Join Blues beat writer Jim Thomas for his live chat at 1 p.m. Wednesday
Get your questions ready and join in at 1 p.m. Wednesday for our weekly Blues chat.
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Jim, for the Blues fans looking for games. If you live in the United States and are outside of Bally Sports coverage area -- which is bigger than you think -- you can get watch most games streaming on ESPN+. If you they just want to listen, they can listen anywhere on Sirius XM, which is a steal. I am not sure if the games are available in Sirius in Canada but I know they are available anywhere in the U.S. I think you can listen to the games on NHL app pretty much anywhere. I've been in Europe a couple of times. and listened over there. -
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Here's the problem with retiring Berenson's No. 7: Garry Unger, Keith Tkachuk and Joe Mullen. All of them also wore jersey No. 7 for the Blues and all were substantial players for the franchise. But your point is well taken. Perhaps of some consolation, Berenson will be inducted into the inaugural St Louis Blues Hall of Fame this weekend. I was on the selection committee and I voted for him.
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I thought Seattle would be better this season, but not a playoff contender.Really surprised Florida has fallen this far. Doesn't look like they will make the playoffs.A little surprised by Dallas in a good way.A little surprised by Philly in a bad way. (We don't hear from the "Torts" guy on this chat anymore, do we?)I thought Boston would come back to the pack a bit this year. Instead it's been the opposite.And I thought the Blues would be better than they are, maybe not as good as last year with the losses of Perron and Husso, but I thought they'd be in solid playoff position at this time a year.
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There is a version that we file right as the game ends. It does not include quotes and we do a lot of the writing on it in-between periods.The second version, after we go to the locker room area for postgame interviews, usually takes about two hours. It's often a total rewrite of the first version. Sometimes it takes longer on the road if we have to go back to the hotel to write and can't stay in the arena.Sometimes a lot longer, like in Montreal, where I had the worst post-game Uber driver ever. (I'll spare you the play-by-play on that one - I'm trying to forget! But it turned what should have been a 25-minute drive into a 1 1/2-hour misadventure.)Or postgame in Minnesota on Sunday, when the Uber ride was fine, but we couldn't get my hotel room door to open, and they had to call in an "off-campus" maintenance guy to figure out something.) That pushed things back by about an hour.Examples such as these are why my stock answer when people say: "What a neat job you have" is "It's not as glamorous as it may seem."But as my late father used to say: It does beat digging ditches.
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