December 2010
18 posts
the Flight of the Phoenix
The visiting team tonight is the strangest, most distracted and challenged hockey club in the league as they continue to search for an identity and/or a home. This organization has been on a flight to nowhere for over 30 years. “the Flight of the Phoenix” started in the cold and snow of Manitoba and after 17 years was hijacked to the heat and sand of Arizona under new ownership. Poor attendance...
The Predators
This movie’s got it all! The Nashville Predators hockey team persuades four kooky alien Predators to join them in the quest for the Stanley Cup. Superbly acted by Tom Cruise, Patrick Swayze and Matt Dillon, the Predators “Kid Line From Outer Space” leads the club to the Cup finals in a wild, wacky comedy about human (and alien) nature. See Barry Trotz teaching the new Predators how to skate, shoot...
The Usual Suspects
Hello. My name is billy. I suffer from IHS, Irrational Hatred Syndrome. It’s not my fault. It’s all because of the Usual Suspects.
IHS is a mental illness characterized by an intense, uncompromising animosity directed towards certain others. For me, it always begins in late autumn and rages through the winter months, usually ending in early April, yet known to sometimes extend into full...
Cloudy With a Chance of (Swedish) Meatballs
St. Louis is well known for its quickly changing weather, but it’s getting absolutely ridiculous inside the Scottrade Center. Last Thursday night it was sunny and warm inside the Blues home rink as they battled the Los Angeles Kings in an inspirational game, delighting yet another sold-out crowd by scoring six times in a hard earned victory. However, it was bitterly cold with ice and snow by...
Hammerhead
Yep…half man, half shark, total terror. Joe Thornton is the Hammerhead.
Just ask David Perron or any Blues fan!
Jumbo Joe Thornton crushed Perron with a body-check in an early November home game, which the Blues won 2-0. It turned out to be the last game that the Blues would play with a full compliment of forwards. Thornton was in the penalty box after boarding T. J. Oshie early in the second...
All the King's Men
The Blues have a lot in common with the Los Angeles Kings. Both teams came into the league in 1967 when the NHL doubled the number of clubs to twelve. Both have the same dubious distinction of never winning the Stanley Cup. And both have made it to the Stanley Cup finals (the Blues three times and the Kings once) only to be eliminated by the Montreal Canadiens. The Kings did manage to win the...
The Hurricane Express
It is painfully difficult for die-hard Blues fans to accept the fact that the visiting Carolina Hurricanes have celebrated a Stanley Cup championship and their Blues have not. How cruel and fickle the hockey gods are as they allow the hockey fans in the land of auto racing and college basketball to rejoice after only eight years while the long-suffering fans in a city rich with hockey heritage...
Payback
“La vengeance se mange très-bien froide.” Joseph Marie Eugène Sue
Just about a month ago the Blues were the talk of the town. Off to the best start in franchise history, our boys stormed into Boston and New York and won two thrilling weekend games behind ace goaltenders Jaro Halak and Ty Conklin to claim first place in the division. The victories on the East Coast were...
Mr. Ovechkin Goes To Washington
The red, white and blue-clad Washington Capitals are currently the best team in the NHL. Only seven years younger than the Blues, the Caps were the worst team in NHL history during their inaugural season with a .131 winning percentage. It took the club nine years to make the playoffs for the first time in 1983. Even at their best, they were a mediocre club, until April 6, 2004, that is. That was...