Hawks 3 - Scum 3 (Scum win in Thumb War)

Salak today often reminded me of the last goaltender to wear the number 53 here (Khabibulin in 2005-06, wasn’t that treat?) in that he was scrabbly, as Kills already alluded to, and left his glove low which resulted in the Wings shooting there early and often and got beat there twice and if not for a Wings penalty would’ve been 3. I know it’s a European style, but he needs to keep it a tad higher up and give himself a chance at least. Down low – the kid is rock solid (Zetterberg ShO notwithstanding).

I remember hearing that Q plans on practicing the specialty teams later this week. That’s good news as the PP just isn’t clown shoes bad, but Bears running game bad. Non-existent.

I like Ben Smith and everything, but I just don’t like change to 28 for him or anyone for that matter. More reason to have Steve Larmer’s name hang from the rafters in Chicago. Hopefully, Ben Smith will become at least half the player Larmer was. One of the best.

Frolik needs a better move in the shootout than a ‘Kane weak backhand’ move. Back to the drawing board, like Game 6 drawing board. I do disagree with Kills here, I think Frolik is going to have a great year and so is Bickell once they get reunited with Bolland.

Stalberg has been more than a good this preseason. Very confident and assertive.

Still worried about Leddy? Very, very good today and look poised upon his years. He’ll be O.K. moving forward this year.

So, how did everyone enjoy that football game today ;)?

We’ll see about your spot, Kills.

Isn’t this the diplomatic way of a coach telling your GM he fucked you? Am I wrong here?

We’ll see about your spot, Kills.

Always a Fuckwad. This will be interesting.

I’m trying to watch the game on NHLN but nothing is showing other than a black screen :(

Make no mistake I am DOWN for Detroit-Chicago being a rivalry again. Damn Colorado is inconvenient and far too likeable to keep hating once Lemieux et al. were gone. We play Toronto twice a decade. Anaheim’s a rival the way Ford and Disney are rivals, ie we’re not. I can get to Chicago on a Thursday night. I know people from Chicago I can send ragging text messages about coinage and Kane.

When things are right in the hockey world Chicago is Detroit’s biggest rival and vice versa. You need a nickname that’s going to cut a Wings fan to the core, not start threads on maybe four of the 800 million Red Wings blogs likening your fanbase to Michigan State (this is very embarrassing for you).

So don’t got f—ing this thing up with a nickname that takes all the cleverness of a 6-year-old whose sister taught him his first naughty word to make her friends laugh. You’ve got a great core of a team and despite our best efforts we are going to be stuck together for the foreseeable future in the Central with football cities and people who don’t wear sleeves from Memorial Day to Labor Day. Meanwhile you’re sitting on an Original Six city full of half-employed people with Master’s degrees who grew up memorizing Star Wars. Please for the love and hate of Chelios, come up with something better than “scum.”