Weekly Links - Rimba Roll

Team USA blows, Phil Kessel owns and other links.

By Donut King@KingDonutI Sep 26, 2016, 6:00am CDT

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The Blues and Alexander Steen agreed to a four-year contract extension worth $23MM total, $5.75MM AAV against the cap. That’s great, but it will pay him handsomely until he’s 37 years old. Eeek. [SLGT]
Buffa likes the extension, and has four reasons why you should too. [SLGT]
The Blues finished 6th at the Traverse City tournament. [SLGT]
Robb was able to track some of the goings-on with Blues players at the World Cup of Hockey. [SLGT]
Just so you’re aware, we recorded Episode #132 of Beyond Checkerdome this weekend. You should get to listen to it this week.

The Blues posterized the Blue Jackets in a pair of home-and-home split-squad preseason games, 7-3 and 5-0. [In the Slot / Lou Korac]
Make your own Top 50 list of all-time Blues players. [StL Today]
Our old pal Chris Porter is trying to earn a contract. Aren’t we all, in a sense? [SLGT]

Team USA sucked. [Deadspin]
Phil Kessel, without getting a second of ice time, owned the entire tournament. [CBS Sports]
Team Some of Europe and Team Canada have not sucked . . . they start a best-of-three final series tomorrow night. [WCH2016.com]
An insane sequence from Team Sweden and ~~Team Not Applicable~~ Team North America finished their game. 3-on-3, of course. [SB Nation]
Jaroslav Halak and Carey Price used to be a tandem in Montreal. They’ll be opponents in the final series. [Puck Daddy]
Scores and schedule for the tournament. [WCH2016.com]

The Senators had a big ol’ fight after something called Patrick Sieloff tried to give Clarke MacArthur a concussion (and did, in fact, give him a concussion). [Deadspin]
Another Sen concussed? Forward and young up-and-comer Mark Stone. [TSN]
Jets young defenseman Jacob Trouba requested a trade back in May, according to his agent. He is, as of the moment, an unsigned restricted free agent. [Sportsnet]
Penguins goaltender Matt Murray will miss the start of the regular season after he broke his hand playing for ~~Team Not Applicable~~ Team North America at that moneymaker tournament up in Toronto. [USA Today]
I . . . uhhhh, don’t know what to make of this thing from Evander Kane . . . because holy shit, no. [Puck Daddy]
The as-of-yet-unnamed Las Vegas team has already sold out their season ticket deposits . . . they don’t play until NEXT season. I guess that’s pretty good, right? [CBS Sports]

Terrible, terrible news out of Miami yesterday. [Miami Herald]
The great Arnold Palmer has passed. He was 87. [Deadspin]
Tell the cable company to fuck off and get one of these options instead. [Mental Floss]
Blue wine? NOT from Mos Eisley? It’s apparently arrived. [Travel+Leisure]
Some great places to see fall foliage . . . Missouri is in there. As is Whitefish, MT, which is close to some of my old stomping grounds. (Yes, this is basically a travel agency ad, sorry.) [Travel Agent Central]
The Aurora Borealis may be quite impressive this year. [Travel+Leisure]

I may have suggested this one before, but New Holland Brewing Company in Holland, Michigan is quite fabulous . . . as is their oatmeal stout, “The Poet”. [Untappd]

I posted a couple videos from this dude called Snubby J a while back. Here’s a dance medley he did with his special weird instrument thing:

Damn.

And time for you to get Rick Rolled, Postmodern Jukebox-style:

Never gonna give you up. Never gonna let you down.

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