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Only 8 teams in NHL history have won the meaningless President's Cup and the precious Stanley Cup in the same season. Way more often than not, the President's Cup has proven to be a harbinger of bad luck in the playoffs than the opposite. Witness: Pens are now up on the Caps 3-1 and appear to...

When the Blues play like they did last night, they are virtually invincible. Our best 2nd period of the playoffs beyond question. Dallas' goaltending situation couldn't be more unsettled. Long way to go but I sure liked what I saw last night. On a side note, NBC's coverage of these playoffs...

Totally concur. Go to YouTube and search "Broad Street Bullies" and you'll get a serious taste of what you are mentioning. I used the McSorley reference merely as a classic example of total goonsmanship. It's too bad that the Brashear hit will always be what he is remembered for but it was...

My advice is to turn back before it's too late. Hell, it's too late already. Have you been in prison or something? :dunno:

Agree. Marty McSorley would have been proud. WTF is it with all this headhunting all of a sudden in the playoffs? Bothersome for a number of different reasons. Play tough and physical by all means but this deliberate attempt to maim someone has got to be dealt with before someone gets killed.

Yeah, so far he's been money in the playoffs. Despite the overconfidence of a few of my friends on the board, you don't win the Central Division title without being a team that's capable of making a deep playoff run. The Stars are quick and lethal when they can get the puck on front of the net...

Oshie is still a beloved figure in St. Louis. It would make for an interesting sidebar if only....nah, way too early to be thinking that shit. The Pens' weakness is in goal I'm afraid. That second Oshie goal was super-soft....right through Murray's wide-open wickets. They need Fleury back to...

:thumbsup: Beat me to it! On that same theme, Marissa Tomei's character "Lisa" from My Cousin Vinny. Her sexy Brooklynese accent drives me wild.

I'm not as confident as some on this board but it comes from a lifetime as a Blues fan. Disappointment and heartbreak are part of the culture and I sure would like to see them exorcised! That said, you know where I'll be tomorrow night at 7 central. Of greater intrigue from a sheer matchup...

Comments graciously appreciated. It's about time. Both teams left it all on the ice. Fantastic series. It was like a heavyweight championship fight last night....I stood up the entire third period. Chicago won't rebuild....they'll just reload. They need to shore up their D....Gustaffson's...

The series between the Blues & Hawks felt like a final. I am delighted for my Blues to finally get this "one-and-done" monkey off our back but to beat the defending Stanley Cup champions in the process? Priceless. I'm more than concerned about a letdown against Dallas because there has been...

:goodpost: I can't add to this. It says it all. Also, this should be moved to politics IMO. It's not really a sports issue as much as it is politcal.

True but they took a step in the right direction last night. Odds still against them but eerily similar to the first-round series with the Avs back in 2014. True they aren't as deep. I thought Parise is supposed to be back any time now? I'm going out on a limb and saying it's the Rangers...

The only thing that you espouse with which I can take serious umbrage is that the team is called the Toronto Maple Leafs, not Leaves. Regarding St. Louis, until the team proves that your preconceived notions about them are indeed untrue, I cannot refute the remainder of your diatribe. Yes, I...

Yes that's the argument but again.....conclusive enough to overturn? The play was really close. To me, that's a call that's too close to reverse. Had it been called as offside to begin with, no problem. Of course, I'm a Blues fan but still....reverse the roles and venue and I don't think you...

Thanks for the rep, Animus!

Ah! Ah! Lest we forget boiled mutton, blood pudding, steak and kidney pie and bangers and mash! I predict that someday, someone will open a chain of English-cuisine restaurants in the USA....and fail miserably.

For sure. Especially if your team feels the same way you do. Parise being out is tough I admit. Dubnyk isn't playing lights-out like he was last year, the Aeros look like they've lost some of their confidence. Need a win. In the meantime, would someone please explain to me how the...

My typical burger is a seedless bun (Ciabatta if possible), toasted, Swiss cheese, lettuce, tomato, onion, mustard (regular ol' yellow, not that brownish stuff) and mayo. :thumbsup: :yummie:

Backes' goal was pure happenstance (I would have love to have seen what Steen would have done had the pass gone through but the result couldn't have been better) but that's the type of thing that usually happens TO the Blues instead of FOR them so I'll gladly take it. Still, the Blues needed...

Thanks for the rep!

Oh boy. Jimmy Hascup (a bullshit name if I ever heard one) says it therefore it must be so. You're right. The Wild are toast.

I admire your dedication to making annual predictions and it makes for fascinating discourse, Rod. Likewise, I'm not making any predictions but I will make a few comments on your Blues/Hawks prediction. No apologies needed for picking Chicago to beat the Blues in the first round. They have...

Thanks Feller....although I would advise that you have a "plan b" pick if history proves to mean anything. As the whole league knows, the Blues are a notoriously bad team come playoff time and will remain so until they do something to change that perception. If this is the year they do it...

