Game 7 – Blues Vs. Pens

Yeah, I’m really busy. Phoning this one in even though it was a great game.

Game 6 – Blues vs. Blackhawks

David Perron scores 2 goals against the Hawks for the second straight game. The second one might be the Blues goal of the season, a roofed backhand in traffic. It was amazing!

Game 5 – Blues at Blackhawks

Oh, and Marian is a girl’s name.

Blues at Stars – Game 4

Blues at Preds – Game 3

The first road game didn’t go as smoothly as the first two. Maybe like me, they were a little more interested in the live “30 Rock”, because they didn’t look ready to play in the first period. However, they dominated the other two. Can anyone stop Matt D’Agostini?

Steve Sullivan was a menace on the ice. Tootoo was a menace to rookie Ryan Reaves.

Oh well. Let’s take it out on the Stars Saturday night.

Blues Vs. Ducks – Game 2

Well, the second game of the Blues’ season was a very, very fun one! It was a very rare holiday game played at 1:00 in the afternoon. I played hooky and got to see Blues history being made from a nice vantage point. My buddy, Chris got us discounted tickets down in the club seats. Free food!

So many different ways to go to recap this game. Do we go with something that commemorates the fact that the Blues set records for two quickest goals, six seconds apart, by Backes and McDonald, and biggest shot differential, +38, in franchise history. Or, do we play up the fact that the Anaheim Ducks looked more like the Long Island Ducks from “Slap Shot”, trying to goon it up with the likes of that bruiser Brad Boyes, the oh so intimidating David Perron, and the far too quiet, too often Eric Brewer.

Well, here are a couple of thumbnails that play up the first story line, even though one has a nod to super-goon George Parros and his actions during the game. I’m not the biggest designated fighter fan, but man, I wouldn’t mind a guy like Parros on my team. He’s pretty great.

Blues Vs. Flyers – Game 1

 

A couple of thumbnail sketches for rock poster series based on St. Louis Blues games.

 

Well, this is it. I’m taking the leap.

While my wife is in the hospital on bed rest with our first child on the way, I’ve decided that life isn’t crazy enough. I’m going to try to catalog the St. Louis Blues’ season in a way inspired by Joe Petruccio on his blog, “My NY Mets Journal”.

Two major differences here, though (aside from it being about hockey). One, I’m going to post thumbnails, of which my favorite ones I’ll finish out as poster art. Two, while I hope to get things up in a timely fashion, I might be lagging to far behind the times to due a useful game summary.

I’ll also make posts about other projects, too. For instance the previously mentioned baby is on the way. So I’ll be posting some of my work in relation to that here as well.

Anyway, the highlights I want to hit in this poster are, this was Jaroslav Halak’s first regular season game as Blue. He’s key to the Blue’s chances for the next several seasons, and I’m super-excited to have him here. I mean how many goalies in the world have shut down the Caps AND Penguins in the playoffs?! Second, I don’t know if it’s a tradition they’re trying to start or what, but in the first two home games (both wins) the Blues saluted the crowd after the game by lining up at center ice under a spotlight. Very, very cool. That really stuck out in my mind. Lastly, in the first sketch I’ve included the Hull statue and Colaiacovo’s jump into the glass after the OT game-winner. I hope to include those if I finish this out as a poster, but I think I’m digging the second sketch better.