HAZELWOOD, Mo. -- When the St. Louis Blues restart their season Wednesday against the Vancouver Canucks, their remaining 25 games will be so compressed into a tight window of days that there will be no time to think of anything other than the task......
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ST. LOUIS - St. Louis Blues President of Hockey Operations and General Manager Doug Armstrong announced Monday the club has recalled forward Dmitrij Jaskin from the Chicago Wolves of the American Hockey League. Jaskin, 20, has appeared in seven......
SOCHI -- While their neighbors to the north were fighting to stay alive in the 2014 Sochi Olympics, the United States men's hockey players once again methodically went about their business without any drama or suspense at Shayba Arena. Ryan Sut......
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re going to take a closer look at the four games and the countries playing in them. Remember, Sweden, USA, Canada and Finland all have byes this round. As a special treat, we will be using the Putin Upset Trajectory Identification Notification model (or P.U.T.I.N model) to determine the likelihood of an upset happening between one of the pairing. Analysis of special P.U.T.I.N photographs will indicate...
SOCHI -- It took a while, but the United States drew first blood in the battle of the big boys at the 2014 Sochi Olympics. T.J. Oshie scored four times in an eight-round shootout to give the Americans a 3-2 win on a wild Saturday afternoon that......
Blues forward T.J. Oshie dazzled the nation when he scored four shootout goals on six attempts, helping the United States to a 3-2 victory against Russia on Saturday in Sochi. Since, Oshie became a worldwide trending topic on Twitter and gained......
s team to a dramatic 3-2 shootout win over Russia in Sochi on Saturday, his tiny Minnesota hometown was celebrating the Olympic success of yet another of its hockey players and wondering if he'd be the latest to medal. Warroad, a town of fewer than 2,000 people that's 6 miles south of the Canadian border, has the Midas touch: No U.S. men's team has ever won a gold medal without having a Warroad player...
Sochi (Russia) (AFP) - USA coach Dan Bylsma admitted Saturday that T.J. Oshie, the shootout star of the 3-2 Olympic Games hockey win over Russia, almost missed his game-breaking moment. Bylsma said early on in Saturday's shootout thriller that he lost sight on the American bench of Oshie who had come in the wrong door after his first miss and was sitting with the defencemen. Oshie took six of eight...
t particularly big, they don't wear red much anymore, and as far as being a machine, well, the Russian hockey team is proving just as susceptible to nerves as anyone here at the Olympics. With four minutes to go in the third period and the score still 2-2, a momentum-changing goal by Russia...
The U.S. rode the little-known St. Louis Blues forward in an epic penalty shootout to beat Russia on its home ice....
With one performance, he became a household name in America....
s hockey team with just such a situation in mind, and the shootout specialist concocted one last clever goal to silence an arena filled with screaming Russian fans. Oshie scored four times in the shootout and put the winner between Bobrovsky...
SOCHI, Russia (AP) -- On an American men's hockey team with plenty of stars, T.J. Oshie often gets lost in the crowd. He was one of the last players picked for the roster and never has had a 20-goal season in the NHL with the St. Louis Blues....
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more physically challenging' than ice hockey. [Washington Post] • Dan Kelly introduced the NHL to St. Louis as the Blues radio announcer. He went on become one of many legendary sportscasters to come out of St. Louis. Kelly passed away 25 years ago Monday. [St. Louis Post Dispatch] • Nobody wants Russia to win over the U.S. more than Vladimir Putin - NOBODY. Putin is still irked about the goings on...
s surprising 3-1 victory over usually steady Slovakia. ''Everybody thought we were going to just have fun here, but the boys really responded well,'' said Matjaz Kopitar, who is the Slovenian coach and Anze's father. ''They want to be a competitive team, and we were rewarded.'' Slovenia (1-1) earned a spot in the Sochi Games by beating Belarus, Ukraine and Denmark in last year...
James van Riemsdyk has a funny little story about where he was when Sidney Crosby beat Ryan Miller in overtime to win the Olympic gold medal for Canada in the 2010 Vancouver Games. Van Riemsdyk was a 20-year-old rookie with the Philadelphia Flyers and living in his own apartment. One of my buddies came to visit me and I had to drive him to the airport, van Riemsdyk said. It was that gold medal loss...
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