Nice icing on the cake for a franchise with a ton of Cup champion banners like the Red Wings have but it doesn't mean shit compared to hoisting the Cup just a single time for a team who has never won it all. Just ask me....I'm a Blues fan. We made the playoffs 25 years in a row at one point as...

Pure country gold.

Back more in the spirit of the OP I would say....anchovies.

He predicted that he would die on his birthday and he did. I'm so very sad to lose another icon of my younger days. There is no greater influence on the development of the "outlaw" country music sub-genre that proliferated in the 1980s along with other artists such as Waylon Jennings, Willie...

Hats off to the Bruins. They came into our house and took the game away from us. You could tell they were playing desperate. It doesn't always happen, but a desperate team seems to frequently prevail. Looking more and more like we draw the Blackhawks in the first round once again. Bring 'em...

Thanks and back at ya, Renegade!

I read the online version of the Houston Chronicle every day except Sunday. We get a paper copy that day cuz the wife wants the coupons and ads.

No worries. Way off topic but, you are a a budding aviation buff? Does that mean you are taking lessons or just an enthusiast? Civil aircraft are not as glamorous as military planes in general for obvious reasons. However, there are some awesome civilian craft that are well worth learning...

Contemporary figures just keep on passing away. R.I. P. Gary....you will be missed. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/25/arts/television/garry-shandling-dies.html?_r=0

:facepalm: I was giving you a compliment. I thought it was a clever use of the English language. I tried to make that sentiment pretty obvious but somehow you missed it or I didn't sell it hard enough. It might be good if you considered the possibility that not every post is intended to be...

The fact that you have less than fond feelings for Obama and his policies is well known so virtually anything he does is going to be wrong from your perspective. I just don't see the benefit (or validity) in finding fault with absolutely everything a president does. Side note: Judging from...

The communication process has to begin with Castro whether we like it or not. Also, however, much of that type of communication is back-channel. Truth is we don't know what is being discussed at those levels. The rest of this stuff on the news is mostly PR fluff so to expect some substantive...

So I take it that your approach to a establishing a dialogue that would hopefully lead to some sort of rapprochement (certainly better than what has proven NOT to work for over the past 50 years) with Cuba would have to have some sort of built-in unilateral concession on their behalf that would...

And down the stretch they come! The Blues rebounded nicely from embarrassing losses in Calgary and Edmonton to post back-to-back shutouts on the road in Vancouver and San Jose. We're only 2 points out of the Central lead but we can't win on ROW so we'll have to overtake the Stars...

My point is that all negotiations that lead to the establishment of some sort of workable relationship have to begin with people talking with each other. If they didn't, you wouldn't have a job. In Obama's speech last night, he made an appeal to brother Raul to loosen his grip on the...

People should do some historical research before they make any judgements about Obama visiting Cuba this week. The Reagan trip to the Soviet Union was preceded by Nixon's visit there way back in 1972 the when Leonid Brezhnev was the general secretary. At that time in history, we had a very...

Just for the record, it's a 757 but hey who's counting? :dunno: His campaign has been a lot more effective than most people gave him credit for when he announced. He's run a tough campaign, increased awareness and forced Hillary to alter her views on certain issues. He's not quitting, has a...

Despite the Geneva Convention, "rules" being applied to war are by their very nature, patently ridiculous. They are ordinarily made to address atrocities post-facto. Problem is, whoever decides what constitutes an atrocity is a matter of conjecture that is typically determined by the victor in...

It'll be 38 years next month for me and the missus. And they said it wouldn't last!

Perhaps the most unheralded part of the genius that was the Beatles has passed away. Sir George Martin, who signed the musical group to their first record deal and was in charge of production on every single one of their albums except Let it Be, died on Tuesday at the age of 90. His influence...

LOL never thought of that. I'm not too concerned. They always go after the guy with the deepest pockets and, shit, I won't even have any pockets at all in that instance. :1orglaugh

I don't use the ignore feature. I try not to let anyone get under my skin to that degree. I mean, after all, it's just a discussion forum. Likewise, I'm not dancing around anything. I said he misspoke. Of course I don't agree with what he said. What he was trying to convey, and should...

Fanta! There you go. Look for some Nehi next time. I think they still make it.

Most outrageous? Ever? Really? So you are genuinely outraged about this malaprop? Give me a break. Inaccurate? Yeah, I'd agree with that. So what? Lots of candidates phrase things improperly. The GOP ensemble this year is a cacophony of sound bites that illustrate my point. If you want...

Nehi grape? That is the gold standard for grape soda.

Anybody else not feeling quite so sorry for her tonight? I mean, what this dude did was a serious violation of her civil right to privacy and I think the dude is a fucking douchebag for sure and I suppose that Marriott bears some responsibility (for sure) and needs to do more to prevent this...