Will is a powerful word. Replace it with can, and the entire tenor of the conversation shifts. Can Lindsay Lohan stay out jail? It’s theoretically possible. Can the Pillsbury Doughboy flip off the camera as he’s being shoved into the oven? FCC censorship standards won’t allow it, or he might. Can the Los Angeles Kings ...
Seventy-nine. In mathematics, it represents an emirp, as its reverse (97) is also a prime number. In music, the number of cumulative weeks Elvis Presley spent at #1 on the Billboard charts. It’s also the atomic number of gold. Alas, it also denotes the number of days it took a golden season by San Jose ...
David Perron knows all about expectations. Drafted 26th overall in an admittedly sub-par 2007 draft class, he nevertheless made the Blues straight out of the Juniors, scoring 13 goals and 27 points in 62 games. In the 2008-09 season, he cracked the 50 point plateau, notching 35 assists in the process and becoming noteworthy for ...
The proud city of St. Louis has seen eleven World Series titles, one NBA championship, and one Super Bowl victory. And yet, over a span of 45 seasons, nary a Stanley Cup. David Backes did his best to help the Blues take their first step toward breaking that streak. In a violence-marred game featuring four ...
For both the San Jose Sharks and the St. Louis Blues, the formula is fairly straightforward in their Western Conference Quarterfinals series. Score three goals. Over the past 28 games of the regular season, the Sharks scored two or less fifteen times, the Blues eleven. Within the confines of tight checking, collapsing defenses and the ...
Horse hockey! — Colonel Sherman Potter, M*A*S*H In a wild, rough-and-tumble affair that featured seven power play goals, three fights, a boarding major and three roughing penalties, the San Jose Sharks came back from a 3-1 second period deficit to outlast the Los Angeles Kings, 6-5 in the shootout. With the win, the Sharks edged ...
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat — F. Scott Fitzgerald Desperate for points, San Jose’s dispiriting 2-0 loss to the Phoenix Coyotes was, as described by coach Todd McLellan, “frustrating.” On the heels of a 3-1 defeat by the Anaheim Ducks a mere 24 hours earlier, it was also, to quote Joe ...
Fame and fortune is a magnet. It can pull you far from home With a dream in your heart, you’re never alone. Dreams turn into dust and blow away And there you are without a friend You pack your car and ride away. “Do You Know the Way to San Jose?” — Dionne Warwick Metaphors ...
In 1920, after leaving the courthouse following Grand Jury testimony regarding his role in the 1919 “Black Sox” scandal, Shoeless Joe Jackson is said to have encountered a small boy who pleaded, “Say it ain’t so, Joe!” Jackson, ultimately acquitted in 1921, was nevertheless banned from baseball for life along with his seven alleged co-conspirators ...
What is not started today is never finished tomorrow — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It’s been a long four years since the Seattle Sonics left in the dead of night, trading in their black coffees for the black gold of Oklahoma City. It’s been an even longer 88 years since the Seattle Metropolitans folded, trading ...
