Just in the nick of time for Spaulding.

Hawks trying for 6 in a row with Panarin heating up and Crow back in net; the eternally rebuilding Sabrays are heading for 6 the other way. They are a dumpster fire: dead last in the Atlantic and next-to-last in the Eastern Conference, only saved by Tort's Heroes. Having said that, we know that the Hawk have had a bad little habit of struggling against bad teams after a day off.

I say Hawk 4-2, with the game being closer than the score indicates.

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As expected the Hawks are coming together as a team at the midpoint of the season, just like they do every year. If Crawford continues to be great at the most mportant position in Hockey, this team will contend for another cup.
So much for Buffalo being the next Blackhawks. They still blow.

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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

Well, it wasn't going to be an instant turnaround. They have a lot of good pieces in place. Remember that Toews and Kane's first Hawks team finished like 11th in the West or something. That's probably about how the Sabres will wind up.

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Nice Hollywood Squares reference.

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Hjammer Time!

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Shouldn't Chad Johnson's number be 85?








uh huh huh...huh huh huh huh huh...uhhhhhhhhh huh huh heh heh heh...

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Hjalmarsson right down Main Street on that one.

The Sabres have kept this close on sheer will but I wouldn't expect that to last another forty minutes.

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Sabres still keeping this closer than it has any right to be. Buffalo is the perfect example of why you don't really need to play every Eastern team home and away. I'd rather have four with Edmonton, four with Vancouver, six with Minnesota, so on, so forth.

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And there you have it. Ochosinco kept them in the game, and BANG! Hawk D hasn't shown up since the first period.

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Add Chad Johnson to the Hawk-stopper list with Varlamov and Hutchinson, I guess.

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37 fucking shots and only hammer has scored. How do the Hawks manage to create everyone's Vezina tape?

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Hopefully his first is the GWG.

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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

FINALLY!!!!!!!

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Really nice shot from Danault. I'm glad he's up. He reminds me a lot of Bolland, even looks like him.

Incidentally, Dennis Rasmussen, whom I also liked, has been double-boat-anchored by the likes of Bickell and Garbagebutt.

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I would be very surprised if Bickell is still with the team by the end of the month.

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3 stars (I predict):

3) Johnson
2) Hjammer
1) DaYes

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I couldn't see the game but to read this thread they got their ass kicked. CH vibe.

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That line logged about an entire 5 minutes tonight.

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Nah, Sabres just trapped a lot and Johnson went 43/45. A little frustrating, but the Sabres never looked like the better team.

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Nah, not that bad. Had a lot of shots, but had trouble clearing their own end in the second and third, which briefly cost them. Buffalo was in the game by sheer effort and a damned good goalie performance.

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Book'em Danault!

Too obscure?

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Around the NHL, man, the Tampa Bay Lightning really went to shit since the Final. About to drop a game to the Oil and haven't even been in the conversation for a wild card. People may have gotten ahead of themselves believing that an undrafted was a better player than a first overall.

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I like it.

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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

I realize they have a few games on some teams but the Hawks have the 3rd most pts in the league right now.

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They're really playing well. It's really fun to watch them.

Isn't it pretty cool and amazing that the Hawks are gonna have the rookie of the year?

I mean they've drafted late for the last 6 or 7 years. Best team in hockey over that span. Yet they have the best rookie this year. Not the garbage teams with the high picks. Pretty impressive. Give credit to Bowman.

I'm ready to see Ryan Hartman, and more importantly, not see Ryan Garbutt. Just waive him and pray someone wants him for some reason.

I wouldn't be so sure about Panarin winning ROTY nor would I be enthusiastic. In case you forgot, a big part of the cap trouble in 2011 was Toews winning the Conn Smythe, with both he and Kane hitting major performance bonuses. Panarin, despite being 24, is on an ELC and thus would get a performance bonus for winning the Calder, which would mean dead cap space next year. Aside from that, the feeling that I'm getting is that voters are looking for any way to give it to Dylan Larkin of the Red Wings instead, who is putting up slightly lower numbers at age 19. People are heralding Larkin's superior +/-, as blatant a grasp at straws as there's ever been because everyone in 2016 knows +/- is a horseshit statistic, especially for forwards. In addition to already being 24 and playing with Kane, people are indeed mad that the Blackhawks could be so charmed as to get the rookie of the year, but then they're arguing against a charmed franchise by arguing for a Red Wing...?

Panarin will have to win the rookie scoring race decisively, like say 15+ points, to win the Calder. And don't rule out McDavid having a dynamite return from injury and voters wanting to give it to him for "overcoming adversity," again, straws. As it stands, he's up ten points on Larkin and Domi (do not forget about him, by the way) and 12 up on Eichel.

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Thanks! I was watching a sabre @ hawk game at the darien sportsplex.

I really hope you are right.

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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

I feel like they take it easy after the holidays and are especially bad in March.