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Volume 4, Issue 19 Game Time December 28, 2008

Four Dollars Of Being There The Game Day Guide To St. Louis Blues Hockey Established in 2005

By Brad Lee And the journeyman Winchester was a straight shooter in the third and final round of the shootout against San Jose Saturday Brad freaking Winchester. Go figure. night. Here’s the thing you have to remember: 17 games into his That’s who the Blues have to thank for their second win in four fourth season in the league, Winchester had never even attempted games during one of the toughest stretches of their entire an NHL shootout. The game was on the line. David Perron and schedule and against arguably the best team in the NHL. He Brad Boyes had already , but that left Patrik Berglund, Keith scored the tying in the third period on a sweet breakaway Tkachuk, among skilled players who you could and then notched the game-winning shootout tally in the 3-2 win guess would be in the mix for the attempt. And instead, Murray against San Jose Saturday night. went with the guy who had only watched shootouts from It’s a quick turnaround for the Blues with the the bench and never actually participated. And it Ducks here tonight. It will be interesting to see if fucking worked. Amazing. the Blues ride the euphoria or come crashing Winchester already has set his career high in back down to earth after realizing they’ve goals this season with five. His six points this only won twice in their last nine. year are only three short of his career best in The exciting home win Saturday, easily 2006-07 in Edmonton. At 6’5, he appears to the most exciting since Dutchie Stempniak’s have the physical build to be a force in the overtime winner over the Ducks less than a league. Before playing in college at his home- week before he was traded, came the same town University of Wisconsin, Winchester got day that we learned winger will a lot of attention with the U.S. developmental probably be lost for the season after surgery to program. He was drafted in the second round of fix his injured hip that’s kept him on the shelf the 2000 , 35th overall. Yet Edmonton didn’t since early November. What started out as a make him a qualifying offer in June 2007. He TM surprising and promising season continues to appear signed as a free agent with Dallas and played snake bit. And the hits just keep coming. Something good hap- only one season. The Blues signed him this past pens and then three horrible events follow. After the win over summer with every intention of him spending the season in San Jose, I’m just waiting to hear any day now that the Peoria, apparently waiting for half the forwards to spend time on Drinkscotch Center roof is going to fall in, the Blues have the injured list. re-hired Mike Kitchen and the blue rat broke his leg running Yet with the NHL basically turning a blind eye to Winchester, down the stairs during a game. Well that wouldn’t be all bad. he’s stuck with it and Murray has given him chances. He’s seen Coaching is not for the faint of heart. Andy Murray rode the power play time as well as prime minutes on the top line. At age hot hand Saturday night with the game potentially on the line. (Continued on page 26) Today’s Records, Injuries & News Today’s Team Records: Today’s Injuries: Today’s News & Notes:

Blues: Ducks: Blues: C Andy McDonald (fractured • Former Blue Bill Guerin scored his 14-18-3 (31 points) 18-14-4 (40 points) ankle), LW Paul Kariya (lower body), F 400th NHL goal Friday, helping his 5th in Central 2nd in Pacific TJ Oshie (ankle, again), D Fragile Jay Islanders defeat the Maple Leafs 4-1. 15th in Western 6th in Western McKee (broken finger) and D Eric Dutchie Stempniak scored the lone Brewer (back surgery) are out. Leafs goal, his second since the trade. Last Ten Games: Blues: Ducks: Ducks: F Brad Larsen (hernia), D • Chicago’s Kane and Toews lead all 3-7-0 4-5-1 Francois Beachamin (knee surgery) players in Western All-Star voting. and RW Teemu Selanne (quadricep • Game Time staff getting trashed on a Season Series: All-Time Series: injury) are out. Sunday just to prove that we can. 1-2-0 30-20-9-0

CAUTION: St. Louis Game Time contains extreme sarcasm and less-than-gentle language. But it is a hockey paper, so you should fucking just get over it. Volume 4, Issue 19 From The Editor December 28, 2008

In the world of fan-based hockey papers, brings back all of the suggestions she St. Louis Game Time there are a lot of thankless jobs. In actuality, hears from her regulars about items we Established: November 6, 2005 they’re all thankless jobs. But at least most of should add or change in the paper. She’s St Louis, Missouri the thankless jobs are completed in relative also the one who is on the verge of tears Phone: 402-2266 comfort. In an internet age, most of the every year when we finish up our last www.StLouisGameTime.com writers and other contributors slave away at game. home. On their couches. In front of televi- Amy is out here because she loves to Godfather sions. Possibly while drinking. Probably be out here. while drinking. Jeffio Amy also brought us our latest ‘rock’ But in a sea of thankless jobs, the most vendor. Becky (who is in the garage) was Publisher & Editor-in-Chief thankless also happens to be the one that has recruited by Amy because, well, Sean Gallagher the worst working conditions. After she’s her sister. Becky is the total over three years of doing this, we opposite of her sister and her [email protected] finally have a great group of success in the garage is proba- vendors that we can all count on bly due to that difference. Out Advertising for every game. But it was a on 14th Street, people want to [email protected] nightmare to get here. talk. In the garage, people want [email protected] In our first year, GT had a revolving door their paper and then to quickly get out of the cancer cloud that forms on that first of vendors working the streets for us. I Distribution begged, borrowed, pleaded and bribed my floor. Becky’s quirk is that she’s the only John Nicolay way through several vendors, some better admitted non-hockey fan who sells for us. Just try asking her about the Blues Amy Benoist, Becky Benoist, than others. Billy Cash, Clarence Walker and you’ll get one of three answers: No, I There was the high school kid who got so don’t know, or I don’t read this thing. cold that he couldn’t do simple math and Columnists close out at the end of the night. It works for her, as does the spot she Chris Gift, Duke, Brad Lee, works. Whereas her sister bundles up to There was the guy who spent more time Answer Man & Brian Weidler the of ‘looking homeless’, Becky trying to sell tickets than papers and then hardly ever even wears a coat. I guess the called me from Kentucky looking for cash to Contributors garage walls and impenetrable smoke in buy a bus ticket or else he wouldn’t, “be Jeffio, Jeff Browning, LosBri, there keep her warm. available to sell on Friday.” Childhood Trauma, Dan Doke, Jeff Clarence (on Clark by the Garage Fahrenkrog, Jeremy Pratte & Chris Reed And there was the guy who sold all of his entrance) is our wheeler-dealer, our papers and decided that rather than go close Photographer comedian, our man of the people and out, collect his bonus and leave early, would Andrew D’Angelo trend-setter. If there’s any one person rather just head out the back way and keep out there who embodies the ‘sales not all the cash for himself. Crack is expensive, Mission: vending’ point I tried to make earlier, it’s after all. I mean, when you’re smoking that Game Time will provide prospect Clarence. His regulars aren’t customers, much of it, it is. And no, as Clarence likes to information, up-to-date statistics, articles they’re his friends. It’s not unusual to that spark discussion and humor that ask, I still haven’t gotten the box back yet. find him surrounded by a crowd at any points out the best and worst about our But today we have the best group I could favorite team and sport. We are all fans of given point of the night, and that’s the the Blues and our opinions will reflect hope for out selling. In fact, we call them way he likes it. Not only did he give me those of subjective fans. vendors, but that doesn’t really do them the idea for this column, he has given me The paper is published for every home justice. They’re in sales as much as anyone a lot of ideas for this paper and they’re game, excluding the pre-season, which we else I’ve ever met who calls themselves a all because he really likes what we’re all know sucks. salesperson. Which is why they’re better than doing out here and wants to keep it the myriad deadbeat vendors that we’ve going. I can’t give him any greater Rights & Permissions: rifled through over the years. compliment than to say that I truly All material printed herein is copyrighted Sure, they all have their quirks. Amy (over believe that some people buy the paper and protected. Do not reprint in any th just so that they have a few minutes to format without expressed, written on the 14 Street entrance), I’ve come to find permission from Game Time LLC. out, is very particular. It’s because of her that hang out with him.

I now make sure that all of the money they Clarence is out here because he loves Logos & Photos start with to make change is all facing in the to be out here. same direction and turned so that the bills Team logos and pictures used herein are Which, of course, leaves us with John, the property of the individual teams are all upright. She’s also the only one who the King of All Vendors (on the NE and/or the NHL and are used solely for double/triple checks all of her cash and re- identification and editorial purposes. corner of 14th & Clark). John, with the arranges the paper box before heading out exception of the odd court date or for the night. She’s also the vendor who (Continued on page 23) Today’s Phrase: Beware the Flying V. G AME TIME Page 3

Tonight’s Trivia Top 11 Signs You Got Too By Childhood Trauma Drunk Last Night

11. Kept screaming out the new defenseman’s name First Period (true or false): as ‘Cokey Cokeyalocovo’. 1. Bret Hedican played in his 1,000th NHL game against the 10. Woke up with some shitty yellow rag with a light Blues earlier this season. on it in your pocket. 9. Pretty sure you shoved someone’s kid. 2. Rob and Scott Niedermayer are the only brothers to win 8. Never should have dared the Red Berenson the together for two different teams. Cowboy to go punch-for-punch. First Intermission (T/F): 7. Dialed the number written on the paper in your 3. A bull shark was once caught in Alton, Illinois. front pocket and got Angelllla. 6. Woke up with mouth full of blue fuzz. Second Period (multiple choice): 5. Seem to remember the Blues awarding the 4. was drafted second overall. The first pick in $1,000 mortgage payment promotion to a guy that draft famously said, “I’m glad I got drafted first because who had paid $500 for his seats to the game that no one remembers number two.” Who was that pick: Pat night. Falloon, Alexandre Daigle, , or Dan Blackburn? 4. Got about a hundred alerts from Facebook that you’ve been tagged in a picture. 5. Paul Kariya is the only Duck to win the gentlemanly Lady 3. Dialed the number written on the paper in your Byng Trophy. Which of the following Blues have NOT won back pocket and got Horn Guy. that award: , Pavol Demitra, Phil Goyette, or 2. Thought you saw some girl wearing a Blues third Jorgen Pettersson? jersey with ‘Bertuzzi 44’ on it. Second Intermission: 1. Convinced the Blues beat the Sharks. 6. Which ‘Young Frankenstein’ alum is the New Year’s Day Tournament of Roses Grand Marshal: Cloris Leachman, From the 12 Fluid Ounces of Gallagher’s Brain Madeline Kahn, Peter Boyle, or Marty Feldman? Third Period Not Dead Yet. 7. Which Blue is the most recent winner of the Stanley Cup? 8. Randy Carlyle became the winningest coach in Sharks Not Sleeping Yet. history last season. Whose record did he surpass? 9. Who was the first American born player to led the NHL in goals scored in a season? www.stlouisgametime.com Overtime! 10. Wayne Gretzky led the NHL in goals five times in his Corrections & Clarifications career. Which two players led the league more often? • Game Time apologizes to all of you guys for

