The Official Soundtrack To A Paddlin'

Yesterday’s blog needs an enema. The stats and whining made me ill. YES he made quality saves tonight. Can the nightly panicking stop now?

If I had access to an Old Style, Id rub it on my chest right now. Happy New Year Chicagoans!

OH how badly I wanted that to be a shutout, but the fact that Madden scored (and the big contingent of Devils fans a couple rows back cheered that, because at that point they had nothing else to cheer and figured they might as well), and obviously it was a great win over the current #1 Eastern team, is pretty nice.

Fun fact: I attended 14 Blackhawks games in 2009 (all UC except for the recent Pittsburgh game). And the Blackhawks won every one. What are the odds? (No, don’t try calculating, I have a friend who does that every time I see another one.) So clearly, I’m a good luck charm (uh, the fact that it’s a great team might help too). Too bad ticket prices skyrocketed and I don’t know if I can see more than a few in 2010…

WHEEW,Good job boys!

That french guy needs to learn how to play goalie. I also noticed that Toews was too lazy to get a hat trick. I say trade them both for a used codom.

But seriously, what an effort. (yea, they played last night… but)

The only thing better than Madden’s goal was his spinorama shot in the second period.

That is perfect

I’ve been one of those dudes that been critical of Huet whenever he sucks, mostly because when he’s good, he’s brilliant. I’m going to change my tune. It’s not that Huet has some bad games here and there… it’s that he decides not to show up for some games (for whatever reason).

But, if that only happens every 5 games or so I can live with that. He’s just not a competitor like Toews and he never will be. He just a 4/5 goalie, and with this team, that’s good enough.

My New Year’s Resolution… I will accept Huet for who he is… our netminder.

Happy New Year.

nothing like my favorite band to describe a new years ass whoopin

Hmmm…I guess Huet is not that bad after all. Another solid performance for Cristo which is exactly what he has done since the middle of October except for what? Two. Three games maybe. Pretty honourable of Q to put him back in the goal after a tough performance the other night in Dallas as I was a little worried that Q would show his toddler impatience and start Niemi.

How good has Brouwer been this season? I know it’s getting a little redundant but he has improved more than anybody on this team in the last year. Between him and Campbell they’ve single-handedly made the PP a little less “clown shoes” of late.

John Madden with the spin-o-rama? LMFAO. Great to see him pull out the bag of tricks against Brodeur.

I was one who posted my fears of the Hawks not looking very good before the game. Guess I got that one wrong! They pretty much controlled that game after the first 5 minutes or so. Madden’s spin move made me laugh with glee. Huet’s performance was great. (And it’s my wife’s fault the shutout got shot—she asked about how many shutouts this would give him. I screamed No! and then the Devils scored. She will be properly punished.)

One irritating/funny thing was that I had to miss the first half of the game, so I recorded it from the Center Ice feed. But there were 2 channels it was on, so I put it on one, hoping I’d get to hear the Chicago broadcast. I didn’t. It was the New Jersey broadcast. They had lots of nice things to say about the Hawks. But it was funny to hear them say all throughout the last 2 periods that the fans were probably disappointed since the Devils were not playing their usual exciting brand of hockey. They kept saying over and over how the home crowd must be sad to see such a one-sided game. Yeah, right.

Happy New Year! Enjoy this team.

…and Brodeur playing on consecutive nights…the Hawks OWNED this game and made a strong case for why they might be the best team in hockey right now.

I think what I liked best is the way they were able to shake off the tough loss against Dallas-it tells me a lot about this team’s talent AND growing maturity.

John Fucking Madden

peace be with you