Chicago Blackhawks 2012 Playoffs

[cubbyvirus00]

Wow this is horrible. What makes it worse is that Smith is going to play tonight.

[kujay]

Darren Dreger says Smith is "uninjured" and will play tonight. Says if he was hurt Shaw would have gotten the rest of the series.

 

WTF is going on???

[kujay]

I don't know why it took this long for this to occur to me.

 

The league owns the Coyotes.

 

Bet they'd like a few more playoff gates.

[UMFan83]

The former Red Wing gives the Hawks player a ridiculously unfair punishment.

 

I guess he's trying to make it up to Wings fans for not suspending Weber.

 

Shaws a nice player but I don't think the suspension will necessarily hurt us, its just a ridiculously stupid punishment. If anyone who saw that really thought Smith was almost on his deathbed on the ice you are a moron. I wouldnt have thought much of 1 game, because I understand the need to protect the goalie or whatever, but 3 games is ludicrous.

[Smack]

I don't know why it took this long for this to occur to me.

 

The league owns the Coyotes.

 

Bet they'd like a few more playoff gates.

 

Yeah, it's a little bit of a conflict of interest for the owner of the opponent to hand out the penalty.

[Soul]

They made an example of him.

[kujay]

What a joke.

 

Okay I need to stop frothing at the mouth and get back to work.

 

[expletive] [expletive] now I have to watch Frolik's sorry ass waste several grade-A scoring chances tonight with his stone hands.

 

FREE JIMMY HAYES!

[UMFan83]

At least we probably don't have to worry about Crawford's health tonight.

 

But Toews might want to keep himself away from the glass tonight so he doesn't become victim to the more traditional and accepted form of retaliation - slamming the opponent's face into the glass repeatedly.

[brinoch]

This is utter BS. Pathetic.

[SouthSideRyan]

[expletive] unreal

[UMFan83]

Also, did they even take into consideration that Shaw was given a 5 minute major, which directly led into what was almost the game winning goal for Phoenix, and a game misconduct?

 

So the full punishment for making contact with the goalie and having the goalie milk it for 3 days: 3.5 game suspension, 5 minutes of power play to Phoenix and 1 goal scored

 

Full punishment of Shea Weber for grabbing a player by the back of the head and bashing his face into the glass: $2,500 fine, 0 suspension, 0 power play minutes for Detroit (he got a 2 minute minor but it happened after the game ended)

[Magnetic Curses]

i'd love to see Mike Smith come out talking to the media in a bigass whiplash neck brace

 

hahahahaha

[hawkeyecub]

Shanahan has lost his mind. He's just spinning a big wheel of punishment at this point.

[SouthSideRyan]

Also, did they even take into consideration that Shaw was given a 5 minute major, which directly led into what was almost the game winning goal for Phoenix, and a game misconduct?

 

So the full punishment for making contact with the goalie and having the goalie milk it for 3 days: 3.5 game suspension, 5 minutes of power play to Phoenix and 1 goal scored

 

Full punishment of Shea Weber for grabbing a player by the back of the head and bashing his face into the glass: $2,500 fine, 0 suspension, 0 power play minutes for Detroit (he got a 2 minute minor but it happened after the game ended)

 

Don't forget 0 minutes of ice time lost by the goalie.

[SouthSideRyan]

i'd love to see Mike Smith come out talking to the media in a bigass whiplash neck brace

 

hahahahaha

 

Stan Bowman will throw his briefcase on the ground in the opposite direction?

[kujay]

How do you know this is a laughably bad decision? I was just looking at a Blues board and even they are calling it ridiculous.

[Smack]

How do you know this is a laughably bad decision? I was just looking at a Blues board and even they are calling it ridiculous.

 

I would check the Coyotes board, but they probably don't even have one.

[UMFan83]

How do you know this is a laughably bad decision? I was just looking at a Blues board and even they are calling it ridiculous.

 

I would check the Coyotes board, but they probably don't even have one.

 

On their SB Nation Blog entitled....*snicker*...Five for Howling, they have a poll asking whether the suspension is appropriate. Here are the results:

 

58% - Too many games

29% - The injury question should be completely left out of the equation and until that happens its all a joke

9% - Yes, it was appropriate

1% - Too few games

[Rex Buckingham]

How do you know this is a laughably bad decision? I was just looking at a Blues board and even they are calling it ridiculous.