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With Chris Gift

Over the past two home games, we saw both the givers and reasons off the ice, Atlanta would have been better served receivers of one of the biggest trades in the NHL in recent trading Heatley for prospects. memory. As great of a combo that Ilya Kovalchuk and Heatley were, Boston traded Joe Thornton to San Jose for Marco Atlanta should have realized that combos like that aren’t Sturm, Wayne Primeau and Brad Stuart. While only Sturm re-created simply by trading one of the parts for another like is still in Boston, both Primeau and Stuart have bounced part. Yes, Hossa did put up some decent numbers in Atlanta, around the league to multiple teams. In 2006, Thornton but a franchise like the Thrashers needed (and still needs) won the Hart Trophy and Ross Trophy and has kept San depth and young players. Jose atop the Western Conference standings since the trade Heatley has gone on to form one-third of the Pizza line in happened. Ottawa, and although the Senators are struggling, Heatley Jonathan Cheechoo and Devin Setoguchi have had career will be a mainstay in Canada’s capital for years to come. years while playing with Thornton. Hossa ended up being rented for a Stanley Cup run by Granted, the trade was money induced, and there was no Pittsburgh last year, and signed a one year deal with Detroit way that Boston could get fair market value for a player like this year. Thornton. But hands down, San Jose was the big winner in Dominik Hasek from Chicago to Buffalo for that trade. Stephane Beauregard and a fourth round pick. This We Blues fans know all to well about money induced one goes back a few years (16, actually) but Ed Belfour’s trades, and somewhere in Columbia, Missouri, Bill Laurie backup was dealt to Buffalo for not much, and in Buffalo still doesn’t know a hockey puck from a cow patty. He thinks Dominik Hasek became “The Dominator” and goalie after Scottrade would be a great place for an NBA team, and that goalie has tried to emulate Hasek ever since. and Jeff Woywitka (who has been playing Hasek took the Sabres to the Stanley Cup Final in 1999, terribly lately) are fair compensation for Chris Pronger. and although the franchise had extreme financial troubles a It is one of a few recent trades that turned out a little few years back, Dom Hasek can be looked at as one of the different than the intentions of one of the teams, and main reasons there is still hockey in Buffalo. He left Buffalo couldn’t have worked out better for the other. for Detroit in exchange for Slava Kozlov in an attempt for the Other than San Jose fleecing Boston for Thornton, and Sabres to shed payroll. the Pronger deals, both to and from Edmonton, these trades As for Chicago’s part of that deal? Beauregard never played came to mind: a game for the Blackhawks and the fourth round pick became Roberto Luongo from Florida to Vancouver for injury prone, potential-never-met Eric Daze. Todd Bertuzzi. To save space, I’ll just list the main cogs of (Continued on page 22) the deals. But seriously? Luongo for Bertuzzi? Luongo is now the face of Vancouver’s franchise. He was elected captain of the team even though aren’t eligible to be the on-ice captain, and is the solid “number one” goalie that team after team after team is searching for. The Jeffio Joke of the Day Bertuzzi? Well, we all know what happened on the ice with him and Colorado’s Steve Moore. That incident led directly to him being part of this trade out of Vancouver. Trading Chris Pronger walked into a pharmacy and him to Florida was literally as far away as the Canucks could spoke to the pharmacist. He asked, “Do you have send him. Viagra?” We also know that he was sent from Florida to Detroit after less than a year with the Panthers. He played in “Yes,” the pharmacist answered. Anaheim last season, and was signed by Calgary this season. Pronger asked, “Does it work?” acquired him from Vancouver, and he’s now his coach in Calgary. “Yes,” said the pharmacist. They say misery loves company. “Can you get it over the counter?” Pronger Dany Heatley from Atlanta to Ottawa for Marian asked. Hossa and Greg de Vries. The tragic circumstances surrounding the death of Dan Snyder was the reason for this “I can if I take two,” replied the pharmacist. trade, and while Dany Heatley needed out of Atlanta for Volume 4, Issue 19 Page 6 December 28, 2008 St. Louis Blues Statistics

Skater Statistics PLAYER GP G A PTS +/- PIM ATOI PPG PPA SHG SHA SOG SPCT Brad Boyes, RW 35 16 15 31 -21 14 19:34 9 7 0 0 95 16.8 Keith Tkachuk, C 35 12 12 24 -9 33 18:15 8 2 0 0 91 13.2 Patrik Berglund, C 30 12 11 23 11 6 15:38 4 4 0 0 55 21.8 David Perron, LW 34 3 18 21 E 18 15:25 0 6 0 0 71 4.2 Andy McDonald, C 16 6 12 18 -12 12 19:55 2 9 1 0 46 13 , RW 35 10 7 17 -4 91 17:16 2 2 0 0 67 14.9 Paul Kariya, LW 11 2 13 15 1 2 18:06 0 9 0 0 31 6.5 Jay McClement, C 3538 11 -7 19 16:39 0 0 1 0 57 5.3 Barret Jackman, D 3527 9 -8 50 22:17 0 1 0 0 38 5.3 B.J. Crombeen, RW* 1962 8 -2 40 12:49 0 1 0 0 36 16.7 Alexander Steen, LW* 1616 7 1 4 17:44 1 3 0 0 33 3 Roman Polak, D 3516 7 -5 29 20:33 0 2 0 0 33 3 Eric Brewer, D 2815 6 -14 24 25:07 1 2 0 0 49 2 Jeff Woywitka, D 2106 6 -3 28 17:14 0 4 0 0 21 0 Carlo Colaiacovo, D* 1615 6 -1 17 18:25 0 5 0 0 21 4.8 Brad Winchester, LW 1751 6 -5 32 12:09 3 1 0 0 20 25 Yan Stastny, C 2922 4 -14 20 12:58 0 0 0 0 27 7.4 T.J. Oshie, C 1222 4 2 2 15:15 1 0 0 0 16 12.5 Mike Weaver, D 1703 3 -3 0 12:54 0 0 0 1 7 0 Cam Janssen, RW 2703 3 -5 70 5:42 0 0 0 0 10 0 Cam Paddock, C 1621 3 -4 0 10:41 0 0 0 0 17 11.8 Jay McKee, D 3011 2 -5 12 16:32 0 0 0 0 19 5.3 Steve Wagner, D 1611 2 -5 18 16:32 0 1 0 0 11 9.1 Tyson Strachan, D 501 1 2 4 15:00 0 0 0 0 1 0 Dan Hinote, RW 1800 0 -6 21 11:02 0 0 0 0 10 0 Goalie Statistics PLAYER GP W L GAA SV SV% SHO TGA TSA PIM ENG 20 10 7 3.25 456 88.9% 0 57 513 0 1 Chris Mason 16 3 10 3.16 395 90.2% 1 43 438 0 5

*Statistics reflect time with St. Louis only. For full season totals, see Pg 14.

Blues Leaders Blues All-Time Leaders Goals Brad Boyes 16 Games Played Bernie Federko 927 Assists David Perron 18 Goals Brett Hull 527 Points Brad Boyes 31 Points Bernie Federko 1,073 Plus/Minus Patrik Berglund 11 PIM Brian Sutter 1,873 PP Goals Brad Boyes 9 Goalie GP Mike Liut 347 Wins Manny Legace 10 Wins Mike Liut 151 GAA Chris Mason 3.16 GAA Jacques Plante 2.07 Save PCT Chris Mason 90.2% Glenn Hall 16

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Skater Statistics PLAYER GP G A PTS +/- PIM ATOI PPG PPA SHG SHA SOG SPCT Ryan Getzlaf, C 35 14 26 40 5 66 19:30 2 15 0 0 121 11.6 Corey Perry, RW 36 9 23 32 5 56 18:18 3 9 0 0 120 7.5 Teemu Selanne, RW 33 14 13 27 -6 12 16:32 13 5 0 0 104 13.5 Chris Kunitz, LW 36 9 14 23 4 43 16:24 2 1 0 0 80 11.3 Chris Pronger, D 36 6 15 21 E 42 26:33 1 8 0 1 89 6.7 Scott Niedermayer, D 36 4 13 17 -4 42 26:47 4 7 0 1 76 5.3 Bobby Ryan, RW 18 5 11 16 10 6 13:21 1 2 0 0 35 14.3 Brendan Morrison, C 3584 12 -2 10 14:50 1 1 0 0 50 16 Rob Niedermay er, LW 3473 10 -3 22 16:08 0 0 1 0 35 20 Samuel Pahlsson, C 3636 9 -10 20 17:56 0 1 0 0 48 6.3 Todd Marchant, C 3626 8 -2 18 13:48 0 0 0 0 43 4.7 Travis Moen, LW 3626 8 -8 35 14:55 0 0 1 0 41 4.9 George Parros, RW 3235 8 9566:090 0 0 0 1618.8 Ryan C arter, C 2435 8 9458:500 1 0 0 2512 Steve Montador, D 3616 7 14 72 14:44 0 0 0 0 50 2 Kent Huskins, D 3124 6 7 27 18:51 0 0 0 0 18 11.1 Bret Hedican, D 2714 5 2 24 15:39 0 1 0 0 21 4.8 Brad May, LW 1805 5 5286:250 0 0 0 5 0 Francois Beauchemin, D 1841 5 -4 12 25:35 0 1 0 0 43 9.3 Andrew Ebbett, C 303 3 E 0 11:27 0 1 0 0 7 0 Nathan McIver, D 1501 1 2319:500 0 0 0 4 0 Brett Festerling, D 1701 1 E 12 17:22 0 0 0 0 3 0 Ken Klee, D* 300 0 E 4 16:57 0 0 0 0 4 0 Goalie Statistics PLAYER GP W L GAA SV SV% SHO TGA TSA PIM ENG Jean-Sebastien Giguere 24 11 8 2.96 679 91.0% 2 67 746 2 2 Jonas Hiller 16 7 6 2.21 403 93.1% 2 30 433 0 2

*Statistics reflect time with current team only.

Ducks Leaders Ducks All-Time Leaders Goals Selanne/Getzlaf 14 Games Played Steve Rucchin 616 Assists Ryan Get zlaf 26 Goals Teemu Selanne 339 Points Ryan Get zlaf 40 Points Teemu Selanne 716 Plus/Minus Steve Montador 14 PIM David Karpa 788 PP Goals Teemu Selanne 13 Goalie GP Guy Hebert 441 Wins J-S Giguere 11 Wins J-S Giguere 194 GAA Jonas Hiller 2.21 GAA J-S Giguere 2.45 Save PCT Jonas Hiller 93.1% Shutouts J-S Giguere 31

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The Roman Polak Joke of the Day

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The BJ Crombeen Joke of the Day

Two married buddies are out drinking one night when one Wanna Be Semi-Famous turns to the other and says, “You know, I don’t know what else to do. Whenever (Regionally)? I go home after we’ve been out drink- ing, I turn the headlights off before I Do you have a different get to the driveway. I shut off the en- perspective? gine and coast into the garage. I take Passion? Knowledge? Desire? my shoes off before I go into the house, I sneak up the stairs, I get undressed in Work well under deadlines? the bathroom. I ease into bed and my Ever pay kick-backs to an editor wife STILL wakes up and yells at me for to get better space? staying out so late!” His buddy looks at him and says, “Well, you’re obviously

taking the wrong approach. I screech into the driveway, slam We’re looking for writers, graphic artists, the door, storm up the steps, throw my shoes into the closet, statisticians and comedy writers. jump into bed, rub my hands on my wife’s ass and say, ‘How about a BJ?’ ... and she’s always sound asleep." Contact: [email protected] G AME TIME Page 9

Deconstructing Pronger

Not pictured: second face. Usually only seen in photos from days in Edmonton. Helmet: two sizes too big in order to properly fit ego. Mouth: all full of bitching.

