December 2009
8 posts
Home Deadly Home
Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home. John Howard Payne
What’s goin’ on around here, huh? What happened to home ice advantage, eh?
The Blues have now completed half of their scheduled regular season home games and have only 5 wins at Scottrade; 14 games have ended in losses, the most home losses in the NHL. There has been no...
True Romance
(This article will be published in St. Louis Game Time revue, 18 Dec 09)
If you’re reading this tonight, you must have a TRUE ROMANCE with the Blues. Thanks for driving down to see two struggling, low-scoring teams determine who can make the fewest mistakes and/or try to find a clue as to how to score on the power play or win a hockey game.
Thanks for taking the time, trouble, and expense to...
Two For the Seesaw
In 1962, Robert Mitchum and Shirley MacLaine starred in a romantic comedy nominated for two Oscars in which a divorced lawyer from Nebraska mixed it up with a beatnik dancer from Greenwich Village. Almost fifty years later, American Keith Tkachuk and Canadian Barret Jackman reprise their roles, albeit in a totally different fashion.
As the seesaw Blues try to regain their composure and battle...
There Will Be Blood
If the Blues don’t win this game tonight…
THERE WILL BE BLOOD
Yes, folks, there will be blood: on the ice, in the stands, and maybe even in the dressing room…or coach’s office. And there will especially be blood on the hockey message boards and in the media if the boys falter again at home and lose to the Edmonton Oilers.
Pretty much everybody’s patience has been stretched to the breaking...
Up the Down Staircase
(This article was expressly written for St. Louis Game Time, an unofficial fan magazine for and by hockey fanatics in the Gateway City. It is available before home games at the Scottrade Center.) http://www.stlouisgametime.com/ )
The surprisingly good Colorado Avalanche drifts into town tonight to do battle with the Blues at the Scottrade Center, which will be inhabited by the likes of Luke...