I don't see a game thread so here you go. Is Darling really in net again? I think Daniel is hurt, so we get a Morin citing. As for the thread title, well I think these guys used to be owned by Disney. Who knows and frankly who cares?

I leave for the Twin cities tomorrow. I am watching MLB, NHL and NBA at the same time.

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Yes, Darling is between the pipes.

I'm in Champaign. Beats Decatur, I guess...

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Not a mult.

Let's go gays!!!!!!!!!

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CSFMB: Home of the small minded

Went to school at UIUC. I feel bad for you.

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Great power move by Bickell. That's the power forward we all desire.

That's a $4M a year play 29.

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Good for darling and nice to see q reward a youngster who played well.

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"Play until it hurts, then play until it hurts to not play."
http://soundcloud.com/darkside124 HOF 2013, MM Champion 2014

They knocked out Peavy....

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For the third year in a row, I'm not buying into the Ducks hype. They're becoming the new Sharks.

Ringing bells out there.

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Morin will be benched by Q for not scoring on his rush. Any opportunity to be a dick to Morin Q will take it.

Wow, Hawks have owned this game.

Ducks are such pretenders.

6'6 leaves you with a huge 5-hole. Geez that was a wide open.

Never thought I'd say this, but thank God for our goaltending, because our #22 offense in the league (#23 when the Blues game goes final) has us closer to the teams in the Connor McDavid derby than the teams who are playing to win. This is starting to get absurd.

Hard-luck loss for Scott Darling, who would have taken this to a shootout and/or had a shutout if Seabrook didn't fall over. Everyone on the Hawks was falling over tonight whether opponents were hitting them or not. I don't know whether the ice is shit, they were taking dives, they suck, two of three, or three of three, but it was like watching kids spin around in circles and try to stay upright. He did what was asked of him, and I'm almost starting to feel better about him than Raanta, whom I've always been iffy about.

Well, maybe they'll score more than two goals on the Senators the second time around. 1.33 goals scored per game at even strength so far this year. We're the 2014 Buffalo Sabres with star power.

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Frankie, Aaron, and now Spaulding all say relax. The team is older and they've played a lot of hockey the last 5 years. The new additions aren't very good. They fall into some old habits like getting too passy but the seem to be hustling. They are a good watch, I'm hoping thy don't fall into the not trying after new years and they goals start coming. I just like watching.

Fun with small sample size: Darling is 40/40 at even strength and 12/12 against the power play. He's 4/6 against the penalty kill.

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yeah, they don't hang their hat on goal tending though.

Glad I went to bed after the second period. The MLB game was out of hand, and the Hawks just can't find the back of the net. At least we seem to have a new goalie.....

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Too many goalies

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Elections have consequences.

I may be falling in love too early with too little, but I'd give serious consideration to keeping Darling up and sending Raanta down while he still has his waiver exemption. It depends on what kind of workload they're ready to give Crawford coming off this concussion: if they're easing him in, then give Darling those starts, but if Crawford is ready to take the lion's share right away, get Darling the time in Rockford. Again, the book's not out on Darling, and we are talking about a guy who was on the periphery of organized hockey not too long ago, but I just do not and will not trust Raanta's slight build and piss-poor rebound control at the NHL level. You can't be a goaltender in today's NHL if you're not big.

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I agree 100%. This is not falling in love with the back up qb stuff but in just the short sample size Ive seen these 2 games, Darling is a much better goaltender. I don't trust Raanta at all , especially against good teams. Darling looks like he's the goods.

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

One argument for the redemption of Scott Darling is that he spent last year in the Perds organization, specifically with their esteemed goaltending coach Mitch Korn (who may have followed the neckless one to DC, let me google). Not only did he develop Pekka Rinne and Tomas Vokoun, he also made passable backups out of Dan Ellis, Chris Mason, Carter Hutton, and Anders Lindback. Lindback got str8^ awful after leaving Nashville, though.

EDIT: yeah, Korn is with the Crapitals now.

EDIT 2: Also, yeah, Raanta can show up big against bad teams like Philadelphia, but bad teams lit him up last year (you could ski down his plummeting save percentage last year) and already this year. It's the rebound thing that gets me. He can't keep the clock running. If you put a shot on net against him, he will either pinball it right up Main Street for you to score, or he'll panic and cover, and then you're looking at lots of nice offensive-end faceoffs.

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