Puckdaddy's"The Essentials: St. Louis Blues"
Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2012 6:42 am
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-puck- ... more-39960
Puck Daddy has been doing a feature on a different team every few days this summer called "The Essentials". Each one is written by a blogger(s) of that team to inform other fans about the team's most memorable goals, games, players, traditions, etc. I have been reading every one and they have been extremely interesting reads. However, I can't help but feel a bit disappointed at the Blues' article.
He got all of the obvious ones right(Monday Night Miracle, Brett Hull, Dan Kelly) but some entries are severely lacking or just downright wrong.
The Power Play dance? seriously? This "tradition" has only been around for the past five or so years and is pretty juvenile. A better pick would have been the Towel Man (I know a lot of old timers hate him, but I can't remember a time when he wasn't counting goals, he's become a part of the Blues fan culture to me.) , or even better yet the Organ playing "When the Blues go marching in" after every goal, instead of a typical goal song. The Management has experimented with the post goal celebration song a few times, and every time the backlash from the fans has been so negative that it has never lasted long at all, and I feel proud to be one of the only franchises left in sports that still uses predominately organ music at our home arena instead of generic bullshit stadium pop anthems.
The Twist vs. Chase fight was kinda cool to see at the time, but definitely not the most memorable in Blues history. The Joseph vs. Cheveldae fight/brawl and the St. Patrick's day massacre immediately come to mind. Even the brawl in the late 60's in Philadelphia where the Blues ended up going into the stands and fighting the philadelphians and 4 of them ended up in jail for a night should have been considered over the twist/chase fight.
Villain was an alright choice, but I think Laurie is a much more deserving candidate The Blues were playoff contenders every year during the 90's, even despite the judges decision on Stevens, whereas Laurie's ownership group literally dismantled the Blues and left us out on our asses for 7 seasons as a bottom feeder in the league, which we have just now fully recovered from. Obviously Keenan should be another contender for top villain.
There are some other things I disagree with on the list, but those are my main complaints. As a lifelong Blues fan I was looking forward to the Blues feature, but I am disappointed with the result.
Any other opinions on it?
Puck Daddy has been doing a feature on a different team every few days this summer called "The Essentials". Each one is written by a blogger(s) of that team to inform other fans about the team's most memorable goals, games, players, traditions, etc. I have been reading every one and they have been extremely interesting reads. However, I can't help but feel a bit disappointed at the Blues' article.
He got all of the obvious ones right(Monday Night Miracle, Brett Hull, Dan Kelly) but some entries are severely lacking or just downright wrong.
The Power Play dance? seriously? This "tradition" has only been around for the past five or so years and is pretty juvenile. A better pick would have been the Towel Man (I know a lot of old timers hate him, but I can't remember a time when he wasn't counting goals, he's become a part of the Blues fan culture to me.) , or even better yet the Organ playing "When the Blues go marching in" after every goal, instead of a typical goal song. The Management has experimented with the post goal celebration song a few times, and every time the backlash from the fans has been so negative that it has never lasted long at all, and I feel proud to be one of the only franchises left in sports that still uses predominately organ music at our home arena instead of generic bullshit stadium pop anthems.
The Twist vs. Chase fight was kinda cool to see at the time, but definitely not the most memorable in Blues history. The Joseph vs. Cheveldae fight/brawl and the St. Patrick's day massacre immediately come to mind. Even the brawl in the late 60's in Philadelphia where the Blues ended up going into the stands and fighting the philadelphians and 4 of them ended up in jail for a night should have been considered over the twist/chase fight.
Villain was an alright choice, but I think Laurie is a much more deserving candidate The Blues were playoff contenders every year during the 90's, even despite the judges decision on Stevens, whereas Laurie's ownership group literally dismantled the Blues and left us out on our asses for 7 seasons as a bottom feeder in the league, which we have just now fully recovered from. Obviously Keenan should be another contender for top villain.
There are some other things I disagree with on the list, but those are my main complaints. As a lifelong Blues fan I was looking forward to the Blues feature, but I am disappointed with the result.
Any other opinions on it?