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Game #69 – Blues vs. Hawks Spotlight: Doug Armstrong, And Patience To Learn

By Sam Fels March 8, 2020

When a GM is in a job for over 10 years, as Blues GM Doug Armstrong will pass into this summer, it’s either a sign of an organization’s inertia or incompetence, or a sign of sustained success. Or in the case of the Hawks, both. And it may be that’s the case in St. Louis […]

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Game #19 – Blues vs. Hawks Spotlight: Alex Pietrangelo And The Rottenness In Denmark

By Sam Fels November 14, 2018 0

Yes, that’s probably an insult to Denmark to compare it to St. Louis. We hope the Danes forgive us. We love Christian Eriksen. Does that help? Alex Pietrangelo is something of a yearly post for us. While the Blues have touted and used him as a #1 d-man for a good few years now, we […]

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Game #19 – Blues vs. Hawks Q&A: Once More Unto The Ugliest Breach, Dear Friends

By Sam Fels November 14, 2018 0

Brad Lee runs a gameday program, like we used to but then we either grew up or lost the light in our eyes, called St. Louis Gametime. It’s like ours if all the people who wrote ours huffed paint for lunch. Follow him on Twitter @GTBradLee. So when are the Blues hiring Quenneville? Or can […]

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Game #11 – Hawks vs. Blues Preview: I Never Did Like It All That Much And One Day The Axe Just Fell

By Sam Fels October 27, 2018 0

 vs.  RECORDS: Hawks 6-2-2   Blues 2-4-3 PUCK DROP: 7pm TV: WGN MIKE MATHENY’S NEW PLACE OF EMPLOYMENT: St. Louis Gametime As you’ll have seen/will see in our Q&A with grade-school dropouts and Missouri state congressmen St. Louis Gametime, games against the Hawks tend to be watershed moments for Blues coaches. Not only is it how […]

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Game #11 – Hawks vs. Blues Spotlight: Dead Yeo Walking

By Sam Fels October 27, 2018 0

In some ways, it was never going to work out for Mike Yeo in St. Louis. One, the guy who replaced him Minnesota, Bruce Boudreau, has gotten better regular season results with basically the same roster that Yeo had. That always colors a view of a coach. Second, and more importantly, the whole “succession” plan […]

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Game #11 – Hawks vs. Blues Q&A: How Can We Miss You If You Never Leave?

By Sam Fels October 27, 2018 0

Believe us, we’re even more sick of them than you are. But with Hawks-Blues games being crammed into the first month, we have to put up with @StLouisGametime together. Just close your eyes and think of a happier place, and soon it will be over.    When’s Mike Yeo getting fired? Is it tomorrow? It’s […]

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Game #80 – Hawks vs. Blues Q&A: Tonight’s St. Louis Gametime, Because Your Eyes Need To Bleed

By Sam Fels April 4, 2018 0

There was a time, not so long ago, when we used to produce a program just like this for every home game. We had quite the little rivalry with St. Louis Gametime. So in a nod to the past, we’re just going to give you their program for tonight’s game. Cinch it up and hunker […]

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So Predictable It Almost Isn’t Funny Anymore… Almost

By May 3, 2017

Here in Chicago, we usually don’t get much of a spring. Even with the temperate/weak-ass winter we had this time around, the April-May stretch bounces between glimpses of actual summer and then visions of November. Usually in this place it’s just cool and gray until somewhere around Memorial Day, and then the next day is […]

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Meet The New Boss – Blues vs Hawks Preview, Rough Draft

By February 26, 2017

 vs  Game Time: 6:30PM CST TV/Radio: NBCSN, WGN-AM 720 Dexter Fowler’s Biggest Fans: SLGT Now that the Mike Yeo era began a little quicker in West East St. Louis than most outside of this outlet anticipated, the Blues still find themselves at a crossroads organizationally. This is still basically the same group that Ken Hitchcock couldn’t do anything […]

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Blues Spotlight: Hitch And Yeo… It’s Not Part Of The Martz Route Tree

By October 11, 2016

There’s a lot of weirdness about this Hitchcock farewell tour and the planned succession to Mike Yeo. It’s all very Blues, and it’ll be even more Blues in the various ways it could go totally balls-up. First off, we know Hitch grudgingly lets his team get up and down the ice, and would rather be coaching […]