Sunday, June 9, 2019

LGB!

LGB (Let's Go Blues!)

Our city's St. Louis Blues played their first National Hockey League season in 1967. They've made it to the Stanley Cup finals several times, but have never been able to win. This might be their year, though.
  • In Round 1 the Blues defeated the Winnipeg Jets four games to two
  • In Round 2 the Blues defeated the Dallas Stars four games to three
  • In Round 3 the Blues defeated the San Jose Sharks four games to two
Now they're in the final round, playing against the Boston Bruins. The Blues lead the best-of-seven series three games to two. Ever since they won their game on Thursday the potential of bring home the Stanley Cup has been the talk of the town. People are wearing their team logo shirts, which in other years have already long been put away. The newspaper is full of ads with a team tie-in. Businesses all have Let's Go Blues signs. The song 'Gloria' by Laura Branigan is this year's team victory song, and when someone says "Play Gloria!" you know exactly what they're talking about.

Sunday is Hubby Tony's night to cook dinner, and he wanted a hockey tie-in before tonight's Game 6. Since there aren't a lot of blue foods he got creative, making some tasty Boston Baked beans (which we demolished!), and a spinach salad with blueberries and blue cheese.


Dessert was a chocolate hockey puck cake drizzled with blueberry syrup (and sherbet, just because).


It would have been nice to finish the series up tonight, but the Bruins ended up winning 5-1. Now all the excitement will be transferred to Wednesday night, when I hope the Blues will come out on top.

Five years ago today: Tear It Up

12 comments:

  1. Good Luck, I hope your team wins! Now for the food, tasty Boston Baked beans is a winner around here. We demolish them too. And that spinach salad with blueberries and blue cheese is new to me. Might give that a try. Thanks for sharing this.

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    1. I like ANY type of beans! As for the salad, Tony figured that if spinach with cheese and strawberries were good together other types of berries would pair well too. He was right.

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  2. Tasty. Especially the dessert.

    God bless.

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  3. Good luck to your team. We are rooting for the basketball Raptors tonight the city and fans are on fire! The food looks amazing.

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    1. It's fun to get caught up in a sports mania.

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  4. SO rooting for your Blues, Kath. As a fellow western conference fan (Go Avs!) Plus the Bruins are just brutish and don't have that style of hockey I like.

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  5. Sorry it's going to Game Seven, but I'll be rooting for you!

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    1. I think things will be REALLY crazy the next few days.

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  6. Oh my gosh! You've just made me so hungry.

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