Shoulders: not strong Heart: stopped by a slapshot enough to carry team. in the playoffs in 1998. Never re-started. ‘A’: For Asshole. Determined by team vote. Dizzy-Makers: apply to opponent’s head; sit in No. 25: chosen in homage to pressbox for three games. our town’s biggest steroid user

Troublemaker: also; rumour starter. Wallet: the decision-maker. Currently owned by Balls: Currently owned by Lauren Pronger. Lauren Pronger. Demanded trade out of Edmonton.

Slasher: used on unprotected parts of opponent’s body. Also used on team- mates. Sometimes used to handle the puck.

Face smashers: caution - extremely vulnerable to hits from Steve Yzerman.

Leg Stompers: also can double as skate blades Volume 4, Issue 19 Page 10 December 28, 2008 The Ghost of the Blues With Jeff Browning

Duck fans should be happy because they get to see their two trade. Tonight, watch out for Pronger vs. Eric Brewer. Whoever greatest players ever go head to head tonight. Teemu Selanne comes out as the victor tonight will prove…wait, Brewer’s and Paul Kariya, Anaheim’s number one and two franchise injured, too. That wouldn’t have been that great of a matchup leaders respectively, combined for anyway. Now put Pronger on the IR and have him take on a 1,358 points in Disneyland with most healthy Brewer, then we have a close fight. of those complementing each other. So the fans may not be too happy, but the draft nuts should But tonight, we will get the very rare have a good time tonight. Anaheim’s number two overall pick chance to see them go head to head to finally in the 2005 draft a.k.a. Bobby Ryan a.k.a. the guy who wasn’t prove who is the better player. For tonight, Sidney Crosby, hasn’t had the best start to his career with only we…wait, Kariya is still injured. Never mind. At 10 goals. Meanwhile, lower picks Anze Kopitar and Paul Stastny least he didn’t retire and then unretire. have more than 100 points already. Well, it’s time to throw So while that rare chance is even rarer, Duck fans still get another guy into the pot of players the Ducks should have to see their old buddy Andy McDonald. He’s fourth all time picked, as tonight, the 24th overall pick TJ Oshie will skate on the team with 243 points. The fans weren’t too happy to circles around Ryan. Tonight…it really isn’t even a surprise see him go, mainly because they got Doug Weight and his anymore, is it? career low 25 points (only 14 with the Ducks) in exchange. By Bret Hedican was drafted by the Blues in 1988. He was part the way, he has 29 points in 33 games with the horrible of a trade to Vancouver that put many Blues fans on the IR with Islanders this year. Anyway, Duck fans can still enjoy heart problems. He had two close calls in not McDonald one last time tonight…wait, he’s injured, too. winning the Cup, then he finally won his So Duck fans got the shaft, but Blues fans should be happy Cup. Somewhere along the line, he married as tonight marks the return of big Chris Pronger. He doesn’t gold medalist figure skater . get injured; suspensions are what you have to worry about. And 1,000 games later, he is looking for one last He won a Stanley Cup not too long ago for the Ducks and hoorah with the Ducks. Wait…1988? Forget injuries. He’s cemented himself as one of the league’s best defensemen. But played with people who are dead now. we can still prove that we didn’t get the short end of that

Blues Record When… With LosBri Playing at WearinTheSameAsYesterday 9-7-2 Everyone loves Brad "Charles" Winchester 1-0-0 Playing on the road 5-11-1 Leading after the 1st 7-2-3 Kariya earns his paycheck 0-0-0 Tied after the 1st 4-4-0 They score first 8-2-3 Trailing after the 1st 3-12-0 The other team scores first 6-15-0 Hinotes' wife's measurements are 34D-24-34 They score 4 or more goals 9-1-1 Leading after the 2nd 8-1-1 They score fewer than 4 goals 5-17-2 Tied after the 2nd 3-2-2 They score on the PP 10-9-3 Trailing after the 2nd 3-15-0 The other team scores on the PP 5-14-2 Fight! Fight! Fight! 6-10-1 A Blues players has multiple goals 6-2-1 No fights 8-8-2 They take 30 or more shots 4-7-0 They are called for 7 or more penalties 5-8-2 They allow 30 or more shots 6-10-2 Other team called for 7 or more penalties 4-8-1 Game ends in a shoot-out 3-0-2 Emmanual "Still got it" Legace starts 10-9-1 They played the day before 4-4-1 Chris Mason starts 3-8-1 The other team played the day before 3-3-1 Ben Bishop Starts 1-1-1 Sunday Game 1-1-1 Game is on FSN 6-13-3 Monday Game 2-0-0 Game is on KPLR 4-4-0 Tuesday Game 1-2-0 Playing the Eastern Conference 3-6-1 Wednesday Games suck ass 0-6-0 Playing the Atlantic Division 0-2-0 Thursday Game 1-3-1 Playing the Northeast Division 1-2-1 Friday Game 3-1-1 Playing the Southeast Division 2-2-0 Saturday Game 6-6-0 Playing the Western Conference 11-12-2 Playing in October 5-4-0 Playing the Central Division 6-2-0 Playing in November 5-6-2 Playing the Northwest Division 2-4-1 Playing in December 4-8-1 Playing the Pacific Division 3-6-1 Brad May is still a punk ass bitch! 14-18-3 Cam Jannsen "plays" 12-13-2 Page 11

Franchise Foundations

St. Louis Blues Anaheim Mighty Ducks Year Player Year Player 1999 Barret Jackman ~ Drafted 1st rd (17 overall) by STL Jean-Sebastien Giguere ~ Acquired from CGY for ANA 2001 Jay McClement ~ Drafted 2nd round, 57 overall by STL 2nd round pick in 2000 (Matt Pettinger) 2000 2002 D.J. King ~ Drafted in 6th rd (190 overall) by STL Samuel Pahlsson ~ Acquired from BOS for Patrick 2003 David Backes ~ Drafted in 2nd rd (62 overall) by STL Traverse and Andrei Nazarov 2004 Roman Polak ~ Drafted in 6th rd (180 overall) by STL Rob Niedermeyer ~ Acquired from CGY for JF T.J. Oshie ~ Drafted in 1st rd (24 overall) by STL Damphousse and Mike Commodore Eric Brewer ~ Acquired from EDM with Jeff Woywitka 2003 Ryan Getzlaf ~ Drafted in 1st rd (19 overall) by ANA 2005 and Doug Lynch for Chris Pronger Corey Perry ~ Drafted in 1st rd (28 overall) by ANA Jeff Woywitka ~ Acquired from EDM with Eric Brewer Chris Kunitz ~ Signed as Free Agent (undrafted) and Doug Lynch for Chris Pronger Bobby Ryan ~ Drafted in 1st rd (2 overall) by ANA Erik Johnson ~ Drafted in 1st rd (1 overall) by STL Travis Moen ~ Acquired from CHI for Mikael Holqvist Patrik Berglund ~ Drafted in 1st rd (25 overall) by STL Scott Niedermayer ~ Signed as Free Agent (NJ) 2006 Jay McKee ~ Signed as Free Agent (BUF) Francois Beauchemin ~ Acquired with Tyler Wright 2005 Dan Hinote ~ Signed as Free Agent (COL) from CLB for Sergei Fedorov and a 5th rd pick in 2007 Manny Legace ~ Signed as Free Agent (DET) Kent Huskins ~ Signed as Free Agent (VAN) Yan Stastny ~ Acquired from BOS for 5th rd pick in Brett Festerling ~ Signed as Free Agent (undrafted) 2007 Todd Marchant ~ Claimed from waivers (CLB) Brad Boyes ~ Acquired from BOS for Dennis Ryan Carter ~ Signed as Free Agent (undrafted) Wideman Chris Pronger ~ Acquired from EDM for Joffrey Lupul, Steve Wagner ~ Signed as Free Agent (undrafted) Ladislav Smid, a 1st rd pick in 2007, a conditional 1st 2006 David Perron ~ Drafted in 1st rd (26 overall) by STL 2007 rd pick in 2008 and a 2nd rd pick in 2008 Keith Tkachuk ~ Signed as Free Agent. Originally George Parros ~ Acquired from COL for a 2nd rd pick acquired from PHX in 2001 for a 1st rd pick in 2002, in 2007 Ladislav Nagy, Michal Handzus and Jeff Taffe Brad May ~ Acquired from COL for Mike Wall 2007 Paul Kariya ~ Signed as Free Agent (NAS) Jonas Hiller ~ Signed as Free Agent (undrafted) Andy McDonald ~ Acquired from ANA for Doug Teemu Selanne ~ Signed as Free Agent (ANA). Last Weight, Michal Birner and a 7th rd pick in 2008 signed as Free Agent from COL in 2005. First Cam Janssen ~ Acquired from NJ for Bryce Salvador acquired with and a 4th rd pick (later Mike Weaver ~ Signed as Free Agent (VAN) traded) from WIN for Chad Kilger, Oleg Tverdosky and Chris Mason ~ Acquired from NAS for a 4th rd pick in a 3rd rd pick in 1996. 2008 2008 Andrew Ebbett ~ Signed as Free Agent (OTT) 2008 B.J. Crombeen ~ Claimed off waivers (DAL) Brendan Morrison ~ Signed as Free Agent (VAN) Alexander Steen ~ Acquired with Carlo Colaiacovo Steve Montador ~ Signed as Free Agent (FLA) from TOR for Lee 'Dutchie' Stempniak Nathan McIver ~ Claimed off waivers from VAN Carlo Colaiacovo ~ Acquired with Alexander Steen Bret Hedican ~ Signed as Free Agent (CAR) from TOR for Lee 'Dutchie' Stempniak

What’d McGrath Trade For These Guys? St. Louis Game Time Volume 4, Issue 19 Page 12 December 28, 2008 NHL Leaders NHL Leaders Points Goals Against Average Shootout Goals 1. Evgeni Malkin, PIT 59 1. , CLS 1.87 1. Wojtek Wolski, COL 6 2. Sidney Crosby, PIT 49 2. Tim Thomas, BOS 2.04 2. Nikolai Zherdev, NYR 5 3. Alex Ovechkin, WAS 47 3. Manny Fernandez, BOS 2.09 3. Drew Stafford, BUF 4 4. Zach Parise, NJ 42 4. Craig Anderson, FLA 2.09 4. Jonathan Toews, CHI 4 5. Marc Savard, BOS 42 5. Scott Clemmensen, NJ 2.15 5. Milan Hejduk, COL 4 34. Brad Boyes, STL 31 36. Chris Mason, STL 3.16 6. Brad Boyes, STL 3

