Wings be old and tired, NHL wants to give them an extra day to rinse out their DAU's and soak their dentures.

I'd guess the ratings for a Saturday game btw Hawks and Wings > Friday night tv ratings?
No idea tho cuz it makes more sense to have an extra day btw games 2 and 3 (change of venue) than btw 1 and 2.

so it must be a tv schedule/ratings thing.

Bullshit they made the Pens for Cindy be Tues Fri Sun

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What did I say?

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well my fanclub in #hardball on efnet is featuring my permatroll chasing me around critiquing everything i say, cuz you know, watching games i have thoughts and they lead to tangential observations abotu baseball.... and you know, the company line from dumbasses is DO U EVER SHUTUP JESUS and thats about all they contribute other than cheerleading plays that just happened.

maybe i;ve gotta spread my cheeks and commit to the indian so i can say that i bled for the sport i kind of occasionally watch in the playoffs when my local team is relevant.

again tho, my unlucky # showed up in their final record, so i'm worried the hawks will lose at some point. it'd be a big moment for my relationship with taht unlucky # if shit didnt happen like that

anyways, off to get some lube and a cardiff city FIRE AND PASSION crest shirt. my body is ready for some hard hawk hawkey.

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Yep, Wings fans bitch about keeping Franzen and letting Hossa and his BFF Kopecky walk but the bigger score for the Blackhawks was
getting Scotty Bowman involved in their front-office.

I think Scotty Bowman's been involved in 50% of the teams that have played in the SCF since 197-something and maybe a 1/3rd of the actual Stanley Cup winners have had Bowman involved with them at some level?

Canadiens, Penguins, Wings and now Blackhawks.

No one in Pittsburgh owns their own tv, that's why they gather outside the Consol to watch the games. So TV ratings don't matter for the Pens.

Isn't Abdelkader's brother Biggie's neighbor up in Wrigleytuckey? I shall start a thread and see if Biggie responds with tales of chilling in the wings family section and bar-hopping with the junior wings.

True

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Just fucking with you Sini

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Btw, are you from Pittsburgh? You ever go watch the games outside like that? Sounds awesome. I think the Maple Leaf fans copied that this post-season.
Mayor Rahm should broadcast the Hawks games in Grant Park, where they used to show the movies in Grant Park. Hockey fans are pretty clean, polite bunch, for the most part.

fret not, i'm not some middleaged soccer mom in a KANER jersey at a FUCKING COMEDY SHOW in 2010 for game 1 rd1 telling all of us at the bar to SHHHHHHHHH cuz the puck just dropped. BITCH PLEASE I PAID $25+ TO BE HERE SEE THIS GUY? THAT'S THE REVERND BOB LEVY AND WE'RE HAVING CHICKEN WINGS AND DOING SHOTS AND TALKING HOWARD STERN SHOW. I WILL NOT SHHHH CUZ YOUR BANDWAGON ASS NEEDS TO GO OUT OF HER WAY TO PROVE TO EVERYONE AROUND US THAT YOU'RE A "REAL HAWKS FAN" since 2009 or whatever and now it's the playoffs time so you have playoff muff going on or whatever it is you harpies do... begone!

but yeah, despite being invited to sporadic games at the stadium from ~87-91 and having "the experience" with my uncle and a bunch of his friends who had like 10-14 seats between two rows in section M for most of the 80s into the 90s, i'm a hockey ignoramus so most likely a hockey hetero.... that shit dont fly out here.

it was fun to watch them systematically discombobulate the wings and just crush them from the time i tuned in (solely to update my wings-fan-friend @ work) from 11min in the 3rd period on, man, they just bombarded poor howard who evnetually gave up the 3-1 goal and then it was a fait accompli. a nice glovesave by one of their DEFmen prevented it from having a chance to go 5-1, but hey, i'll be damned if the best team on the ice didnt go out there and handle businesss. jolly good show.

