how many more dumbasses do i have to hear compare the hawks to detroit in the sense that they won without a heaveyweight or muscle on their fourth line? these are the same people that ripped on detroit for being too soft. detroit hockey is boring to watch, just ask detroit people why the attendence has been down and you see so many empty seats for games. i hate watching the hawks play detroit. its like watching a european league game with tons of diving.
the hawks have too many people taking runs at players (stafford-keith, cleary-kane, parros-eager, the fridge-huet, toews last year against vancouver when he needed stitches, kronwall-havlat)
i know hitting is part of hockey, but so is a good old fassion hockey fight between heavey weights. just ask the thousands of people in the stadium who go crazy during and after a good fight.
people think replacing fraser or burish or eager with heaveyweights would kill the hawks because the coach would not be able to “roll four lines”, but i think they make that argument because they like to toss out their new hockey term “roll four lines”. burish, eager and a heavyweight would make a pretty good fourth line. probbably one of the best in hockey for the coach to “roll”.