Finally, Game 1 between the Wild and Blues is upon us. Well, hours and hours and hours away still, but at least it's finally game day.

Good morning from St. Louis, the morning after some awesome first-day playoff games: Chicago rallying from three goals down to beat the Predators with Scott Darling in net, the Calgary Flames proving they're third-period comeback kids again by rallying on the Canucks in the waning seconds, Fireworks already in the Montreal-Ottawa series with the Habs winning, PK Subban nastily slashing Mark Stone and Senators coach Dave Cameron likely drawing a fine by basically demanding the league to suspend him or they'll slash one of the Habs best players and the Islanders beating the Capitals in precisionlike fashion behind two goals from Brock Nelson.

--Soooooooooooooooooooooo, today I'm going to do something I'm sure I'll regret. I'm going to give Periscope a try. Like I need another social media platform. I'll give it a couple test runs during the Blues 11 a.m. morning skate and Wild's noon afternoon skate and during pregame warmup, so download the periscope app, follow me on Twitter at @russostrib and you'll see when I'm live streaming. I think that's how Periscope works. If it's not that simple, somebody please email me and give me intructions.

--I'll be on CBS 920AM in St. Louis at 9:20 a.m. You can listen live at insideSTL.com, I believe.

--Jim Souhan and I will be doing a live podcast today at 4 p.m. You can listen live or come back later and listen at www.souhanunfiltered.com. Or, you can listen on spreaker, iHeart Radio, iTunes, your cool podcast app on your iPhone, etc.

--I'll be on KFAN with Dan Barreiro at 5:30 p.m.

--I'll be on Fox Sports North tonight. FSNorth, by the way, has an hour pregame show and also a five-hour Becoming Wild marathon leading up to the game (Jonas Brodin, Ryan Carter, Jared Spurgeon, Nino Niederreiter, Mikael Granlund and Thomas Vanek).

I hope you enjoyed the Wild coverage in the Star Tribune leading up to the game. If you didn't catch the coverage in the past few newspapers, go out and grab them or go back in my blogs to find the links.

Today's newspaper is a must grab. Awesome cover of Devan Dubnyk.

But here we go with today's links:

My fun read on the man behind the mask, Devan Dubnyk

Wild notebook: Mike Yeo keeps auditioning fourth-line left wingers, Kuemper ill, etc.

Jake Allen gets the start vs. Wild, by Rachel Blount

Chip Scoggins on the increased Wild expectations

Wild scouting report

St. Louis Blues scouting report

Series at a glance (Wild/Blues statistical rankings, leaders)

Sid the Kid Hartman on the series

Also, your Blues peeps to follow:

@jprutherford

@lkorac10

@normSanders

@andystrickland

@chriskerber

@panger40

@tomtimm

I'll be back later after the, uh, afternoon skate. Thanks 8:30 p.m. game!