 

I would check the Coyotes board, but they probably don't even have one.

 

On their SB Nation Blog entitled....*snicker*...Five for Howling, they have a poll asking whether the suspension is appropriate. Here are the results:

 

58% - Too many games

29% - The injury question should be completely left out of the equation and until that happens its all a joke

9% - Yes, it was appropriate

1% - Too few games

 

 

Wow, you know it's an embarassing decision when the fans of the team that benefits from it think it's over the top

[NewUserName]

The former Red Wing gives the Hawks player a ridiculously unfair punishment.

 

I guess he's trying to make it up to Wings fans for not suspending Weber.

 

Shaws a nice player but I don't think the suspension will necessarily hurt us, its just a ridiculously stupid punishment. If anyone who saw that really thought Smith was almost on his deathbed on the ice you are a moron. I wouldnt have thought much of 1 game, because I understand the need to protect the goalie or whatever, but 3 games is ludicrous.

 

this is just a silly statement on about 92 levels

[kujay]

The former Red Wing gives the Hawks player a ridiculously unfair punishment.

 

I guess he's trying to make it up to Wings fans for not suspending Weber.

 

Shaws a nice player but I don't think the suspension will necessarily hurt us, its just a ridiculously stupid punishment. If anyone who saw that really thought Smith was almost on his deathbed on the ice you are a moron. I wouldnt have thought much of 1 game, because I understand the need to protect the goalie or whatever, but 3 games is ludicrous.

 

this is just a silly statement on about 92 levels

 

You might spot us a few over-the-top statements in the wake of one of your boys making such a colossally stupid decision.

[jersey cubs fan]

The former Red Wing gives the Hawks player a ridiculously unfair punishment.

 

I guess he's trying to make it up to Wings fans for not suspending Weber.

 

Shaws a nice player but I don't think the suspension will necessarily hurt us, its just a ridiculously stupid punishment. If anyone who saw that really thought Smith was almost on his deathbed on the ice you are a moron. I wouldnt have thought much of 1 game, because I understand the need to protect the goalie or whatever, but 3 games is ludicrous.

 

this is just a silly statement on about 92 levels

 

Really? The first bolded statement is just a fact.

 

The second one is only silly on one level.

[Theo]

The former Red Wing gives the Hawks player a ridiculously unfair punishment.

 

I guess he's trying to make it up to Wings fans for not suspending Weber.

 

Shaws a nice player but I don't think the suspension will necessarily hurt us, its just a ridiculously stupid punishment. If anyone who saw that really thought Smith was almost on his deathbed on the ice you are a moron. I wouldnt have thought much of 1 game, because I understand the need to protect the goalie or whatever, but 3 games is ludicrous.

 

this is just a silly statement on about 92 levels

get lost, seriously.

[UMFan83]

The former Red Wing gives the Hawks player a ridiculously unfair punishment.

 

I guess he's trying to make it up to Wings fans for not suspending Weber.

 

Shaws a nice player but I don't think the suspension will necessarily hurt us, its just a ridiculously stupid punishment. If anyone who saw that really thought Smith was almost on his deathbed on the ice you are a moron. I wouldnt have thought much of 1 game, because I understand the need to protect the goalie or whatever, but 3 games is ludicrous.

 

this is just a silly statement on about 92 levels

 

Obviously that is frustration talking. I think you know me well enough to know I don't believe Shannahan was thinking 'alright! a blackhawk fucked up time to screw my old rivals over'. I do think that actually comes down harder on the Wings just to prove he's not favoring them, as evidence by the 8 game suspension due to a preseason incident and the Weber decision.

[UMFan83]

The former Red Wing gives the Hawks player a ridiculously unfair punishment.

 

I guess he's trying to make it up to Wings fans for not suspending Weber.

 

Shaws a nice player but I don't think the suspension will necessarily hurt us, its just a ridiculously stupid punishment. If anyone who saw that really thought Smith was almost on his deathbed on the ice you are a moron. I wouldnt have thought much of 1 game, because I understand the need to protect the goalie or whatever, but 3 games is ludicrous.

 

this is just a silly statement on about 92 levels

get lost, seriously.

 

NewUserName is cool. He posts in here all the time and is always respectful and most of the time very level headed about the Blackhawks and Red Wings. He's as much of a thread regular as any of the Blackhawks fans that post in here. He doesn't need to get lost.

Edited April 17, 2012 by UMFan83