LET THE FUN BEGIN!

It sure is nice to have the boys back - let's get back to our game and let the fun begin!

CONGRATULATIONS - USA TEAM - 2013 WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIP

CHRIS OSGOOD 400TH WIN

Congratulations to Chris Osgood (#30) on becoming the 10th goalie in NHL history to win 400 games.

THE MONTREAL CANADIENS

The Montreal Canadiens are the only Canadian team and one of the Original Six (Chicago Blackhawks are the other) still standing tall in the Stanley Cup playoffs - Go Habs!

JULIE CHU

These photos of Julie Chu were taken at St. Louis Blues Hockey Fest in June 2008. According to Wikipedia, "Julie Chu (born March 13 1982) is an American Olympic ice hockey player who plays the position of forward on the Women's Ice Hockey team. She stands at a height of 5’8”. Chu's hometown is Fairfield, Connecticut, although she resided in Cambridge, Massachusetts during her college years. She now lives in Minneapolis – Saint Paul, Minnesota where she trains and plays for the US National Team. In 2007-08 she worked as an Assistant Coach for the University of Minnesota-Duluth and helped them win a NCAA Division I National Championship in Women's Ice Hockey."

"Chu is the first woman of Asian descent to play for the U.S. team. Her grandmother, Lai Fong, immigrated from Hong Kong more than 30 years ago as a single mother with three children. Her father came from Hong Kong when he was 16. Now his daughter has visited China– as an American hockey player." Boston Globe.

Follow Julie Chu on www.facebook.com/JulieChuUSA

DALLAS STARS AT ST. LOUIS

JUST KIDDING !

This is the favorite part of going to the hockey games when during intermissions the kids played a friendly 5-minute game. I specially like to watch kids that are really little (the Mites 8 years and under). Some of them already showed talents with their skating, passing the puck and making fancy moves when trying to score. We laughed when they fell down but knowing that I could not possibly stand up, let alone skate around the rink like these kids. One time we all cheered for a player who scored two goals and kept saying, "He was good", until the end when the player took off the helmet, it was a girl :)

There are five divisions in the youth leagues - Mites 8 years and under; Squirts for 9-10 years old kids; Pee Wee 11-12 years old; Bantam for 13-14; and Midgets for 15, 16 & 17 years old.

I WAS IN PENTHOUSE!

No, not that Penthouse, Silly! Who wants to see a flat-chest, chubby, middle age woman in the spread? We were invited to the game on Saturday, March 28th in the Penthouse suite. It was good living with food, snacks and drinks in the room and private restroom in the suite. I took these photos with the views from the top.
Happy April Fool!

From up high, we had great views of when the puck went in and where it was after the goalie made the save. These photos were pretty good taking with my cheesy Sony DSC-W150 Cyber-shot 8.1 Megapixels.

St. Louis Blues v. Columbus Blue Jackets - Saturday, March 28th. Blues won in shotout 2-1.

ST. LOUIS BLUES

Saturday, January 31, 2009 a visit from Eastern Conference Philadelphia Flyers.

St. Louis Blues celebrated a win 5-3 over Minnesota Wild on Sunday, March 15, 2009.

Bottom photo - Manny Legace (goalie #34) chatting with Keith Tkachuk #7 during warm up. It is an outdated photo when Legace was with the team, before being sent to the minor.

PENALTY BOX

It was pretty crowded in the penalty box during the New York Rangers v. St. Louis Blues game on Monday, February 16, 2009.

Inside the penalty box where the bad boys are kept until they cool down :)

I always like to keep an eye on the players inside the penalty box because a lot of time goals are scored when the other players caught off guard by one of the players coming out of the box, got a cross-ice pass from his teammate, raced down the ice and put the puck in the net. It is specially great when it is a two-man advantage penalty.

One more reason I like goalies as they never had to serve penalty for their misconduct. (Ice Hockey Official Rule 407 stated that a goalkeeper shall not be sent to the penalty bench for an offense, but instead the penalties shall be served by another member of his team.) Like the time when a penalty was called against Chris Osgood for tripping David Perron (a penalty was also call against Perron for diving), but the penalty was served by Jiri Hudler, instead of Osgood. Goalies just have to work harder when his team tries kill the 2-minute penalty.

ST. PATRICK'S DAY ON ICE

Wishing everyone a very cool St. Patrick's Day.

Detroit Red Wings at Scottrade Center - Final Score - - - Wings 5 Blues 2 - Saturday, March 14, 2009. It was a very Lucky and Happy Day for all Red Wings Fans around the world :)

CONGRATULATIONS AAA AMATEUR BLUES

At the March 3rd game, St. Louis 96 Pee-Wee Major AAA Amateur Blues, a youth team was honored for their winning at the 50th Quebec International Pee-Wee tournament in Canada. The team is coached by Al MacInnis, a former Blues defenseman and currently vice president of hockey operation of the St. Louis Blues.