Goals Save Percentage Rookie Points 1. Jeff Carter, PHI 26 1. Craig Anderson, FLA 94.1% 1. Kris Versteeg, CHI 26 2. Thomas Vanek, BUF 25 2. Tim Thomas, BOS 93.5% 2. Derrick Brassard, CLB 25 3. Alex Ovechkin, WAS 23 3. Steve Mason, CLS 93.2% 3. Patrik Berglund, STL 23 4. , BOS 21 4. Jonas Hiller, ANH 93.1% 4. Blake Wheeler, BOS 22 5. Zach Parise, NJ 19 5. Roberto Luongo, VAN 92.8% 5. Mikhail Grabovski, TOR 21 17. Brad Boyes, STL 16 31. Chris Mason, STL 90.2%

Plus/Minus Wins Defensemen Points 1. Marc Savard, BOS 23 1. Miikka Kiprusoff, CGY 20 1. Dan Boyle, SJ 29 2. Evgeni Malkin, PIT 22 2. Evgeni Nabokov, SJ 19 2. Mark Streit, NYI 27 3. David Krejci, BOS 21 3. , NYR 18 3. Andrei Markov, MTL 26 4. Blake Wheeler, BOS 21 4. Niklas Backstrom, MIN 16 4. Shea Weber, NAS 26 5. Alexander Semin, WAS 20 5. Ryan Miller, BUF 15 5. Brian Campbell,CHI 25 38. Patrik Berglund, STL 10 22. Manny Legace, STL 10 85. Barret Jackman, STL 9 Around The

Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About The Kane, working with developers at Bauer, designed the Winter Classic — Far be it from the NHL to oversell an skates and stick this past summer for exclusive use during event, but the upcoming Winter Classic on Jan. 1 between the the outdoor game. Only 88 skates and 88 sticks were created hated Red Wings and the hated Blackhawks is getting a lot of for the event and Kane will sign and auction off the limited hype from the league. editions to raise money for breast cancer research in Chicago In an attempt to make the event nearly All-Star game-like, and his home town of Buffalo. the Blackhwaks, who are hosting the outdoor game at Wrigley The Nike Bauer Vapor XXXX skates designed by Kane Field, are transforming the surrounding area into a free feature the traditional black, white and red colors of the outdoor hockey and entertainment fan festival. Blackhawks uniforms. The skates feature white patent On Wednesday, Dec. 31, and Thursday, Jan. 1, the corner leather tongues and a Patrick Kane logo created for the of West Waveland and North Clark Streets will become NHL limited edition product. The word “Showtime” is printed on Winter Classic Spectator Plaza. Weather permitting, fans can the tendon guard of the skate, which apparently “refer[s] to enjoy two days of free entertainment, including a live musical Kane’s style of play.” Uck. performance, interactive hockey-themed attractions, an ice The Kane-designed Nike Bauer Supreme One95 stick is sculpting display, roving entertainment and chances to win completely red and features the same logo design as well as a tickets to the Winter Classic game and the All-Star Game “Candy Kane” pattern to celebrate the holiday season. Even The festival will also feature free air hockey in the food and more uck. beverage tent and an official merchandise tent where fans can “The skates and stick are the colors of the Blackhawks and purchase Winter Classic gear. Verizon Wireless will offer fans should go well with the uniform, but at the same time, it’s a the chance to test their hockey skills against a projected little bit of showtime,” Kane said modestly. “Hopefully when greenscreen version of the team’s goalies, Detroit’s Chris I step out onto the ice, people will say ‘Oh wow, look at the Osgood or Chicago’s Cristobal Huet. Fans can then have video skates Kane’s wearing.’ You know the old saying, ‘Look good, clips of their greenscreen scoring chance emailed to their feel good, play good.’” cellphones. The two best video clips and showcase them on At least it’s for a good cause, right? The online auction will the jumbotron during the game. run from Jan. 1-10, at Nikebauer.com. During the game, the Blackhawks’ Patrick Kane will unveil The game itself will be the 701st meeting of the clubs – no and use his personally-designed skates and stick. opponents have played more games against each other. G AME TIME Page 13

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Tonight’s Matchup: The Ducks are one of the toughest teams in the league, leading the NHL with 40 fighting majors this season. Last season they finished second in the league with 69 fights. The Blues currently are 4th in the league with 34 fights. The Blues and Ducks had six altercations last season, with King fighting Parros three times, and the two squads have already hooked up for seven fights this season, so there could be some fireworks!

St. Louis Blues Probable Fighters Anaheim Ducks Probable Fighter

•Cam Janssen – Cam has hung in there with much bigger •George Parros – Parros is a pretty good fighter who drops opponents this year. He has 10 fights so far this season. His the gloves on a regular basis. He finished tied for third in the last two fights came on 12/16 against the . Cam league with 23 fighting majors last season. He has 10 so far thinks he looks like Brad Pitt and Arnold Schwarzenegger. this season. At 6’5, Parros is one of the taller enforcers. What do you think? •Brad May – May is a veteran fighter who has had many •BJ Crombeen – Crombeen is a physical player who is fights throughout his career. He isn’t the biggest guy at 6’1 and willing to drop the gloves when need be. He is 6’2, 212 pounds, 205 pounds, but he will go with most anybody. May finished and he’s a decent fighter who won’t hesitate to stick up for a last season with seven fights, and he has four so far during the teammate. BJ has had 10 fights thus far, and he got tagged by current season. Boston’s in his last fight on 12/21. •Steve Montador – Montador is a middleweight fighter, •Brad Winchester – Winchester is a big guy with the size of measuring in at 6’0 and 200 pounds. He’s a physical player a heavyweight at 6’5, 230 pounds. He’s a good fighter, and he who regularly delivers big checks, and he’s decent when it beat Calgary’s Cory Sarich in his last fight on 12/16. Winches- comes to dropping the gloves. He had five fights during the ter has had four fights so far. regular season last year, and has been involved in six already this year.

Best bet of the night: BJ Crombeen vs Steve Montador — Jason Travers, hockey-fights.com

Date Combatants Description Decision

Jay McClement vs After a hit on Tkachuk, McClement jumped Perry and landed 12/10/2008 Edge: McClement Corey Perry a few. Eventually, McClement muscles Perry to the ice.

Montador and Crombeen dropped them, and Crombeen got BJ Crombeen vs 12/10/2008 his back turned around to Montador. Montador pounded Win: Montador Steve Montador Crombeen to the ice.

After Carter (supposedly) inadvertently knees Legace in the head, they went at it. Carter started throwing left hand jabs Yan Stastny vs and looked to have Yan in trouble. Carter then lost his bal- 12/10/2008 Win: Stastny Ryan Carter ance and Stasny threw a right hand BOMB while Carter was down. The zebras came in prematurely and then Carter got up and threw a right over the zebra’s shoulder. St. Louis Blues Rosters General Manager: Larry Pleau Head Coach: Andy Murray and Statistics Asst Coaches: Ray Bennett Brad Shaw Volume 4, Issue 19 Issue 19 4, Volume December 28, 2008 2008 28, December Asst / Goalie Coach: Rick Wamsley

# Player Pos DOB City S/P Ctry Ht Wt S Rk GP G A Pts +/- PIM TOI/G Salary 4 Eric Brewer D Apr 17 '79 Vernon BC CAN 75 222 L 28 1 5 6 -14 24 25:07 $4,500,000 5 Barret Jackman DMar 05 '81Trail BCCAN72203L35279-85022:18$2,500,000 7Keith Tkachuk C Mar 28 '72 Melrose MA USA 74 232 L 35 12 12 24 -9 33 18:14 $4,500,000 9Paul Kariya L Oct 16 '74 Vancouver BC CAN 70 180 L 11 2 13 15 1 2 18:06 $6,000,000 10 Andy McDonald C Aug 25 '77 Strathroy ON CAN 71 183 L 16 6 12 18 -12 12 19:55 $3,333,333 13 Dan Hinote RJan 30 '77LeesburgFLUSA72187R18000-62111:02$1,000,000 15 Brad Winchester LMar 01 '81MadisonWIUSA77228L17516-53212:08$600,000 18 Jay McClement C Mar 02 '83 Kingston ON CAN 73 201 L 35 3 8 11 -7 19 16:39 $950,000 19 Dwayne King L Jun 27 '84 Meadow Lake SK CAN 74 228 L 1 0 1 1 0 0 8:20 $550,000 20 Alexander Steen C Mar 01 '84 Winnipeg MB CAN 73 205 L 36 3 8 11 -3 10 16:33 $1,700,000 21 Patrik Berglund C Jun 02 '88 Vesteras SWE 76 187 L Y 30 12 11 23 11 6 15:37 $850,000 22 Brad Boyes R Apr 17 '82 ON CAN 72 195 R 35 16 15 31 -21 14 19:33 $2,500,000 25 Yan Stastny C Sep 30 '82 City QC CAN 70 191 L 29 2 2 4 -14 20 12:58 $500,000 26 B.J. Crombeen R Jul 10 '85 Denver CO USA 74 212 R Y 34 7 6 13 -3 66 11:08 $550,000 28 Carlo Colaiacovo DJan 27 '83TorontoONCAN73200L26167-32317:49$1,400,000 29 Jeff Woywitka DSep 01 '83VermilionABCAN74217L21066-32817:14$725,000 42 David Backes C May 01 '84 Minneapolis MN USA 75 216 R 35 10 7 17 -4 91 17:16 $2,500,000 43 Mike Weaver DMay 02 '78BramaleaONCAN69182R17033-3012:51$700,000 46 Roman Polak DApr 28 '86Ostrava CZE73227R35167-52920:34$475,000 55 Cam Janssen RApr 15 '84St. LouisMOUSA72210R27033-5705:41$550,000 57 David Perron L May 28 '88 Sherbrooke QC CAN 72 180 R 34 3 18 21 0 18 15:24 $875,000 62 Tyson Strachan D Oct 30 '84 Melfort SK CAN 75 205 R Y 5 0 1 1 2 4 15:00 $575,000 74 T.J. Oshie C Dec 23 '86 Mt. Vernon WA USA 71 170 R Y 12 2 2 4 2 2 15:15 $850,000 77 Jay McKee DSep 08 '77KingstonONCAN76203L30112-51216:30$4,000,000 TOTALS 89 154 243 -114 586 $42,683,333 # Player DOB City S/P Ctry Ht Wt C Rk GP W L OT SO GAA Sv% Salary 34 Manny Legace Feb 04 '73 Toronto ON CAN 70 200 L 20 10 7 1 0 3.25 88.9% $2,500,000 50 Chris Mason Apr 20 '76 Red Deer AB CAN 72 195 L 16 3 10 1 1 3.16 90.2% $3,000,000 TOTALS 13 17 2 1 $5,500,000 $48,183,333 Page 14 Page Page 15 Page Anaheim Ducks Rosters General Manager: Bob Murray Head Coach: Randy Carlyle and Statistics Assistant Coaches: Dave Farrish Newell Brown Goaltending Coach: Francois Allaire

