UMFan83

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it's Ouch. He'll probably say it was intentional.

I think they ought to panic and make a 46 player trade (23 from each side except SS and closer) with the Cubs while paying the difference in payroll. If that's too difficult, they should panic into a deal of Gonzalez, Pedroia, and Crawford for Pena, DeWitt, and Soriano. :yahoo: An unusually realistic trade idea from you. I forgot that we need to keep Soto too. The sad thing is that even if this trade was offered to the Cubs, they'd probably turn it down because we couldnt take on all that salary.

Yup....not gonna get any help from Colorado. Stars up 2-0 after the 1st. 3 more points Hawks.

Not this upcoming weekend but the next.

ok well NOW its over. It's an interesting question....how long would this streak have to go before rational people started saying ....maybe this is a legit problem. 0-10? 0-15?

How's this for an odd fact? The Hawks, with 1 game left to play, have not had an OTL at home this year. The last time a team went an entire season without an OTL either at home OR on the road for an entire season was 6 years ago when Columbus did it at home. This was also the only other time something like this occured since the W-L-OTL system was implemented after the lockout.

Hi, I dont post here much but an OT victory counts just as much as a regulation victory. ROW(Regulation Overtime Wins the first tiebreaker). Hawks were not hurt by winning in OT last night, luckily no shootout. Nice job on the tiebreaking scenarios with all the teams involved BTW. Wow really? I'm a [expletive] idiot. Thanks for pointing that out. You just made my day! OK then GREAT win for Chicago last night. Here is revised scenarios for the Hawks: 1 out of 4 points: Blackhawks require one Dallas regulation loss OR one OTL and 1 or less regulation victories 2 out of 4 points (regulation win): Stars must lose either in regulation or OT OR Dallas is held to 2 regulation victories (out of 3 games). 2 out of 4 points (non-regulation win): Stars must lose in regulation or OT OR Dallas is held to 1 regulation victory (out of 3). 3 out of 4 points or better: Blackhawks make playoffs. A recap from last night on Yahoo says 2 points clinches us a spot no matter what. I don't see how that's possible. 4. Los Angeles (2) 98 (clinched) 5. Nashville (2) 97 6. Phoenix (2) 97 7. Anaheim (2) 95 8. Chicago (2) 95 ------------------- 9. Dallas (3) 91 Nashville wins twice Phoenix wins twice Anaheim wins twice (both over LA) Dallas wins 3 times (all in regulation) Blackhawks get 2 points on a non regulation win. New standings: 4. Nashville - 101 (Clinched) 5. Phoenix - 101 (Clinched) 6. Anaheim - 99 (Clinched) 7. Los Angeles - 98 (Clinched) 8/9. Chicago - 97 8/9. Dallas - 97 So you go into tiebreakers...the first is ROW's. Dallas - 38 ROW's Chiacgo - 37 ROW's Chicago is eliminated. If Dallas only gets to 37 ROW's then it goes to H2H, which Dallas also wins.

Hi, I dont post here much but an OT victory counts just as much as a regulation victory. ROW(Regulation Overtime Wins the first tiebreaker). Hawks were not hurt by winning in OT last night, luckily no shootout. Nice job on the tiebreaking scenarios with all the teams involved BTW. Wow really? I'm a [expletive] idiot. Thanks for pointing that out. You just made my day! OK then GREAT win for Chicago last night. Here is revised scenarios for the Hawks: 1 out of 4 points: Blackhawks require one Dallas regulation loss OR one OTL and 1 or less regulation victories 2 out of 4 points (regulation win): Stars must lose either in regulation or OT OR Dallas is held to 2 regulation victories (out of 3 games). 2 out of 4 points (non-regulation win): Stars must lose in regulation or OT OR Dallas is held to 1 regulation victory (out of 3). 3 out of 4 points or better: Blackhawks make playoffs.

When do the tickets go on sale. I am planning on invading your stadium for Game 4, but I havent found anything about sale dates. Edit: nevermind just saw tomorrow at noon. Which means pre-sale access for Indiana residents only ends soon. Get on it Sosa. No...the indiana only thing is for 72 hours. Any of my fine Indiana area NSBB members want to help me out?? :) I really want to make the trip and I'm the least obnoxious visiting sports fan ever. I'll send you a paypal payment before you even buy the tickets for me :) No, there's also a sale before the 72 hour sale. I would have helped you out if not for that comment. Which comment? Yes, there is an Indiana only presale, and then a 72 hour Indiana only sale to the general public, then the rest of the public gets the scraps, correct?

The magic number would be 1, so no we can't clinch. The reason being, a win tonight would pull us into a tie in conference record with Boston, but for Boston and Chicago to end the season tied, Chicago would have to lose the rest of their games, and Boston would have to win the rest. They both play only conference opponents the rest of the way, so Boston would win the tiebreaker. So they cannot clinch the 1 seed tonight, but clinching would be a near formality if we win tonight. All it would take is 1 more Bulls win or Boston loss. If we lose tonight, our magic number remains at 3 (1 for Miami) meaning we'd need to win 3 more games to get it. With Cleveland and New Jersey (home) on the schedule, we'd need to beat either Orlando or NY on the road. Howard got his 18th technical last night and unless its recinded he will be suspended on Sunday against the Bulls. Even if we lose, I feel good about our chances.

