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Devils 12.30.08 St Louis Volume 4, Issue 20 Game Time December 30, 2008 Four Dollars Of Being In The Gang The Game Day Guide To St. Louis Blues Hockey Established in 2005 By Brad Lee joining the Devils. Obviously he sold his soul to his dark lord to take control of the aptly-named team. There isn’t a bigger ego in A reminder of what could have been visits the Blues tonight. the NHL than Lamoriello. Twice he’s fired his head coach and Before we get into how the Blues have had a horrible placed himself behind the bench late in the season, just in time for December and how they blew the game Sunday against the the playoffs. His team also helped usher in the Left Wing Lock Ducks, I’m going to dwell on a few demons from Blues’ seasons strategy that slowed down NHL games and reduced scoring league pasts. wide. What a great invention! The New Jersey Devils can thank the Blues franchise for Lamoriello is one of the most powerful men in the NHL. being aggressive in the early 1990s when it came to He’s credited with playing one of the biggest roles in signing free agents. Retired defenseman Scott negotiating the end of the 2004-05 players lockout, Stevens, the linchpin for three Cup-winning which is a good thing. But he also was the Devils teams, was delivered to New Jersey as roadblock in adding more non-conference compensation for the Blues signing Brendan games because his team is within a bus ride of Shanahan. That was before the league had every divisional opponent and more games true free agency when signing the best against the Western Conference means fewer players drew punitive compensation. In a games in the division. roundabout way, the Devils have three NHL commissioner Gary Bettman serves championship banners to show for that at the pleasure of teams in the league. signing while the Blues have Eric Brewer, Therefore he takes his lead in hurting the game Jeffy Woywitka and a prospect. Those were and stunting its growth from them. In a vacuum the three players acquired in the Chris Pronger of leadership, the league has turned to strong trade, who they got for Shanahan after he became personalities like Lamoriello to misguide it and friendly with Craig Janney’s wife. What an ugly turn of TM thoroughly screw things up. events. Yes, it’s a little misguided to hate the general manager of a team But instead of dwelling on Six Degrees of Scott Stevens, let’s the Blues play what seems like a couple times a decade. Yes, talk about the demon spawn that is Lou Lamoriello. He’s the Lamoriello wasn’t ultimately responsible for the Blues losing general manager of the Devils, the longest tenured GM in the Stevens. But it’s damn convenient to have him as the face of my NHL. He was hired in April 1987 from Providence College where displeasure. he was athletic director and hockey coach. He was hired as team president, but would quickly name himself general manager. He Of course there’s plenty to be upset about with this current never played, coached or worked in an NHL front office before (Continued on page 26) Today’s Records, Injuries & News Today’s Team Records: Today’s Injuries: Today’s News & Notes: Blues: Devils: Blues: C Andy McDonald (fractured • Ottawa Senators road losing streak 14-19-3 (31 points) 20-11-3 (43 points) ankle), LW Paul Kariya (lower body), F reaches 12 with loss to Vancouver on 5th in Central 3rd in Atlantic TJ Oshie (ankle, again), D Fragile Jay Sunday. 15th in Western 6th in Eastern McKee (broken finger) and D Eric • Colorado’s Paul Stastny has surgery on Brewer (back surgery) are out. broken left arm and is out indefinitely. Last Ten Games: Blues: Devils: Devils: G Martin Brodeur (elbow) is • Detroit’s Nicklas Lidstrom out with a 2-8-0 6-3-1 out. D Bryce Salvador (ear infection) is bad ankle. questionable. Season Series: All-Time Series: • Game Time staff starting to feel like 0-0-0 45-34-14-1 maybe we spend too much time here. 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 20 From The Editor December 30, 2008 In the words of virtually every character in days of Pronger and MacInnis. Lars St. Louis Game Time the movie Major League when discussing Eller, Aaron Palushaj, Ian Cole, Jonas Established: November 6, 2005 their team, I feel very similar when talking Junland and others will be the next level St Louis, Missouri about the Blues right now: They’re shitty. of talent, and that’s a high level. Just by Phone: 402-2266 And it didn’t have to be like this. the law of averages, one of these prospect www.StLouisGameTime.com goalies will turn out to be decent (right? As the season dawned upon us just under Right?). three months ago I would have called myself Godfather cautiously optimistic. I never thought that It will be our time. The Blues will be Jeffio they were a sure-fire playoff team, but I the team to beat. The team that domi- guessed that they’d be around the seven nates. The team that makes the run. The through 10 spots in the playoff chase when it real run. To the Finals. Publisher & Editor-in-Chief Sean Gallagher was all said and done. And some day, some day that I [email protected] And then Erik Johnson, who as know I’ll get to see, the Blues a sophomore was pretty clearly are going to be the team that going to be the team’s No. 1 gets to skate around with the Advertising defenseman, decided to play a Cup in their hands. [email protected] drunken game of crash ‘em up derby with his What we’re going through is a hard [email protected] golf cart. Allegedly. (Look, I do the same shit road, but the road to the championship every time I’m in a golf cart and have since I isn’t ever easy. Look at the Red Wings, Distribution was pre-18. But if I need knee surgery, I just who suffered for more than a decade to John Nicolay have to endure six months worth of jokes become dominant. Same with the Pens, Amy Benoist, Becky Benoist, about being a gimp. It’s a risk I’m willing to who are on the way. Devils? Check. Billy Cash, Clarence Walker take. His livelihood is at stake. Them’s the Sharks? Check. Ducks? Check. breaks, kid. Golf Cart Go-Kart is officially over until you’re like 40.) But even then I These days, that promise can get me Columnists remained optimistic. That injury probably through. But more than that, I look Chris Gift, Duke, Brad Lee, Answer Man & Brian Weidler cost the team a handful and a half of points forward to the parlor trick of the future in the standings, but it wasn’t the end of the that is going to keep me in free beers into dream. my old age. I can’t wait to be the guy who Contributors can recite every member of the team who Jeffio, Jeff Browning, LosBri, But then we lost Oshie. And Kariya. And got his name engraved on the Cup when Childhood Trauma, Dan Doke, Jeff McDonald. And McKee. And Brewer. I the Blues win. Fahrenkrog, Jeremy Pratte & Chris Reed started to hear people talk about the ‘same old Blues’ and about how their rebuilding has Think about it, for the first couple Photographer Andrew D’Angelo made no progress. And while I’ve dropped years a lot of people will remember 95% my expectations for where the Blues will of the guys. A few years later, a bunch of Mission: finish the season, I dare these naysayers to people will remember about 50% of the show me any other NHL team that could lose guys. Then 20%. Then, just the stars. But Game Time will provide prospect me? I’ll remember everyone. The grinder information, up-to-date statistics, articles that many players of that caliber, or at least that spark discussion and humor that players of that level of importance to their who played one playoff game and got on points out the best and worst about our team, and continue to be a playoff-bound the Cup by technicality? Got him. The favorite team and sport. We are all fans of the Blues and our opinions will reflect team. fighter who played more than 40 regular season games, but never got dressed in those of subjective fans. And so, not to start carving out the the playoffs? Yeah, I got him. The backup The paper is published for every home headstone or anything, but I’m starting to goalie? Yep, him too. game, excluding the pre-season, which we feel like the playoff chase might not quite be all know sucks. in the offing this spring. That’s who I have become. That’s what it is that keeps me from getting Rights & Permissions: Which moves me into the now-annual upset when I watch the Blues give away a next phase of my fandom: Thinking about All material printed herein is copyrighted win on a Sunday night in the third and protected. Do not reprint in any the future good days.
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