who writes the obituaries on SCH.
Killion, have you (or anyone) heard anything more on Hossa beside that he’s day-to-day, or any speculation that he re-injured his shoulder?

Wise man stocking up on D-Men before the deadline.

I know it’s one of the most highly-regarded hockey blogs and all (I’ve read it a few times but never blogrolled it) but OH MY GOD is it disgusting regarding the hit. Admittedly I only skimmed through the first game thread and the 800+ comment game recap, but…yeah. I’m not sure how I feel about a possible suspension, and of course you’d expect them to be defensive about their star, but reading that made me want to break things.

Right after the hit happened there were accusations of Campbell embellishing it, and being fine because he got up (right, because ALL possible results of a hit are immediately visible). In the recap there’s plenty of griping about rumors of how bad the injury was (well, the rumors annoyed Hawks fans, too), and I can count on one hand how many people said anything sympathetic when it was proven how bad this was.

I didn’t want to be a hothead and jump in, so I didn’t say anything. (Not encouraging anyone else to, either…) It was just such a departure from anything else I’ve read this season from eastern conference fans.

Apparently the “cupcake division” line set them off too—I’d have thought Caps fans would have a sense of humor about that. Anyway, I should stay away from things making me angry now (including Caps fans on Twitter, though at least I have one friend who’s quite reasonable).

and missed most of the game, til I saw the score was tied and I turned it on and briefly heard about the hit. I said it before, I don’t like Ovie’s style of play, and now I hate it even more.

Ovie is an animal and I wish he was a Hawk because he’s just the best player in the world. He reminds me of Roenick, only faster and more skilled. He gets out of hand sometimes because he plays with unmatched intensity. I am pissed that Soupy is out. But that was more hockey than it was dirty.

Per Jay Zawaski’s Twitter

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Campbell has a broken wrist and clavicle. Likely season ending.

The broken wrist I think is new news. What next? He was hit so hard, Ovie gave him cancer?

A once solid defensive core has been looking shaky and now they are one player short. The Hawks can’t seem to hold a third period lead to save their lives. Stan decided that some extra depth wasn’t in the cards. And Hossa has some mysterious STD that no one can speak of.

I guess the only good news is that the goalies have played two pretty decent games, although they have gotten no help.

 we weren’t meaning they should take the 3rd off instead.

I like Campbell generally, I just think his pay is sort of excessive.

The goaltending was finally good for 2 whole games, and we lost ’em both.

Crap. I guess I have to latch on to the “maybe they’ll jell” theme. Why is this looking like a Cubs season? Did the bandwagon include too many Cubs fans?

and I got Campbell’s instead, this is not what I had in mind.

Hopefully, the two swedes will form a solid pairing, I’m optimistic that they will.

Also, for those of you who are interested in sending him a card (BLou), tomorrow is Kimmo Johnsson’s 34th birthday.

was bad when the doctor went out on the ice instead of just a trainer.

Brian Campbell is NOT Colin Campbell’s son, so you can scratch that one off of your “THE NHL SECRETLY HATES ALEX OVECHKIN” conspiracy theory list.

Get up……yes. Now is the time to see who comes to play and who is just grabbing a pay-check.

I think the other Hawk players thought so too. If the players on the ice thought it was a dirty hit they would have been all up in Ovie’s grill. I think most of the players thought Ovie would get a boarding call and that would be it.

but I’m not too confident he’ll be back this year. If it takes him 6 weeks to recover from the break itself, he still needs it to strengthen his collarbone to take the contact in a game. Another thing to look for is that he might be a little reluctant for any contact, especially going to the boards to fight for a puck. I guess this is something that everyone will have to sit back and wait and see.

to put their purse down and man up. Injuries happen throughout the season, but championship style teams still find ways to win.

I say suspend him till Campbell comes back healthy; there was absolutely no reason for him to make any contact with Campbell, he had already played the puck and was in a defence-less position. I like Ovechkin as a player but this stuff is uncalled for, he’s an obvious repeat offender much like Chris Simon, Todd Bertuzzi, and Matt Cooke; only difference is he’s a goal scorer. The NHL wants to improve safety for it’s players? Make an example of " the best player in the world" and suspend him.

Now I’m not advocating for pussifying the sport like Pierre McGuire, but careless, selfish plays like this cannot be tolerated. And only that asshat McGuire would defend Ovechkin for a play like that, fuck him and his bald, bespectacled cock gobbler of a word hole.

Eye for an eye right?

David Kaplan just reported on WGN that Ovechkin will be suspended for 2 games. Way to go NHL…what a joke.

but i hope losing him lights a fire under the teams ass, or at the very least gets seabrooks head out of his ass

The ’Hawks cannot replace what Campbell brings to this team. His instantaneous offence he brings from the blueline is what makes him one of the most feared offensive blueliners in the game.

Sometimes it gets overlooked that most of the Niklas Hjalmarsson’s maturation as a defenceman has come because he is paired with such a gifted defenceman. Campbell has been the one that has given him the odd tip or two helping Hjalmarsson develop into, and deal with the pressure of being, the NHL defenceman he has become. Make no mistake that being paired with a veteran defenceman like Campbell has done wonders for Hjalmarrson.

Let’s not forget that he truly is the ONLY Quarterback for this team PP. If it was clown shoes before just wonder what it’s going to look like without Campbell for the whole 2 minutes. It won’t be pretty and now Keith will be forced to become the every PP guy and have it run through him. Frankly, all I want D2K to do is hand the puck off to Kane and let him try to manuveur this PP into success. The only minescule positive is that we may see Hjalmarsson on the PP, but we’ll how that goes before getting too excited.

May one of the classiest players in the game have a speedy recovery and help this franchise capture it’s first title since 1961. He’ll be missed and more than what most people think.