Woohoo! Thanks. \:D/ I'm definitely attending at least one of the Pacers two home games in the series. When do the tickets go on sale. I am planning on invading your stadium for Game 4, but I havent found anything about sale dates. Edit: nevermind just saw tomorrow at noon. Which means pre-sale access for Indiana residents only ends soon. Get on it Sosa. No...the indiana only thing is for 72 hours. Any of my fine Indiana area NSBB members want to help me out?? :) I really want to make the trip and I'm the least obnoxious visiting sports fan ever. I'll send you a paypal payment before you even buy the tickets for me :)

I'm shocked that Phoenix and LA ended in a shootout last night.

Woohoo! Thanks. \:D/ I'm definitely attending at least one of the Pacers two home games in the series. When do the tickets go on sale. I am planning on invading your stadium for Game 4, but I havent found anything about sale dates. Edit: nevermind just saw tomorrow at noon.

Here is where all the tiebreakers stand at the moment. Most of them are up in the air still to varying degrees. Nashville vs. Dallas Nashville (Dallas -2 in ROW, H2H tie) Phoenix vs. Dallas Phoenix (Dallas -2 in ROW, PHX H2H) Los Angeles vs. Dallas Phoenix (Dallas -1 in ROW, LA H2H) Anaheim vs. Dallas Anaheim (locked up) Chicago vs. Dallas Chicago (Dallas -1 in ROW, Dallas H2H) Chicago vs. Anaheim Anaheim (locked up) Chicago vs. Los Angeles Chicago (LA -1 in ROW, Chicago H2H) Chicago vs. Phoenix Chicago (PHX tied in ROW, tied H2H, Chi +25 GD) Chicago vs. Nashville Chicago (NAS tied in ROW, Chi H2H) Anaheim vs. Los Angeles Anaheim (locked up) Anaheim vs. Phoenix Anaheim (locked up) Anaheim vs. Nashville Anaheim (locked up) Los Angeles vs. Phoenix Phoenix (LA -1 in ROW, PHX H2H) Los Angeles vs. Nashville Nashville (LA - 1 in ROW, LA H2H) Phoenix vs. Nashville Nashville (tied in ROW, tied in H2H, NAS +17 GD) Anahiem has locked up all tiebreakers, so they are in great position with the likely win tonight. Blackhawks currently leading all tiebreakers except against Anaheim, but every single one of those tiebreakers is up in the air at the moment. The Blackhawks inability to secure a regulation victory in their last 7 games has hurt them.

Weird, I am going through tiebreakers for each one of the 4-9 seeds in the West. LA and Phoenix are about as close as can get. If LA wins this game by 2 goals in regulation (currently 2-2 in 2nd intermission), them and PHX will be tied in regulation wins, tied in H2H (3-3-0) and tied in goal differential. ESPN's tiebreaking procedures doesn't even address any tiebreakers after goal differential. Of course if LA wins, they will be 2 points ahead but crazy anyways.

Scenarios (just for Dallas for now....Ill do anaheim later): 1 out of 4 points: Blackhawks require one Dallas regulation loss or one OTL and 0 regulation victories 2 out of 4 points (regulation win): Stars must lose either in regulation or OT or Dallas is held to 1 regulation victory. 2 out of 4 points (non-regulation win): Stars must lose in regulation or Dallas has 0 regulation victories. 3 out of 4 points or better: Blackhawks make playoffs. Calgary can no longer make the playoffs at our expense, but I believe they can still make the playoffs over Anaheim or maybe one of those other teams. I'll look at it in a bit.

Nice! Not the optimal outcome but the next best possible outcome. Hawks need 3 points this weekend to guarantee a playoff spot. Gonna be tough but I'd rather be in our position than Dallas. We are only 2 points out of 4th place LOL.

No regulation victory. We no longer control the tiebreaker over Dallas. We MUST finish with more points than Dallas or hope for some help from them. This means regardless of how this OT goes, we'll likely need to get 3-4 points vs. Detroit.

Sweet....what are we like 0 for our last 10 on the PP?

Critical PP and the waste 20 seconds behind their own net.

If we can score and win in regulation, all the Hawks need to do is beat Detroit once in regulation to clinch. There's a really really long way to go for that though. Going to overtime helps us but we'd have a lot of work to do vs. Detroit.

Son of a bitch. C'mon defense. Stewart just completely outworked the Hawks and chipped it in. We really need to win and win in regulation.

I would really like Milwaukee to win this. If they do, the Bulls beating Boston tomorrow would bring their magic number to 1 and Miami couldn't get the 1 seed. Just 1 win in our last 4 games would get it done.....we could clinch early and rest our guys.

PP has been very lacking lately