Once again we had a goaltender stand on his head against the hawks. No our pressure was not as constant as we may be used to, but we had a lot of good shifts. Hossa is insane and a joy to watch. Seabrook had his worst shift of the year on the 2nd goal. Our goalies were not great, but we had some bad turnovers in front of them, but then again so did Van. in front of lou.

We will get em next time, hope Burish is back.

The team in general may have allowed all of the ‘puck possession’ compliments thrown their way recently to heart, and to often attempt to make a cute play in their own zone as opposed to just getting it out.

Defensive positioning has also gone downhill in a major way. In the beginning of the year, I’d get a hard on realizing how sound this team was defensively – bodies and sticks sealed up every passing lane, rebounds were quickly scooped away.

Lately, too many players have begun floating toward the puck, leaving open passing lanes and players positioned for rebounds.

However, I suppose this sort of thing was inevitable, and if we’re going to go through it, this isn’t a bad time to do so. Hopefully we see a renewed focus on this aspect the rest of the trip.

Kesler for completely existing outside of reality, Burrows for his general jackassery, or Luongo. I shudder to think what kind of quotes would have come out of Mitchell’s or Bieksa’s mouths if they had played last night.

He demonstrated that last night. Hawks had a number of chances and he stoned them again and again.

Unfortunately the same could not be said in front of the Hawks goal. The defense was shoddy and Niemi was not stellar. If this was meant to be a wake up call to Huet, let’s hope it worked. No indications that Niemi is ready to be the every day guy between the pipes.

This is perhaps a moment where we all need to stop, step back and realize we’ve been absolutely spoiled by this team this year. We’ve seen them shut down top lines game after game to the point where we simply expect it always happen. That’s not going to be the case though, sometimes players like the Sedins will make the game tough for you.

Thats all that needs to be said about this game. The Hawks are good. They’re good defensively. This game doesn’t change anything…

Perspective. Its a bitch.

These Vancouver fuckbags are very quickly moving up my most hated teams list. They now rank second ahead of St. Louis and behind Detroit.

They have that really cool looking Orca mascot.

in the first round of the playoffs. I’d rather play San Jose or Detroit than these guys in the first round.

Let’s hear a name, huh?

So, it’s rent-a defenseman? I’d like Mike Green, but I don’t think he fits under the salary cap. (And he ain’t goin’ anywhere.)The only moves the Blackhawks are going to make are to dump players because of the issues that we know about already. Therefore, it has literally to be rent-a-player….and who you acquire to be pretty good, because if you have to sacrifice players someday…it may as well be for a guy that helped you win a cup. A real impact player. Then, you dump him. How many of those are out there?

Pierre LeBrun’s silly made-up story about Ilya Kolvachuck headed to Chicago as a rental makes more sense, in this context. But a defenseman?

I can’t see any defensemen that might be available outside of Scott Neidermayer, and he’s not playing well this season. If you go down a list of the top D-men in the NHL, none of these guys are going to be available…and the guys that are left are Cam Barker-esque.

Don’t see this happening. But perhaps the ‘Canes have defensemen they don’t need. Maybe local boy Joe Corvo, but he’s not really a ‘beast.’ (I’d rather have Cam Ward. Do you think they’d take Cris Huet? Probably…….NOT.) And let’s avoid anybody on the backline of the Leafs, please. There may be a Florida Panther or two…

I’d like to hear some names, please.

but this is a pretty good Brouwer (audio) interview…no downloading needed, just click.

http://www.670thescore.com/topic/play_window.php?audioType=Episode&audioId=4324363

I guess I’m just more suited to watching at home. I even miss plays when I’m posting here sometimes. But boy was I glad I wasn’t home for that last night. I would have cried myself to sleep instead of passing out happy.

Tomax and Xamot from GI Joe

on catfish? he got nailed and never came back in the third… hope captian body block is alright

From here:

burish and bolland look pretty sharp in their rehab training

they are on the ice with trainers before i skate during the week. so i watch these two a few times a week (going on 4 weeks); and they both look very strong and agile. granted they aren’t battling anyone physically. but they are skating a lot, and doing a lot of passing and shooting drills. they also skate with a parachute now. pretty cool. cool to see how intensive these nhler’s rehab on the ice, and how much attention, time, and detail goes into getting these guys ready to go. burish’s shot is awesome. they spend the end of some practices aiming for gatorade bottles on top of the boards in front of the bench, and they hit one pretty quick. the bottle blows up, wrapper and cap all over the place, and the bench smells like strawberry gatorade. pretty awesome accuracy and funny as well. also after bolland went in on the goalie, took a shot, and peeled off, his parachute caught the goalie, and dragged him halfway out of the zone, before bolland even noticed. every person around was dying of laughter, except maybe the goalie— couldnt tell. hilarious!

and then in a later comment:

yeah, the goalie was being dragged facedown, whole body flat on the ice, arms at his sides. i think bolland was laughing the hardest of anyone. i have to ask the goalie if he thought it was funny; probably not so much.

Good to know he’s strong enough not to notice when a fully grown man’s dragging along behind him now… :|

I didn’t noticed this when I watched the game, but in the clip you can see ladd point to his eye (after they got up from the takedown) and give kesler some shit…..pretty sweet.