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So for those of you who’ve been around for a while, you miiiiight have figured out that I have a thing for goalies. A little. Maybe. OK FINE I DO. Sorry I’m not sorry. I wrote about our Blues bebe goalies yesterday. I’ve shown videos of crazy things our goalies and other goalies can and have done.

I have a Tim Thomas poster hanging in the second bedroom of my apartment.

Goalie love. I haz it.

As this year has progressed, I’ve paid more and more attention to goalies around the league. I’ve been just as amazed as all of you with Brian Elliott’s absolutely unearthly surge this year, with Cam Ward’s horrendous plummet to earth. I’ve specifically chosen backup goalies for my fantasy lineup (Cory Schneider) in the possibly vindictive hope that his team’s number one goalie (Roberto Luongo) fails mightily over and over again. It’s worked well for me so far.

Given that we’re half way through the year, the season started back up tonight, and all over the place you’ll hear news outlets pull the “if the playoffs started now….” predictions, I figured that I’d do the same for the upcoming Vezina Trophy. I wrote about this last year, and while I’m thrilled to have gotten two out of three correct, I still maintain that Henrik Lundqvist deserved the nod more than LOLuongo. I also still think it’s awesome that the media has nothing to do with the voting for this. I might be a teensy bit upset if that ever changes.

Top three then? Top three. » Continue reading “Premature Prognostication Of The Vezina Award”

Last night’s Blues win over the Rangers was, in a word, awesome.

How much of that game do you think will end up on HBO’s 24/7?

A couple thoughts. When Steen scored that third goal, we at the other end of the rink couldn’t even tell what happened. The crowd rose as a wave (but not THE wave which I hate and should be banned from all major sporting events period). The attacking side rose, followed by us, just to follow suit. I’m still not entirely certain how it went in, but then, I’m not going to complain either.

Semi-relatedly, that last empty net goal. I just…I don’t even know what happened there. I mean, Lundqvist was out and then there was the shot against the post and then ALL THE DEFENSEMEN EVER showed up and it STILL took six tries to get that stupid puck to get to the back of the net.

What. Even.

Regardless, beating one of the top teams in the Eastern Conference while going 4-1 in this last home stand has been everything this team and this fan base needs. Look! We’re desirable!! Someone buy us!!!!

Now we look forward to two division rivals this weekend, Nashville and Columbus. There will be a contingent of Blues fans IN Nashville tomorrow (for the highly touted #EpicDec), and that will make all the difference.

Guys, I love this season.