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PostPosted: Fri Mar 16, 2012 10:45 am 
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Each one is a raging douche. One in particular is erstwhile Hawk Adam Burish, who was ejected from a 5-2 loss in Winnipeg (if you haven't been keeping tabs, Winnipeg pretty much destroys everyone at home and sucks on the road, damnedest thing) for throwing some player's glove into the crowd. Whattabitch. Brandon Bollig will probably have a stupid fight with Burish, Dowell, or one of the Stars' other plentiful meatheads.

Anyway, Emery has the flu and is bad again, so Crawford will be in net against a mundane and overachieving dull-ass Stars team. (see what I did there.) I believe Hjalmarsson is traveling with the team, but not likely to dress.

Does anyone remember when Michael Frolik was on this team?

Must-win game tonight because the standings are getting ridiculous in the middle of the conference. Again. To wit:

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06    CHI   71   38-25-08   84 pts.   33 ROW
07    PHX   72   35-26-11   81 pts.   30 ROW
08    COL   73   38-30-05   81 pts.   29 ROW
09    SJ    70   35-25-10   80 pts.   28 ROW
10    CGY   71   34-25-12   80 pts.   31 ROW
11    LA    70   33-25-12   78 pts.   28 ROW


The Stars are in third because they're a division leader, but at 83 points it's tenuous.

Hawks actually come into a night with games in hand on someone, which like never happens. They can pull away from the blob with a string of wins here, and tonight would be the time to start: it'd put them five points up on the FutureNords with ten to play, which doesn't guarantee sixth place or a playoff spot but sure makes me feel pretty good about the prospect. My guess is that San Jose and Calgary ultimately grab seventh and eighth, respectively: the Sharks have 12 to play and too much talent to be this bad, and the Flames seem to be Getting Hot At Just The Right Time. Avs are doing it on shootouts, duct tape, and miracles, so no. Yotes had a hot streak during our cold streak and have since largely regressed to the mean, so no to them. I had the Kings winning their division handily this year, so it shocks me to say this, but if they had it in them to really get it going, they would have by now.

So, um, win, I guess.

EDIT: OH GOOD MORE BORDERLINE NHL GOALIES
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The Chicago Blackhawks have recalled goaltender Carter Hutton from the American Hockey League’s Rockford IceHogs.
Hutton, 26, has compiled a 17-9-3 record with two shutouts and a .915 save percentage in 32 regular-season tilts with the IceHogs this year and also made 14 appearances with the ECHL’s Toledo Walleye. Since signing a one-year contract with the Blackhawks on Feb. 24, Hutton has posted a 7-1-1 record and .947 save percentage in nine AHL contests.

Look at that record, just good enough for people to think we have another Antti Niemi on our hands, then he'll shit the bed against real teams in three games' time. CAN'T WAIT

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PostPosted: Fri Mar 16, 2012 11:38 am 
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Benn and Erickson are always fun to watch... imagine if they only kept on to Neal... but then they would have had 3 really good LW'ers... not that that's a bad problem to have, but I get why they made the move. It's comparable to why the Kings had to move Johnson... I'm not sure the return was as favorable though.

I'm thinking the hawks lose tonight. gut/Crawford feeling.



Side note: Does anyone else get really annoyed when they have to write two exact words in a row? like: "that that's", I hate doing it, but I had no other way of expressing that thought... I need Tall Midget's thesaurus.

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PostPosted: Fri Mar 16, 2012 12:07 pm 
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Benn and Erickson are always fun to watch... imagine if they only kept on to Neal... but then they would have had 3 really good LW'ers... not that that's a bad problem to have, but I get why they made the move.

Really? Remember, it was Neal and Niskanen for Goligoski. Sure, the Stars have been okay this year after many people (like yours truly) had them dead last in the conference, but I find that to be a horribly one-sided trade. I think it had a lot to do with the fact that the Stars were in bankruptcy and being run by their creditors. There was some point this year where they had to take on the contract of some injured guy because Sean Avery's re-entry waiver penalty went off their books and put them under the cap floor. It was a weird, NBA-ish moment.

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crosscheck wrote:

Side note: Does anyone else get really annoyed when they have to write two exact words in a row? like: "that that's", I hate doing it, but I had no other way of expressing that thought... I need Tall Midget's thesaurus.


Yup. His thesaurus would have helped you find the word "it's"

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I hate you Dan.

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Really? Remember, it was Neal and Niskanen for Goligoski. Sure, the Stars have been okay this year after many people (like yours truly) had them dead last in the conference, but I find that to be a horribly one-sided trade. I think it had a lot to do with the fact that the Stars were in bankruptcy and being run by their creditors. There was some point this year where they had to take on the contract of some injured guy because Sean Avery's re-entry waiver penalty went off their books and put them under the cap floor. It was a weird, NBA-ish moment.

Oh, I agree that it was really one-sided, I'm just saying I know why they did it... well at least hockey-wise.

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I hate you Dan.


:lol: :lol:

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But out of nowhere, the hockey gods created a sliver of opportunity — one that Nystrom didn’t quite understand, but also didn’t question. The Stars were humming along, thinking they had everything under control, when the New York Rangers sent Sean Avery to the minors. Why would such a far-flung decision affect Nystrom? Because, half of Avery’s salary cap hit was being used by the Stars after they unloaded Avery on recall waivers back in 2009.

That was no big deal for two seasons, merely an asterisk on the Stars’ paperwork. But the NHL’s mandated salary floor rose to $48.3 million this season, and the financially-strapped Stars were barely above it, even with Avery’s cap hit. When he was sent to the minors, they fell below the floor and had to acquire a player who made more than $1.2 million per season.

Stars general manager Joe Nieuwendyk knew Nystrom and knew the speedy forward could help the team, so he basically gave Minnesota an early Christmas present and took Nystrom’s contract off of their hands for “future considerations.”


This was one of the league's better wtf moments.

I'm pretty sure Sean Avery just retired, too. Of all the raging asshats in sports, it takes a special kind of raging asshat to asshat himself clear out of the league.

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Sean Avery has been blacklisted from the NHL because he ex-post-facto-illegally screened Martin Brodeur and joked about having fucked Elisha Cuthbert. Scott Stevens and Chris Pronger went around concussing people until they were concussed themselves and they're Hall of Famers. Hockey is so dumb sometimes.

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Stars are 27th in power play efficacy, Hawks are 27th in killing. This is a likely playoff matchup, guys.

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Wow. Nice start. :shock:

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Haha this poor team will never get a shutout all year. Here I thought I wouldn't have to update my avatar!

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I'm thinking the hawks lose tonight. gut/Crawford feeling.

It's good to know my gut feelings still suck...

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