# Player Pos DOB City S/P Ctry Ht Wt S Rk GP G A Pts +/- PIM TOI/G Salary 3Bret Hedican D Aug 10 '70 St. Paul MN USA 74 210 L 27 1 4 5 2 24 15:39 $870,500 5Steve Montador D Dec 21 '79 Vancouver BC CAN 72 210 R 36 1 6 7 14 72 14:44 $800,000 6Nathan McIver D Jan 06 '85 Summerside PE CAN 75 205 L Y 15 0 1 1 2 31 9:50 $525,000 7 Brendan Morrison C Aug 15 '75 Pitt Meadows BC CAN 71 181 L 35 8 4 12 -2 10 14:49 $2,750,000 8 Teemu Selanne R Jul 03 '70 Helsinki FIN 72 200 R 33 14 13 27 -6 12 16:31 $3,250,000 10 Corey Perry R May 16 '85 Peterborough ON CAN 75 209 R 36 9 23 32 5 56 18:18 $4,500,000 14 Chris Kunitz L Sep 26 '79 Regina SK CAN 72 193 L 36 9 14 23 4 43 16:24 $3,500,000 15 Ryan Getzlaf C May 10 '85 Regina SK CAN 76 221 R 35 14 26 40 5 66 19:30 $4,500,000 16 George Parros R Dec 29 '79 Washington PA USA 77 231 R 32 3 5 8 9 56 6:08 $575,000 20 Ryan Carter C Aug 03 '83 St. Paul MN USA 74 202 L 24 3 5 8 9 45 8:50 $525,000 22 Todd Marchant C Aug 12 '73 Buffalo NY USA 70 182 L 36 2 6 8 -2 18 13:48 $2,660,000 23 Francois Beauchemin D Jun 04 '80 Sorel QC CAN 72 207 L 18 4 1 5 -4 12 25:35 $1,650,000 24 Brad May L Nov 29 '71 Toronto ON CAN 73 213 L 18 0 5 5 5 28 6:24 $600,000 25 Chris Pronger D Oct 10 '74 Dryden ON CAN 78 214 L 36 6 15 21 0 42 26:33 $6,250,000 26 Samuel Pahlsson C Dec 17 '77 Ornskol SWE 72 204 L 36 3 6 9 -10 20 17:56 $1,400,000 27 Scott Niedermayer D Aug 31 '73 Edmonton AB CAN 73 195 L 36 4 13 17 -4 42 26:47 $6,750,000 29 Brad Larsen L Jun 28 '77 Naskup BC CAN 72 210 L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 $560,000 32 Travis Moen L Apr 06 '82 Swift Current SK CAN 74 216 L 36 2 6 8 -8 35 14:55 $925,000 40 Kent Huskins D May 04 '79 Almont ON CAN 76 205 L 31 2 4 6 7 27 18:50 $650,000 44 Rob Niedermayer L Dec 28 '74 Cassiar BC CAN 74 201 L 34 7 3 10 -3 22 16:06 $2,000,000 48 Andrew Ebbett C Jan 02 '83 Vernon BC CAN 69 175 L Y 3 0 3 3 0 0 11:26 $475,000 53 Brett Festerling D Mar 03 '86 Prince George BC CAN 73 201 L Y 17 0 1 1 0 12 17:22 $475,000 54 Bobby Ryan R Mar 17 '87 Cherry Hill NJ USA 74 208 R Y 18 5 11 16 10 6 13:20 $850,000 97 175 272 33 679 $47,040,500 # Player DOB City S/P Ctry Ht Wt C Rk GP W L OT SO GAA Sv% Salary 1Jonas Hiller Feb 12 '82 Felben Wellhausen SWI 74 193 R 16 7 6 1 2 2.21 93.1% $1,300,000 35 J-S Giguere May 16 '77 QC CAN 73 201 L 24 11 8 3 2 2.96 91.0% $5,500,000 18 14 4 4 $6,800,000 $53,840,500

Legend: S:Shoots; C: Catches; Rk: Rookie (any player who has played fewer than 25 games in the previous season or fewer than 26 in the previous two years and has not reached age 26); GP: Games Played; G: Goals; A: Assists; Pts: Points; PIM: Penalties in Minutes; TOI/Game: average Time On Ice per Game. Volume 4, Issue 19 Page 16 December 28, 2008 NHL Referee Statistics 2008-2009 Since 2007 1st O O No. Official Born Blues Blues Blues Blues Blues Blues Game WLT WLT Games PP PK Games PP PK L L 2 Fraser, Kerry Sarnia, ON 1980 2 5 12 1 1 0 7 26 31 3 4 0 3Leggo, Mike North Bay, ON 1997 3 14 10 1 2 0 10 48 41 4 6 0 4 McCauley, Wes Georgetown, ON 2003 2 4 7 0 2 0 5 14 18 1 3 1 5 Rooney, Chris Boston, MA 2000 3 11 12 1 2 0 10 46 53 3 5 2 6 Marouelli, Dan Edmonton, AB 1984 1 3 5 0 1 0 3 9 13 0 3 0 7 McCreary, Bill Guelph, ON 1984 3 16 11 1 2 0 5 26 20 2 3 0 8 Jackson, Dave Montreal, PQ 1990 1 3 4 0 1 0 6 21 27 4 2 0 10 Devorski, Paul Guelph, ON 1989 3 13 15 1 1 1 5 24 24 2 2 1 11 Sutherland, Kelly Richmond, BC 2000 4 19 16 1 3 0 8 30 28 1 6 1 12 Koharski, Don Dartmouth, NS 1981 2 9 9 0 2 0 4 21 15 1 3 0 13 O'Halloran, Dan Essex, ON 1995 3 21 23 1 1 1 9 42 56 5 3 1 14 LaRue, Dennis Savannah, GA 1991 2 9 8 1 1 0 8 33 34 2 3 3 15 Auger, Stephane Montreal, PQ 2000 1 7 5 0 1 0 7 41 48 4 2 1 16 Shick, Rob Port Alberni, BC 1986 3 10 14 2 1 0 9 28 39 2 6 0 18 Kimmerly, Greg Toronto, ON 1996 2 8 10 0 1 1 9 32 37 3 5 1 20 Peel, Tim Toronto, ON 1999 5 20 21 2 3 0 11 47 40 4 5 2 21 VanMassenhoven, Don Parkhill, ON 1993 3 17 15 1 2 0 10 44 47 6 3 1 23 Watson, Brad Regina, Sas 1996 3 16 16 1 1 1 8 35 40 3 2 3 25 Joannette, Marc Verdun, PQ 1999 4 18 22 1 2 1 6 25 30 1 4 1 26 Martell, Rob Winnipeg, MB 1996 3 11 15 1 2 0 12 51 62 8 4 0 27 Furlatt, Eric Trois-Rivieres, PQ 2001 3 15 12 1 2 0 6 29 28 3 2 1 28 Lee, Chris St John, NB 2001 2 13 13 0 1 1 6 28 31 2 2 2 29 Walsh, Ian Philadelphia, PA 2000 2 8 8 0 2 0 5 17 21 1 4 0 30 Hasenfratz, Mike Regina, SK 2000 3 9 10 1 1 1 32 Kowal, Tom Vernon, BC 2000 1 2 3 1 0 0 7 32 32 2 3 2 33 Pollock, Kevin Kincardine, ON 2000 1 4 3 1 0 0 6 26 27 3 3 0 34 Meier, Brad Dayton, OH 1999 1 4 2 1 0 0 8 34 30 4 3 1 35 Warren, Dean Toronto, ON 1999 6 34 25 1 3 2 36 Morton, Dean Peterborough, ON 2000 2 9 7 2 0 0 3 16 13 3 0 0 37 Rehman, Kyle Stettler, AB 2008 1 5 5 1 0 0 1 5 5 1 0 0 38 St Laurent, Francois Greenfield Park, PQ 2006 1 6 6 1 0 0 4 16 18 1 2 1 39 Dwyer, Gord Halifax, NS 2003 5 22 20 2 3 0 40 Kozari, Steve Penticton, BC 2006 6 30 26 3 3 0 42 O'Rourke, Dan Calgary, AB 1999 2 11 7 0 1 1 43 Pochmara, Brian Detroit, MI 2006 3 12 13 2 1 0 6 26 33 2 4 0 45 St. Pierre, Justin Dolbeau, PQ 2003 5 23 22 3 1 1 TOTALS 35 156 161 13 19 3 501 526 46 55 15 NHL Linesmen

#Name #Name #Name #Name #Name 17 Heyer, Shane 61 Seitz, Lyle 73 Rody, Vaughan 80 Nelson, Thor 91 Henderson, Don 47 Schachte, Dan 65 Racicot, Pierre 74 Cameron, Lonnie 82 Galloway, Ryan 92 Shewchyk, Mark 54 Devorski, Greg 66 Gibbs, Darren 75 Amell, Derek 84 Sericolo, Tony 93 Murphy, Brian 56 Wheler, Mark 67 Champoux, Pierre 76 Cormier, Michel 86 Lazarowich, Brad 95 Murray, Jonny 57 Sharrers, Jay 68 Driscoll, Scott 77 Nowak, Tim 88 Cvik, Mike 96 Brisebois, David 59 Barton, Steve 70 Nansen, Derek 78 Mach, Brian 89 Miller, Steve 97 Morin, Jean 60 Dapuzzo, Pat 71 Kovachik, Brad 79 Pare, Mark 90 McElman, Andy G AME TIME Page 17 St. Louis Game Time Scorecard

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Dear Answer Man, Scoring Sensation BJ Crombeen. You always want to go with OK, I’m a slowly becoming a fan of the shootout. I have what is hot but you also have to be strategic and play the tried to fight it but it is nice getting some closure to a game. odds. It’s like picking up skanks: Do you go for the gal who I am also finding myself getting really wrapped up when it lives in West County and who only puts out for the Frat Guys comes down to the final shot and the pressure on the or do you want the gal from North Co who’ll pay your bail players. Who on the Blues are on your shootout list and do and loves to put out? Exactly. you shoot or deke? Assuming there is a completely healthy lineup, my -Mark (Merriam- KS) shootout lineup for the Blues would start with Andy McDonald. That guy is gold. I would sign this guy to a Funky Bunch, I am like you. Not in the biblical sense, but in multi-year deal and talk captaincy with him, too. I’d follow the “slowly becoming a fan of the shootout.” At first I was up with Brad Boyes. He is fading a bit in regulation play but very much against it. I thought it cheapens our delicious he’s very solid on the shootout. My third choice is Oshie. This game and reduces it to a single act. Not only kid is a runaway train with soft hands and rosy cheeks. After that, but you’d see Euros on the that you are looking at Perron and Kariya. highlight reel more and more. Now do I encourage shooting or going with some When I am on the treadmill at crazy-ass deke move? It all depends on the stupid goalie you the gym doing my Turbulence are facing. If he sits back in his net like Henrik Lunquist, Training sprints, I watch ESPN shoot all day long. If he is like that freak Marty Turco, he’s Sportscenter. It’s either that or coming at you and you need to get him going side to side and ‘Flavor of Love’ and I can’t watch call him names. chicks throw themselves at Flava Flav. I can’t even believe that guy That reminds me of a really bitchin’ idea I had about the made it adulthood and I’m fairly pageantry missing from shootouts. There needs to be a mind certain he can’t read. I try to time my cardio after my weight- game element to shootouts. You need some showmanship. lifting session so I can catch the Top 10 Plays of the Day. There should be pointing, gesturing, posturing and flat out There are usually some really cool goals that are scored and name calling. The home crowd needs to get into it and chant you catch some cool shootout highlights too. You might see the opposing goalie’s name. There is not nearly enough of two hockey highlights vs. the eight NBA dunks that are on that. Get in their head. A shootout is a total mind-screw and the list. Yeah, watching an NBA player dunk really takes a lot players and fans need to add to it. Make it crazy like glow in doesn’t it? It is usually a seven-foot guy just jamming a ball the dark naked basement wrestling. into the hoop. Whoopee! I’d rather help Answer Mom’s What about the post-goal celebration? Simple, if you are friend Phyllis remove the blackheads from her shoulders, on the visiting team and you score the winner you should arms, ears and neck. That broad is covered in those things. It jerk your stick off to the crowd. That makes them go insane is a sight to behold. and makes for a real interesting trip out of the arena to the After going through some of these shootouts the past few team bus. years, it is certainly growing on me. We are also seeing a lot of cool moves. The most recent one was a spin around deke Send your questions on hockey (NHL or rec league), by that albino Jason Blake of the Maple Leafs. Man, that guy Busch beer or any other thing that keeps you awake at night is white. You can also see dudes like Martin St. Louis come in to: [email protected] and have them on a goalie on his backhand while practically skating answered here. backwards. I loved that move because it was totally unexpected. It was a nice surprise, like when you find an extra dollar in the dryer after you wash your Zubas or your cut-off jean shorts. Now, who would I put up in the shootout for the Blues? It would be easy to say you go with your hot hand and put in

