He's Coming To Make A Bang: Bolland's Return and Other Tuesday Bits

as the #2 center w/ just limited minutes. I can’t wait to see him at least for a few minutes w/ Hossa and Sharp!

Burish is next up (I think Fraser will be odd man out, he kills penalties, can play a little center though), so at least it’s good bye hopefully for now w/ Kopecky!

i’m assuming you mentioned ladd/burish/eager playing center because you feel that ladd would drop to the 4th line with bolland’s return. i highly doubt that. i would think he’d slide down to madden’s line with buff moving to the fourth line.

and yes burish can play center. he did it in the playoffs last year while fraser sat all but one game.

Now with Bolland back it’s gives Q even more ammo to fuck with the lines. And if the ’Hawks get down early expect an arrangement of various lines combinations with most of them NOT making much sense.

The Hawks usually get spanked by whatever weakness this site mentions prior to a game, so it’s very likely that a well hung dude with a mound of coke WILL score backstage sometime this week.

That no one shows up backstage at your shows with a pound of coke.

and beat them by 10 when we’re in STL

not Versteeg AND Sharp. There’s a big difference in meaning there.

Also, he’s a $4m cap hit signed through 2014. I’m inclined to be wary about Dreger’s sources here, because that kind of monetary commitment makes no sense when we have the salaries of Keith, Seabrook, and Campbell (plus Hammer’s upcoming raise) in our top 4. We’ll be needing blueline depth and that means a lower salary for respectable, though not outstanding, skill.

I seriously don’t understand where these things come from. Obviously the actual trades could be as eyebrow-raising as Phaneuf to the Leafs or something, but then again, nobody predicted THAT.

You’re right, this is a good article about something bothering me as well.

I sometimes wonder how our guys are going to react when Kane takes a punishing (but clean) hit. At some point, it will happen.

Thanks for passing it along.

But should Buff not have thrown the flying elbow at Kornhole last year when he knocked out JCH? Should no one have challenged Willy Bitch when he gave Toews a concussion? What I hear from that article is that he longs for a day when skill was equalized by just beating the shit out of players with skill and make them fear trying their fantsy pants moves that made the goons look as dumb and stupid as they in reality, were. Play his logic out further, he’s pissed because the big hitter bweaks his wittle finger while accepting a challenge. Would he be happier if instead the other team upped the ante and then injured a star player in retaliation?

I’m honestly not against big, clean hits. But the reality is that those big hits are meant to intimidate and are usually delivered by a bigger player to a smaller player who has committed the capital crime of not seeing it coming. If the choice is to have a big hit, retaliation fight and then it’s over versus endless retaliation until someone’s start player get’s seriously hurt, I’ll pick the former any day.

Most long time hockey people have a sort of sliding standard as to what is appropriate contact on which players.

A non-physical playing star (think Kane) gets more protection from others than a physical grinder (think Eager or Burish).

A player who utterly devastates Kane with a check – albeit a legal one – is appropriately going to have to answer to the others on the team. A solid but not excessive hit on one such as Kane should not generate the same response.

Thought Jokinen & Prust for Kotalik and Higgins was done.

It’ll be the best establishment owned by a Hawk since Chelli’s Chili!

And why am I suddenly craving a big mac burrito?

There’s a maple leaf in the middle of the arches.

Because where else could you go to find Mastodon and Faulkner on the same site?

the (ahem) greatness of this comment is being watered down by other comments.

I’m not sure about Shakespeare and a dong but he uses the word dildo in “The Winters Tale”. Before anyone asks, I had to look up the name of the play and the reason I remember it was because it was one of those so bizarre it can’t be true things.

if Sharpy is gonna stay put on the 2nd line. Maybe it’ll force Versteeg to play more fundamentally sound? What I like best is that it creates even more match up nightmares for opposing coaches. Plus, every time Versteeg pisses off Q, it seems he has to juggle the lines to reduce Versteeg’s TOI. This way he won’t have to. Solves a lot of problems in one move IMHO.

Sam is the Shakespeare of this blog.

Huet’s mom strikes again

Here the link to Kuc

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Coach Q and co. will need to make with Fabulous Weapon back and Burish getting closer. Time to back the truck up and trade, unload and make some cap space.