Are We Bound Out Of Obligation? Is That All We Got?: Hawks 1 - Preds 4 Wrap

Get it together! Don’t make me post a “The hawks are golfing!” video of me crying like Luongo last year saying the hawks are golfing over and over! Please don’t NOBODY WANTS TO SEE THAT!!!

Madden! Jesus Christ man you were brought to this team for a reason! Please be the Grizzly Captain to set this ship right and avoid the GIANT FUCKING ICEBERG that you are about to hit! Thank you and goodnight!

I watched a less talented Nashville team dominate us in all three zones.

did Rinne play great? yes

Did we allow some fucking stupid ass bullshit to happen? ABSOLUTELY

if the Hawks dont cut down on the deficiencies I saw tonight, we dont walk out of this round. I hope you all enjoyed your division champ hats, because that is all you are going to get

As it should be! Spot on with all points, Sam. My hope is that as PO’d as we all are, the Hawks are even angrier. They had better be ashamed of the way they played this game. It was embarrassing. And Q better go see the Wizard for some brains. He looks like a pee wee coach out there puking up his line combinations.

Today was a total vomitous sports day—we lose, the Sharks win, the Cubs get smoked, and Scum wins. I’m going to be in a bad mood for a while.

Series is definiately not over, but after that game, we all needed a Howard Beale moment.

“I DON’T HAVE TO TELL YOU THINGS ARE BAD! EVERYBODY KNOWS THINGS ARE BAD!”

Just for a chance our guys would show up next game. Tonight was despicable. I’ve watched EVERY single minute of EVERY single game this season and tonight I literally wanted to turn the TV off and forget about this horrible display. It’s like they don’t even know we’re in the playoffs yet (part of that credit goes to Nashville, a team that can slow down every single fucking game to “holy fuck I wanna get to bed cuz this shit is so boring” speed).

Better step this shit up next game. I haven’t seen a worse effort out of the Hawks in a loooooong ass time.

It’s sink or swim boys. Let’s see what you’re made of, you damn clowns.

Making your own fans think that F-ING Nashville has more guts, brains, heart, balls, etc…

That is ‘evil in itself’

Thanks to the Hawks for showing up as the team that played in early January in Minnesota.

I have in no way given up in this series, I just don’t know if I want to see the Hawks prevail and get raped again by the skum.

Toews hasn’t been around all series. He’s -3 with 1 assist. Today he was brutal, as you highlighted.

Are the Hawks ever going to crash the net?

I Can only say WHAT THE FUCK Q!!! You won Game 2 by a score of 2-0 and you fuck with the lines from the get go last night? Was 2-0 not good enough? Then you continue to fuck with the lines all night?

That being said the players on the ice were thoroughly outworked all night. Show some fucking pride!

I missed most of the 1st (broken water pipe in kitchen), and was so fed up by the end of the 2nd that I stopped watching and went to bed.

…fix this.

To be honest, the reason fans and media are surprised is because of the way Nashville was blown off before the series. This is a 100 point hockey team, and if they had been treated as such there wouldn’t be much ado over these results. As it stands, the Hawks are only down one game, and with that offense its easily overcomeable (provided Quenneville can outduel Trotz, which would be impressive).

Anyway, last night was an even better effort than G1. This is kind of what I was talking about when I noted we had more to bring on offense. The Preds are a hard team to beat when they play like that.

It was mentioned by Q in his presser, but the Hawks are getting no one in front of Rinne at all. He’s too good to let that happen. Fix that, and figure out a way out of your own zone and this series is tied on Thursday.

I have had a nightmare, undescribale last 3 days (including one of my parents having two near death experiences in the time frame) They looked like garbage yesterday plain and simple.

goaltending was going to be the Hawks big problem, it’s pretty much been everything else. Except for the soft first goal in game one, Niemi has been serviceable.

You’d think with the 10, or so, chances Rinne gave them by repeatedly turning it over to forwards within 3 feet of the net, we could have managed to score on at least ONE! I was fed up before the end of the second. I’m not going to sacrifice valuable sleep to watch that abortion of defense. It was embarrassing.

Another Beauty to the collection

DOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMM

They dumped Quenneville for the inability of his teams to win in the playoffs. It happened in St. Louis for years and then in Colorado. I tell you that’s some bad mojo.

while the Preds are 1 away from a dime. High powered offense? Only when the other team LETS us…huh?

