Have Another Bowl And Shut Up: Hawks 1 - Nucks 0

After Niemi, Soup was the star. Great scoring chance in 1st, beautiful seam pass to Kane in 2nd, assist, and some defense to boot.

Outshot, but not outplayed, methinks. How many times did we miss the f-ing net? Also, played field position in the 3rd.

Wouldn’t say Buff bogarted the hits (see Seebs, Ladd), but he got his share.

Kane’s scoring drought is attributable to his laziness.

Good team playing well and coming up empty in their own building- datsa spicy meatball revenge.

Aside from the obvious Niemi, I thought Keith had an outstanding game with a very active stick. And Seabrook just put every blue jersey on their ass, it’s so much fun to watch him play.

Also, it’s going to be great to add Hossa to the lineup, but it’s going to take him a while to get his timing back so we’re going to have to beat the Sharks with the team we put on the ice tonight essentially.

Does the Whirlaway allow underage people? It’d be a long haul for me, but it sounds like fun, I’d just need to find a DD.

I signed up just to ask: Does anyone know exactly when Hossa is coming back?

Let’s review: You caught the Hawks on a second of a back-to-back. You had our backup goalie who hadn’t played in weeks. You’ve played twice this week. You played your game to a T. You were at home. And you lost.

To rookies, too.

Hawks are finding ways to win. I like it.

You get these wins how you get them.

nuff said…keep it rolling!

A gutsy win!

The Hawks looked pretty pooped in my opinion and still beat a team full of assholes. I have this hate building for the Canucks not just because they pull hair, there is just something about those pricks that doesn’t sit right with me, but i digress.

Question, what the fuck was Eager’s lazy ass doing in the 3rd when they needed a change and he didn’t bring the puck one foot closer to the red line and took an icing call? Is he rooming with Buff?

I’d have to say that Soupy had a great game.

and the time has come to see this machine of a goal scorer in Hossa, can’t wait.

On a side note, where can I find corsi ratings by game? I can’t seem to find it on behind the net, anyone know?

but I figured our backup goalie was one of the few legitimate weaknesses of the team. If Neimi can even come close to maintaining that level of play, even that may turn out to be another strength.

Alright, fuck it. I’m giddy. Huet’s playing great, Neimi looked awesome, Kane is a monster, Toews can’t lose a faceoff – and Hossa’s coming back.

We are traveling at ludicrous speed.

They had nothing all night, then get a cheesy one in the third," visibly frustrated Canucks forward Ryan Kesler said. “It hits a couple legs and goes right on (Bickell’s) tape for a tap-in from the blue. It’s frustrating. I definitely thought we should have won this one tonight. We dominated the game.”

Its amazing how this team never gives credit to the Hawkst, like they are the best team in the NHL or something and when they do beat the Hawks, well then its ok. I really wished some one from our side put Sunden back on IR yesterday. I slept so much better last night as they defeated the team I dislike the most.

great fuckin post!!!!!! You took the words right out of my mouth. They are all just a bunch of freakin cry babys when they don’y win. And they had every thing going for them like you mentioned. Great post!

In my mind, the Hawks are the best team in hockey right now

Lebrun agrees with you.

I know you guys post this mid-week, don’t mean to step on toes……….just pumped up about the new rankings despite the fact that they don’t mean anything.

And then gets a bus ticket to Rockford.

keeps losing players, now Kronwall, but they keep finding ways to win.

…lest Vancouver turn into my most-hated team. Not even the Scum dress as many players that I despise. Not to mention, as covered above, the Canucks’ stubborn refusal to ever tip their hats to the Hawks.

I hate to nitpick after a win, especially after 7 in a row, but is anyone else even a little concerned that the Hawks haven’t managed to really crack Vancouver’s clog-the-neutral-zone game plan? If Niemi didn’t have that Norse black magic working, well, they wouldn’t have walked away with 2 points. I keep telling myself that the boys sorted it all out in the playoffs last year, but I’ll be wary until I see it again.

p.s. I don’t know if it’s been covered before, but in some shots, the Sedins have an eerie resemblance to Rickety Cricket from Always Sunny…

(and his usual slam on Buff. Interesting that you didn’t mention your Bromance Object, Brouwer, once again showing his usual scoring touch around an open net.)

