January 2012
27 posts
“We’ve got such a great attitude in here. It just seems like we win a game and then we park it the next day, win or lose. For having so much success this year at this stage, we’re not full of ourselves. We’re a pretty humbled bunch and we just keep a workmanlike attitude.”
—Scott Nichol
“Bring Arnie because he knows how to hunt. If we get really desperate for food, he’s older and he’ll probably die first. I’d bring Ports because he can grill anything, literally anything. And the last guy I would bring is Petro because he had to be in Boy Scouts growing up.”
—TJ Oshie, on the three teammates he’d want with him on a deserted island
Every day after practice, the Blues engage in some fairly serious battles of ping-pong in the players’ lounge.
Today, Patrik Berglund pointed out to the media who was on top of the rankings. Literally, on the team’s dry-erase board in the hallway of the practice facility, next to legitimate hockey information, there are ping-pong rankings.
And sure enough, Berglund is No. 1.
“You should tweet that,” Berglund told reporters.
A few minutes later, Hitchcock walked by and noticed the rankings on the board.
“What is this? What are these rankings?” Hitchcock asked anyone around him who was listening.
When somebody answered, Hitchcock wobbled down the hallway belting out: “PING-PONG? … Geesh … PING-PONG?”
“I’m actually paying to play tomorrow.”
—David Perron, on buying passes for 60 friends and family members to the game in Montreal
