2013-14 Defending Champion Blackhawks Regular Season Thread

[Guest]

he's a douchebag and that was unacceptable, but i agree it wasn't malicious. the throwing of the beer on the head was malicious.

[Butterscup1679666578]

Crawford starting again tonight. Just bring up Raanta already

[kujay]

Crawford starting again tonight. Just bring up Raanta already

 

Yup just saw that and was thinking the same thing. It's risking injury to Crow by overuse at this point.

[kujay]

Foley unloading on Edmonton. "How is it that you're up against the salary cap and your team's no good?" Haha.

 

Hawks pretty sluggish so far guess it's understandable.

[brinoch]

Foley unloading on Edmonton. "How is it that you're up against the salary cap and your team's no good?" Haha.

 

Hawks pretty sluggish so far guess it's understandable.

 

Guh, game must be on WGN. Center Ice has Edmonton's non-HD feed. Horrible.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

Saad/Pirri/Kane is such a fun line.

[kujay]

Foley unloading on Edmonton. "How is it that you're up against the salary cap and your team's no good?" Haha.

 

Hawks pretty sluggish so far guess it's understandable.

 

Guh, game must be on WGN. Center Ice has Edmonton's non-HD feed. Horrible.

 

Yeah my dad was bitching to me about that. I went with Gamecenter again this year. Don't understand why they can show WGN feeds and Center Ice can't.

[kujay]

Saad is a gaad

[Hairyducked Idiot]

There's that one soul-crushing mistake from Dubnyk that Oilers fans have been telling me about.

[Guest]

frolik pls

[sweetpeteman]

The PK is absolute [expletive] tonight.

[Guest]

The PK is absolute [expletive] tonight.

 

dead last in the nhl on the season. but now the pp is good.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

The PK is absolute [expletive] tonight.

 

dead last in the nhl on the season. but now the pp is good.

 

We'll work out the PK by the end of the season, not too worried.

[kujay]

Edmonton's D loves leaving our guys alone in their crease.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

I remember two years ago a lot of yapping from Edmonton fans that they were the next Blackhawks.

[Guest]

I remember two years ago a lot of yapping from Edmonton fans that they were the next Blackhawks.

 

shows how fortunate the blackhawks were to hit 2 home runs on toews/kane.

[UMFan83]

Hawks now 4th in the league in "points per game"

 

Avs 1.75 (144 projected)

Ducks 1.63 (134 projected)

Blues 1.6 (131 projected)

Hawks 1.56 (128 projected)

 

We all know the Ducks are the team that dominates their regular seasons and does nothing in the playoffs. The Avs will come back down the earth. That really leaves the Hawks and Blues....

[Guest]

All western conference

[brinoch]

I'd be curious how the quality of competition stacks right now. Within the new conferences, you have the ability to direct compare strength of schedule played and remaining among the teams. It doesn't work outside the individual divisions/conferences, which makes me sad. And which also makes the "wildcard" playoff slots stupid.

 

Personally, I'd do away with the divisions and just go with conferences. But, whatever. They will realign again with either expansion to Seattle and Quebec or various team moves.

[jersey cubs fan]

While fighting parking garage attendants #Blackhawks agree to terms with Andrew Shaw on a two-year extension.

[brinoch]

Looks like $2M per year against the cap. Nice deal.

[biittner77]

If I were Edmonton's coach, I'd be tempted to get back in the TARDIS and time travel to a time when they've drafted a couple decent defensemen.

 

What's happened to Edmonton begs the question: Are the Hawks lucky or good by hitting on prospects like Shaw, Saad etal?

 

They aren't St. Louis Cardinals lucky- as evidenced by taking Beach and Skille- but Saad was a steal with the 43rd pick as was Shaw in the 5th round.

[kujay]

Well maybe Edmonton is starting to get wise if you judge by the Darnell Nurse pick in the last draft.

 

It's early but that Yakupov pick looks horrible right now.

[Soul]

All western conference

 

The top team in the East currently eeks into the playoffs in the West.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

I know we've done it before, but I still want like 10 goals every time we face Mike Smith. Screw him for making Phoenix think they actually outplayed us in that series.