I fell asleep early third and sorry I missed it but it's ok. 7 to go. I want to win two and home and get these shmucks on the ropes.

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They had three clangers in overtime and our defensemen are only going to get worse as the series goes on. They're still for real.

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West Side Mike just called Mully & Hanley to praise the Blackhawks. Who knew?

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What's next......a positive Blackhawks post from CH?

Will you just knock off the negative waves Moriarty for just ten minutes please. For Christ sakes it is getting fucking old okay man. If you have nothing positive to say after a win do us all a favor and log of for a couple hours then start posing your end of the world shit okay? True, it is not a cake walk and that is what makes the games compelling to watch. If you want one sides shit go watch Premier league Soccer or watch a Rocky movie cuze you know the white guy wins at the end.
Now, Hawks are playing a little sloppy especially in the transition zone passing and line changes. For such a well disciplined team in all other areas they keep getting caught up in this either with Too many men penalties or sloppy shift changes. Kane and Sharp need to shake off their shadows and step up the game play and the team as a whole needs to take control of the tempo of the game. Even though they are maintaining puck possession time they are getting too many one and dones. Anderson is giving up a ton of rebounds that they are not pouncing on as they normally do. Plus, I thought I had a stroke when I heard Milbury complain about how the officials where not calling a good game vis a vi the Hawks. Here I thought it was just us Homers who where thinking that. There has been some shitty calls and non-calls this Stanley Cup run in regards to the Hawks. The Org needs to find a way to complain to the league with out getting in trouble. It is looking like the league via the officials does not wantthe Hawks in the Cup finals

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When I am stuck and need to figure something out I always remember the Immortal words of Socrates when he said:"I just drank what?"

In this clip anyway the crowd yells at home game levels on the goal.

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2015/05/20/ ... in-game-2/

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I understand CHs point but I look at it like the Blackhawks haven't really played very well in 2 games and its a 1-1 series. The time for Anaheim to take control was last night and if in essentially 6 periods of hockey to really put the Blackhawks on their heels they can only muster 2 goals, well they done fucked up. They aint going to hold Kane Toews etc down forever especially on home ice. I'd be very concerned if I were in Anaheim's position right now.

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

I think the Hawks will get at least one decisive win at home.


This isn't a Blackhawks problem, it's a hockey problem. The prevailing culture is still that referees shouldn't decide meaningful games in meaningful ways. The fallacy here, of course, is that failing to decide a game still decides a game -- a lie of omission is still a lie. Milbury was right: Stoner could have easily taken a boarding major + roughing minor on that play, but to do that in the first ten minutes after the Hawks had already received and converted an earlier power play would be seen as handing them the game, notwithstanding the fact that Stoner did indeed do something really stupid. I wish real life worked this way and I could spend an entire morning, like, shoplifting from grocery stores and shit. Lay off, it's 8 in the morning, you're gonna ruin my entire day for me like this? I can ruin my day myself by like 4!

You're never going to see this culture change going forward. You kinda did in 2006, with the idea that players would adapt to tighter obstruction enforcement and open up the game, but there was so much resentment over the constant penalty calls that the '06 Hurricanes, rightly or wrongly, are viewed as one of the worst champions of all time in any sport, even though they were a pretty good regular-season team, a clutch playoff team, and a great power-play team throughout. That they got lots of power-play chances and cashed a lot of them in is seen as illegitimate, a gaming of the system. The league wants playoff games decided at full strength. The Hawks have struggled with this principle by being so overt about it that they can't not get called (Kruger and Hjalmarsson last night, damn near everyone in the Kings series last year). It's like pickup artists: being a crappy facsimile of how other people act naturally actually leaves you worse off than being your own doomed self.

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Didn't think 26 was awful. 44 was. A few shifts I thought he was literally going to die out there.

I guess two schools of thought, being at home, you roll with 26 and 44 again knowing you can protect them a lot more at home

or

Do you try out 26/5 for at least a game to have two guys who can move a bit back there especially being at home with last changes. Only way to test them to see if they could handle a game 5 in Anaheim


I know Q is going to keep 44/26, but just thinking outloud

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Shot Tracker data from game 2 ... http://apps.chicagotribune.com/sports/hockey/shot_charts/?eventId=1542407

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

Quenneville has always played Rundblad under protest. It's pretty clear that if Q had his way, Cumiskey would have been up all season and Rundblad would have gone to Rockford, but Run-B.A.D. lost his waiver exemption and Bowman wasn't going to run the risk of trading a second for a guy and losing him on waivers less than a year later. As awful as Timonen has been, we're not going to see Rundblad again until Timonen dies, which, with the way Anaheim's forecheckers have been destroying him, I will admit is not outside the realm of possibility.

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Exactly.

Hawks will win the next 2 at the UC.

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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

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

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I don't mind letting them play but that was horse shit last night and everything they want out of the game they say.

So I'm guessing with last change, Q puts Vermette or Kruger on Kesler? It'll be nice to see what Toews can do at home.

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We win 4-1 or 5-2 tonight I think.

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Do it.

29-19-81
20-91-88
10-80-86
11-16-65

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Team Cutler.

If Bickell is hurt as suspected (or just bad), he's a passenger at best and a boat anchor at worst on the first line. I'd keep Saad with Toews and Hossa, unless, of course, Saad is also hurt.

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Line 2 getting pantsed in possesion for two straight games.

If 91 doesn't win the draw, they spend 45 seconds in their own end defending and them come off. 29 isn't good enough to be flipping possesion shift after shiftSwapping 29 and 20 gives you a hellacious (although he's been quiet) forechecker in 20 on Line2 and hopefully 29 (who has bee n hitting at least) can become a pain in the ass for Kesler while you still have 81 on that line.

Just thinking out loud.

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Team Cutler.

Bickell, hurt or not, can't handle the puck anymore. Let him hit people where it serves best, I guess.

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Bickell is terrible. Apparently Q made a comment about Versteeg playing again. I assume that would be at Bickells expense.

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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

Q did this last year or year before to Bickell. He came back like a man possessed for the rest of the playoffs.

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Versteeg is still on the ice warming up. Fuck. Looks like maybe Vermette or Teavu could be scratched.

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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

LET'S GO GAYS!

Tuevo and Vermette out.

Versteeg and Nordstrom in.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

If Carl has a hot stick, does that make him a Hot Carl?

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Not happy about the Teuvo benching

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