This is PLAYOFF HOCKEY, apparently only the Preds got the memo at this point.

Goalie is now a non-issue but EVERYTHING ELSE is.

If Coach Q-tip were let go, I would not lose 1 second of sleep over it.

Remember when CHEMISTRY was synonymous with Blackhawk Hockey? Those were good times, weren’t they?

“you guys are playing like a bunch of pussies.”

that Rinne is trying to over compensate for his huge size by dropping down too early to get to the lower shots? And quit shooting glove side, obviously. Maybe it is just stupid me.

Last night:
“THE SPORTS TEAM FROM THEIR AREA WAS SUPERIOR TO THE SPORTS TEAM FROM OUR AREA.”

about Eager, yeah that fourth line was hot to end the season but now? Put Burish back in there or once/if Soupy gets back stick Buff’s ass somewhere on there.

And the Brouwer situation as he also pointed out, isn’t helping. I am way happy that Niemi is playing damn well thus far but I also feel as if Q mind fucked Huet into what he has become. Please don’t do the same to a valuable player like Brouwer.

Ok, if thats what he wants to call it. Bottom line is the Preds were the better team last night. That does not mean they will be the better team Thursday night. It seems as if alot of the Hawk players did not know their role last night (Versteeg as pest? Isnt that Burish’s job? or Eager or Fraser. Does Sharp really need to be the guy that looks pissed off and had enough at the end of the game. I know someone has to do it… but Sharpie? I completely agree with Sams statements on Buff, Brouw and Johnny T.

so i guess that means VAN and CHI even up their respective series’ in game 4??

agree with what Sam said in the recap. Was gonna come on here this morning and let all my frustration go, but he beat me to the punch. I’ve been saying the shit about the lines since the regular season. When you shuffle the shit outta them, there’s no cohesion and no familiarity with who’s playing with you. You can see it when Q shuffles them, then either there’s three guys going for the puck, or we hit each other trying to go into the offensive zone.

Don’t get me started on the stupid penalties in the first either. Especially Versteeg’s penalty for leaving his feet on the hit. Country-dumb is right.

play from periods one and two of game 1 and all of game 2? They were backchecking/winning pucks off the boards. Then game 3 they abandoned everything they had done right last game. That or Trotz and his team adjust and Q couldn’t acclimatize the team. Which if that is the case no wonder he hasn’t gotten into the Stanley Cup finals.

That was a painful game.

and I don’t mean Neutral zone trap. I mean they are baiting and the trapping our Blackhawks in to playing the style the Predators want. This is not what I signed up for, and I want my Hawk offense back.

HOWEVER, Give the Preds credit, they are playing ’"Their" game very well.

Our guys look confused again, like they did in March and now the mad scientist is going to starting to fuck around.

Ladd is a board worker, not a net guy. Brouwer is the net guy. Buff is the net guy. Let Toews, Ladd, and/or Hossa work the boards, but not all at the same time.

Our D needs to play their O game with more speed. If our forwards have to stop at the blue line because our D is so slow bring the puck up, then the dump and chase to beat the trap is not going to work. If the forwards are moving as they hit the blueline, that is when the dump and chase can be very effective, and the Hawks speed will probably overwhelm the Preds. If the dump is the way that Q thinks we can beat this trap, then do it right.

I could not agree more regarding Buff. Run 5 D for gods sake, but don’t out this guy out as a D ever again. I think he’s got 15 or less games as a Hawk left here so use him where he is best, in front of Rinne. Shit give him skate weights so he can’t move from that spot.

This is far from over, but it’s closer than it needs to be and one more game like last night and I’m going to be bored for a while.

- Completely agree that Buff had is head almost completely up his ass. He not only played like a confused junior, you could his facial expressions matched the physical aspect.

- Agreed that the Preds worked their asses off. I don’t care how much talent a team has; if they get out-worked, out-hustled on every play, they lose. For all the potential complexity of hockey, at it’s core is a simple truth: the team that gets to the open pucks has a much higher likelihood of success. I’m still waiting for the Hawks to beat a Predator to a loose puck.

- If this is the boys’ ploy to save me a shitload of money on the balance of playoff tickets to which I’m committed, let me just say: “I’’ve already budgeted it, fellas. It’s a nice thought, but if it’s all the same to you I’m happy giving Rocky my money for all four rounds.”

But Puck Daddy called us “One of the most prominent Blackhawks blogs” today.

They skated the whole game as if they were entitled to something