The Hits Keep Coming - Blues 4, Hawks 2

I remember seeing a lot of that too. His positioning seemed good, but just had no quickness to the releases at all…and a couple were no brainer one-timers but instead he received the puck and went for the slow as molasses wrister.

even I start to worry

I got a pair of 200 level seats for all 8 games. This was about 45 minutes ago.

including me being a partial plan holder and getting plenty of tickets last year

The 1 exception this year. I found a single ticket on the glass in 108 for game C of round 2……..now where did I put that $460 bucks I had laying here?

Standing room only for Games A & B 1st round, so I passed. Got decent 300 level for Games A & B 2nd round (2 each).

I got on right at 10 and they only tickets I could get were 2 for the semi-finals game “D”. I couldn’t justify spending almost $200 for a game that in all likelihood won’t be played. It’s disappointing because last year I was able to get tickets for a game in all three rounds pretty easily.

In the long run though maybe it’s a good thing – drinking yourself into oblivion is much cheaper at home/at a local bar.

It often looked like Buf was ‘centering’ Kane & Versteeg (2 player who should NEVER EVER be put on the same line, ABSOLUTELY NEVER EVER).

I was a kid for the 69 Cubs and 71 Hawks. I have gone into Bah Humbug mode. We had a good chance early – and seem to have squandered it. I will be watching as long as their playing, but don’t have any expectations that this will be a happy ending.

The Hawks are in desperate need of a colonocraniectomy, and I’m starting to worry about cardio issues too.

with a bucket in front of him, then spot on

Q is losing the Norris for him by punishing him with the Sopel pairing. Even when Keith did everything perfectly last night Sopel would screw it up by not being able to get out of the d-zone when Keith passed to him. I’m feeling pretty sorry for Dunc right now and wondering what he did to piss off Q enough to make him pair Dunc with Sopel.

I read an article the other day saying that all his early-season publicity was the only thing keeping him at the top of running for it. While that’s a bit of a stretch, his candidacy HAS been steadily slipping. Individual accolades are nice, and I’m pulling for him, but it’s the least of my worries right now.

The knee is jerking and he has a keen sense of fixing it until it is broke, and has so far excelled!

At the very least, working more often than not. It just seems to me that when the lines get shaken up like this, one line will do well, but at the expense of two others. (evidence the invisibility of the second line last night.) Seems to me that a coach’s job is to maximize the production from every guy on the bench, and this line roulette is even coming fucking close to that. A pure scorer won’t turn into a true playmaker overnight, a 3rd liner with cinderblocks for hands won’t finish pretty plays with any consistency, and Sopel won’t ever evolve past the missing link. These are facts.

I agree with everything. If only you could explain WHY or HOW they arrived at this point. They once were AMAZING as a team. I think that was even this season but now it seems so long ago I can’t say for sure.

I agree with almost all of this, especially the part about net presence/blocked shots. It’s not a coincidence that teams are blocking the shit out of our shots from the point.

Regrading Eager, couldn’t agree more. Cam Janssen may be a bag of dicks, but at least he plays like he gives a fuck and can really throw ’em. The way Eager reluctantly engaged in that fight last night really pissed me off. What are you here for, Ben? Both he and Burish need to sit. When Kopecky plays I at least notice him, even if it is for falling down.

bottom line for me and you touch on it in ur post
10 bolland < 09 bolland
10 burish < 09 burish
10 eager < 09 eager
10 neimi, huet < 09 ’bulin, huet
and
10 hendry, boynton, buff, et al < 10 soupy, johnsson, barker, et al
10 steeg < 09 steeg

sure, theres upgrades, I’m not discounting that, but having a underperforming 45% of your roster is pretty damaging

especially to me, since I don’t know the logistics of hockey yet. Though I am proud to say I knew enough to wonder what the hell the third forward was doing on several of those board battles last night.

I definitely agreed with the rest being spot on, but that line esp jumped jumped out at me. And this is probably the best micro-breakdown of the Hawks play I’ve read in a WHILE. Thanks for that.

for saying what I said about the triangle at least 10 times better than I did, and using the proper terminology to boot.

I played on backyards, etc., growing up, but never in a real league. Most of my knowledge came from listening to my old man when I was a kid watching Hawks games on TV (brought to you by Friendly Bob Adams at HFC) and applying that to watching games the rest of my life.

You’ve brought a coach’s vision to this thing, one that apparently the pro coaches on Rocky’s payroll are unable to either recognize or enunciate to their players. So much of this stuff seems obvious even to casual observers; how is it possible that the team’s management is missing it?

Heres another one for you. How many of our defenseman’s shots from the point ever just a few inches off the ice? Almost never. Its worthless to have bodies in front if the shots are all chest high. All a guy like Brouwer or Buff can do in that situation is block the shot, not tip it.

Fix this.

The lack of trust is apparent and I can’t help but think a lot of it stems from the musical chair line changes and d-pairings. It’s gotta be tough to trust (and I mean that solely on a “what’s he gonna do on this play” level, not on a personal level) a guy you rarely play with and whose tendencies you simply don’t know.

You’re starting to make more and more sense each day. Prescient, even.

SoxMachine

“give a shit” spark under him too

…bit of trouble spelling ‘the’.

I’m making French Toast and Fries tonight in his honor

I feel lost without daily goalie debates anyway

I may never ask for another thing ever again.

Pignose

than Tazer. :(

I will not sully the site with a picture.

It’s Kopecky!!!!!!

Gave guy wrong photo!

You are right, of course. They will be around for a while.

but doesn’t that mean you should change your signature line?

However, if the Hawks do poorly in the playoffs I suspect there may be quite a bit more roster turnover in the off season than may have been the case otherwise.
Some of the RFA’s & UFA’s on the the roster may not get the kind of effort from the organ-I-zation to have them return if this “el foldo” continues. I think the peripheral cast may look quite a bit different next year.

your goalie conversation is classic.

Now get back on the couch so the team starts winning again.

Already has more brains than Eager and better balance than Kopecky

Awesome.

So feel free to blame me for everything since I wasn’t paying proper attention.

….but, going foirward, ’m holding you personally responsible.

Funny goalie conversation.

do you think it was worth the price of the ticket to be there? or would it have been better on tv?