...and how strange it is to say that after all the angst the second half of the season

4 games to go, and Perds/Blooze tied at 103; Hawks one back.

Perds seem to have the most favorable schedule: 2 vs. Dallas Olés (home and away), Wild at home; Avs on the road.

Shitfucks: 2 vs. Hawk (home and away); Jets and Wild at home.

Hawk: Shitfucks x 2; Wild at home; Avs on the road.


The Shitfucks may have the toughest schedule, as they will be fighting for home ice, plus two teams still fighting for the last spot. If the Hawks can sweep the Blues, and win one of the other two games, they can at least grab the second spot. Perds keep stumbling, and Hawks can steal the #1.

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Not a mult.

I think ideally I would like them to grab the 2 and have Nashville drop to the 3. I would rather the Blues and Wild beat the crap out of each other in 7 and then ultimately one of them gets eliminated, vs playing them both during the 1st and 2nd rounds.

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That's my purse! I don't know you!

Yeah, gotta draw Nashville. I don't want any part of a team that hung seven in a must-win game -- even on the shitty Stars -- without Steen and Tarasenko.

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Neck has a good plan. either way getting exciting and we getting better at right time bring on Kaner.

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Chicago and Winnipeg in the first would be amazing, but unlikely: not only would the Hawks have to win the division, the Jets would have to make the playoffs again and then leapfrog the Wild. The Hawks have a better chance of doing the former than the Jets do of the latter. Still, gotta think it would help the Wild to sandbag it late and draw Anaheim first. Look at the goal differentials. Minnesota would ruin the Ducks.

Jets up 2 on the Canucks at home in a day game. Hang in there, guys!

EDIT: no, they didn't, they blew a two-goal lead before the first period was even out. They really are Blackhawks North.
EDIT2: Jets go back up 3-2 right away. All the goals that didn't happen all year are happening this weekend.

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But the Hawks do well against physical teams and they certainly have the Blues number in the playoffs. I'm not worried about any of the teams we may play in the playoffs.

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CSFMB 2014 Nascar Pick 'em Champion

We don’t have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven’t taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much. — Ronald Reagan

How is this possible with such an awful player leading them as captain?

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

If the Blues lose their head and play sloppily, the Hawks can beat them. But I disagree that the Hawks have done well against physical teams. The Kings knocked us out last year. The Jets took seven points out of ten this year. The Blues have never been easy to deal with. There's definitely a vulnerability to a hard forecheck and strong north-south game.

Jets win 5-4, Kings have to beat the Avs today, let's hope they can't.

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Well, the Perds were about to lose 3-2 until the Stars gave up a goal in the last two minutes of the game. They'll get at least a point.

Kings up 1-0 early. Bad night so far.

EDIT: Stars win 4-3 on an overtime penalty shot but the damage to the standings is done.

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At this point Hawks are better off tanking the next game vs St. Louis so they can take the division and the prize that comes with it (the Wild). Hawks vs Preds is the ideal matchup, even if we don't have home ice.

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Agreed. Filip Forsberg worries me (man, David Poile saved his job for another three years with that larceny), but Rinne has been overworked and it's showing, and Purple Pete isn't too hard to outsmart.

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Funny how the Hawks had a great chance to win the division with two against St. Louis and one against Minnesota, and then they proceeded to lose all three in regulation. It's like how they had an unprecedented eight-game homestand mostly against bad teams when they needed a little help, and then they left most of those points on the table. Give this team anything on a silver platter and they'll just turn around and crap on the platter.

Anyway, we clinched third place for the second year, and this time it'll be Nashville in the first round. Rematch of the 2010 first round and a coaching rematch of the 2010 Final. If the Hawks remember how to score goals again, they can win this series.

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The Preds are restricting sale of playoffs tickets to TN, KY, MS, AL and GA.

I assume there's going to be a lot of blogposts/tweets about Perds fans crying about Hawks fans still finding a way to come down and getting shit faced.

The location of the stadium is dangerous. Right on Broadway which is just bar after bar. Last year when I went to Nashville we caught Perds/Avs and we showed up pretty housed. We had no rooting interest so we behaved. But Hawks fans have developed into quite the bunch of fuckheads. So when half your building will be wearing red there will be knuckleheads.