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This home schedule is a bitch. This weekend marks the least temporarily reaffirmed my belief in this team. It seems second time in December that the Blues have played three like two things are important to people who grew up playing ice home games over the span of four evenings. hockey that seem to completely fly by the rest of the crowd: For all of you loyal GT readers who have made each and respect for the jersey, and the importance of a team’s captains. every home game this season, you might have an appreciation Brewer was an abysmal choice, but that’s another cellphone of how much of a pain in the ass it is to leave the house three article written under the influence of alcohol altogether... for nights out of four, make sure that you have enough cash for that matter, so is the argument about who should be wearing both parking and a paper, park, the ‘C’ for this team. McClement and Backes were the only grab a paper, get inside, and logical choices to step into the captaincy rotation, and the fact watch another crushing defeat. that one of them was given a letter - and not Cam fucking If you’re a GT staffer, take all of Janssen - leads me to believe that maybe things aren’t as bad as that and then add on writing a they seem to be on the Blues bench. page or two about something I surmise that they might be bad because Janssen is playing that makes you sound like you on a line with Berglund and Perron. Either one of two things is know what you’re writing true here: 1. Andy Murray honestly believes that the develop- about on the night before each ment of these two future stars is best done under the watchful game, and you have a decent eye of someone who skates like a mentally disabled gorilla and FF has some advice for idea of how it is for all of us. knows nothing more about what to do with a puck in open the Eureka Exciter. I know: “WAAAAAH!” In space than Blackhawks wonder-kid and all-time fruit Patrick any case, I’m taking a shortcut on this one. Sitting from my Kane would know what to do with an inebriated Angellla after a perch high in the nosebleed seats, I’m cranking out the article Blues/Hawks game, or 2. The front office has mandated that, for the Ducks game on my cellphone in between the periods for the sake of PR, the ‘hometown kid’ gets some top-level ice and intermissions of the Sharks game. I’ve got a $9 specialty time. Either way, seeing him on the ice with those two is like a beer in hand (nothing fruity - just a Duck Island Ale), and kick in the balls. plenty of anxiety about the real state of the team, so we’ll put Janssen was brought to this team to do one thing: fight. My off relevant fantasy analysis, profanity, and Towel Boy problem isn’t with the fighting, it’s the fighting just for the sake lashing until Tuesday night while I try my hand at some more of it. The second that I see him in a fight not because he was unsolicited editorial writing. actively seeking it for the first 40 seconds of his shift, but “Fan-tanking” has been a hot topic lately, with the next because somebody took a cheap shot at Perron, I’ll ease up on Gretzky and Pronger apparently at the top two spots in the the guy. Until then, he’s as gimmicky as the Rag Fag, and he 2009 entry draft, but I’m with Brad Lee on this one: I can’t do makes me sick. it. If the team loses, the team loses, but I’m not going to cheer Well, I guess the Towel Boy cracks couldn’t wait until for it to happen. That’s not going to stop me from rooting for Tuesday. I’m taking the Blues win as great news, and the the Islanders, Thrashers, and Lightnings to pick up two Lightnings win as more great news - keep rooting for the good points in the standings each time they take the ice. Rooting guys – let’s go Blues! against the Blues means rooting against David Perron, and (One note on last night: Sharks Captain Joe Thornton there’s not a chance in hell that I could do it. Have you ever started bitching to the ice crew as they were preparing for the looked into his eyes? Watching him handle the puck is like shootout, which sparked a continued argument with one of the hearing the Beatles for the first time all over again. zamboni drivers. The driver guided his machine off of the ice The fact that Brewer is out and his spot among the three while making a ‘chattering’ gesture with his hands towards captains has been temporarily given to Jay McClement has at Thornton. Great. Fucking. Win!) You Wanna Know How I Know… ...I Couldn’t Be The Big Blue Rat?

• The inside of that headpiece smells like a piece of • If I wanted to do an anonymous, thankless job for shit just vomited. zero pay and work long, terrible hours I’d just • Not a pedophile. start a fan-run hockey paper instead. • I like getting drunk like anyone else, but I’m just • After the run-in with Fredbird, not really allowed not committed to being a full-blown alcoholic. to be around furries. • Have self-respect. • Already quit heroin. Volume 4, Issue 19 Page 20 December 28, 2008

Tomorrow’s Blues By Brian Weidler

The (Calendar) Year In Review, Part II another go at a North American career. To his credit, the Moving right along with our year-end look at the Blues’ Blues’ second-round pick (31st overall) in 2006 came back system, your Game Time Prospect Department tonight turns and played well enough in training camp to earn assignment our keen eye to the meat of the prospect stable. Our focus to Peoria, where he’s scoreless with a minus-6 and four PIM tonight is nothing less than a mixed bag of everything from in ten games. With Alaska, Kana is 2-6-8 with a plus-7 and grinders to goal-scorers, physical Europeans to soft-handed 18 PIM in ten games. Americans, two potential second-generation Blues, and a Paul Karpowich: After starting out like a house afire (2-1- couple of goalies who have emerged this year as dark horses 2 in his first five games, including back-to-back ties against in the race to develop the Blues’ next number one . WCHA power Colorado College), Karpowich has cooled off And now, on with the show... substantially. Clarkson defeated Brown 3-1 on Nov. 7 with Alexander Hellström: The rugged Swede has been having Karpowich in net; since then, the Golden Knights are on an some trouble finding a defined role to play in Peoria this 11-game winless streak (0-9-2), and Karpowich has seen his year. He’s been used as a forward numbers drop to a 3.10 GAA, an 89.8% when the Rivermen have been short, save percentage, and a record of 2-8-3. and has been a healthy scratch on a Jori Lehtera: The Blues’ “Finnish number of occasions as well. Hell- Flash” just celebrated his 21st birthday ström is scoreless in 20 games this (on Dec. 23), and remains atop the year after posting 3-2-5 totals last year Tappara scoring parade with 5-19-24 in an injury-shortened season, and is a totals in 35 games. Lehtera is a minus- minus-5 this year compared to a plus- 2, has racked up 18 minutes in penalty 11 after 20 games last season on a time, and has a power-play goal and a weaker club. game-winner among his tallies. He's on Simon Hjalmarsson: A small, slight pace to match his assist totals (29) from last season, but on pace for only (5’11, 161) scoring forward, the Blues’ They say a picture is worth 1,000 second round selection (39th overall) eight goals this year (down from 13 in words. So, soak it in. Soak. It. In. in 2007 has scored over a point per 2007-08). Lehtera's contract with game at the U-20 level in Sweden and (Game Time photo by Brian Weidler) Tappara expires after the 2009-10 is currently leading Borås HC of the season. Allsvenskan in scoring (10-12-22 in 27 GP) at age 19. Charles Linglet: To say that Linglet is slumping would be a Hjalmarsson was named to Sweden’s U-20 WJC squad, and giant understatement. After posting 55 goals and 126 points is skating on a line in Ottawa with top draft prospect Magnus for the Rivermen in the last two seasons, the 6’2, 212-pound Pääjärvi-Svensson and Detroit prospect Joakim Andersson. Montreal native has managed only one goal and five points : An unheralded free-agent from the Rangers’ in 17 games this year. In his defense, Linglet only recently organization signing this past summer, Holt is making a very rejoined the Rivermen on Dec. 21 after missing over a month strong move up the Blues’ goaltending depth chart. In eight with a fractured wrist suffered in the last drill of a team games, Holt is 5-3-0 with one (at Rochester on practice on Nov. 20. Dec. 12), a sparkling 1.75 GAA and a 92.5% save percentage, James Livingston: A power forward in the making, the best numbers of any goalie in Peoria by a long shot. Holt Livingston has struggled a bit in his second season with Sault has allowed more than two goals only once, a 4-3 OT win at Ste. Marie (OHL). The second of three picks by the Blues in Grand Rapids on Dec. 26. the third round last year (70th overall), Livingston is 11-9-20 Jonas Junland: Another player rapidly rising up the Blues’ (five PPG) in 38 games played, with a minus-5 and 38 min- depth chart, Junland actually started the season on the NHL utes in the sin bin. That puts the 6’2, 213-pound winger on roster, but was sidelined by a shoulder injury until late pace to match last season’s 21-goal output, but come up a October, when he was sent to Peoria for conditioning. The little short on assists (on pace for 17 compared to 23 in 2007- 6’2, 198-pound Swede quickly established himself as one of 08). the top blueliners on the Rivermen roster, with seven goals Matthew McCollem: The strapping (6’1, 205) New Eng- (all scored on special teams -- 5 PPG, 2 SHG), nine assists, lander is settling into a scoring-line role in his sophomore an even plus-minus, and 18 PIM in 26 games. Junland also year at Harvard. After finishing the 2007-08 season with a got a one-game cup of coffee with the Blues earlier this flourish (4-8-12 in his last 14 games) and sharing Harvard’s month, playing 12:28 of a 4-2 loss at Washington on Dec. 18. rookie of the year award with 2009 draft prospect Michael Tomas Kana: After departing Alaska and returning home Biega, McCollem is picking up this year where he left off. In to the Czech Republic halfway through the 2007-08 season, 13 games, McCollem is 3-3-6, with all three goals coming on it was even money whether Kana would be back this year for (Continued on page 21) G AME TIME Page 21

made his debut in the rough-and-tumble at the tender age of 15 in the 2001-02 season. He then spent the next five seasons establishing himself as a no-nonsense blueliner who could chip in a few points and play a solid defensive By Brian Weidler game. Anaheim signed Festerling to a three-year entry- level contract in September of 2005, and Brett Festerling returned him to the Vancouver Giants of the WHL, where he out together two solid Shoots: Left years for the emerging major junior power- Height: 6’1 house before turning pro with the AHL’s Portland (ME) Pirates last season. Weight: 208 Festerling has been up and down Birthdate: March 3, 1986 between Anaheim and the Iowa Chops of Birthplace: Quesnel, British Columbia the AHL several times this year, and is 0-1-1 A solid-two-way defenseman, Festerling in 16 NHL games with the Ducks, while has taken the long way to the National posting 0-6-6 totals, with 14 PIM and a Hockey League. plus-2 mark, in 15 games down on the farm. A native of Bob Gassoff’s home town, Festerling

