Great Kid, Don't Get Cocky: Blackhawks Shut Out Red Wings, 3-0

just made the game so much more enjoyable for me. That and Buff’s Charmin’-soft goal. It was also nice to see all four lines being rolled — the fourth line had some great shifts in the offensive zone, and only the post denied them a goal for their efforts.

The skum feed I got stuck watching told me so….

Seriously, this wgn feed for no one outside of the market is horseshit, almost as bad as not getting any feed at all for Tuesday….

Ah well, it’s nice to be bitching about the method of presentation, and not the quality of the product.

In the CI and here. Finally a band I recognize. ;)

The Toews play should have been a penalty shot, period. I’ve seen plenty of penalty shots called where the player had less of a lead than Johnny 5-Hole. That place would have went bananas if he scored against the Wings on a penalty shot.

now that huet’s stock it going up, we need to trade him and start crawford.

I’m just fine with ending the celebrity appearances as it only contributes to McDonough’s Wriglification of the UC. I hope there aren’t problems with bringing in former players to do it though.

The second goal was a bit of karmic justice – Patrick Sharp laid out Justin Abdelkader behind the Hawks net. Afrogator took exception to the hit and came after Shooter along the boards. It looked like a clear roughing penalty on the Wings, but somehow Sharp was the only player sent to feel shame for two minutes

They also should of had another TOO MANY MEN penalty. They had 6 guys on the ice for a good 15 seconds, when this all took place.

I hope choosing tomato was a conscious decision

I don’t know if it was playing against his former team or that he has finally realized that when either Burish or Bolland come back he is the odd man out, Kopecky played maybe his best game as a ‘Hawk to date. As for once he wasn’t a boat anchor out there on the 4th line which was fairly dominant last night.

If this was the Kopecky we’ve received from the get-go then there wouldn’t be so much built-up frustration towards him on most nights, but sadly his efforts seem to come and go as they please. Tonight it was a very good one and if he can continue to play at that level then he can be a very effective player for the ’Hawks going forward as it may be the difference between being a Blackhawk or a Black Ace come playoff time.

I don’t think the NHL had much of a problem with the ceremonies going a little longer by say a minute or so but more of Belushi mocking the linesman’s puck-drop that seemed to take forever for him to drop the fucking thing and because of that the ‘Hawks probably won’t have one for a month or so. For whatever reason according to Jim he still thinks he’s funny. Too bad NOORRMM! had to pay the price for Belushi’s stupidity.

While I agree that the game often loked oddly disjoiinted … even uninspired … that can’t have actually been the case on the Hawks part.

You simply don’t hold a team to so few shots without being on top of things. I’d have to surmise that the disjointed look came from the Hawks so messing up the Wings play flow that nothing was going to the sort of rythym the players )on either side) were looking for.

Damn near killed ’em!

“player” of the game. They didn’t just own the puck they created scoring chances on almost every shift. It’s been too long since we’ve seen the 4th line have a game like that and it was a lot of fun to watch.

And on the Campbell goal recap, so many good things happened to make that goal. It started with Sharp backchecking and using the body to separate the defender from the puck at the Hawks own blue line. The puck drifted back to Campbell behind the goal and he began the rush up the ice, feeding Sharp who took it into the offensive zone, and then Ladd went hard to the net taking the defender with him (shades of the playoffs) clearing space for the trailer Campbell who finished the play, with Ladd in position for a rebound if necessary. From start to finish a perfect execution.

Also Sopel had a good game. I only noticed because a guy with us kept dogging him as in, “oh here comes Sopel so you know the Hawks will give up a goal” and he kept having good shifts.

And last, the Wings really made a point of picking post whistle fights with Sharp, even before the Abdelkator crap. Is there some leftover stuff from the playoffs with Sharp that I don’t remember? It was really evident that the Wings had a bullseye on Sharp.

Noyce.

Dunc would win more player of the game awards if he had lousy nights. Still, Soup LED THE TEAM in TOI last night, around 29 minutes (is this a first?), and he’s definitely a better interview.

Huey got #1 star though, prompting the obligatory but unconfortable expression of gratitude to the fans (early season boo-birds, of course, being responsible for the uncomfortableness- jerks!)

Demoralizing team defense again. Anybody miss Barker?

Sharp getting revenge on the score sheet was sweet.

More emphasis on puck posession than any game this year, like Q just wanted to rub this style in Babcock’s face.

Of course, very much Scum-lite, but enjoyable.

The defence looks amazing.

Another Shut out for Huet.

And the fourth line has looked good the pasy couple of games, I thought Kopecky has played damn well too. Hence the absence of Ben Eager.

I didn’t notice this at the game, but a couple of articles I read indicated that Hawks fans were chanting “We Want the Cup” towards the end of Sunday’s game.

Please, somebody tell me that I got that wrong.

EVERY team gets bitten by the injury bug at times, that doesn’t give detroit an excuse. All I have heard for the past 20 years is “how great detroits system is”, and how “they train them right in the minors and that’s why they win games year after year.” It wouldn’t have anything to do with stealing players, it’s the SYSTEM. Now they are losing games, and it is suddenly because they had too many AHL players in the game. Wrong. Did they have the best players on their payrolls playing? No. However, they have been the ones shoving the “system” down my throat for decades, so now they can choke on it.

The guy may be a joke but there is something to be said for (what I assume) was his mocking the often ridiculous way refs try to trick center men with incessant head fakes.