Sam’s got the best quote of the season so far: “You caught the Hawks on a second of a back-to-back. You had our backup goalie who hadn’t played in weeks. You’ve played twice this week. You played your game to a T. You were at home. And you lost.”

Apparently Kesler left out the fact that the Nucks had every advantage going into the game.

No-hitters are fun to watch. One-hitters aren’t. This was like a one-hitter, but I’m glad we got the hit.

Hasn’t been mentioned here much, shy of his 3rd period red line brain-fart. But he kinda made my night laying the bitch slap on Rypien in the first. These two have a good hate-on for each other spawning last spring. Why the fuck 5’11", 185 would pick 6’2", 230 to decide to hate (other than this) baffles me, but happy salmon fishing anyway. That, and I’m tired of watching Fraser constantly bite off more than he can chew so it was nice to see a cocky-ass Canuck eat some Hawk knuckles.

Guy had a good drip goin’.

Just some really quick bullets/thoughts:

The boys were pretty tired, which was understandable. Even then, they were still capable of bursts of outstanding play.

Niemi was incredible. He got lucky on a couple of shots, but he also made several ridiculous saves.

Buff is lazy as shit. Twice when the hawks gave up the puck while on the attack, the rest of the team hustles back to play some defense, and he stayed in Vancouver’s zone, just lazily skating around like a fat ass Sasha Cohen.

That pass from Kaner to Phantom is what ultimately set up Bickel’s goal, and I had the perfect perspective from my seat. As soon as the pass left his tape and it opened up the entire ice, I told my wife we were going to score. You MUST fear Kane. You MUST fear the assist, shots, passing, the mouthgaurd…everything.

We never got an explanation about why they blew the goal horn. It didn’t even look close on the replay.

Anyways, it was my wife’s first live hockey game, so I was hoping for another high scoring effort from the Hawks, but she enjoyed still enjoyed it.

Campbell lost control of Kane’s pass almost ruining a prime scoring chance. Thankfully it bounced, hit off of Toews skate and landed near Bickell’s stick. Don’t give him a pat on the back for messing up. Campbell did play a decent game, but he looks better when the rest of the Hawks are hurting. In fact, going back and looking at the points Campbell gets credit for reveal an interesting pattern. In almost all of them he is the last player accredited with an assist on the play. Meaning that he might not have had a significant impact on the goal being scored. In the game against Calgary he was given two assists that he did very little to acquire. One could argue that this shows his ability to be the "Quarterback" of the team, but I have a hard time seeing it that way. I really don’t understand the Campbell love here guys.
Niemi was extremely sound in net making saves from a variety of spots such as, stick side, glove side, butterfly, down low, the splits (DIE MAPLELEAF, DIE!) and he controlled rebounds with a quick stick. He was everywhere and showed composure. Simple things like, slightly turning his pads, causing the puck to bank to the sides rather than in front of him go a long way. Great Game.

Yes, it was one of his better defensive games as of late.
It is a shame that Campbell gets credit for a point when Kane’s amazing pass made it all come together. It is not an absurd generalization since I am providing a prime example of the point. Campbell lost control of the puck and still gets credit. How much clearer can It be. In Calgary he was credited with two points from two plays that he touched the puck in the our end, just happening to be the third from last player to touch it, almost having nothing to do with the goal. One specific play was when Keith made the cross ice pass to Ladd who scored on the breakaway. Campbell happened to be the guy to touch it last before Keith. I also find it to be a perfectly logical argument to question his play when thrown into the perspective of his pay.
I am just stating the facts as I see them to exempt any argument that his offensive skills make up for his lack of defensive skills. Also adding to the argument that he is a liability to this team, at this moment.

defense…He was brought here to quickly get the puck out of our zone and keep pressure on thier zone. He flawlessly performs this day in and day out. I really can’t think of another defensemen who excells at that part of the games like he does. He was not brought in to be a stay at home defense men.

isn’t always perfect, but he did well on this one. He’s been doing a team evaluation every 10games and the 20 game mark happened late last week and so he did his recap. I thought he hit the nail on the head, I wouldn’t argue with any of it. Hadn’t seen it mentioned anywhere so I thought I’d share.

get ready for a big trade.

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