What did Eager do? I was at the game and must have been looking somewhere else I just saw them kick him out.

I feel that Huet should have had Franzen’s first goal. He didnt do anything super fancy, just right up and over Huet, who was just chillin on his knees. And as gmh said, the fourth goal was a softy, it again was nothing spectacular, he just out skated the d, and put it right past him.

I agree with Coach Q, that call was atrocious… There has been a surprisingly low level of officiating this playoffs, c’mon Gary B, get on that shit, this is the WCF. Unacceptable.

Also, anybody have any good details as to Havlat/Habis condition. Because i turned off the game promptly at 0:00, to hear any post game. I couldnt stand Pierre gargling any more Wing cum…

Looking at the positive, Kane, Toews, and Sharp just kept skating and trying to make things happen. While the rest of the team imploded, those three guys just kept their sticks on the ice and their skates pointed forward.

I’m more inclined to blame Campbell than Huet for this performance because Huet is essentially a backup and Campbell is a $7M defenseman who has brought more mistakes than benefits to the team this series. His game has always been high-risk, high-reward, but the rewards just aren’t coming.

A lot of people think Campbell’s contract makes him a magnet for their criticism.

That is absolutely true. Campbell’s cap hit is bigger than Brad Stuart’s and Niklas Kronwall’s combined cap hit. Both of them are outplaying him in this series. Knowing that his style of play brings inherent risks doesn’t mitigate them when his mistakes cost the team. It’s hard enough to adjust what the other team is throwing at you without having to worry about an unpredictable defenseman on your own team.

3 of our top players scratched, and we still tkae what looked like an effortless win.
You cry about the commentary. Turn on a game broadcast by ‘vs’ sometime and listen to the Wing-Hating garbage that their broadcasting spews.
Bad Calls. It goes both ways. We just came off of a series against the Ducks; host of the dirtiest player in the league (Pronger) who gets away with murder every chance he gets. There has been some bad calls both ways, but that is the nature of the game. Melting down is not an option, as the WINGS have cleary diplayed in game 4, specifically the 2nd period.
Scum? Really? You are being beat by a superior hockey team. You can disagree with this all you want, but all excuses aside, the scoreboard when the time has run out tells the ultimate story. I would not be ruduced to name calling, especially if I cheered a team that performed like the Hawks did today.

It wasn’t Pierre McGuire. (Not having to listen to that twit might have been the only saving grace for those in attendance today.)

The Hawks were outplayed all game, but it seems that they just rolled over and phoned it in after that Hossa goal to take it to 4:1. There was some energy in the building after that — by which I mean that everyone’s heart was still, technically, pumping, and there was some neural activity on the most basic level. But the team showed absolutely nothing of use after that.

The third was just dreadful. We get a powerplay early on — which, if there is to be any hope whatsoever, must be converted. Hawks get one shot on, are slow coming back after the clearance… and then Bolland takes a silly penalty when he can’t get at the puck. The 4-on-4 that followed was Detroit playing catch in our end. Nobody challenging a damned thing that Detroit was trying to do — just like the rest of the game. And then Keith gets called, and Eager gets stupid and thus tossed for doing nothing at all (blame resting entirely on Eager here), and Brouwer takes a silly one a few minutes later, and Zetterberg scores. A few facewashes later — including the departure of Mr. Versteeg — and the warden finally, mercifully comes by and says, “it’s time, son.”

There was no urgency in anything the Hawks did today. If they are going to make this respectable, they have to get some. The silver lining in this tornado is that they know now what lies beyond the next loss. Note: the Hawks have not faced an elimination game yet. Now they get three — if they’re really, really lucky.

This Blackhawk team is in unchartered waters and it is not surprising therefore that they got showed up big time in a playoff game. This was a game that you learn from for the future. And I’m not about to get on Quenville for his mistakes after how much he has meant to the development of this young team in less than a year.

Huet? He isn’t a big time goaltender, period. Dale Tallon made a strategic and a financial mistake by bringing him here. Just imagine how bad things would have gotten this season if Huet was indeed the # 1 goalie as was the original plan by Tallon. We would have gotten into the playoffs by the skin of our teeth (maybe) and would have been 1st roudn exit. I’m not sure what Tallon does next. Something tells me Habby is gone in deference to Huet and his contract. Which will be a very bad thing.

Versteeg? Awful today. And quite frankly awful in several playoff games. The youth excuse doesn’t hold water on the silly mistakes of today.

Eager? Stupid, stupid, stupid. I would assume he won’t play in game 5. The league isn’t going to turn the other cheek on that crap.

Q does a horrible Keenan impersonation. The penalties were not the fault of the refs. Frustration. That’s what it was.

Lost in the wake of this clusterfuck was the fact that we (and by we I mean Toews) cashed in on a power play, again. The PP has been producing all series. If only the 5:5 play came up to that standard.

Versus isn’t NBC, and unfortunately only about 15 people have it across the nation. I haven’t noticed Versus being pro- or anti- any team, unlike NBC and HNIC (which, incidentally, may actually be worse than NBC with their disgusting Canadian homerism).

Also, —-"How to trip over your own feet and draw penalties" -by Toumo Ruttu
=priceless.

Sorry if that sounds overly-pessimistic, but it is true. The future of the Blackhawks is outstanding and this has been a remarkable season of progress and success. Getting our nuts handed to us by Detroit is hardly surprising and hardly something I’m going to cry about. Detroit is the closest thing to a dynasty in professional sports right now. But next year will be a different story in our matchup with them.

Key now is what Dale Tallon can do in the offseason. To me he MUST sign Sami Pahlssen somehow. I think Marty Havlat comes back. But the real intrigue will be at goaltender. No way you can again have $12 million sucked up at goaltender. Huet is not a money goaltender and Crawford and Niemi are both shit. So what therefore do we do?!?