Cynosure

HAWKS GOAL 1 - 8:43 - Byfuglien scores (13), assisted by Barker (33). Hawks lead 2-1.

SHARKS GOAL 1 - 4:19 (PP) - Setoguchi scores (28), assisted by Ehrhoff (27) and Boyle (37). Tie game 1-1.

Wow Khabi makes [expletive] 7 saves and the Hawks can't clear.

Sharks PP is sick even with all their missing players.

HAWKS GOAL 1 - 1:07 - Havlat scores (25), assisted by Bolland (26) and Seabrook (15). Hawks lead 1-0.

I'm pumped for some freaking hockey. I did the foolish thing and went out last night having to work this morning... safe to say this day took foreverrrrrr and now I wanna kick back and have a few cold ones and watch some damn hockey. 90 minutes left! I think we have Koharsky tonight as a ref though, I will NOT be a happy camper.

Wow here are the injuries for the Sharks: D Kent Huskins is out with a foot injury D Rob Blake is out with a lower body injury F Torrey Mitchell is out with a leg injury F Mike Grier is out with a knee injury F Claude Lemieux is out with a jaw injury F Thomas Plihal is out with a lower body injury F Ryan Clowe is out with a lower body injury F Marcel Goc is out with a knee injury F Patrick Marleau is out with a baby F Jeremy Roenick is questionable with a shoulder injury

Orr > Nolan

Avery > Clutterbuck Nice fight!

Can't believe I'm saying this... this Wild/NYR game is pretty good... the trappers aren't trapping tonight! VERSUS it is tonight!

You're the second person who said the game was tonight... I was freaking out because I already had plans. Luckily I checked and it's tomorrow :)

Yea and Foley pisses me off every time he tries to pronounce it. Butchers the crap out of it. Hjalmarsson... you don't pronounce the damn J! Actually, the J is pronounced. He's played in Rockford for the better part of the past two seasons, and I listen to or attend just about every game. The announcers on the radio, and even the PA Announcer at the Rockford MetroCentre pronounces his name with the J... I'd assume that someone in the organization would correct the announcers if the name was being erroneously pronounced. Sorry man, this is just incorrect... Here is the Swedish pronounciation of "hjä´lpa": http://www2.hhs.se/isa/swedish/9-74.wav (NOTE: hjä´lpa is a perfect example to use. If you take the dots off the "ä" it is pronounced "yahl'pa" or how "yahlmarsson" is pronounced correctly. The ä makes the sound of a long "a" like in cat.) When a "tj" or a "sj" come together it makes the "shhh" sound (See Frederik Sjöström - prounced Shoe-strum). The only time you even get close to the English "J" sound is in a word like "kjol"... but even then its a word most Americans can't pronounce on their palate as it puts the tongue in an awkward position on the roof of the mouth. kjol - http://www2.hhs.se/isa/swedish/9-79.wav Sorry to be nit picky, but I speak Swedish and Finnish ;) I'm not discrediting your knowledge in any way shape or form... I'm just telling you how it's been pronounced by every member of the local media here, and by every employee of the Rockford IceHogs organization that I know! Gotcha! Well now at least you know the proper way to say it ;)

Yea and Foley pisses me off every time he tries to pronounce it. Butchers the crap out of it. Hjalmarsson... you don't pronounce the damn J! Actually, the J is pronounced. He's played in Rockford for the better part of the past two seasons, and I listen to or attend just about every game. The announcers on the radio, and even the PA Announcer at the Rockford MetroCentre pronounces his name with the J... I'd assume that someone in the organization would correct the announcers if the name was being erroneously pronounced. Sorry man, this is just incorrect... Here is the Swedish pronounciation of "hjä´lpa": http://www2.hhs.se/isa/swedish/9-74.wav (NOTE: hjä´lpa is a perfect example to use. If you take the dots off the "ä" it is pronounced "yahl'pa" or how "yahlmarsson" is pronounced correctly. The ä makes the sound of a long "a" like in cat.) When a "tj" or a "sj" come together it makes the "shhh" sound (See Frederik Sjöström - prounced Shoe-strum). The only time you even get close to the English "J" sound is in a word like "kjol"... but even then its a word most Americans can't pronounce on their palate as it puts the tongue in an awkward position on the roof of the mouth. kjol - http://www2.hhs.se/isa/swedish/9-79.wav Sorry to be nit picky, but I speak Swedish and Finnish ;)

Bulls win!??!?! Cmon guys keep this thread updated! I didn't even know the Bulls played tonight til it had 2 seconds left in the game.

Here comes da goonery!

This Flyers/Devils game is sick.

i'll do the indian head http://cdn.nhl.com/blackhawks/images/logos/large.png That's the link to the one I'm using. But if anyone has a better one or can PhotoShop it to put 2009 Playoffs that would be awesome. Also, I demand that Kujay participates since he's never had an avatar!

What do you guys think of using Hawks avatars for the Playoff run? For instance, a common theme like this one: http://www.geocities.com/relyt58/hawksavys/playoffs-huet.jpg The avatar maker for the Hawks on HF boards is going to make one for everyone that was in that "Here come the Hawks Blackhawks Sing Along" song. If you guys are down, I call dibs on Buff. If you guys don't like that idea, maybe we can all just get the Indian Head as an avatar... just something to use to show the rest of the board that the Hawks are in the playoffs!

I'm the biggest ref complainer in the history of NSBB... and I agree that should have been called (although I haven't seen a replay so it's only my initial impression). But even if he makes all 3 shots it doesn't make a difference.

hahahah the coach for marquette looked like rasheed wallace out there...

I'm not convinced... I will upgrade them to the Hocks... but they don't get their name back until they prove something over a period of time.

Hahahahah 2 EN goals.

Sharp is sick.

[expletive]

Yea... that's what it should be. Wow... how did it NOT go in?