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Fight Card – Columbus Home-And-Home Triple Bill
Divisional home-and-home matchups always bring the best (worst?) out of teams. Take, for instance, the one the St. Louis Blues and Columbus Blue Jackets staged this weekend. Between the two games, there were three fights, which I pretty much expected.
Throwdown Lowdown – Blues @ Blue Jackets, 03-11-12
Beat the teams you’re supposed to beat. The Columbus Blue Jackets, no offense to them, are a team the St. Louis Blues are supposed to beat, and after a shaky beginning, that’s exactly what happened in a relatively dominant 4-1 win in the first leg of a home-and-home with our blue-coated division mates. We even...
Throwdown Lowdown – Blue Jackets @ Blues, 03-10-12
First place overall in the entire National Hockey League? That’s totally awesome. The St. Louis Blues made that happen with help from a 3-1 win over the Anaheim Ducks. The downside? Well, partially because George Parros was in the press area for this game, there were no fighting majors handed out during the contest. I’ll...
Throwdown Lowdown – Ducks @ Blues, 03-08-12
So not only are the St. Louis Blues allowed to play home games, they’re allowed to win them as well. They’re even allowed to win them in blowout fashion over fierce rivals, which is exactly what the case was Tuesday in a 5-1 rout of the Chicago Blackhawks. As anticipated, there was a duel in...
Throwdown Lowdown – Blues @ Sharks, 03-03-12
Moral victories don’t count, but if you’d like something nice to take away from the St. Louis Blues’ 2-0 loss to the Vancouver Canucks, it’s that the team hung right with the best team in the National Hockey League pretty much all game on what amounted to “a quarter tank of gas”. I can’t fault...
Throwdown Lowdown – Blues @ Canucks, 03-01-12
When the St. Louis Blues have all cylinders firing, they are a scary club to watch if you’re an opponent. We caught a glimpse of that kind of hockey club last night in seeing them dismantle the young Edmonton Oilers piece-by-piece last night in a 5-2 victory where the score really didn’t indicate how much...
Throwdown Lowdown – Blues @ Oilers, 02-29-12
Beastly efforts are quite awesome. What the St. Louis Blues displayed on Monday can qualify as a beastly effort. The 3-1 victory over the Calgary Flames did well to boost the team’s confidence in the middle of a long western road swing. And yes, there was a fight! Guillaume Desbiens went at it with BJ...
Fight Card – Crombeen vs. Desbiens, 02-27-12
This will be quick, because I honestly don’t know how these guys got out of this with fighting majors. I say this is definitely the worst fight by a St. Louis Blues player, and perhaps it would be the worst for a Calgary Flames player, on the season.
Throwdown Lowdown – Blues @ Jets, 02-25-12
I love wins that bust slumps. What the St. Louis Blues did Thursday night against the Nashville Predators definitely counts as a slump-busting win, and a great way to kick off a long road trip. 60 minutes of regulation play and five minutes of overtime were not enough to decide it, but two goals in...
Throwdown Lowdown – Blues @ Predators, 02-23-12
The way this season has gone, what is happening right now is definitely a “losing skid”. The St. Louis Blues played porous-at-times defense and didn’t capitalize on opportunities given to them, and therefore lost 4-2 to the defending Stanley Cup Champions, the Boston Bruins, in their first regulation defeat at home since December 3rd. But...
