Mama Said There'd Be Days Like This...

by SamFels on Feb 8, 2009 1:01 PM CST in Recaps

Sometimes, it's not your night. Apparently, these nights happen for the Hawks when Matt and I decide to watch the game at a bar (thus the obvious delay in the wrap today). It was ugly from start to finish, and there's not much else to say.

Huet didn't have much of a chance on any of the three he let up, and I think it was more of a case of Q trying to spark the team in the 2nd by putting in Khabby. Didn't take. I guess we knew once Matt panned Sundin in the preview, he would come back to bite us. Even our repeated chanting of "A 5-goal lead is the most dangerous lead in hockey," didn't curse the "Nucks.

So we won't go undefeated vs. Canada this season. A win against a woeful Atlanta team and finally playing the Blues like they're the Blues will result in a 6-2 road trip, which any of us would have taken. I could do the usual post-game wrap here, but do you want to talk about it any more? Didn't think so.

UPDATE: This is Matthew writing now - I just wanted to say that this loss was particularly disappointing because I was really hoping not only for the Hawks to possibly sweep yet another season series.. but to sweep an entire fucking country. Perhaps that's greedy of me but I'm still not used to the whole "Hawks are actually quite good" thing yet so I want the most out of it.

Also - want to know what the two writers of this site talk about when watching a game togheter? Well for a shitty display like this the focus was mainly on which member of the Blackhawks could do the most punishment to us in a night of drinking. The conclussion was that Burish, Wiz and Foley would leave us blacked out and stumbling. It wouldn't be pretty. However, we did decide that we could both annihilate Kane at least for the next few years.

So it goes...

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I'd put Torchetti in the mix ...

Something about that guy, I don’t know, really makes me think he can put down a truckload of beers.

Vancouver … umm … sucks. That’s all I got, too disheartened to spend time on it.

by ChicoMaki on Feb 8, 2009 1:46 PM CST reply actions

I just looked back and I used those song lyrics for a post’s title exactly one month ago for the game against the Avs… I guess we’re due for at least one rough game a month

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by Killion on Feb 8, 2009 5:11 PM CST reply actions

How could you discount Khabibulin?

Drinking against a 36-year-old Russian man? GAME OVER.

by mjthor on Feb 8, 2009 5:28 PM CST reply actions

We never really talked about the goalies (mostly because they might as well have not even shown up to the game). But yeah.. Khabby would kill us too.. Huet wouldn’t even get a chance to play though since we don’t drink wine in non-mixed company.

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by Killion on Feb 8, 2009 6:21 PM CST up reply actions

Ah well,

The Hawks are still firmly in 4th, and will probably finish in that position. It’s better to be a really good team that shits the bed once, as opposed to a struggling team (like the Canucks lately) that has a surprising great game.

by Temujin on Feb 8, 2009 5:54 PM CST reply actions

Vancouver has now won back to back games. And a game like Saturday’s can be a turning point for a team. Sundin was a scapegoat for the losing. Now that he’s had two strong games, we might see Vancouver make a run.

Don't be afraid to take a few steps back, but you better keep moving forward.

by wlittle on Feb 9, 2009 12:00 PM CST up reply actions

After many a cocktail, I'd like to fight Burish

I’d get my ass handed to me in the end, but I think it would be fun.

I can hear the prefight banter in my head — Burish: Hey, Dinosaur…. you wanna go? C’mon…..let’s go….

Dude is a bit nuts, which is hard not to like.

by surveyor on Feb 8, 2009 8:13 PM CST reply actions

The linesman is either

A. trying not to laugh
or
B. thinking “Dear God, what is wrong with this guy?!”
.
.
Or he’s just wiping a runny nose. One of those three.

"Carlos Quentin? Where's Hamilton?"
"I ate him."

by HappyHuman on Feb 8, 2009 9:45 PM CST up reply actions

my guess would be that Burish is just rank… He seems like the guy who wouldn’t shower too often

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by Killion on Feb 8, 2009 11:47 PM CST up reply actions

my friend works at the pony

and she said that matt walker left her a pretty large tip the night of the winter classic. so if matty is rolling deep like that, I’d want to drink with him for a night.

we watched the game at j.patricks which is a pretty good self-claiming hawks bar and our conversation was mostly about how damn funny it was when duncan tripped on the puck that led to the break away.

"I remember taking a look at him and saying ‘Anyone who perms his hair has got to go’. So we sent him to Fort Worth." - Don Cherry on Don Saleski

by Raj Binder's Labido on Feb 9, 2009 11:14 AM CST reply actions