Friday Links: Let's Get Ready to Rumble! Edition

Start of the second half - take two: Blues are back after the All-Star Game. I'm as giddy as ... a weatherman? Sure.

Blues News:

• Mac is back. [Post Dispatch]

• Mmmm. Sexy. Johnson expected to play tonight and other news from the team. [Post Dispatch]

• Bored at work? JR answered a lot of questions yesterday. I really wish he would start answering questions with comics he creates with Paint. [Post Dispatch]

• Cola lost vision for a couple of days. That's scary. [Blues]

• Oilers are here for a 7pm puck drop. [Blues]

• Blue and Copper. Blue and Copper. Not quite as catchy as "Black and Yellow." [The Copper & Blue]

Hockey News:

• Damn straight. Rugby players drink. Hockey goalies fight. [Puck Daddy]

• Foppa is like Favre according to The Toronto Sun. I exclaim, "Poppycock!" Jason from Orland Kurtenblog agrees. [Orland Kurtenblog]

• More frightening things: passing out on the ice. [Puck Daddy]

• Hockey can work in the South? Jeff Skinner is the NHL's Justin Bieber? [sbnation]

• Have 80 seconds to spare? Three fights, two goals, one goalie pulled. [Puck Daddy]

• More from the Stars/Bruins game. This time bring out the Wheel of Justice. [Puck Daddy]

• Drew Doughty scored two goals Wednesday night but didn't get credit for them until last night. [THN]

Other Stuff:

• My daily commute is made exponentially better with each addition to the Redskins drama saga. You really can't make this shit up. [On Frozen Blog]

• 10 meals you can make in your Coffee Maker. [Geekosystem]

• Mustache T-shirts brought to you by the best facial hair to grace the baseball diamond. If I were any good with computers I'd make some NHL Playoff Beard shirts. [Big League Stew]

Video:

From the Archives: Hoggish Greedly and his crew combine 40 years of pop music into, well, awesomeness.

Predictions for the rest of the season? Let's hear them.

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