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(Continued from page 20) Trevor Nill: The son of former Blue and current Detroit assistant GM Jim Nill is skating for Michigan State and their the power play; he’s also a minus-4 for a team that's 4-7-2 and longtime coach Rick Comley this year, after spending 2007-08 has a minus-12 goals-for/goals-against differential, and he has with Penticton of the British Columbia Junior League. The 6’2, 14 minutes in penalty time. 190-pound center posted 5-6-11 totals and 16 PIM in 53 games Philip McRae: A bout with mononucleosis slowed McRae for Penticton last year, and is 1-1-2 with 4 PIM and a minus-3 down at the USA Hockey National Junior Evaluation Camp at in 16 games as a freshman with MSU this year. Lake Placid in August, and kept him out of the first half-dozen Cam Paddock: The 25-year-old journeyman minor-leaguer games for his OHL squad in London, but he’s made up for lost finally got his first taste of the big time this year, and time by racing to the top of London’s scoring parade (and 15th responded with a goal in his NHL debut against Chicago on in the OHL) with 19-18-37 totals in only 28 games played. The Nov. 14. Paddock has since been returned to Peoria, where son of ex-Blue Basil McRae has nine goals and 11 points in his he’s anchoring Davis Payne’s third line with solid two-way last nine games, and leads the Knights with six power-play play, and has chipped in four goals and five points, 26 PIM, goals and four game-winners. and a plus-1 mark so far this year. Anthony Nigro: The six-foot, 190-pound forward was traded Next time in “Tomorrow’s Blues,” we’ll conclude our from Guelph to Ottawa of the OHL during American Thanks- mid-season look at the Blues’ stable of prospects, casting an giving week, and has settled into a second-line scoring role (12 eye on everyone from Michigan’s Aaron Palushaj to defense- -14-26 totals in 34 games) with the 67’s, netting the game- man David Warsofsky of Boston University. Don’t miss it, and winning goal in each of Ottawa’s last two contests. Nigro was remember... “if we do not prepare for ourselves the role of the impressive during the Blues' Development Camp and the hammer, there will be nothing left but that of the anvil.” Traverse City prospect Tournament last summer, playing on a Auf wiedersehen. line with Patrik Berglund and T.J. Oshie in Traverse City. Volume 4, Issue 19 Page 22 December 28, 2008 The Five Hole 09 08-20 (continued) e 20 le Th Shuff Skate (Continued from page 5) ucky L cker Carlo Colaiacovo and Alex Steen from Toronto to Tra St. Louis for Dutchie Stempniak. OK, let’s just keep this space open and hope for the best. There you have it, three (hopefully four) one-sided trades. As the trade deadline inches closer and closer and the current Times Occurred on-ice Blues slowly go from players to corporations; as Andy Finishing Point This Year / Murray says “Keith Tkachuk has to do what is best for Keith Percentage Tkachuk, Incorporated. Manny has to do the same for Manny Legace, Incorporated.” Let’s just hope that our management team can swing another Brad Boyes for swap. Puck finishes in same 14 / 77.8% Or maybe Calgary has another second generation NHLer laying skate as starting point. around that needs a change of scenery.

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Remember Me? By Brad Lee & Chris Gift

Mike Liut and is second to CuJo’s 17 assists with seven of his own. DOB: January 7, 1956 in Weston, ON The 1980-1981 season here was by far Position: Goaltender his best. He finished second in Hart Played for the Blues: 347 games from Trophy voting to Wayne Gretzky, he was 1979-1985 an All-Star, and also won the Lester Has it really been almost 24 years since Pearson Trophy for being the league’s Mike Liut wore the Blue Note? MVP by the voting of the players, and was Canada’s starting goalie for the Canada As Brett Hull is to the Blues’ record Cup. books for skaters, Liut is goaltending equivalent of that. Although Harry Ornest did save the Blues from moving to Saskatoon, he also In a draft that also produced Bernie was very frugal. Because of a contract Federko and Brian Sutter, Liut was taken dispute with the team, Liut was sent to 56th overall by the Blues in 1976. Instead Hartford in February of 1985 for Greg Millen and 1980 of signing with the team, Liut chose to play for the WHA’s Olympic Gold Medalist Mark Johnson. Cincinnati Stingers for two seasons. Upon the collapse of the WHA, Liut’s rights were retained by the Blues. Liut played in Hartford until the 1989-1990 season. He took the Whalers to the Wales Conference Finals in his He quickly became the Blues’ top goaltender, and by the second season there, only to lose to the time it was all said and done in St. Louis, Liut ranked - and in overtime of game seven. still ranks - first in the following categories: Games played - 347 (Curtis Joseph is second with 280), wins - 151 (CuJo, Since he has retired, Liut was an assistant coach for Red again, is second with 137), and minutes played – 20,010 Berenson at the University of Michigan and has become a (CuJo is second with 15,987). He’s also ranks tied for sixth successful player agent, representing among others, with Jacques Plante and Manny Legace in shutouts with ten, Pittsburgh’s Ryan Malone. G AME TIME Page 23 Game Time Gear “How much can you know about yourself if you’ve never been in a Time to get your gear. fight?” Any color. Any size. Represent. St. Louis Game Time

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From The Editor Top 11 Worst-Selling (continued) Blues Items (Continued from page 2) interview with the cops, has always been there for us. A man 11. Big Walt Spit Cup. who knows everyone and a man whom everyone wants to 10. No. 6 golf club covers. know, watching John work that spot of earth is to watch a virtuoso work his piano. Scalpers, cops, malcontents and 9. Paul Kariya home remedies book. troublemakers, John deals with them all in stride and gets 8. Barret Jackman hair tonic for men. them going how and where he wants them going. 7. Patrik Bergland techno CD. And if all of that wasn’t enough, John has a very special 6. BJ Crombeen’s big book of inappropriate baby birthday. It’s the exact same day as the birth of this paper. names. Serendipity, no? 5. Roman Polak home sausage maker. John is out here because he loves to be out here. 4. Blues draft lottery ball set. 3. The Chris Pronger guide to dental hygiene I get approached by people all the time who want to know (discontinued). when they can come work for us selling this paper. I tell them all the same thing, “At this point, the line is long and it’s 2. Brad Winchester Red Rider BB gun. moving very, very slowly.” 1. Blues team photo doormat.

It’s all of them that make me love to be out here, too. From the Empty Beer Cup of Brad Lee

-Sean “a vendor is just a machine, a seller can sell” Gallagher Volume 4, Issue 19 Page 24 December 28, 2008 NHL Standings—More With The Wins

Eastern Conference ATLANTIC GP W L OTL PTS GF GA PP% PK% HOME AWAY L10 NY Rangers 38 22 13 3 47 102 103 14.4 88.4 12-7-2 10-6-1 4-5-1 Philadelphia 36 19 10 7 45 123 112 27.5 83.2 12-4-3 7-6-4 6-3-1 New Jersey 34 20 11 3 43 103 87 16.1 80.9 11-7-1 9-4-2 6-3-1 Pittsburgh 36 19 13 4 42 116 105 19.0 81.3 8-7-2 11-6-2 4-6-0 NY Islanders 36 11 21 4 26 90 129 17.9 81.0 6-9-2 5-12-2 1-7-2 NORTHEAST GP W L OTL PTS GF GA PP% PK% HOME AWAY L10 Boston 35 26 5 4 56 130 79 26.6 81.1 13-1-1 13-4-3 9-1-0 Montreal 34 19 9 6 44 101 88 14.6 81.2 11-4-4 8-5-2 5-3-2 Buffalo 36 17 14 5 39 103 104 19.1 87.3 10-8-2 7-6-3 5-3-2 Toronto 35 14 15 6 34 110 126 21.0 75.2 6-6-4 8-9-2 5-5-0 Ottawa 33 12 16 5 29 80 95 18.2 81.2 9-6-3 3-10-2 3-6-1 SOUTHEAST GP W L OTL PTS GF GA PP% PK% HOME AWAY L10 Washington 36 22 11 3 47 116 108 22.4 79.7 14-1-1 8-10-2 8-2-0 Carolina 37 17 15 5 39 97 112 14.9 77.3 9-9-1 8-6-4 5-3-2 Florida 35 16 14 5 37 89 95 14.3 83.2 8-4-3 8-10-2 5-3-2 Tampa Bay 35 10 16 9 29 84 108 14.4 80.7 4-6-6 6-10-3 4-5-1 Atlanta 35 12 19 4 28 105 130 21.2 72.3 6-10-2 6-9-2 4-5-1 Western Conference CENTRAL GP W L OTL PTS GF GA PP% PK% HOME AWAY L10 Detroit 35 23 7 5 51 128 105 26.2 81.1 12-3-2 11-4-3 6-3-1 Chicago 32 19 6 7 45 119 83 23.6 85.3 11-1-4 8-5-3 9-0-1 Nashville 34 17 14 3 37 87 97 13.5 82.2 10-4-1 7-10-2 5-4-1 Columbus 35 15 16 4 34 92 103 9.9 80.7 11-6-1 4-10-3 4-5-1 St.Louis 35 14 18 3 31 100 120 21.4 80.4 9-7-2 5-11-1 3-7-0 NORTHWEST GP W L OTL PTS GF GA PP% PK% HOME AWAY L10 Calgary 35 20 11 4 44 107 105 18.4 85.2 11-4-3 9-7-1 6-1-3 Vancouver 36 19 14 3 41 105 97 18.1 81.7 10-5-1 9-9-2 5-4-1 Colorado 35 18 16 1 37 97 103 16.2 79.9 10-6-0 8-10-1 6-3-1 Minnesota 33 17 14 2 36 87 76 22.9 89.1 10-6-2 7-8-0 3-6-1 Edmonton 33 16 14 3 35 90 100 18.7 74.7 5-5-3 11-9-0 6-3-1 PACIFIC GP W L OTL PTS GF GA PP% PK% HOME AWAY L10 San Jose 35 27 4 4 58 123 83 22.9 86.0 18-0-2 9-4-2 6-1-3 Anaheim 36 18 14 4 40 103 102 19.1 81.7 10-7-2 8-7-2 4-5-1 Phoenix 37 17 15 5 39 94 105 14.8 80.7 11-5-2 6-10-3 5-2-3 Los Angeles 36 15 15 6 36 95 100 18.5 83.2 10-7-6 5-8-0 4-4-2 Dallas 34 15 14 5 35 102 118 15.2 76.5 8-5-3 7-9-2 6-3-1