When your franchise is so worried about the other teams fans coming to town during the playoffs that you have to restrict ticket sales to those areas you have to re think your fan base.

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

The worst part is that those little shits talk about how great downtown Nashville is and what exceptionally gracious hosts they are to put all these bars and stuff next to their hockey arena, then they cry their cracker eyes out because some Yankee got drunk and called Shea Weber a Caller Bob in front of Cletus Junior. I hate their fans so much.

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I agree it's pretty bush league.

But Hawks fans visiting unfortunately earned a reputatoin of handling their booze like freshman sorority girls.

I always thought that was more tall tale than truth. We're talking about Chicagoans here; how can a bunch of Germans and Slavs not be able to handle their liquor?

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

It's the bros and trixies that give Hawks fans a bad rep.

i'm pretty sure back in the 80s liverpool fans wreaked so much havoc across europe that they banned english teams from playing soccer in europe for ~5 years or something. as a community we need to step our game up.

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I hate how they stole a bunch of taunting chants from the Ft. Wayne Comments...singing "Heeeeeyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy you such.....we're going to beat the crap out of you" during Rock and Roll pt. 2 after goals, chanting the goalies name three times then saying you suck (happens at Wolves, Hogs, etc...), and so on. It's a bunch of stuff that may be fun at a minor league game but come on....be original and be major league.

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An unjust law is no law at all--St. Augustine of Hippo

Cause tried and true
I see the light in you
Oh, can you dig in my soul?
Could you smell my whole...
life?--Gener and Deaner

"Hey! You Suck" was a Devils thing first. But yeah, everything does feel pretty bush-league down there.

Also, with all this talk of tickets, I only recently noticed that these idiots built their arena so that the home shoot-twice end is where there are hardly any seats:


Hey! You suck! At architecture!

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Whoops, forgot about NJ but I just remember that being a staple of the Komets when they were in the IHL with the Wolves and UHL with the IceHogs. Seating setup there makes no sense, but hey it's Nashville...

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An unjust law is no law at all--St. Augustine of Hippo

Cause tried and true
I see the light in you
Oh, can you dig in my soul?
Could you smell my whole...
life?--Gener and Deaner

Lil Danny on the case. Did he have same thing to say about the Bulls wearing black socks during the playoffs back in the day ?


(CBS) In the name of team unity behind a shared vision of glory, hockey teams grow beards.
Pretty much every team does it now, so the effort becomes a perfunctory exercise in cleaving to standards rather than anything remotely subversive. Where the hippies of the ’60s and early ’70s let their facial-hair freak flags fly to delineate their separation from mainstream society, the NHL beards have become the opposite — all about fitting in, following the herd.
Thank the Islanders of the ’80s for the silliness, as they planted the seeds accidentally for this forced superstition that now also has spread to infect the community at large.
So here they come again in Chicago, the overweight fanboys pretending to be part of the team by initiating a personal Itchy and Scratchy Show to show the world how much they care about whether the Blackhawks win or lose, and media members are engaging in day-by-day beard watches that entertain or interest nobody.
Patrick Kane will try again, we assume, as his has improved incrementally each playoff season even as his hairline recedes proportionally, as if he will eventually look like Shel Silverstein or Lenin.
And Nikola Mirotic can just laugh at all of it.

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

I hate myself for reading that. Thanks, 'rogue.

Not saying anything that hasn't been said a million times, but holy shit is Bernstein a jagoff.

Some twitter responses.

JP ‏@JMess3 31m31 minutes ago
@dan_bernstein insult any women lately?

Ryan Szpak ‏@RyanSzpak 28m28 minutes ago
@dan_bernstein they can grow one unlike you

Frank McCullough ‏@frankthecubfan 28m28 minutes ago
@dan_bernstein Now Bernstein rails against beards. What's next, oxygen?


Craig Stambaugh ‏@CraigStambaugh 20m20 minutes ago
@dan_bernstein they should do something meaningful. Like rally caps or something.

justin ‏@jmgreenb3 19m19 minutes ago
@dan_bernstein When your son goes thru his hockey handshake line after a game is it still dumb? You are the Scores resident Mariotti/Bayless

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

bernstein knows what he's doing.

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