One period in. Hawk down 1-0.

No Toews or Keith.

Another Versteeg turnover and soft D by 27 leads to the lone Avs goal.

Paliotta looks like a slug.

Both teams have already pretty much cashed this one in.

I'm gonna watch DD&D reruns.

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Not a mult.

I hope this is the end of Versteeg. He showed some flashes earlier in the season, but he's been awful.

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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

Problem with Versteeg is they already have one in Shaw and Bickell. Cant handle 3 of them.

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Proud member of the white guy grievance committee

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

Keep Shaw and get Bickell and Versteeg the hell out of here.

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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

Remember that girl who ran a marathon but violently shat herself at the end? The 2014-15 Blackhawks.

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Sports are to be enjoyed. You should try it. Its quite fun.

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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

If you suffered through the lat 90s though about 07. I don't know how a Blackhawks fan can consistently be this miserable every year.

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Just would have been nice to end the season with something other than four straight regulation losses. I would have enjoyed any outcome other than giving up the lead in the last minute to go 0/2 on the kill against a lottery team. But whatever. It was basically a preseason game.

I feel pretty good about this Nashville matchup, but the attitude that a lot of Hawks fans have about it is really bothering me. Hawks fans remind me of the Flames fans who brushed off the Hawks in 2009: trying to handwave away an objectively superior opponent by saying "but we know how to play in the playoffs." Toews and Kane didn't know how to play in the playoffs but seemed to figure it out as they went along and put the Flames away with relative ease. The Hawks can and probably will beat the Perds, but it won't be because they "know how to play in the playoffs."

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Your cynical pessimism is unfortunate. Looking for the worst is a self fulfilling prophecy. Positivity is a much more satisfying mind set.
The Hawks do know how to play in the playoffs. No other NHL team is as playoff tested as the Blackhawks.
Nashville crowd will be nearly 50% Blackhawks fans. Hawks in 6.

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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

The Red Wings? Besides, that doesn't even mean anything. Sometimes young and hungry beats old and arrogant: keep an eye on that Ducks-Jets series, for instance.

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What would you be saying about the Kings right now if they had made it in as an eight seed? OMG look out, they made it. They know what it takes to win in the playoffs, their regular season doesn't matter.Theyre going to be the team to beat. Shiver shiver, shake Im so scared.

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Proud member of the white guy grievance committee

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

Yes rogue.

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Elections have consequences.

If the Kings had made it in, I'd be saying they're dangerous because they have Jeff Carter (who lit up Crawford), Anze Kopitar (who neutralized Toews), and Jonathan Quick, who are all elite players, not just guys who "know how to win in the playoffs," which is empty bullshit. Fortunately, it turns out that they're much less dangerous without Slava Voynov and Willie Mitchell on their blue line.

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