It's kind of on Bowman. When you have 4 defensemen that you can trust and they have to play the large majority of the minutes, they will be gassed and make mistakes.
Hah I went to sleep when they made it 4-2. Oh well. We need bullpen help. it sucks that the pen was so good last year and now the same guys that were good are struggling. It's probably just the crapshoot nature of the pen, but I also wonder if they pitched better with lower pressure for a non competitive team.
But we saw Vermette play well in game 2 and we have seen Teuvo play at a level that Nordstrom could never play at this postseason. This particular move made no sense.
Anyone remember that proposal for Bears and White Sox stadiums to be built side by side with a retractable roof going between the 2 stadiums as needed?
Twitter is torching Q for the lineup changes. Benching Vermette (60% on FOs in the playoff) for Versteeg (and Shaw taking FOs (35% FOs)) and benching Teuvo for Nordstrom who played 7 [expletive] minutes is inexcusable
So the Hawks were at home, had 5 PP to the Ducks ~1 minute of PP time, shots and face offs were both nearly even (both slightly in favor of the Hawks). Frustrating to lose this. I don't even feel like Anaheim is that much better than us.
Bad performance tonight. Near must win on Saturday unless you think the Hawks can win 2 more in Anaheim. Anaheim has outplayed the Hawks the majority of the time since the second period of game 1. We've seen the Hawks win series that they have been outplayed a lot of the first 3 games but it's obviously not what you want to see at all. The NHL is 4 games from a disastrous Anaheim-Tampa Bay Finals
I'm disappointed in a lot tonight. Expected a better performance, expected to fill his active roster with the best possible team, etc Let's see if we can somehow get the equalizer in the last 4 mins