2013-14 Defending Champion Blackhawks Regular Season Thread

[UMFan83]

boo crawford, 2 losses in a row :(

[Old Style]

God dammit. :banghead:

[Captain Serious]

glad they gave Crawf that big extension.

 

one Cup or not, guy is a mediocre goaltender.

[UMFan83]

I have 5 teams in season including college and I can't remember the last time one of my teams won a game...I think the Hawks last Saturday.

[UMFan83]

glad they gave Crawf that big extension.

 

one Cup or not, guy is a mediocre goaltender.

 

28th/40 qualified goaltenders in Save % this season...

[Guest]

crawford just kind of sucks. i can't remember the last time he bailed the hawks out when in a game where they played poorly.

[Derwood]

Boo hoo, my team's best 3 players are all injured

[biittner77]

Boo hoo, my team's best 3 players are all injured

 

Good point. The Blackhawk's "woes" are hardly going to generate any sympathy around the league.

 

What's frustrating about this situation is that they are stuck playing one guy that's clearly not ready (Nordstrom), one guy that is playing out of position (Brookbank) and a third guy that the coach hates/ mistrusts (Morin). To make matters worse, none of these guys can play center- the position of the guys that they're replacing in the lineup. Even worse they just sent a center down so they could promote 2 wings.

[minnesotacubsfan]

Yup, completely mismanaged and at the top of the league

[Soul]

I'll be at tonight's game. Get it back together, please. Thanks.

[UMFan83]

Goodbye Beach

 

Barry Rozner ‏@BarryRozner 17m

Kyle Beach experiment finally over. Hawks trade him to NYR for Brandon Mashinter.

[Derwood]

Hey, thanks for tiring the Wild out last night

[Captain Serious]

send Pirri down so we can have washed up has been Handzus back.

 

useless piece of [expletive].

[Careless]

what the hell? heh

[UMFan83]

hahah awesome, i'll take it

 

now lets win it to make it even worse

[UMFan83]

Ugh Raanta....3 losses in a row. That was a terrible first SO

[sweetpeteman]

Shouldn't have been a shoot-out in the first place. Seabrook got [expletive] lucky with that incredibly stupid cross check into his own goalie. Q needs to make some changes with the defense, they've been playing idiotic for the last three games.

[biittner77]

Goodbye Beach

 

Barry Rozner ‏@BarryRozner 17m

Kyle Beach experiment finally over. Hawks trade him to NYR for Brandon Mashinter.

 

Mashinter is a poor man's Brandon Bollig

[UMFan83]

Crawford looks like he just suffered a significant injury. Hope I'm wrong.

[gscool89]

The Chicago injury bug has reached the Blackhawks. They were our last hope.

[sweetpeteman]

[expletive].

 

 

 

Well, time to Raanta to win the Calder.

[kujay]

Bollig finally had a decent fight at the right time.

[Guest]

cap goes up to 71 million next year. i think most were projecting 69-70 even with the bump. very good news for the hawks, and hossa/sharp in particular.

[kujay]

cap goes up to 71 million next year. i think most were projecting 69-70 even with the bump. very good news for the hawks, and hossa/sharp in particular.

 

I'm already hearing grousing about the "poorer" teams being unable to compete. Moving the Panthers just about anywhere would be a good start.

[Banedon]

http://espn.go.com/nhl/story/_/page/maginterviewtoewskane/chicago-blackhawks-patrick-kane-jonathan-toews-nhl-odd-couple-espn-magazine