What's The Opposite Of DLR: Canucks 6 - Blackhawks 2

I’d better stop bitching about Duncs, as he is the difference in the D being ‘passable for a playoff team,’ or god awful.

I’d like to think they were just tired. That explains the lack of energy, but not the lack of brains.

First time in a long time I’ve been tempted to switch over to another sport. Don’t know if I can recall the last time I felt they were completely out of the game going into the third.

Last year we embarrassed the Canned Ducks on their home ice early in the circus trip. That woke them up and they were off to the President’s Cup. Let’s hope this wakes the Indian Head up.

You are at home playing your biggest rival (who’s gasping for air at the moment) and THAT’S the effort you give? I understand all teams lose games but that kind of effort and awareness is intolerable.

Also, Hammer hasn’t been the same player since he missed time due to the hit in the Buffalo game last season.

Power Play. OK, maybe that topic has been beaten to death but if they can’t start scoring on the PP this is going to be one very long and frustrating season. A few games ago I (most of us) thought the PP was turning a corner but it has gone back to looking like a disorganized house league power play.

The lack of D with D2K out of the lineup is very disturbing. Hammer looks worse than last year. (is that really possible?) Leddy – yes, young, but not inexperienced. Is he intimidated by NHLers when he doesn’t have his mentor (Keith) as his d-mate to hold his hand?

This was one very aggravating and frustrating game. Right now we’re not playing like a top tier team.

This

0/5 on the powerplay and 1/6 on the PK, simply unacceptable.

Dave Bolland lost quite a few draws cleanly on both the pk and the 2nd pp unit. The powerplay issues run much deeper than Bolland’s faceoff percentage on the 2nd unit, but it’s still something that needs a resolution. While this team has enough talent to keep Jamal Mayers off the ice on the man advantage, I think he could be utilized here. Maybe Q needs to let Mayers take the 2nd unit PP draws and play the net presence role that Carcillo is currently assigned to. Again, it’s not ideal, but it’s worth a shot.

Piss poor effort against your fierce rival?

That’s a paddlin’

I usually wait until the 20th game or so to judge how a team is going to do. They’ve had a couple road trips by then, the lines have been bounced around and the goalies have both had some time to settle in.

Not sure what to think about the Hawks right now. They gave up a 2 goal lead in Tampa (and regularly left the most dangerous scorer open), not to mention that they seem to give up a couple breakaway chances a game. (No wonder Crow does well in shootouts!) For all the depth we supposedly acquired this summer, Keith being out is apparently HUGE for us (and that’s just ONE guy). The wins are nice, but they’ve been way tougher than they should be for a team with this much talent. And all you have to do to stop the Hawks’ powerplay is line up 4 across the blue line—they can’t get a clean entry at all.

I’m nowhere near the ledge, and there’s a whole lot of hockey still to be played. But this team is getting a bit schizophrenic (or however you spell that word that means “we don’t know what to expect from these guys on a nightly basis”). There’s a lot that needs to be tightened up. I’m hoping tonight was just a bad game, and the Hawks will correct some things. Get Keith back and figure out the freaking powerplay, and life should get a bit more enjoyable again.

Went from 4th best PK in the league to 22nd. In One. Fucking. Game. Way to shit the bed, boys. Mighty impressive. But hey, at least our PP is at the same place (28th) it was before this game!

How you can just not show up against your biggest rival for the past 3 years just blows my mind. Unbelievable.

Your team is going through a rough patch right now. I understand completely, being a Canucks fan who had to watch our previous two games. It’s damn frustrating knowing that a team as good as the Hawks are struggling, especially during an important game vs a rival.

Don’t get me wrong, I am pumped that we won, but I was expecting more from the Hawks, and I suspect you guys were too. Your team will turn things around- there’s too much talent on ice not to. I fully look forward to the Nov 16 game which I am sure will be one hell of a battle!

is Van Haggar.

…..after the first two shifts , one could see they were fatigue-. Hell, I was exhausted hearing about everything that was done. Of Course, then again, we aren’t going to win every game are we?

more than I hate the SCUM. They just play like a bunch of dicks

For the ‘Nucks, this was an absolute must-fucking-win game. With the way they’ve started, had they come into the UC and gotten snuffed by their biggest nemesis, it may very well have crushed their season. The Hawks had to know that, and instead of rising to the challenge, they played like an ECHL team: passes were consistently either too long or too short, the rebounds Bobby Lu repeatedly gave up sat harmlessly in front because there was never a Hawk skating right to the middle; they treated the puck like it was radioactive in their own zone . . . I could go on, but you all watched the game and saw the same thing.

If there’s any positive, it’s that a total shit-the-bed game like this might serve as a wake-up call. But that’s cold comfort for the ass-kicking they got.

left wondering why the Hawks didn’t snow shower Luongo until he looked like Mt McKinney? Then when a nuck objected they could have done the Spastic Squirrel Dance down to the ice, it seemed like it was working for the nucks…