i saw that one epic ~8-7ish type game during the 2010 WCF (methinks) and that was excitement. and i remember where i was when KANER scored the winning goal and nobody knew at first then it's like OMFG THE HAWKS WON THE CUP.

long story short, i hope the 36 wins isn't a bad omen.... but they've GOTTA be the odds on favorite this seaosn, leaving my redwings friend to be like "eh dont worry pittsburgh will crush them man, way better team" evne tho i think pitts is using their ray emery guy instead of the ballyhooed goalie and welp, insert sidey crosbey glass jaw joke here.

it should be a thing. i'll try to watch at the least the rest of this series (5? 6?) and remember those DEEEE-TROIT SUCKS chants i partook in at ages 7-0 that made me feel like i was special and cool hanging out with my uncle's friends @ the section M games. i'll never forget our goal pool (which would make the $35-50 range depending on the game) and fucking sutter having a breakaway and not finishing, robbing me of my rightful $35+. at least i won a few weeks of that group's weekly NFL pick'em thing where i used the combined ~$80 victoy cash to get me some NES games back in the day. HAWD HAWK HAWKEY.

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Nothing really left to say except the same stuff as usual...

They're just better at hockey than everyone else.

Yes it is fun

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Ok now I am not fucking hockey gays don't read long shit.

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that siad, HG, who do you fear the most of having a chance to knock them off? cuz tonight's game reiterated something to me that needs to be said: anything short of a stanleycup is a total failure because dan burntcheese told me so and he's never weong, like skip bayless b4 him. actually, these days i can picture a framed autographed picture of skip bayless on dan's office wall or eve above the studio. that's how you rake in the $$$ nowadays: embracing debate. cuz it's so fucking perfect that dan and terry used to rag on skip bayless for being a troll who often takes positios he doesnt believe in in order to maximize ratings.

so in this case: YOU'RE ALL ASSHOLE MEATBALLS. NEVERMIND WHAT I SAID ABOUT DERRICK ROSE NOT NEEDING TO BE COMING BACK A WEEK OR TWO AGO, THE RESULTS ARE IN. THE DOCTORS HAVE SPOKEN. MY SOURCE VERIFIED. THE BULLS FRANCHISE IS EL-FUCKEDO BECAUSE THEY'RE LETTIGN A STAR PRAYER DICTATE HIS WILL

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ATTN PITTMIKE: GET IT TOGETHER, BRO!

i don't mean to poo-poo your semingly well lubed (alcohol) foray into the general conversation re: my referendum..... but i have to be real: that;s some awfully hateful speech right there.

for as long as i've lived, oft racked by guilt and defaunting to saying nothing, when i do pipe up and talk there are legions of ppl who show up out of the woodworks to go "LOL SINI/EMESS UR ON DRUGS MAN YOU MUST LOVE TALKING TO YOURSELF" and in the case of #hardball, well like, there are people who pop up to bitch about those postulations i have re:the great opiate to the masses en masse: sports.

so like, i've toned them out my whole life.... and only now i let my guard down and YOU of all people show up to tell me that i'm talking too much. i'm crying, dude.... that's what uncle baloney (pet name) used to say before slapping me across the face and then telling me to pull down my pants to take my punishment. but he didn't spank my ass with a paintstick... he had this blunt object he called "R.A." that often missed my cheeks and got in between them, and when that happened he loved to croon "KEEP TALKING BOY, KEEP TALKING I DARE YOUUUUUUUOOHOOHHHHHHHYEAH" and like, i was so relieved when he told me that bloody buttholes were a natural thing amonst growing tweens who had yet to develop their adult body.

years later i was able to grab a dry erase board and tell the world why i need feminism re: rape culture. but until then it was so much hurt i blocked it out.... that is, until you stepped up and reminded me that the gays dont like it when the lamebrain hetereos talk too much.


