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So like apparently everyone on the Blues has fuckin' ebola or something and they're all just sitting around barfing and shitting themselves. Maybe it's something in the big brown artery of shit that separates the city from our fair state. Maybe it's their rubber-cheese pizza. Maybe they just realized they're the St. Louis Blues and this is the body's natural reaction.
The Blues are struggling to start the year despite high expectations. I was someone who picked the Blues to win the whole division, figuring they'd play hard every game while the Blackhawks would get to Valentine's Day and decide to pack it in for the year. They still might, because this is more due to injuries and whatever this infection thing is, but part of me has also wondered whether Ken Hitchcock, like his cohort Dave Tippett has in Phoenix, will again enter the fourth act of a three-act play, where guys finally get tired of his shit and stop playing hard. The Blues themselves have hedged against this likelihood by hiring former Stars/Habs coach Bob Gainey to be a "consultant" or "advisor" or whatever it's called when the organization hires an unemployed head coach with a solid c.v. to loom over you and wait for you to fail, like what Joel Quenneville was made to do for Denis Savard.
Paul Stastny was the big acquisition for the Blues, but he's hurt, so they've called up Jaskin from Rosemont. Jaskin was a pain against the Hawks, if I remember correctly. They lost Vladimir Sobotka, who I know was a pain in the ass against the Hawks, to the KHL. They flipped Wandering Ethnic Slur to Toronto for Carl Gunnarson, who is also hurt. Other than that, it's more or less the same team we saw in the playoffs, right down to the dickfaced Steve Ott, Ryan Reaves, and Maxim Lapierre rounding things out.
For the Hawks, I'd kind of like to see Morin in and Carcillo out to shake things up a little bit and because a game against the Blues requires a certain idiot-proofing. Did you know the Hawks have zero fights through six games? The Kings already have seven. Let's see how long we can keep it that way. Sam Fels also made a terrific case for putting together a Saad-Toews-Kane scoring line. That'd put Richards with Sharp and Hossa on the second line, one would presume, which might put Richards in a position to succeed more than Bryan Bickell and Ben Smith have. I don't expect it to happen, though. Though it's not as if the Hawks have the copyright on questionable distribution of talent: the Blues went forth with an Ott-Backes-Oshie first line in their loss to Vancouver the other night. Whatever, dudes.
Only nine guys have points for the Blues: Schwartz leads with 4 and 3, Crapped in Church has 1 and 5, but it's 0 and 0 for Jackman, Oshie, Berglund, Ott, Bouwmeester, Lapierre, and Paajarvi. Let's hope it stays that way. Fuck these douchebags. Wakey wakey.
_________________ Molly Lambert wrote: The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.
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