St. Louis Blues

[Miningman]

Stunning 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkOcO5HXbk8

 

[Flintlock76]

Ah, I see someone's celebrating the St. Louis Blues winning Lord Stanley's Cup!

Great hearing W.C. Handy doing his original version, but believe it or not, this  version is the one Mr. Handy said was his favorite...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nz6RRy9CpMY  

We couldn't have won WW2 without music like that!

[CSSHEGEWISCH]

Consider that a Canadian NHL team has not won the Stanley Cup since 1993 when Les Habitants won.

[Miningman]

Since each player gets to keep the Cup for a week and bring it back to his hometown it will spend a lot of time in Canada. My team is the Chicago Blackhawks but I had to jump on the St Louis bandwagon because I didn't want to see the dreaded Boston Bruins win.

Updated May 31, 2019^[1][2]

#	Nat	Player	Pos	S/G	Age	Acquired	Birthplace
34		Jake Allen	G	L	28	2008	Fredericton, New Brunswick
49		Ivan Barbashev	C	L	23	2014	Moscow, Russia
50		Jordan Binnington	G	L	25	2011	Richmond Hill, Ontario
9		Sammy Blais	LW	L	22	2014	Montmagny, Quebec
41		Robert Bortuzzo	D	R	30	2015	Thunder Bay, Ontario
19		Jay Bouwmeester	D	L	35	2013	Edmonton, Alberta
21		Tyler Bozak	C	R	33	2018	Regina, Saskatchewan
31		Jared Coreau	G	L	27	2019	Perth, Ontario
42		Michael Del Zotto	D	L	28	2019	Stouffville, Ontario
29		Vince Dunn	D	L	22	2015	Peterborough, Ontario
6		Joel Edmundson	D	L	25	2011	Brandon, Manitoba
15		Robby Fabbri	C	L	23	2014	Mississauga, Ontario
4		Carl Gunnarsson	D	L	32	2014	Örebro, Sweden
62		Mackenzie MacEachern	LW	L	25	2012	Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
7		Pat Maroon	LW	L	31	2018	St. Louis, Missouri
90		Ryan O'Reilly	C	L	28	2018	Clinton, Ontario
55		Colton Parayko	D	R	26	2012	St. Albert, Alberta
57		David Perron	LW	R	31	2018	Sherbrooke, Quebec
27		Alex Pietrangelo (C)	D	R	29	2008	King City, Ontario
12		Zach Sanford	LW	L	24	2017	Salem, Massachusetts
10		Brayden Schenn	C	L	27	2017	Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
17		Jaden Schwartz	LW	L	26	2010	Melfort, Saskatchewan
20		Alexander Steen (A)	LW	L	35	2008	Winnipeg, Manitoba
70		Oskar Sundqvist	C	R	25	2017	Boden, Sweden
91		Vladimir Tarasenko (A)	RW	L	27	2010	Yaroslavl, Soviet Union
18		Robert Thomas	C	R	19	2017	Aurora, Ontario
22		Chris Thorburn	RW	R

[Flintlock76]

Well, if that list is any indication I suppose St. Louis' Canadians are better than Boston's Canadians!  

[Miningman]

American and European players are going good in numbers in the NHL considerabky but its still majority Canadian players. 

The page was cut off showing the hometowns of the Blues players but Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Saskatchewan, Alberta are there. 

[Miningman]

For anyone who would like to read more on W. C. Handy 

t https://archive.org/details/menofpopularmusi006081mbp/page/n73

 

[CSSHEGEWISCH]

While there weren't any real cheap shots, the style of play in all seven games looked like something that Don Cherry would enjoy immensely.

[Miningman]

For sure... it was rockem' sockem' hard hitting, right up Don Cherrys alley. Hardest trophy/Championship to win in sports. 

[CSSHEGEWISCH]

Why is fighting tolerated in ice hockey, while in most other sports, including American football, rugby and other contact sports, it would be grounds for a sendoff and possible suspension?

[BaltACD]

CSSHEGEWISCH

Why is fighting tolerated in ice hockey, while in most other sports, including American football, rugby and other contact sports, it would be grounds for a sendoff and possible suspension?

Because it is ice hockey - where fighting has been a reality since water has been freezing and men have been smacking a round frozen rubber rock with sticks.  The also get to whack each other with those sticks.

[Miningman]

Was St. Louis the last regularly scheduled assignments for the T1's? Does anyone know when some were assigned there and what was their last day of active service out of St. Louis?

[Flintlock76]

BaltACD

 

 

CSSHEGEWISCH

Why is fighting tolerated in ice hockey, while in most other sports, including American football, rugby and other contact sports, it would be grounds for a sendoff and possible suspension?

 

 

Because it is ice hockey - where fighting has been a reality since water has been freezing and men have been smacking a round frozen rubber rock with sticks.  The also get to whack each other with those sticks.

 

Triggers a memory...

Back in the '70s I read an article in "Playboy" magazine (I only used to read it for the articles, mind you.   )  titled "The Toughest Men In Sports."

It essentially was a survey of male athletes and who they considered the toughest men in sports to be.  Long story short, the general consensus was boxers.  Logical.

However, the boxers felt the toughest men in sports were hockey goalies, as Joe Frazier put it  "Man, I don't want nothin' comin' at me I can't stop!"  

They also had a lot of respect for Formula One race car drivers.  "Those boys are crazy!"  

[Overmod]

Miningman

Was St. Louis the last regularly scheduled assignments for the T1's? Does anyone know when some were assigned there and what was their last day of active service out of St. Louis?

I will have to look this up, but what I recall is that the engines for the 'southwest' trains were staged out of Columbus (from whence they of course ran across and down to St. Louis) and it would be that segment which is in question.  (I think there was something similar for the passenger Sharks, before they went to the New Jersey coast...)

[Miningman]

There is a video on line ( I'm sure you know) of T1's in St Louis, leaving the station with train in tow.  They do appear to be a little rough and show signs of water problems with stains/ streaks on the boiler. 

Columbus being their home base for this service still required them to be turned, fuelled and water and minor maintenance. Perhaps an overnight stay. 

I'm curious to know where they closed out their regular service.