| 19 October 2010
Starting now, and coming to you every Tuesday until I forget, or have something else to do, or just don't feel like it that week, a new feature: Tuesdays with Morrissey. In this feature, in honor of the Godfather of Emo, we'll take a look at the saddest, most depressing performances of the past week in the NHL. To give the fans of the teams involved in such performances some background music to cry and/or cut themselves to, we'll also offer up a selection from the Moz's extensively depressing oeuvre.
This week's first soulcrusher is the St. Louis Blues, who coughed up 2-goal leads in the third period in back-to-back games, against the Stars and Blackhawks. Ty Conklin could not trouble himself to ConkBlock any of Dallas' three shootout attempts on Saturday night (including a pathetically wimpy effort from Loui Eriksson that still managed to trickle through his pads).
And, in last night's game, none of the Blues, it seemed, could be troubled to put a body on Marian Hossa. He's only leading the league in scoring; why cover him?
And not to send Blues fans into a doomsday spiral or anything, but this pattern of playing two-and-a-half periods is exactly what left them on the outside looking in on the playoffs last year. These two losses aren't "blowing a 3-goal lead to Edmonton at home" bad...but they're disturbing. Like having a girlfriend in a coma.
Misery is not confined to the Midwest, however. The Coyotes--playoff surprises a year ago--are sitting in the Pacific cellar, and will be hurting even more with Captain Shane Doan having pulled a "3" out of the NHL Suspension Lottery Hat. Heaven knows you're miserable now! Now, Coyotes fans may whine that three games is unfair, excessive, and irrational. To which I respond: It's the NHL.
Meat is Murder!
