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Tag: Jay Gallon

  • Blues Spotlight: Jay Gallon

    Blues Spotlight: Jay Gallon

    There are arguments to both sides of the Blues trading Brian Elliot during the summer. He was in the last year of his contract, and if he matched his performance with his entire Blues career he was going to get awfully expensive. The Blues have wanted to give Jake Allen the job for a few years, or more to the point they wanted Allen to take it, and no better way than simply tossing him in the deep end.

    On the other side, the Blues had just made a trip to the Conference Final, which might as well have been Mars for them considering their recent history, and a lot of that was on the back of Elliot’s play last spring. The Blues aren’t playing for the future. This is their window, and it isn’t getting any wider. Both Shattenkirk and Parayko are due large raises after the season and they’re both not going to get it from the Blues. So there was serious thought they should go for it with everything this year.

    How’s it all going for Allen? Not great, Bob.

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  • Baby, I’m An Anarchist – Hawks at Blues, Preview, House Unamerican Activities Hearing

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    Game Time: 7:00PM CST
    TV/Radio: NBCSN, WGN-AM 720
    Made America Great Again: SLGT

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    Well the world didn’t end. Not yet at least. And apparently there’s hockey to play down in West East St. Louis tonight.

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  • We Like To Watch – May 24th – The Sound of Inevitability

    We Like To Watch – May 24th – The Sound of Inevitability

    It took a month longer than it usually does, but the Blues are rapidly approaching the event horizon of the platonic ideal of Bluesness.

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  • We Like To Watch – May 23rd – What Makes You Think You’re The One?

    We Like To Watch – May 23rd – What Makes You Think You’re The One?

    So the Penguins blew an early two goal lead (again), and a late one goal lead at home to lose on an ass-goal a minute into overtime. Clearly it was the distinct lack of Trevor Daley in the lineup that caused this outcome.

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  • I’m Saving Myself For Something Beautifully True – Hawks at Blues – Game 1 Preview, Debt Consolodation

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    Game Time: 8:30PM CDT
    TV/Radio: CSN, NBCSN, SportsNet360, TVA-S, WGN-AM 720
    If A Urinal Cake Were A Town: St. Louis GameTime

    As far as inevitabilities go, the Hawks and Blues meeting in the first round of the playoffs this year is right up there with death, taxes, and David Haugh writing something profoundly ignorant, stupid, and damaging. And with this series, all of the old war horses once again will be trotted out, from the Hawks “turning it on” and hockey followers everywhere from local to national believing beyond a shadow of a doubt that this time it will be different for the Blues.

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  • Take Me To The River, Take Me To Where All The Poisons Go – Blues Series Preview – Goalies & Defense

    Take Me To The River, Take Me To Where All The Poisons Go – Blues Series Preview – Goalies & Defense

    And so it begins anew, and the braintrust of the NHL gets what they ultimately want again with the divisional playoff format with a perennial occurence of legacy NHL rivalries along with an effort to fabricate new ones. The Hawks and Blues will meet in the first round for the second time in three years, with the Blues once again having home ice advantage thanks to their usual solid regular season. But even the florid, toothless cretins along the river are beginning to realize that that type of success and $2.50 gets one on the bus.

    Because everything the Blues does is predicated on the prevention of quality chances against, it’s appropriate to take a look at their back end of the blue line and their goalies first.

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  • As You Were – Hawks at Blues Preview, Dog And Pony Show

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    Game Time: 7:00PM Central
    TV/Radio: NBCSN, TVA-S, WGN-AM 720
    Literally A Fucking Radioactive Trash Pile: St. Louis Game Time

    Because literally nothing John McDonough and Jay Blunk do is on accident or by coincidence, the NHL’s quiet announcement that they have concluded their “investigation” of Patrick Kane and have predictably found nothing calls into question a couple other media blips over the past 24 hours.

    First, yesterday afternoon the geniuses running the Hawks’ social media department thought it was important to include Patrick Kane and his mother in a tweet acknowledging International Women’s Day, which is insulting and disgusting. And today it leaked that Sports Illustrated will be doing a (regional) cover story on just how much Garbage Dick has had to overcome this year on his way to being the league’s leading scorer and a Hart Trophy front runner. Because John McDonough is very good at his job, these events are not to be viewed as anything other than deliberate and connected.

    And the purpose of it is potentially two-fold. At the very least, with any bureaucratic loose ends now tied up with the conclusion of the NHL’s farce of an investigation, which allows McDonough and Blunk to start building a ground game and controlling a narrative ahead of what they figure to be a bright and direct spotlight once again on this team into May and June. The second more stomach-churning purpose is for a potential Masterton Trophy nomination, the NHL’s perseverance award for which every team submits its candidate. It would be a tremendously nauseating and ballsy move on their part, considering recent winners include a widower, a bereaved father, and an MS sufferer. But John McDonough is known for big moves after all.

    [extremely sportsy radio host voice]….just like tonight’s big rivalry night tilt in St. Louis between the Blues and Hawks!

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  • Give 'Em Enough Rope – Blues 2, Hawks 1

    Give 'Em Enough Rope – Blues 2, Hawks 1

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    Yes, this is frustrating. It’s made even moreso because the of the Blues factor. It always has been and always will be. But there are still bigger things at stake considering what actually took place tonight, so let the river rats enjoy the two points for now.

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  • Give ‘Em Enough Rope – Blues 2, Hawks 1

    Give ‘Em Enough Rope – Blues 2, Hawks 1

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    Event Summary
    War On Ice

    Yes, this is frustrating. It’s made even moreso because the of the Blues factor. It always has been and always will be. But there are still bigger things at stake considering what actually took place tonight, so let the river rats enjoy the two points for now.

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