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A bottle of Dom at your nicer places will at least be 2 bills and the sky's the limit depending on what you're getting. Figure about 4 glasses per bottle and you've already spent about $1,000 just on one round for the table.

It isn't as hard as you'd think for a team to run up such a tab at one of your finer restaurants. The wine is where you really get killed.

That is the worst feeling. What was he doing going after a heavyweight like Ehrhoff? Good to see the spunk out of the kid. Edit: Any truth to the comment made by the Sharks announcers that he hasn't exactly seen eye to eye with Murray?

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And the Mrs. and teammates accuse me of having too many sticks.

From last night it looks like Kariya forgot to tell David about keeping your head up at the blue line.

Looks like he's not going - http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/news_story/?ID=224834&hubname=nhl Hopefully that means he's valuable enough to get regular ice time. The Blues have nothing to gain by letting him play in the WJC.

Does it really matter? It isn't like he's wearing a pair they found out back at the LHS.

Great role player, but he isn't a top flight goal scorer. When you're down a couple goals, those are the guys you need on the ice. Maybe the Blues top guys are the kind who do more with less.

You'd think Weight, Kariya, or Tkachuk could do the same for David. Bourque took care of Samsonov, Lapointe did the same for Bergeron, the list goes on like that in Boston.

They are shown in the '08 Roller catalogue.

I, for one, am disappointed with the veterans of the St. Louis Blues. Someone should be taking the kid under their wing, maybe put the kid up, pick him up on the way to the rink, etc. Razz the kid at the rink, sure, but make sure he gets there first.

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Could be he hasn't developed the defensive awareness to be used 4 on 4 yet.

Interesting to see Tanguay and Sundin names on blade patterns. I wasn't aware that either of them had been using Mission sticks.

That deal makes no sense. "We're very happy with the play of this offensive-minded rookie forward. With that in mind we are going to deal a shot-blocking defenseman for another offensive-minded forward."

He was trying to dangle, that wasn't a strength move. A nice shift, for sure, but when going 1 on 3, not really the smartest play. I forget who the other defenseman was on the play but he should have recognized the situation and came across. Honestly, David could very easily have gotten himself knocked into next week with that move. He definitely doesn't look out of place. I wonder how long until Hinote isn't filling his spot in the last 2 minutes of a 1 goal game.

Funny anectdote. My brother and I are in a fantasy hockey league and from time to time we'll send each other suggestions on unknowns who might be worth picking up. Yesterday he sends me a note suggesting, you guessed it, David Perron. I sent back and was like, "yeah, I've heard of him."

Not at all. If you watched any of Gretz's games the last few years of his career then you would understand why it is the Gretzky rule. Refs probably got so used to giving him assists in his early years that they just couldn't break the habit. Well, that goal exemplifies the adage, "They don't ask how, just how many." Congrats to the kid, he now has 1 more NHL goal than I do.

One of those "phantom assists" they've been talking about so much. The definition of a "phantom assist" or, as I like to call it, the Gretzky rule, is when a player is not involved at all in the scoring play yet somehow gets credited with a helper.

Do you know anything? David is getting a better experience practicing every day at the NHL level and at the NHL pace and observing and being around other professional NHL playesr than he would get walking a bunch of kids in the Q. Get real. This is easily the best route for him and when there are injuries (which there will be) he'll be the most ready to step in that he can be. Two different schools of thought. I have always believed that it is better to be playing than to be watching. I also don't believe a prospect should be living in the press box for depth. That is a job for a journeyman or AHL call up. I guess that's why Andy Murray and co. are in the Employee of the St. Louis Blues and you are not. The Q isn't going to help David at this point. His weight and strength training he's doing during practice is worth 10x the experience he would get with another year in the Q. Sure, because guys never get returned to juniors with a diet and exercise regimen to follow.

Do you know anything? David is getting a better experience practicing every day at the NHL level and at the NHL pace and observing and being around other professional NHL playesr than he would get walking a bunch of kids in the Q. Get real. This is easily the best route for him and when there are injuries (which there will be) he'll be the most ready to step in that he can be. Two different schools of thought. I have always believed that it is better to be playing than to be watching. I also don't believe a prospect should be living in the press box for depth. That is a job for a journeyman or AHL call up.

Send him down already. Playing 1 game in 8 is just dicking him around.

Trust me, if he does return to the Q, the Blues won't be sending him there to dangle for a year. He'll have his list of things to focus on and improve, it won't be a season to waste.

He realizes that. Plus, dunno if this has been mentioned, but it is 9 games that he plays in - not the Blues' first 9 games of the season. True, they could drag it out as long as they want so long as he doesn't play 10 games. Actually, they can ship him back to juniors at any time, it is just that once he has played in 10 games, it counts as a season off of his contract. I'm sure he realizes that, I was just putting it out there for some of these kids to understand. He made opening night and now he has to prove he belongs for the long haul. One can always point to Jordan Staal and Patrice Bergeron for inspiration. Both of those guys were expected to just get a taste of NHL life in training camp and then be shipped back to juniors.