Tuesday Links - Top O' The Mornin' To Ya

Corned beef, cabbage, potatoes, soda bread and booze. Have fun and be safe tonight.

BLUES NEWS:

• Not much yet on the Blues-Flames game, so we'll have to settle for this preview of virtually nothing. We should have more up on St. Louis Game Time later, so do check back with us for game day stuff. [Blues]

KNOW YOUR ENEMY--THE CAL/GARY FLAMES:

• For the Flames' perspective of tonight's game, the best place to find it is Matchsticks and Gasoline. [Matchsticks and Gasoline]

HOCKEY NEWS:

• Four games last night. [NHL.com 03/16/15]
• Nine games tonight. Including that one in Alberta. [NHL.com 03/17/15]
• Yvon Barette, who you should know better as Denis Lemieux from Slap Shot, helped recreate the movie's famous opening scene for a Slap Shot reunion promo. [6 WJAC]
• Ryan Lambert thinks the Sharks should trade Doug Wilson. That and more in What We Learned. [Puck Daddy]
• 3-on-3 overtime will be discussed again at the spring GM meetings. [CBS Sports Eye on Hockey]
• They will also honor Senators GM Bryan Murray, who has been battling cancer, at those meetings. #FuckCancer. [USA Today]
• Looks like they don't want to fuck around with "rink rage" hockey parents anymore in British Columbia. [CBC / Canadian Press]
• Capitals Captain and überstar Alex Ovechkin has more power play goals than the Buffalo Sabres do. That is awesome. [Puck Daddy]
• What's with the improbable success of Andrew Hammond? [CBS Sports Eye on Hockey]
• Rangers forward Martin St. Louis will be out for a week or two with a knee injury. [USA Today]
• Tyler Myers missed a game with a lower body injury. Dustin Byfuglien missed a few with a lower body injury of his own. Both were skating at Jets practice yesterday and will probably play tonight and again Thursday when they host the Blues, if they make it through unscathed. [Illegal Curve]
• The hot play of the aforementioned Hammond and Wild(s) goalie Devan Dubnyk (as we saw Saturday) have led to tricky upcoming contract discussions for the two of them and their teams. [Puck Daddy]
• Canadiens forward Max Pacioretty made a beautiful tape-to-tape pass last night . . . right to Lightning(s) Captain and überstar Steven Stamkos . . . the EXACT wrong opponent to throw one to. [CBS Sports Eye on Hockey]
• Penguins forwards Evgeni Malkin and Patric Hornqvist will miss about a week each. If their injuries linger, they could miss the March 24th game against the Blues. But they're expected to be back by then. [USA Today]
• Should the NHL suspend Predators forward Mike Ribeiro for the allegations brought forward in a recent lawsuit? [On the Forecheck]
• Members of the Danbury Whalers had an incident with fans of the Watertown Wolves, and it got bad enough that the police got involved. This, of course, happened in the Federal Hockey League. #SlapShot [Puck Daddy]

OTHER SHIT:

• Wikipedia has a wealth of information on the Feast of Saint Patrick. [Wikipedia]
• An ugly scene unfolded at the end of the Baltimore Blast-Missouri Comets MASL match. (S/T to UIWWildThing, who noted this might be one of the ugliest things he's seen as a sports fan) [The Blue Testament]
• A New Zealand news anchor had to miss the concert of one of his favorite artists, Sharon Van Etten, because he had to work. Well, his news team gave him a surprise, and he was moved to tears by it. This is pretty awesome. (S/T to CrossCheckRaise) [Deadspin / The Concourse]

VIDEOS:

First, a brief history of St. Patrick's Day:

Yep.

And then . . . a little House Of Pain:

Top o' the mornin' to ya.

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