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I dunno...the Hawks played quite well in Game 4 and in big stretches of Game 3, so it didn't take me by complete surprise. I mean its always a bit of a surprise when a team comes back from down 3-1, but it was a more talented team with home ice advantage that came back. I saw that as well, it wasn't as if the Hawks weren't being significantly out played, Howard was good but, he had a [expletive] of luck as well. The disallowed goal, the Hawks hitting a post after cleanly beating Howard on at least 4 occasions, the signals were there that a turn around could happen.
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Perhaps, its just me but, they were all pumping hard for the Wings, couldn't believe Eddie O' commentary in favor of the Wings throughout the whole series.
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Couldn't be more fitting, officials disallow the second legit goal of the series for the Hawks and the winner is deflected of that dirty POS Kronwall.
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And there's three!!! All the credit to the Wings and Babcock but, Quenville must be given some credit, true he was pants early on however, he did some xing and oing himself. Love watching FSD, they're doing a little whining about Bolland possibly committing a boarding penalty prior to Seabrook' series winner. But after their cocky talk after game four its awesome. Also complaining about Kronwall being injured after Bickell nailed - Kronwalled even him in game 5, funny they had no problems in 2009 when Kronwall laid out Martin Havlat - I say payback is a bitch. Finally, one of our teams came back from a seemingly insurmountable deficient rip out the hearts of the team and fans that were up. It's about [expletive] time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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There's two, Kane's next, will deliver.
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There's one, Kane and Hossa are in queue, its coming.
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I'm trying to be optimistic and its about [expletive] time one of our teams came back from being down 3-1 to win a series. Its certainly happened enough to our teams the other way.
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Is there really anything in the last three games that would lead someone to think they could win 3 in a row? Game 3 wasn't that bad. Moreover, while Howard has been good, he's also been very lucky, the last two games he's been cleanly beat 4 times only to have the puck hit off a post. Those kinds of things tend to even out and I think they're going swing in the Hawks favor over the next three games. Swing back enough to result in 3 straight wins? Glad if it happens, but I doubt it will. They've been missing on their chances, Howard' come up big a few times but, the Hawks have just missed. The will generate more scoring chances and I think its unreasonable to expect them to keep missing. The will start to bury some of them, wouldn't be surprised if game 5 is a blowout win for the Hawks.
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Is there really anything in the last three games that would lead someone to think they could win 3 in a row? Game 3 wasn't that bad. Moreover, while Howard has been good, he's also been very lucky, the last two games he's been cleanly beat 4 times only to have the puck hit off a post. Those kinds of things tend to even out and I think they're going swing in the Hawks favor over the next three games.
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The conciliatory talk is for [expletive], its not over, the Hawks are more than capable of winning the next three, things are very close to clicking.
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Toews is the guy you should be aggravated with. He did nothing in the first series. Kane bossed that one, at least, and has at least been on the scoresheet against Detroit. Toews has allowed Detroit to completely take him out of the series. Thank you. In Toews defense the Wings have been allowed to interfere with his progress up the ice throughout the whole series. Haven't been called once for a penalty.
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If the Hawks keep up that third period effort the Wings will cave in, sooner or later those posts won't be there for Howard.
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The way NBC is calling it, the Hawks shouldn't even bother showing up Thursday, sounding like Babcock is the only coach capable of making adjustments.
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Not in the third, Lady Luck was dealing for Detroit.
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No discredit to Datsyuk but that was a soft goal and Howard may have been more lucky than good.
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I don't believe your pick of the Wings over the Ducks is biased, the Ducks simply aren't that good. Here's an interesting statistic - http://www.hockeybuzz.com/blog.php?post_id=50225#.UX2fh0ofuKI, I haven't located a more recent listing but, I suspect the Hawks are back on top. Nevertheless, check out where the Wings are in comparison to the Ducks, this statistic suggests what many have said -Anaheim' record is misleading. Whereas, the Wings are still a pretty decent team.
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If the Hawks didn't occasionally get sloppy in their own end would Nashville ever score?
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I believe its the fact he cannot consistently throw strikes to save his life. Even with mediocre stuff someone who gets ahead of the hitters is going to have more success. Getting up on the hitters 0-1 makes a tremendous amount of difference in the at bat, 0-2 more so. Marmol' fairly easy to face, take, take, take, he'll pitch himself into a favorable hitters count then he'll serve one up.
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It's a difficult problem with Marmol, you want to run him out and hopefully be effective. Thereby, giving him some semblence of trade value but, in this process he may blow several games. We all know the Cubs are not playoff bound, etc. but, I believe they'd still want to win as many games as possible.
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Should Michigan lose tommorrow we'll hear about the conference not being the best, etc. However, if one looks at the tournament maybe there is evidence of the Big Ten's excellence. Just look at what Minnesota and Illinois did to higher seeded teams. Hell, if DJ Richardson hits a shot or two they beat what many considered to be the best team in the nation. And Minnesota kicked the [expletive] out of UCLA. ummmmmm... Well excuse the [expletive] out of me, he went 1-11, shoud written have hits three or more? Is that OK with you now?
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Yeah, so much for the Big Ten being the nation' best basketball conference this year. They still were. The NCAAs being used as the be-all end-all measure for conferences is an annual source of annoyance for me. I see your point however, I really believed they'd have two teams in the Final Four further validating the Big Ten as the best. It's been 4 years since a conference had two Final Four teams - and before that it had been another 4 years. It just doesn't happen that much. Should Michigan lose tommorrow we'll hear about the conference not being the best, etc. However, if one looks at the tournament maybe there is evidence of the Big Ten's excellence. Just look at what Minnesota and Illinois did to higher seeded teams. Hell, if DJ Richardson hits a shot or two they beat what many considered to be the best team in the nation. And Minnesota kicked the [expletive] out of UCLA.
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Yeah, so much for the Big Ten being the nation' best basketball conference this year. They still were. The NCAAs being used as the be-all end-all measure for conferences is an annual source of annoyance for me. I see your point however, I really believed they'd have two teams in the Final Four further validating the Big Ten as the best.
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Yeah, so much for the Big Ten being the nation' best basketball conference this year.
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I could see it if they were dominating the play and forcing turnovers but, its not the case. Its the Hawks coughing up the puck and the Ducks getting every bounce that's the frustrating part. Come playoffs the Hawks will sweep them.
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The Blackhawks are still head and shoulders above those clowns but, the losses to Anahiem are really starting to piss off.