The Record Man Shoots You Down: Preds 5 - Hawks 2

just felt like cussing

i’m alittle brain dead this morning – would you mind giving mr a little insight into this photo-shop. I see a goalir stick and #39. Your not thinking what I think your thinking, are you?

That simple.

In the last 8 games, we’re slightly over a 2 GAA – that includes two OT losses to Detroit.

I can understand your frusration after last night – but playing the Preds is always like sitting in a dental chair – hopefully we play a bit more inspired on Tuesday.

Very true because I know first hand that when the playoffs come calling it definitely won’t ‘sort it out’ and if it continues the ’Hawks playoffs will have a short stay.

I may be alone, but home-ice means little to me as Tampa Bay 2011, Montreal and Philadelphia 2010, Carolina 2009, Philadelphia (again) and Dallas 2008, Edmonton and Anaheim 2006 all have reached the Conference Finals without home-ice advantage and once you get there anything can happen.

Dude, please stop trolling other team’s sites.

First off, there is no 50 yard line in hockey.

Secondly, it was in between centre and the blueline if you watch the replay

Thirdly, didn’t Rinne let one in from the exact same spot to Kane … IN THE PLAYOFFS?

It’s nice to know that I’m not the only one that thought the ‘Hawks didn’t receive any bounces last night. Kruger must have had 3 glorious chances and yet found himself without a shot as the puck bounced over his stick.

Nothing like having a UFC event as an excuse to have the playing surface resemble Candlestick Park in January. The ice conditions (which were better in Ivor Wynn in Hamilton yesterday) didn’t help matters for the ’Hawks.

would be good for 1st place in 4 of the 6 divisions. I won’t panic until they go 2-5-2, with 30 goals against, on the upcoming road trip.

this guy couldn’t hack it in pond hockey!

I’ve thought for a long time that the D tends to play with more confidence in front of Emery-the fact that he doesn’t give up nearly as many rebounds and doesn’t seem to panic as much when the goals in the crease seems to filter down throughout the rest of the team.

The problem is that, for whatever reason, Q doesn’t seem to have the same confidence in Emery that he had in back-ups in previous years which I think is why we’ve been seeing Crawford continue to get chances to redeem himself after shitting the bed. I have a feeling though that that is going to change if the “road trip from hell” goes badly and we start to find ourselves chasing points (or if, god help us, Toews’ injury is worse than it sounds).

I think we’re all getting tired of having to go through this goalie thing at the mid-point of every season. Can we have one year where our goaltender starts and finishes the year without creating an environment where he can be second-guessed?

Regardless of Last night, the PK is killing Crawford.

or is Crawford killing the PK?

The answer lies somewhere in between.

That goal I am not to worried about that is one of the flukes that happens at times, even to the best. SS 3B 2B 1B in baseball get eaten up by bouncing balls on occasion as well the ball or puck in this instance does not bounce like expected. Craw basically had to stop a puck on the short hop, and with its shape you cannot know exactly how it is going to come off the ice.

Now the other 4 goals, that is a different story.

Other Fluke Goals, including ON Marty B and Tommy Tank

Don’t confuse Fleury with Crawford.

One is an elite netminder with a Stanley Cup Ring and should’ve been the starting netminder in the Gold Medal Game.

The other looks like another Steve Penny.

He and Pierre were both espousing Malkin as the greatest player in the Universe (their words, not mine) after saying nearly the same thing about Toews the other day. Unless we have proven there are multiple universes and someone failed to forward me the memo, how can two players be the single greatest player?

chances he gets suspended?

And it skids in by his legs, that would be fine then?

Seriously, how do you think he should have defended or handled it? On his knees he is presenting a bigger low side target and will be quicker with the hands. Standing, not so much.

It was a fluke goal, not the one people need to get wrapped around, the ones that came because he left big fat juicy rebounds 5-10’ from the net are the ones that need to be bitched about, not the fucking fluke!

are taught to play these days. They all go down or into the butterfly immediately, save for Tim Thomas, who is still old-school.

And, of course today’s goalies always reveal the 5-hole and night after night, the top forwards usually score. I do not understand modern goaltending at all. I played goal as a teen, and “standing up on your skates” for control was taught. I was told you gave up too much of the top shelf when you are down on your knees

But I’m older, and styles change. It’s not just Crawford. Niemi still confounds me when I see him stretching forward, on his face for no reason. However, a longer sample size now shows that Niemi has better rebound control than Crawford.

But still, he wanted too much cash to sign. Hammer seemed like a better deal — good defense helps a decent goalie. Right now, Hammer hasn’t lived up to his deal. Niemi has.

What’s done…is done. Crawford has to improve due to an inconsistent defensive core.

So dumb, like I said yesterday, even Ference acknowledged he was at fault

I didn’t think it was all that bad until I saw the skate thing in the Shannaban video. 3 games is about right.

“Team A really needs to pick up a 3rd pair defenseman….”

If I were a GM after I heard him say that I would be like
“So I need a top 6 forward or another Goalie”.

I went outside and it looks like the clouds are breaking up and piling up on the ground….

They really took major offense to that. Was also told by a guy sitting next to me that the Preds fans hate Hawks fans much more than Detroit and STL fans.