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Jonathan Ericsson
Throwdown Lowdown – Blues @ Red Wings 01-23-12
In a game I felt the St. Louis Blues HAD to win to keep their reputation as a league-wide menace, the team held their end of the deal by downing the Buffalo Sabres 4-2, despite an extremely sluggish first period and a few late calls that left a lot to the imagination. While the two...
Throwdown Lowdown – Blues @ Red Wings, 12-31-11
Have I ever mentioned how much I despise the National Hockey League’s inclusion of a shootout to the end of hockey games that are tied after 65 minutes? Well, if I haven’t, just rest assured that I absolutely despise the practice. And it’s not just because the St. Louis Blues are horrible at it, which...
Throwdown Lowdown – Blues @ Red Wings, 12-27-11
Obviously this 2011-2012 St. Louis Blues team did not want to keep remembering the ass-kickings they took at the hands of the Dallas Stars last season and early in this one, earning a hard-fought 5-3 victory over their former division-mate and soon-to-be conference-mate. There was a fight in this game, and as I was suspecting,...
Throwdown Lowdown – Red Wings @ Blues 11-15-11
1-3-1 Trap Scheme, eh? I don’t think it worked very well for the Tampa Bay Lightning on Saturday, as they left the DrinkScotch with a 3-0 shutout loss handed to them by the opportunistic St. Louis Blues. It’s a shame that a team with as many skilled players as the Lightning have to resort to...
Throwdown Lowdown – Blues @ Red Wings 03-30-11
This time, instead of nearly altogether ignoring a Blues game (like I did on Saturday, but I swear it wasn’t my fault!), this time I actually was in attendance for a solid match with the Minnesota Wild. So yeah, the Wild DID win 3-2 in a game that ended with my least favorite hockey ending...
Throwdown Lowdown – Red Wings @ Blues, 03-12-11
What a performance by the Blues on Thursday in defeating Jaroslav Halak and Matt D’Agostini’s old teammates, the Montreal Canadiens, 4-1. D’Ags even got a goal! And there was a fight! It was a draw contested between Paul Mara and Ryan Reaves (video here) in a fight that I thought Mara actually had a slight...
Throwdown Lowdown – Red Wings @ Blues, 01-20-11
The Blues got a big lift from the return of TJ Oshie and took home a 2-1 win over the Los Angeles Kings on Tuesday night. In this game, Roman Polak squared off with Kyle Clifford in a fight I thought Polak shouldn’t have gotten into. It was a landslide win for Clifford. At first...
Throwdown Lowdown – Blues @ Red Wings – 12-15-10
The Carolina Hurricanes made a fool out of me in two ways on Saturday. For one thing, they defeated the Blues 2-1 in a shootout. The other thing that happened? AN HONEST-TO-GOD FIGHT! If you read my report from Saturday, you’ll know I was stunned to learn of this development. The combatants were Jay Harrison...
Throwdown Lowdown – Blues @ Red Wings – 11-17-10
The Blues’ 6-3 loss to the Colorado Avalanche was ugly, no doubt. But at least there were some fisticuffs. In his “triumphant” return to the lineup, Brad Winchester worked a draw with Cody McLeod. Then, BJ Crombeen “worked” a win with new Av Ryan O’Byrne in a drab fight. Finally, Vladimir Sobotka seemed to handle...
Throwdown Lowdown – Red Wings @ Blues 2-9-10
Things got a bit hairy at work today, so this is late in being posted. Oh well, it happens from time to time. Not only that, I put the wrong date down when I originally posted this. That has now been fixed. So not only did the Blues lose the game to the Avs yesterday,...
