St. Louis sports fans trashed the Blues’ Twitter for wishing Taylor Swift, Chiefs luck in Super Bowl 58

The St. Louis vs. Kansas City sports rivalry is no joke.

Sports rivalries are serious business and the St. Louis Blues just committed the biggest party foul there is.

Ahead of Sunday’s Super Bowl 58, featuring the Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers, the Blues stirred the pot big time with their fans after a simple post on their Twitter. The tweet in question? A message wishing the Chiefs and Taylor Swift, who is dating Kansas City tight end Travis Kelce, good luck in Super Bowl 58.

For those unfamiliar with the midwest’s sports rivalries, St. Louis and Kansas City sit on opposite ends of the state of Missouri. Not only that, the city lost its football team — the Rams — to Los Angeles in 2016, making the NFL a sore subject for St. Louisans. So, for the Blues to tweet its support for St. Louis’ biggest sports rival was either the biggest misstep possible or the wildest troll job imaginable.

As expected, St. Louis fans didn’t take kindly to the Blues tweeting well wishes to the Chiefs and Swift.

NHL fans were so upset officials stopped a goalie fight between Marc-Andre Fleury and Jordan Binnington

We were ROBBED of a goalie fight!

By now, most hockey fans understand Jordan Binnington’s capacity to act like a child. In fact, the St. Louis Blues goalie is probably the most infamous for throwing a water bottle at Nazem Kadri during last year’s playoffs.

So when Binnington started a goalie fight with the Minnesota Wild’s Marc-Andre Fleury Wednesday, folks naturally wanted Fleury to beat Binnington up.

Plus, a goalie fight — awesome!

1. Who doesn’t want to see that?

2. How often do we actually get to see a goalie fight?

The answer is the officials at the game, who stopped Binnington and Fleury before they really revved up their fisticuffs. And … c’mon!

Ugh, we were robbed of some genuinely glorious goalie fight action. There’s no other way to slice. At least in Fleury’s case, his Wild got the last laugh in an 8-5 win where Binnington surrendered five goals.

Vladimir Tarasenko trade: Who won the Blues and Rangers deal?

A first line of Vladimir Tarasenko, Artemi Panarin, and Mika Zibanejad sounds pretty good!

We’re still a good few weeks from the NHL trade deadline, but the New York Rangers made some noise on Thursday with a big add.

No longer is Vladimir Tarasenko a life-long St. Louis Blue, as the Rangers traded for the 31-year-old forward in quite the blockbuster deal. Tarasenko’s name was no stranger to the trade block over the years, but with his contract set to expire in the summer, the Rangers jumped on the chance to add a prolific scorer to their ranks ahead of the playoffs.

As the dust settles on this surprising early February deal, let’s break down the details of the Tarasenko trade and give out grades to both the Rangers and Blues!

Jordan Binnington had such a childish explanation for tossing a water bottle at Nazem Kadri

How lame can you get?

Is Jordan Binnington a professional hockey player or a 28-year-old child?

After the St. Louis Blues had their playoff exit interviews Tuesday, it seems as if Binnington is fully in the territory of the latter. One of the biggest stories of the 2022 Stanley Cup Playoffs so far came in the second round, when Binnington chucked a water bottle at Colorado Avalanche forward Nazem Kadri during a postgame interview on TNT.

The petulant show of frustration came after Kadri collided with Binnington in the first period of Game 3 of their second-round series, a play which injured the Blues goaltender and sidelined him for the rest of the series. Now that the series is over — with the Avalanche advancing to the Western Conference Final — Binnington has finally given an explanation as to why he threw a water bottle at Kadri.

And folks, it’s really… something else.

Yes, Binnington really said that the water-bottle throw was a “God-given opportunity,” and one that he had to take to get Kadri to… understand what he was going through?

Let’s roll the tape, just to be sure.

My god, does Binnington have the most childishly petty energy imaginable or what? Just absolute loser stuff here.

This isn’t the first time Binnington’s thrown a tantrum, as he has a history of angry outbursts during games. He also swung his stick dangerously at Kadri during a regular-season game last year — unprovoked!

What an absolute dork. That, combined with Binnington’s old racist tweets (that he only just deleted) paints a sad picture of an adult who should know better than to act like a toddler.

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Nathan MacKinnon capped off Game 5 hat trick with sensational goal that decimated the Blues defense

HOLY COW, NATHAN MACKINNON!

Nathan MacKinnon just did that.

Wednesday night’s Game 5 between the Colorado Avalanche and the St. Louis Blues was a chaotic one, with the Blues on the brink of elimination from the second round. The Avalanche took a 3-0 lead halfway through the game, but the Blues were able to slowly chip away at it before tying it up 3-3 in the final five minutes of the third.

Then, something remarkable happened. MacKinnon — who already had two goals on the night — sliced and diced his way through the Blues defense. The result? A sensational coast-to-coast goal that MacKinnon finished with a silky smooth deke around a Blues defenseman before lifting the puck up and over Ville Husso for the 4-3 lead.

Wow. Seriously… wow. Have some more looks at that beauty of a goal.

While the Blues were able to tie up the game 4-4 late with the goaltender pulled to send the game into overtime, MacKinnon’s tally to cap off his hat trick is, without a doubt, the play of the game.

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The NHL needs to ban St. Louis’ David Perron and Pavel Buchnevich for a very long time

These two pathetic cowards should be banned for their attack on Nazem Kadri.

