He spent alot of time in Rockford last year…

The question is can he stay consistent.. Huet is still doing a pretty damn good job right now thankfully. Not sure if we will be able to answer the original question this year

Pittsburgh definitely didn’t make the most of their chances. I haven’t seen such sloppy finishing outside of Extreme Facials.

The Queens of the Stone Age tune as well. Puts the bozos at the UC to shame. If we could only get them to play some Them Crooked Vultures…

Alabama/Texas National Championship is gonna suck.

Hearing Dimmu Borgir and other obscure metal between draws. Love the Igloo for that. Everything else there sucks.

I know I bashed Huet early on, saying that I believed Niemi should get the nod at the starting job, but, isn’t it nice to have two goalies where you dont have to cringe anytime a shot is taken? While I know there are still people who do just that when Huet is between the pipes, I think we are very fortunate to have a more than capable starter/backup combo. While it was tough to see most of the game with the shitty online feeds (screw Illinois State University and their lack of WGN Chicago) the whole team looked solid tonight, minus some of the second period. Big 2 points for the Hawks.

Because I live in Wisconsin, I had to watch tonight’s game on the Center Ice feed, which was the Pittsburgh broadcast. What HORRIBLE announcers! I understand announcing for the home team, but these guys made Pierre McGuire look unbiased. The Penguins could do no wrong (“they came out with an edge”) while the Hawks were dirty players apparently. I did catch our radio guys saying Keith’s hit was the same thing that Cooke does and it was payback, but the Pens’ announcers thought it was something close to murder.

I know they’re the current Cup holders and a great team, but the arrogance of the announcers was ridiculous. It makes me appreciate Pat and Edzo even more. (Though Edzo gets pretty irritating too, but for different reasons.)

just thought you guys should know.

It was downright deflating to have Staal tie it up, but let’s be honest here—if he hadn’t, the Hawks fans in attendance wouldn’t have found a reason to jump for joy and cheer very loudly when Steeger scored in overtime.

Good times.

the wheel-o-random discipline.

Mr. Kane—-He has shown huge improvement on both ends….I am left with Buff and Huet only to bash

I might jus be left with Bufferoooo

to have a bad game last night was Versteeg, and he had the game winner. I thought Hammer, Sopel, Seabrook, Buff, Kane, Toews, Hossa and the 4th line were all excellent. And Anti-goal was unreal.

The Pens are a strong team full of offense and at home they’re going to get their shots. Pitt ran into a strong goalie and maybe were a lucky bounce away from a win, but the Hawks did what they had to do to get 2pts on the road. I’ll take it.

Pitt got totally outplayed in game 5 last year, and the end of the third in game 7, and still wound up with the Cup.

It isn’t total domination at all times that matters. It isn’t even being a better team overall. What is important is who has scored more goals at the end of 4 games in June. I know we’d all love to have a team as completely dominant as Detroit was for the past few years, but we only need to have a team that can get results against a dominant side.

Was that an exciting game or what? Did that game, more than any other this season, ever get those playoff juices flowin’? That was certainly one of the best games I’ve seen all season from start to finish. Great stuff which begs the question, what if these 2 were to meet in the Finals?

Niemi was spectacular again and deserves more ice-time, which isn’t a slight against a very good of late Huet as it speaks to level of play from Niemi. Versteeg continued to dramatic in-game ascent from being vilified to glorified. With another beautiful goal “the Verstud” continues to impress with his gifted skills, if only he could use some of that in the defensive and neutral zone areas. How about some love thrown towards Hendry? His presence on the 4th line seemed to be the tonic that has cured that line from it’s early season sickness as it was effective all night. It also could have been the deletion of Kopecky, but I’d rather give props to Hendry as he deserves it more.

Overall, I’m getting pretty fucking excited about this team and their possibilities. I try not to get too far ahead of myself sometimes but now, more than ever, it’s getting harder to resist.

Once again I found myself shouting at the boob tube “could someone please hit the fucking net?”. It seems that it’s an epidemic this year as everyone from Kane to Eager has trouble with their marksmenship. Why? I have no idea. Kane, from observation, seems to miss the net more than anyone but that is mostly due to his overall improved play that has led to more quality scoring chances. A little more finish PK88, that’s all.

“That Kane, I tell ya- too soft, and lazy.”

And that fucking Campbell guy. Overpaid, lazy, soft and all his points are meaningless secondary assists. Why is he even on this team?

Cloutier got his first start for the Ice Hogs last night. He was given a match penalty for roughing in the 2nd period.

this team was about to move a few years back BUT butt of all jokes Bettman wanted them to stay, how Ironic is it that right after that, they end up getting first round draft picks and also second round. After watching the game, I then relized that this is Bettmans team. bullshit after bullshit hits against the hawks. That hit was as good as any other hit given to us. What is bullshit is that Cooke is one of the most dirtiest players out there and got what he deserved but after Keith TKO’d his ass there was no call. Then when Cooke retaliated then they gave us the penalty.
And I really don’t want to touch the subject on their announcers, because they are also a bunch of assholes.
PENS GOT WHAT THE DESERVED!