Um, a post hitting hat trick. 3 posts. HE was our offensive force last night - where was everyone else? Mason played stellar again, allowing 2 goals on a ton more shots than Luongo had to face. The rest of our squad? Flatter than these.
I wonder if I can get these with lingonberry syrup?
Oh, and Dear Bobby,
Do you remember when you came back from injury and you were off your form? I do, because you ruined my fantasy team for a time. Do you remember your last game against Phoenix? That horrible blow-out?What happened to that?
The true highlight of this game was the fight at the conclusion. No word on any suspensions, but the Canucks don't need to send us any more messages. We read you, loud and clear.
Without your goalie, you'd be toast.
BTW, check out AM. Walt has to hold the Green Goblin back... oh, Sunday will be fun.
'Nucks up, 2-0. Next stop, St. Louis. Don't let us down, guys.
Ok, after careful meditation, an extremely long day of educating the yoots of tomorrow, and dinner at Joe's Crab Shack (I found something that doesn't taste like old friar oil - oddly enough, it's the crab!), I do believe that I am ready. Ready for the second game of the playoff series that many, many bloggers are picking the Blues to take in 6... but we're down by one, mostly thanks the the efforts of this man:
Tell me you saw the last game he played against Phoenix. You saw that, right?
Just one - keep repeating that to yourself... it's just one game. It was our first game - the first playoff game for so many of our guys, who are so young. Out of all of the game ones played, our goalie allowed the least goals of the losing goaltender - 2. No more fun Wonder Twins set-ups in front of our goal. We need more shots on goal, and we need more from the Kid Line. Berglund barely averaged 9 minutes last night, if that many. We need fewer bad penalties, especially if tonight is called as tightly as last game was called. We need to screen Bobby Lou (hah - that sounds like a gangster name, and it's funny because he's Italian, get it?) and we just need to whap the holy heck out of that puck.
I really think that we can take this game, no problem. And no, I won't make any stupid "play better from behind" cracks, since I just worked 2 into one sentence. Be proud. Blues take it, 3-2. And come home to take the next two games too - those people in Scottrade deserve a show, and they are gonna get one. I guess I'll be getting one from my Atlanta couch.
(Thanks again, goes to Laura from Wazzupwitchu. We stumbled on her site when looking up St. Louis Blues blogs and she's been a good friend of CLS ever since. Follow her Blues coverage as they try to take on the mighty Luongo and the Sedins.)
1. What will the Blues need to do to beat the Vancouver Canucks? Win. Obviously. But win with special teams. Vancouver had a heck of a push at the end to snap out of a horrible January, but they never managed to push their special teams up to anything but average. The Blues, on the other hand, have a top 10 powerplay and a the number three penalty kill in the league. Get Vancouver to take as many stupid penalties as possible - maybe Sundin'll turn back into the one-man-penalty machine that he was when he arrived in Vancouver. I distinctly remember a screw up on his part leading to a game winning goal on our part. Let's try that again.
2. What would need to happen for the Canucks to win? Some really weird special teams meltdown (ain't gonna happen) or Andy Murray messing with the lines, which will probably be accompanied with his yelling at David Perron for the 100th time this season. Oh, and trying to randomly shove Kariya in there, thereby messing up the line chemistry.
3. Fan Favorite TJ Oshie recently received more votes for mayor of St. Louis than any other Blues player ever has. Couple that with the fact that he fears nothing (including Rick Nash), and... yeah. "Osh-ie! Osh-ie!" chants break out randomly in Imo's Pizza joints. Or so I'm told.
There's also David Backes, but since he's God I didn't feel that it was fair to Oshie to have the two compete.
4. The Blues' Goat-to-Be I really, honestly, can't see anyone on our team being a big - "Oh my LORD you just cost us the Cup!" kind of goat. No one's really gone out of their way to cost us a game this year, and if they have, I do believe they're back on the Rivermen.
5. Top storyline Mats Sundin getting a big dose of karma at the expense of David Backes and our powerplay. Several times. Leafs fans everywhere will point and laugh, and the Blues/Leafs series of the 90s will be forgotten as Toronto natives everywhere buy Blues fans a big, frosty Moosehead.
I wonder if I can get these with lingonberry syrup?
