Getting creamed by the Islanders is just what this team needs

by BLou on Mar 2, 2010 8:24 PM CST

A big fat slice of humble pie is PRECISELY what the Blackhawks need. Their play the 15 games preceding the Olympic break were iffy in too many regards. A beatdown at the hands of the New York Friggin Islanders is the super duper attitude adjustment that this team needs.

Memo to Stan Bowman....fire the weapon on Vocoun if that option does indeed exist. Pony up Versteeg, Crawford and Beach. The window to win a Cup is THIS SEASON. So get a deal done. If you have to overpay, then overpay.

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A 90 word fanpost by BLou is just what this blog doesn't need

1) Your post is a comment, not a full fanpost
2) If you are going to keep ringing the Vokoun bell, at least spell his name right
3) Stan Bowman doesn’t get his memos from Second City Hockey
4) This isn’t the cubs, the window is longer than 1 year, did you watch the olympics?…..our stars aren’t going anywhere for a while. (full disclosure, I’m a cub fan)
5) Why give up Beach when you can give up Buff.
6) This loss is not a big fat slice of humble pie. Giving up 7 unanswered goals to the Hawks in your own building is a big fat slice of humble pie. Know a team that fits that description?
7) If the last 15 games have been iffy in “too many regards” what makes you think that shoring up the team in 1 regard will take care of all of the other ones you speak of?
8) Is “fire the weapon” a real expression?

"In an ideal world I would have all 10 fingers on my left hand so my right hand could just be a fist for punching."

by Hack on Mar 2, 2010 8:54 PM CST reply actions

8) Is "fire the weapon" a real expression?

i believe its “pull the trigger”

by jesus christos on Mar 2, 2010 9:07 PM CST up reply actions

Pound sand up your ass

The window to win is right now. And right now the Hawks are playing poor hockey and are in need of getting their crap back together on defense and in the goal.

Last year’s playoffs? Duncan Keith was worn down to the nub. That can’t happen again. Yet over the course of the last 15 games or so that is precisely what is happening, only sooner. If the Hawks are to win a Cup then Keith needs to be hitting on all cylinders come the playoffs. And ditto the unfairly maligned Brian Campbell, who of late also looks gassed.

Buff isn’t going anywhere in a move. At least not for the rest of the season. His net presence come playoff time especially is something the Hawks don’t have a replacement for right now. Not unless Kopecky gets it back into his head that this is where his real value to the Hawks can be.

So the idea of Versteeg, Crawford and Beach is reasonable. And something that might entice the current employer of Vokoun.

The Blackhawks and the Stanley Cup in 2010.

by BLou on Mar 2, 2010 9:09 PM CST up reply actions

You're giving far too much credit to Randy Sexton

There’s no reason the Hawks should include one of their top 3 prospects for Vokoun.

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by El Duque's Raft on Mar 2, 2010 9:43 PM CST up reply actions

points and counterpoints

You are right about Dunc, he should see less minutes. What does this have to do with Vokoun? Are you inferring that because our coaches don’t trust Huet/Niemi, they are overplaying Dunc, and that if Vokoun was backstopping this team then Dunc would see less minutes? If this is what you are saying, then I’m not so sure I agree, and I think the two things may be mutually exclusive.

You were right BLou……the patented BLou hunch came through when you said that Bowman was going to get a non-big name defenseman to help eat some minutes. Johnsson fits that to a T, golf clap sir, but again I don’t see the goaltending connection.

Look, our goalies were awful tonight. I wouldn’t mind Vokoun, so don’t get me wrong here.

That being said, a 90 word knee jerk reaction is not a fanpost. Some people work hard on their fanposts and really want alot of people to read them, and fanposts like these just push the good ones off of the recent fanpost list and it ends up being a wasted effort for the author who put more than 10 seconds of thought into what they wrote.

"In an ideal world I would have all 10 fingers on my left hand so my right hand could just be a fist for punching."

by Hack on Mar 2, 2010 9:45 PM CST up reply actions

I like all of your points, and I like that they’re actual counterpoints to BLou’s surprisingly lucid response to you. I’m especially behind the last paragraph.

BLou, this is not a fanpost. This is a comment, either in a GDT or a game re-cap.

All right, come on, dummy, you won the game. Come on. Pick up your trophy.

by meeshak on Mar 2, 2010 9:48 PM CST up reply actions

I appreciate what hackerer and meeshak already said, but as a writer of a couple recent FanPosts, I'm pissed

BLou you’ve already posted this same shit in every comment section you could find. You’ve posted it in GDT’s, game summaries, and other people’s FanPosts, you’ve even posted this shit twice in some comment sections – and now you post it in a “FanPost” of your own?? It’s obvious that your ego needs attention, but this isn’t even an original thought. Goalie trade? No, we’ve never heard that one before. We jump on newbies for even mentioning the topic, but you spew it everywhere with some misplaced sense of impunity. The D-man trade wasn’t original either. Other people had mentioned that, but you yelled the loudest and the most. No golf hand clap from me.

