UMFan83

Pencils down, the deadline has passed.

Makes sense. Everyone knew the Hawks desperately needed defensive help, and the Hawks are reeling losing 12 of 16 and now fighting for their playoff lives. Meanwhile the Jets are in the playoff race and probably didn't need to trade him if they didn't get a good offer.

What kind of blue liner is he? Would he be a 2nd pairing on some teams or a 3rd pairng? I don't know much about him.

I like Pahlsson. Of course he has never played for the Wings, so I didnt get the every game feel that Hawks fans got Yeah we got to learn a lot about him in the 13 games he played for the Hawks and then the 3 month concussion he suffered.

I miss back in December when the talk was making a run for Iginla or Nash. Now we're reduced to hoping we can get a marginal defensive upgrade instead of doing nothing at all.

You don't get why the world mercilessly attacks LeBron for everything he does or doesn't do? Just sit back and enjoy the hate, regardless of whether it's deserved. PS people have been ripping on him for passing the ball in key situations since he entered the league. Of course its a little different when you are passing to Deron Williams instead of Boobie Gibson. Or Brian Scalabrine. And Rose got his fair share of criticism for that as well.

lol @ Campoli

You don't get why the world mercilessly attacks LeBron for everything he does or doesn't do? Just sit back and enjoy the hate, regardless of whether it's deserved. PS people have been ripping on him for passing the ball in key situations since he entered the league. Of course its a little different when you are passing to Deron Williams instead of Boobie Gibson.

This is a couple of days old, but I don't think it got mentioned here: I think I've read a couple of 'reports' that suggest the Hawks locker room chemistry is not good at all. It really isnt much of a surprise, but it could help explain why the team was previously winning close games despite not playing their best and are now losing games handily. A big part of it is talent of course but chemisty can come into play too. Doesn't help that Q has consistently shuffled the lines as he has his entire career.

Perceptive one, arent you? :)

Considering how willing everybody in the organization was to take that giant step back last year, this might be the actual wake up call they need to finally stop living off the glory of 2010. Nobody seemed all that upset about having a 1st round exit. Everybody just chalked it up to a hangover and assumed they'd be back this season. But now that they might actually miss the playoffs that nonsense can stop. Bowman has to actually start acquiring impact players at some point. He hasn't done anything but sell so far. I'd be fine if it doesn't happen until the offseason. Missing the playoffs would suck, but maybe this team needs the excuse to fire Q and overhaul the supposed "core" that has done very little since the cup. My biggest concern is Rocky will hesitate to remain financially aggressive, but if he keeps the checkbook even moderately open, they should be much better very soon. I agree with this. Last year everyone expected to be a rough one but pretty much everyone figured we'd "bottom out" last year and improve to some degree starting the next season....and even with "bottoming out" I don't think anyone thought we'd barely make the playoffs. If we miss the playoffs this year, we will have been a quasi-miracle win by the Wild from not making the playoffs 2 years in a row after winning the Cup. With the talented core that we have that's ridiculous. I understand the limitations we had and everything, but its on Bowman to make it work. He has proven nothing in this job so far so the rope is only as long as the Hawks respect for his father. I still do like quite a few of the moves he made to put us in a solid cap position but I do sort of regret defending the players he acquired this offseason.

It's too bad Derrick won't let the rest of the world see his dance moves... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZczejHLBaG4

Great, he's the next Crosby BTW, the Kings are 5 points behind us in the 9th spot and have 2 games in hand over us. At this point I think its more likely we miss the playoffs than make it.

Lu apparently hurt his wrist in the 1st quarter which is why he didn't play after that one 5 minute shift. He says he's fine and it was just precautionary, but he said he was fine after he originally injured the wrist.

Thibs really taking the 'not risking his players in an exhibition game' theory to a whole new level. Rose has played just 18 minutes, 11 minutes less than the next lowest starter, and less than a reserve. Deng has played just 5 minutes, the lowest amount of burn for any all star in the last 9 years except Kobe one year who got injured 3 minutes into the game and didn't return. 9 players have played more minutes tonight than Rose and Deng combined.

This team is dead men walking

this is UMfan implying that purdue is a bunch of lucky pukes. Busted!

I cant wait until Stan does absolutely nothing of note before Thursday.

Haha, 3-0 Kings. They just said its only the 19th time this year the Kings scored 3+ goals in a game.

The CrapHawks are back!

I think you were before but yeah now its just about a lock. Hummel deserves another shot in the NCAAs.

Wow, Purdue has now scored on 11 of the last 13 possessions. Gritty road performance. Gotta give them props, not a lot of teams could stop them the way they are shooting right now.

Purdue all the sudden refuses to be stopped on offense. Scored on 9 of the last 10 possessions, almost all of them long jump shots. 21-9 run after Michigan takes a brief lead. Reminds me a little of 2009 when Michigan needed a win over a ranked Purdue team late to pad its NCAA resume and won.

I swear this game is in Purdue

We do. Yeah come on SSR, I didn't even know what Helms titles were until a certain Purdue fan started bragging about them (not smack).