The NHL playoffs have been awesome this year but what has been happening in the Colorado-St. Louis series the past few days has been the opposite of that. Instead, it’s been disgusting, infuriating, awful and a whole bunch of other words I can’t write here.

In case you missed it, Colorado’s Nazem Kadri collided with Blues goalie Jordan Binnington in Saturday’s Game 3 in a bang-bang play that injured Binnington and knocked him out of the rest of this series.

Since then, Kadri has received death threats and lots of awful messages on social media by disgusting fans who should all be ashamed of themselves.

Then last night the Blues players tried to take out Kadri a few times, including these vicious attacks by two cowards by the names of David Perron and Pavel Buchnevich:

That’s just pathetic and dangerous and the NHL can’t let that type of stuff just happen and be OK with it. Those two cowards each got a 2-minute penalties for attacking Kadri, which is absurd.

I’d say they should be suspended for the rest of the playoffs but the Blues are down 3-1 in the series and aren’t going to be around for much longer so the league needs to come down on them hard and ban them for a bunch of games next year.

Kadri, by the way, had a hat trick last night and said afterward that his performance was “For those who hate, that was for them.

Oh, and look at what else Perron tried to do:

Gross.

Twitter had reactions.

Blues’ Jordan Binnington threw a water bottle at Avs forward Nazem Kadri after brutal Game 3 injury

This isn’t good at all from Jordan Binnington here.

Tensions are boiling between the St. Louis Blues and the Colorado Avalanche in the second round of the Stanley Cup playoffs.

On Saturday, the Avalanche bested the Blues 5-2 in Game 3 to take a 2-1 series lead, but all anyone is talking about after the fact is Nazem Kadri and Jordan Binnington. In the first period of Game 3, Kadri collided with Binnington in net after the forward was attempting to make a play on the puck on an offensive rush.

It’s a real unfortunate bang-bang play, as Kadri and Calle Rosen collided in the crease, sending both crashing into Binnington. Ville Husso then ended up having to relieve Binnington as the Stanley Cup winning netminder exited the game with an injury and didn’t return.

After the game finished, Kadri was suddenly hit with a water bottle while he was being interviewed by NHL on TNT.

Multiple journalists at the game confirmed it was Binnington himself who threw the water bottle at Kadri, with the evidence found at the scene of the crime shortly after.

The saga didn’t end there, however, as Blues head coach Craig Berube had some choice words to say about Kadri and whether or not he thought the play was a dirty one.

In postgame media interviews, Kadri stated that he likely wouldn’t have hit Binnington had he not collided with Rosen.

While Kadri does have a reputation of making dirty hits, the injury to Binnington was an unintended side effect of a hockey play that just happens sometimes. It sucks, as Binnington now is out for the series due to the injury he sustained on that play, but the collision with Kadri is purely accidental.

The NHL, meanwhile, is set to investigate the allegations that Binnington threw a water bottle at Kadri.

We’ll have to wait and see if Binnington is punished for his completely unnecessary off-ice outburst and how this will impact the series going forward.

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The Blues’ Brayden Schenn furiously bashed a penalty box camera in Game 1 loss

LOOK OUT!

It wasn’t the best of playoff games for the St. Louis Blues, with the Colorado Avalanche winning Game 1 of the Western Semifinals in overtime 3-2.

And although Brayden Schenn notched an assist for the Blues in the contest, he also took a penalty late in the third period that could have been extremely costly at the time, and he was EXTREMELY unhappy about it.

So he sat down in the penalty box … and bashed the camera with his stick.

That might be costly if the camera took any damage, but the footage is pretty wild, as you’ll see below. Check it out:

Hockey legend Chris Pronger chugged a beer during his Blues’ jersey retirement ceremony

God bless Chris Pronger.

Chris Pronger is an absolute legend.

On Monday, the St. Louis Blues retired Pronger’s No. 44 to the rafters in a long-awaited ceremony that was previously postponed due to the pandemic. In his 18-year NHL career, Pronger spent nine of those with the Blues as one of the league’s peskiest and hard-hitting defensemen of his time.

Though Pronger won the only Stanley Cup of his career with the Anaheim Ducks in 2007, he’s fondly remembered as an integral part of the Blues from the mid-90s and beyond. In his jersey retirement ceremony on Monday, Pronger pulled the most Chris Pronger move of all time and chugged a beer on the ice after his speech to the St. Louis faithful.

While Pronger’s NHL career abruptly ended after sustaining a horrific concussion while with the Philadelphia Flyers in 2011 and he’s struggled with post-concussion syndrome since, it’s great to see him get the sendoff he deserves in the most epic way possible.

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It’s so bitter cold at the 2022 NHL Winter Classic that players’ beards and mustaches have frozen over

It’s cold out there in Minnesota!!!

If you haven’t heard, it’s pretty cold at the 2022 NHL Winter Classic in Minnesota. So cold, in fact, that it’s broken league records for how frigid it is.

At puck drop between the Minnesota Wild and the St. Louis Blues, the weather hit at least minus-8 degrees Fahrenheit, making it the coldest outdoor game in NHL history. Not only that, before the game, the cold weather didn’t stop the Blues from showing up dressed to the nines… in beach gear.

So yeah, it’s pretty cold out there in Minnesota tonight. So cold, in fact, that players’ facial hair is collecting ice and freezing to their faces! Yes, seriously, players on both the Wild and Blues were seen with icicles on their beards and mustaches during warmups, which seemingly weren’t very warm at all.

Look, the NHL’s outdoor games may have overstayed their welcome, but you don’t get moments like these during regular games now do you?

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