I actually responded to your comment on the Why is no one reporting on the Huet trade rumors!! thread and I mentioned that I would write a FanPost regarding your request to intelligently discuss Vokoun. I wrote that FanPost and it took me a couple of hours. I personally thought I presented a unique perspective on why a trade might be imminent and threw out some info about Vokoun to get the ball rolling, but fuck if I didn’t see a single comment from you on it. Why not? Probably because your fevered ego can’t handle the idea that you might not be some great clairvoyant. And then you write this desperate plea shit AGAIN, as if people are going to say "Hey, BLou got that trade done for us!" Now I’m watching mine and other good FanPosts disappear further down the list unless others “rec” them to keep them afloat above the dozen other FanPosts that went up in the past few days, half of which should have been FanShots or comments. So obviously you’re not the only culprit.

Hackerer, Battery, and Mike Martin all wrote some really good FanPosts in the past couple of days. It’s obvious they put a lot of time and research into them. Scott13 wrote a novella that definitely took waaay too much time (just joking Scott13) – but the point is DID YOU EVEN READ THEM? I’d bet not. So I would appreciate it if you and others please practice restraint when you get the urge to barge in here and spew shit from your fingers like this in this section. It’s intentional disrespect for the efforts of others. It comes across egocentric and asinine when you repeatedly hit and run this site.
Maybe 4,500 comments wasted on the Cubs will do that to you…

Well, folks, I want to thank you for being here for the recording of my live comedy album. Funny material and laughter will be dubbed in later.

by ChicagoNativeSon on Mar 3, 2010 9:11 AM CST up reply actions 8 recs

that was beautiful

by jesus christos on Mar 3, 2010 12:30 PM CST up reply actions

and retarded

"Trying is the first step towards failure" Homer Simpson

by ccm on Mar 3, 2010 5:14 PM CST up reply actions

What was retarded about CNS’ reply?

All right, come on, dummy, you won the game. Come on. Pick up your trophy.

by meeshak on Mar 3, 2010 5:27 PM CST up reply actions

tooo wordy

jus tell him “it sucks”….that was alot of reading

"Trying is the first step towards failure" Homer Simpson

by ccm on Mar 3, 2010 5:28 PM CST up reply actions

just as long as it was for a valid reason

All right, come on, dummy, you won the game. Come on. Pick up your trophy.

by meeshak on Mar 3, 2010 5:30 PM CST up reply actions

although I did enjoy the attack on the Cubs

"Trying is the first step towards failure" Homer Simpson

by ccm on Mar 3, 2010 5:30 PM CST up reply actions

re: too wordy

I was attempting to follow my own advice and make this a valid FanPost. Plus I thought it was more appropriate in ‘private’ here than out in a GDT.

Well, folks, I want to thank you for being here for the recording of my live comedy album. Funny material and laughter will be dubbed in later.

by ChicagoNativeSon on Mar 3, 2010 6:50 PM CST up reply actions

No offense brother

by Scott13 on Mar 4, 2010 10:37 AM CST up reply actions

very well said

sad thing is BLou wont read it nor respond to it, and moreso will continue to post as he does as if nothing was said. Here, on WCG and BCB he has been told similar and not once does it seem to make a difference with him.

the sad part about a BLou post is often he is insightful and he does have knowledge, but he says it in such a way it comes off as craptastic and he likes to always make sure to include something insulting to one or all on the board

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by Cubbie-Tim on Mar 6, 2010 9:03 PM CST up reply actions

LOUD SUSTAINED APPLAUSE

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by Ryno Runner on Mar 6, 2010 9:22 PM CST up reply actions

Fair points

I’ve been worried about Keith wearing out since late December.

The goalie situation is a crapshoot, whether we stick with what we have or whether we trade for someone else. Who knows how they’ll play in the in the play-offs, either way?

But, I agree with Hackerar on the window to win: the core of this team is ours* for a few years. Toews, Kane, Hossa, and Keith, who are the engines of the team, are here to stay for at least the next five years. Regardless of whomever the Hawks surround them with, the Hawks will be competitive until I’m banned from traveling outside of the US permanently.

*Ours, as in the City of Chicago, eh.

All right, come on, dummy, you won the game. Come on. Pick up your trophy.

by meeshak on Mar 2, 2010 9:53 PM CST up reply actions