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October January (continued) WINNING/LOSING WINNING/LOSING DATE OPPONENT SCORE RECORD DATE OPPONENT SCORE RECORD GOALIE GOALIE Oct 10 Fri Predators 5-2 1-0-0 Legace/Ellis Jan 17 Sat Blackhaw ks Oct 11 Sat @Islanders 2-5 1-1-0 MacDonald/Mason Jan 19 Mon @Bruins Oct 13 Mon @Maple Leafs 5-4 SO 2-1-0 Legace/Toskala Jan 21 Wed @Blackhaw ks Oct 16 Thu Stars 6-1 3-1-0 Legace/Turco Jan 24 Sat All-Star Skills/Young Stars Game Oct 18 Sat Blackhaw ks 4-3 SO 4-1-0 Legace/Khabibulin Jan 25 Sun All-Star Game Oct 22 Wed Red Wings 3-4 4-2-0 Conklin/Legace Jan 29 Thu Senators Oct 24 Fri Kings 0-4 4-3-0 LaBarbera/Legace Jan 31 Sat Flyers Oct 25 Sat Panthers 4-0 5-3-0 Bishop/Anderson Oct 30 Thu Hurricanes 0-1 5-4-0 Ward/Mason

Nove m be r Fe br uar y WINNING/LOSING WINNING/LOSING DATE OPPONENT SCORE RECORD DATE OPPONENT SCORE RECORD GOALIE GOALIE Nov 1 Sat Penguins 3-6 5-5-0 Fleury/Mason Feb 2 Mon @Red Wings Nov 5 Wed @Ducks 2-5 5-6-0 Giguere/Mason Feb 3 Tue @Blue Jackets Nov 6 Thu @Sharks 4-5 SO 5-6-1 Nabokov/Bishop Feb 5 Thu Oilers Nov 8 Sat @Kings 3-5 5-7-1 Ersberg/Legace Feb 7 Sat Avalanche Nov 12 Wed @Sabres 3-4 5-8-1 Miller/Mason Feb 10 Tue Canucks Nov 14 Fri @Blackhaw ks 4-3 OT 6-8-1 Legace/Khabibulin Feb 12 Thu @Predators Nov 16 Sun Canadiens 2-3 SO 6-8-2 Price/Legace Feb 13 Fri Blackhaw ks Nov 21 Fri Ducks 3-2 OT 7-8-2 Legace/Giguere Feb 16 Mon Rangers Nov 22 Sat @Wild 2-1 8-8-2 Mason/Backstrom Feb 18 Wed @Blue Jackets Nov 25 Tue @Predators 1-0 SO 9-8-2 Mason/Ellis Feb 19 Thu @Predators Nov 26 Wed @Avalanche 1-3 9-9-2 Budaj/Legace Feb 21 Sat Predators Nov 29 Sat Oilers 2-4 9-10-2 Roloson/Legace Feb 24 Tue Coyotes Nov 30 Sun @Thrashers 4-2 10-10-2 Mason/Pavelec Feb 26 Thu @Stars Feb 28 Sat @Coyotes

De ce m be r M ar ch WINNING/LOSING WINNING/LOSING DATE OPPONENT SCORE RECORD DATE OPPONENT SCORE RECORD GOALIE GOALIE Dec 3 Wed @Wild 0-4 10-11-2 Backstrom/Legace Mar 3 Tue Red Wings Dec 5 Fri Flames 3-4 OT 10-11-3 Kipprusoff/Mason Mar 6 Fri @Lightning Dec 6 Sat Coyotes 4-3 11-11-3 Legace/Bryzgalov Mar 7 Sat @Panthers Dec 8 Mon Predators 6-3 12-11-3 Legace/Rinne Mar 10 Tue Stars Dec 10 Wed @Ducks 2-4 12-12-3 Giguere/Mason Mar 12 Thu Sharks Dec 11 Thu @Kings 2-6 12-13-3 Ersberg/Mason Mar 14 Sat Red Wings Dec 13 Sat @Sharks 4-5 12-14-3 Nabokov/Mason Mar 15 Sun Wild Dec 16 Tue Flames 3-6 12-15-3 Kipprusoff/Mason Mar 17 Tue @Oilers Dec 18 Thu @Capitals 2-4 12-16-3 Varlamov/Bishop Mar 19 Thu @Canucks Dec 20 Sat Wild 4-2 13-16-3 Legace/Backstrom Mar 20 Fri @Flames Dec 21 Sun Bruins 3-6 13-17-3 Fernandez/Legace Mar 24 Tue Kings Dec 23 Tue @Red Wings 1-4 13-18-3 Conklin/Legace Mar 26 Thu Canucks Dec 27 Sat Sharks 3-2 SO 14-18-3 Legace/Nabokov Mar 28 Sat Blue Jackets Dec 28 Sun Ducks Mar 29 Sun @Blue Jackets Dec 30 Tue Devils

January April WINNING/LOSING WINNING/LOSING DATE OPPONENT SCORE RECORD DATE OPPONENT SCORE RECORD GOALIE GOALIE Jan 2 Fri @Hurricanes Apr 1 Wed @Blackhaw ks Jan 3 Sat Blue Jackets Apr 2 Thu @Red Wings Jan 9 Fri @Canucks Apr 4 Sat @Stars Jan 11 Sun @Oilers Apr 7 Tue @Coyotes Jan 13 Tue @Flames Apr 10 Fri Blue Jackets Jan 15 Thu Avalanche Apr 12 Sun @Avalanche Volume 4, Issue 19 Page 26 December 28, 2008

Goin’ Duck Huntin’ (continued)

(Continued from page 1) year. The loss was the Sharks’ first in to stay out of last place in the Western the shootout in four tries. Conference. So maybe St. Louis has a 27, he’s past the stage of his career of Love the third jerseys. Two of the chance to start a rare winning streak. being a prospect. It will be interesting Blues’ most thrilling wins, last night The Ducks tonight wrap up a five- to see if he can capitalize on this and and the Anaheim overtime winner, game road trip that started back on make something more of his career were in the navy and silver arch. Too Dec. 19 with the holiday break thrown than being a warm body in Peoria. bad the Blues can’t switch it up and in for good measure. I’m sure they flew “Certainly the energy in the building wear them whenever they want. Stupid home for Christmas, but I think it helped us a lot tonight. It’s a big win. NHL uniform rules. would be funny to find out that the Hopefully we can take this momentum For my money, the Frito is the best team stayed in Dallas to save on plane into tomorrow night,” Winchester told corn chip. Hands down. fare. December hasn’t been too kind to reporters in the Blues dressing room, the Ducks. They’ve gone 4-6-1 in the minutes after he was named the game’s Hanging out on the Game Time current month. No. 1 star, another career first for him. website during games is a fun diversion if you don’t have tickets or the Note is Brendan Morrison had a good game He deflected questions about his for Anaheim in the OT loss Saturday. individual play toward the team topic. on the road. You never know what antics will happen. Seriously. He scored his seventh and eighth goals “They’re a top team in the league, of the year while Chris Kunitz netted certainly. We just played hard. We I love the week after Christmas with his ninth. But Jean-Sebastien Giguere played smart. We pressured at the right the World Juniors tournament. Not to couldn’t make it hold up in overtime. times and it paid dividends.” get all Game Time Prospecty on you, With a goals-against average of 2.96, When asked about getting tabbed for but watching those young kids playing ranked 33rd in the league, Giguere is the shootout, Winchester tried playing for their country as well as their future getting used to not holding leads. His it cool. “You’re always ready,” he said. is pretty cool. There’s no lack of effort record of 11-8-3 is pretty average. in any game, even the blowouts over the Sure, buddy. “I’m just trying to take it Ryan Getzlaf and his odd-looking in stride.” Indeed. poor Latvians and cousins of Borat. You can check it out on the NHL Network. chin hair have 40 points in 35 games. Reporters also talked with starting His 26 assists are tied for sixth in the goaltender Emmanuel Legace. His Nothing tastes finer than an over- league. In the hockey wasteland of father, Emmanuel Legace Sr., was in priced beer during a close, exciting Orange County California, Getzlaf has the house Saturday night for the big hockey game. Well it can be better if quietly become an elite player in the win. “That was the best defensive game someone else was buying. conference. He and Teemu Selanne are we’ve played all year. The boys showed After seeing the Winter Classic the only two Ducks with double digits up and played extremely hard tonight. commercials about five dozen times the in goals on the season. We should have won the game 2-1 last month, I’m finally starting to look Remember when Teemu was really tonight,” Legace said. He was surprised forward to the event on Thursday good? Keith Tkachuk was still a young to learn that San Jose was only credited despite having only a meteor striking player in this league. Yeah, it’s been with three first period shots. “A couple the stadium as the only thing to root that long. He can still put the biscuit in days after Christmas, it’s nice to give for. Detroit scores, I feel bad. Chicago the basket…when he isn’t cutting his (the fans) a present.” scores, I feel bad. But I’m sure the game quad muscle with his own skate. He’s A nice present for Blues fans would will look pretty on TV. Unless it rains. expected to miss a month or more. That be TJ Oshie returning to games. A great If you ever watch the postgame inter- leaves Corey Perry, Chris Kunitz and President’s Day gift would be a fast views in the Blues dressing room after Morrison to pick up the scoring slack. healing Andy McDonald. For Valen- home games, you’ll wonder who the The Ducks do still have that one tine’s Day, how about a playoff chase? fuck has control of the stereo. If Matt dude named Pronger. Talking about And I mean a real one, no fake Walker was dead, he’d be rolling over in him and his bone-headed penalties that contrived shit. his grave. There’s a weird mix of teen- keep earning him suspensions is so Stealing a trick out of editor/slave age pop and European techno. Maybe 2006. driver Gallagher’s bag of tricks, here’s a it’s Berglund. He looks like he could be a Techno Viking. The Blues need another win after a few random thoughts. thrill ride Saturday. The Ducks are Remember when the Blues abso- Feel free to laugh at the Anaheim ready to fly home after the game. It lutely sucked in the shootout? Not this Ducks. They lost to Dallas 4-3 in could be the perfect storm. Let’s Go season. The win Saturday gave them a overtime Saturday night. The Blues and Blues! 4-2 record in the skills competition this former Minnesotans are waging a battle G AME TIME Page 27 Game Time Bingo!

Red Berenson Dancing Kid seems Angelllla kind of Fight! Colaiacovo making Cowboy thinks you’re like he’s not just baffled when someone that No. 28 look Fight! a pussy for not about the dancing loses one of the better than Matt drinking on a time-out games. anymore. Fight! Walker did. Sunday.

We Want Blizzards Another $200 stick Still not motivated Cam Janssen takes a Good Mason shows still not as good as breaks at the worst enough to vote for beating. up today. We Want Tacos. possible time. the All-Star game.

Still pissed that last Someone in your Yan Stastny playing Bad Mason shows “Is that Martin night’s winner of the section never stops $1,000 mortgage like Dan Hinote up today. Rucinsky?” playing with their payment was sitting used to play. right on the glass. phone.

Someone in your Cotton Eyed Joe guy You drop at least section vehemently wearing his jersey with Patrik Berglund Air Horn Guy kinda two ‘Slap Shot’ dislikes Eric Jay McKee’s name and gets another point. fucking it up. references. Brewer. TJ Oshie’s number.

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