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Deliver Unto Them A Royal Beating

Former P-D Scribe Dave Luecking Launches Mound City Sports

Joy and happiness to you, St. Louis hockey fans. The lockout is finally over, the Blues are actually good and you have another site to read about them, Mound City Sports (@moundcitysports on Twitter), written and produced by former veteran Post-Dispatch Blues beat writer Dave Luecking. The site, whi ... More >>

A Big Blue(s) Preview

Tonight, at the Scottrade Center, the fated, the long-awaited, the eagerly anticipated 2013 Blues season will get under way. Okay, so it was really supposed to be the 2012-2013 Blues season, and all the Don King hype and rhyming in the world isn't going to entirely take the sting out of this la ... More >>

The Stanley Cup: Sports' Greatest Trophy, or Shiny Disease Vector in Disguise?

Peter King's "Monday Morning Quarterback" column is the last place I'd look for a hockey tidbit (it's predominantly a baseball, coffee and beer nugget depository), and yet a co-worker forwarded an interesting fact from this week's installment. It seems that St. Louis Rams owner Stan Kroenke had an u ... More >>

Vladimir Tarasenko Coming to The Blues

You know, it isn't often you hear good news for a hockey team in June, unless said hockey team is one of the, oh, say, two teams still playing. Barring actually playing in the Stanley Cup Finals, however, it's kind of rare for a team to come up with a reason to really get excited as we head into the ... More >>

A Stanley Cup Prediction -- And a Question of Interest

The Stanley Cup Finals begin tonight in New Jersey, with the Devils of the Garden State taking on the Los Angeles Kings, a hockey team we Blues fans are all too familiar with. I've actually watched a ton of the playoffs this year, even after the Blues were eliminated, which is a little unusual ... More >>

Tom Stillman Finally Owns the St. Louis Blues

At long last, the Blues ownership matter is settled. The NHL board of governors unanimously approved the sale of the team yesterday for an estimated $130 million to the ownership group headed by local businessman Tom Stillman. Other local luminaries in the group include former Senator John Danforth, ... More >>

The Blues' Final Stand

The word 'unceremonious' comes to mind at times like these. It's a good word, unceremonious; it is perfectly evocative of it's intended meaning. Whatever it is you're describing, whatever it might be that has happened, you know that there was no pomp, no circumstance, no fancy, no schmancy, no party ... More >>

It's St. Louis Blues Day, And Actual Useful Hockey Information

Mayor Francis Slay officially proclaimed today to be St. Louis Blues Day, because the Blues won the Central Division, their first round of playoffs, and set a new franchise record for home wins. It's a nice honor, sure, but it seems kinda premature. Let's say the team wins this next round -- do we g ... More >>

Don't Stop Believin'

Three Keys to Victory: San Jose Sharks at Blues

The Blues play tonight at the Scottrade Center, opening up their first-round playoff series against the San Jose Sharks. Of the potential draws the Blues could have pulled, the Sharks would seem to be the most favorable for the Note; the Blues absolutely dominated San Jose this year, winning all fou ... More >>

Blues vs. Coyotes

Blues Stand (Mostly) Pat at the Deadline

​The NHL trade deadline came and went yesterday without the Blues making a big splash. They didn't go out and pry Rick Nash from the cold, dead fingers of Columbus; they didn't add either a goal-scorer or playmaker. Honestly, it was a bit of letdown. That is not, however, to say I think the B ... More >>

Is Joel Quenneville's Job on The Line in Chicago?

​Just two years ago, the Chicago Blackhawks were on top of the hockey world. A Stanley Cup winner, the 'Hawks looked to be a team primed for constant contention over the next five years, or the next seven, or even more, with a young nucleus of Jonathan Toews, Patrick Kane, and Marian Hossa that wa ... More >>

Catch A Falling Star

Beat 'Em Blue and Blackhawks

St. Louis Happy Hours: Clayton

Only 80 Games After Today

Cards Fans Rank as Nation's Tenth Best? WTF?

image viaThis kind of devotion is only worth a number 10 ranking?​It had to happen. They've already ranked everything else (and by "they" we mean The Media), so why not sports fans? Is it really possible to give an objective rating to a city's sports fans? Can you say that the citizens of one ... More >>

SBNation St. Louis Launches

Hey, sports fans! As of yesterday, you officially have a new online destination where you can fritter away your working hours. SBNation, a national community of sports blogs, launched its St. Louis site Tuesday, a one-stop repository of news and opinions -- for what value is a conversation about spo ... More >>

Getting Happy in Clayton: John P. Field's

Kristen Klempert​The Joint: John P. Field's 26 North Central Avenue, Clayton 314-862-1886 The (Happy) Hours: 4-7 p.m. Monday-Friday. The Deal: $2 domestic Anheuser-Busch bottles. There must be more to happy hour than two-buck Bud, right? Right?

Shelbina, MO, Eighth Grader Reaches National Spelling Bee Semifinals [Updated]

Image sourcePlatz, spelling. Speller 134 has reason to look so pissy; she made the semifinals and he did not.​Updated June 7: For those of you who missed the Spelling Bee finals (and you are absolved; the Stanley Cup Finals are providing some fabulous entertainment this year): Platz tied for s ... More >>

Probably One of the Most Devoted Fans in St. Louis Blues Hockey History Has Died

Ronald H. "Mr. Hockey" Schmidt​They called him "Mr. Hockey." When 72-year-old Ronald H. Schmidt of Mehlville died in his sleep early Tuesday morning, the St. Louis Blues lost not just a fan. They lost a fan who attended the franchise's first home game in 1967 and who came to know announcers, journ ... More >>

Brett Hull's Hall of Fame Speech: The Word Cloud and Transcript

​One-time St. Louis Blue Brett Hull was inducted into the NHL Hall of Fame on Monday in Toronto. Hull spent most of his career with the Blues, from the spring of 1988 to the summer of 1998, before he signed as a free agent with the Dallas Stars. Although he spent the majority of his career with th ... More >>

The Morning Brew: Friday, 5.29

The U.S. and Russia continue talks over Russia's ban on U.S. meat after the swine-flu outbreak. (Guardian)The governor-general of Canada is in trouble for eating raw seal meat. (BBC News)Pittsburgh fishmongers crack down on Detroit residents buying octopus before the Stanley Cup Finals begin.(Yahoo! ... More >>

One More Game

Please let Thicke and Janssen drop the gloves

Go! 2/29-3/2

Unreal News Challenge 2007

Week of December 27, 2007

Hola, Hosers!

The Mexican devotes a column to the Great White North.

The Wine Master

A St. Louis sommelier strives to be among the best in the world.

Frank Discussion

Cold as Ice

NHL 2K7 looks pretty, but fails to light the lamp.

Liberté! Equalité! Hocké!

The St. Louis Blues want you back. And this year, they even have Ice Girls!

Rinky Dink

Local amateurs get ice time with the Blues

Best Coach

Joel Quenneville

Hands Across Skinker

The Loop expands its border

Jade

Zoë's Pan-Asian Café, 4753 McPherson, 314-361-0013

Best Blue

Scott Mellanby

Best St. Louis Blue

Scott Young

Best TV-Sports Anchor

Mike Bush, KSDK-TV (Channel 5)

What Would You Do if the Blues Brought Home Stanley?

Week of May 16, 2001

Beautiful Losers

The hockey Hawks hardly ever win, but they're not about to quit. Game on.

Bum's Delight

With their broomsticks and bottle caps, these working stiffs are in a league of their own

Letters to the Editor

Published the week of June 7