TrueBlue4ever

4th line carrying the team today - bodes well for the playoffs if all lines can get going.

If I was a reporter who didn’t worry about being blackballed by the club, I would have loved to have asked Brady “You seemed really upset about that empty netter after the buzzer. Just wondering where that fire was in the preceding 60 minutes?” (Yeah, I know he hit everything that moved and got a goal in the game, but this kind of clown move does not scream “leader” to me).

Century club! 💯 And Chicago does us a solid beating the Stars clean.

Mr. Cheery strikes again….

Gotta give Gabe the lucky hat trick song. Going with Madonna instead of Ol’ Blue Eyes tonight.

Oh my God I totally cannot un-see this now! That is subversively brilliant.

It could also spell Mike. There is even an “E” in common! Hmm……….

“Flight termination” is not the kind of pre-game inspiration I was hoping for 😳

The beatings will continue until morale improves!

The top team in the conference plays the lower wildcard seed, regardless of which division each are in, so right now Dallas would play LA and Vancouver would get Nashville. Likewise, NYR would get Washington and Boston would get Tampa.

I believe we ripped it off from Saskatchewan. In the age of fan bases dropping their team names or symbols as a chant during the national anthem (like the “True North” shout out), the Riders jumped on the band wagon and wanted to come up with something for their team. I am told (although I never noticed it in any games I attended at Mosaic) that when the line “glorious and free” came up, the fans changed it to “glorious and green” in a quasi rhyme reflecting their team colour. We co-opted it and went with the completely non-rhyming (and non-sensical) “glorious and blue” as a direct copycat move. Also because we didn’t want Jets fans having all the fun. Why we don’t yell “Blue” for “True” North Strong and Free instead is beyond me. Seems like a much more sensible fit and borrows the Jets theme but makes it Bomber centric.

This skit always made me laugh a lot harder than the concept of it should have. As for the Pepsi joke at the end, IYKYK.

Blues win in OT, so magic number down to 2. Next chance to clinch is Thursday.

Perfetti again! All I can say is: N’ A!!!!!!!

Connor 0 goals, 2 assists, and -10 the last 6 games. Tonight 3 assists and +1.

Perfetti with a goal and an f-bomb. One assist away from the John Tortorella hat trick.

Oops, error on my part. If this scenario happens, the Jets will indeed rid themselves of the Blues as competition, however Minnesota will still have a mathematical chance of surpassing them. But if the Jets do win tonight the. A loss of any kind eliminates the Wild, which could happen as early as tomorrow. So the celebration will have to wait for now.

A win and an Edmonton win over St. Louis in regulation tonight and the Jets punch their ticket to the post season.

2-2. Just sayin

Yeah those zero playoff games in 6 seasons are so inspiring. Putting the team on his back and carrying them to the draft lottery every year.

Ehlers opens things up, 1-0 Jets.

It wasn’t being blinded by money so much as it was needing the infusion of cash to keep the league alive. All the talk about Toronto failing now, or Edmonton or Calgary struggling with old stadiums and BC’s failing attendance previously, is nothing compared to the death throes the league was in in the early 1990’s. No US teams and the league would have died. But the cost to the product was being required to comply with US labour laws which would not allow Canadians to take US jobs in favour of an equal or superior US citizen. So the American teams had the unfair advantage of having all US back-up players.

Since you brought it up: Until the 2019 West Final in Saskatchewan, this game was the best one I ever saw live. Like a true heavyweight fight, trading punches in a game with a rare south wind, but one that was so intense scoring into it was impossible. So many “almost” chances, especially the cross bar preventing the Bombers their lone TD chance. And if video review existed back then the Bombers win. The lone Baltimore TD was a fumble recovery when Woodside’s knee was clearly down before the ball came out, and Pringle fumbled late and the refs called the play down when it wasn’t. Add in the messed up fake field goal (Cameron was spotting the tee and was not in the huddle to hear that the fake was on, so he was the only one not to know what the play was. Westwood would score his only career TD the following year on the same fake call, this time executed perfectly) and this loss stung. Toss in the “illegal shoe” call (which was more galling following the Edmonton playoff debacle two years later where the Esks got away with blatantly cheating in the same fashion) and Cal Murphy said this was the toughest loss he ever had as a coach - one he never got over. The only game I have been physically exhausted after watching, it was that mentally draining to be at, cheering madly but in the end just not quite enough to carry the team to victory.