ATTN EVERYONE SORRY FOR THE TANGENT BUT LIKE, WHAT IS THERE TO SAY?!?!? HAWX ARE THE BEST TEAM ON THE ICE AND ANYTHING SHORT OF A CUP WIN = IMMINENT FAILURE. THIS LEAGUE WAS HANDED TO THEM ON A PLATE AND ASK ANY CUBS FAN:"IT'S GONNA HAPPEN"

ALSO CAPS

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Fox and Hound watches now 2-0. Both against Detroit and both wins. Stop being such gays. Come out and rip through a few brews.

Um I read every word preach on brother. You are AG.

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Impulse bought tickets.

That was as thorough as a dong whipping I've seen in a playoff game. Detroit's defense won't be that bad the rest of the series, but really did appreciate the plentiful turnovers in their own defensive end.
Every line looked great, but you'll have that when there's almost a 30 shot differential.

Even when Babcock threw Datsyuk and Zetterberg on the same line to start the 3rd, maybe such little difference. Jimmy Howard stopped that from being a DLR post game review on Committed Indian.

Bolland looked great. If he's Bolland of last year, this team is winning the Stanley Cup.

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The Patrick's were a ridiculous +30 Corsi.

Pavel Datsyuk did not have a SOG.


Damn

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It's not really fear as much as it is "These guys can give us a run for our money" but it's the Kings. I have to assume that the Kings will be trying to close off our space with speed on a relentless forecheck. That's the key to beating us. The Hawks like to D to D a lot, something a really good 2-1-2 forecheck can give some problems if smart decisions aren't made quickly. The last game the Kings played us they outplayed us by a pretty wide margin by just being the better team and causing turnover after turnover with that strategy. It was a total adjustment from the first two games where we beat them and it really stood out to me. It could of just been one of those games where the Kings were perfect and the Hawks were far from it but the Canucks applied that same strategy against us in the 3-0 beat down they gave us near the end of the season. You don't really see teams apply really hard forechecks against us like that for a whole game because they respect us too much and they don't have the right personnel to pull it off against us. We saw what happened when the Blues came at us hard, nothing really happened. It's like, yeah, you hit us, but we still have the puck so you keep doing that while we keep dictating the pace and then by the 2nd period the Blues just gave up on it.

I do think the Hawks will beat the Kings in a best of 7. Part homer, part the Hawks being the best team in the game leads me to that conclusion. Would I be surprised if the Hawks lose to them in 7 though? No. Would I be surprised if the Hawks lose to the Wings or Sharks in 7? Absolutely.

As for the East, it's hard for me to gauge since we didn't play the East this season. I go out of my way to not watch Rangers hockey (I'll watch tonight though) so i can't comment on them. I think we could exploit the Penguins in the Finals but who knows, so give me the Bruins as the team who matches up best with us in the Finals.

In the end though, I fear no one. I expect the Hawks to beat everyone.

I'd very much much like the Penguins in the finals. The hockey would be beautiful and the Hawks would dummy them up pretty bad.

Their D can be had for sure and Chicago would learn to hate Brooks Orpik who is a douche of legendary proportions. Their offense can sure as shit light the Hawks up though. Would be a fun series.



Agree with HG that the Kings, of all teams left in the playoffs, on paper at least, present the most difficult matchup for the Hawks. Big forwards willing to forecheck is how you get to this team. Then again, if you have big forwards who are fast and willing forecheckers is something every team hates.

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No big deal.

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turn the page

I'm back! Got home just in time to watch the second and third last night. Good stuff.

Oh, and by the way: Pensacola. That, that, Dan Bernstein, is Hardcore American South.

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NBC's HD feed looks much better than CSN's...
Or is that just my imagination?

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No, you're right

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I think Q should start taking away a little bit of ice time from Shaw if he keeps committing these mindless penalties. It's gonna burn us eventually.

Wher are my hockey gays?

Nice to see Zeus make a nice pass.

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Well what the fuck did he do? Mr. "Knifed it away" didn't know and I didn't see a replay.

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