let the game come to him. That is a problem that you can work through.

Is willing to go to the mattresses with the lot of yous.

by Novacain on Feb 12, 2012 12:32 PM CST via mobile up reply actions

I think the overall argument is still valid...

… Pietrangelo and Shattenkirk are just far better than average.

From my fan-based perspective, it certainly appears that EJ’s biggest problem is between his ears. When he gets his mean face on – when he plays the team that traded him – he scores goals. But where’s that fire when he plays the other 28 teams?

by BleedBlue42 on Feb 12, 2012 3:13 PM CST up reply actions

JPRutherford just confirmed....

Happy Meal is back tonight! Off the IR and skating with the boys tonight vs SJ.

by hockeyno93 on Feb 12, 2012 11:20 AM CST reply actions

woohoo

now keep Thornton off of him and put eyes on the back of his head so he can spin away from hits and he may play more than 1 game.
Fingers crossed

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 12, 2012 11:32 AM CST up reply actions

And another JR tweet

Hitch says a few (nameless) guys are battling the flu. Everybody will take warmup and then they’ll decide who plays

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 12, 2012 11:49 AM CST reply actions

Can we just have our team in one piece for one freckin game?????????

by hockeyno93 on Feb 12, 2012 11:51 AM CST up reply actions

Shouldn't these guys be vaccinated with every possible one?

I call outbreak of shingles next.

by hartigan on Feb 12, 2012 12:02 PM CST up reply actions

scurvy

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

by Childhood Trauma on Feb 12, 2012 12:06 PM CST up reply actions

Mad Cow

Just a chew toy for the hockey gods

by spectr17 on Feb 12, 2012 2:44 PM CST up reply actions

Bubonic plague

by bluesgirl22 on Feb 12, 2012 3:11 PM CST up reply actions

If every team goes through a flu bug at some point (and more often than not, it does happen)

I’d much rather have the Blues catch the flu in February rather than, oh, let’s say during a 1st round playoff series against Vancouver.

No beer and no TV make Homer...something something.

by Poor College Student on Feb 12, 2012 12:46 PM CST up reply actions

i blame the kids

as in the young kids getting the parents sick.

St. Louis Game Time

by averagejoe on Feb 12, 2012 1:06 PM CST up reply actions

Little bit of controversy over

the Berglund/Cola goal.

Kerbs said Cola told him it hit him in the elbow after the game. Bergie fans say no way it even got near Cola on the replay and Cola shouldn’t be a goal hog with Bergie struggling with the confidence. One listener who had the raw online feed said Bernie played the goal back and forth 20 times before his post game interview with Bergie and reassured the big Swede it was his goal and not Cola’s.

Just a chew toy for the hockey gods

by spectr17 on Feb 12, 2012 2:48 PM CST reply actions