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Throwdown Lowdown – Blues @ Oilers 10-30-11
Was there a hockey game on Friday? I’m not sure . . . well, there’s a box score that shows a 3-1 St. Louis Blues defeat to the Calgary Flames, so I suppose there was a hockey game on Friday. The box score also shows that there were no fights contested in the game, so...
Throwdown Lowdown – Oilers @ Blues 03-24-11
The Blues’ 2-1 loss to the Phoenix Coyotes on Tuesday at least showed us a team that gave a rat’s you-know-what on the ice, which was helpful. What was NOT helpful was seeing all the not-really-ready-for-the-NHL talent out there. What also helped were a couple fights for me to tell you about, even if I...
Throwdown Lowdown – Blues @ Oilers, 02-25-11
And a disappointing Blues stretch continues with a 3-2 loss to a very good Vancouver Canucks late last night. The good? Two things: 1) the Blues played well enough to win, and 2) There was a fight! It was between BJ Crombeen and Tanner Glass, in one that – preliminarily, at least – shows The...
Throwdown Lowdown – Oilers @ Blues, 02-04-11
Hey, remember that game that was played this past Tuesday between the Blues and the Colorado Avalanche? You don’t? Well, why not? It wasn’t PLAYED, you say? Well alright, if you say so . . . . In all seriousness, yes, that really happened – a game played on ice was postponed (to February 22nd...
Throwdown Lowdown – Blues @ Oilers – 12-04-10
The 4-1 loss by the Blues to the Washington Capitals was something a lot of pundits would have predicted. What this one reporter was not able to predict, however, is the lack of fighting in that game. Not only that, the lack of a fight has dropped the Blues in the overall fight standings –...
Throwdown Lowdown – Blues @ Oilers 1-28-10
There were no fights last night between the Canucks and Blues (at least nothing worth grading, anyway), although I nearly jumped through the television screen to have a few words with the officiating crew after that supposed slashing call in the 3rd period that led to the power play goal that ended up deciding the...
