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  1. UMFan83
    That's why I didn't understand why people were making such a big deal about it.
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    I read that on 300 level. The thing is Campbell really showed how necessary he is on this team in the playoffs. First because of how much the defense struggled at the end of the regular season and playoffs without him. And also when Q put Hammer and Sopel together and limited Campbell's minutes for whatever reason, Hammer really struggled and they had trouble clearing the puck without Campbell in there. That said, he would take a sizable chunk of our cap problems away, and also supposedly a prospect named Shawn Lalonde had a really really great season and skyrocketed up the Hawks depth chart. He could be legit. We also used our 1st round pick last season on a defenseman named Dylan Olsen, but he's still playing college hockey and won't be around for a couple of years. Before you start trading away defensemen just remember how average our team looks when the D isn't playing well.
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    When I came home last night I drunkenly went to every sports site I could think of and took screenshots of them to save for a long time. Figured I'd share them with you: WARNING: IMAGES ARE BIG ESPN: SI: Suntimes Sports Page: CBSsports.com: Fox Sports: Second City Hockey Blog: I thought I saved the Trib but I think I messed up...oh well.
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    I'm watching interviews with the Hawks on Sportsnight and it's really weird to see most of them clean shaven
  5. UMFan83
    good post. i thought itd be relevant since that was the only time i went to the pony. i didnt say jack to him, i just thought it was cool to see him out. anyways yay hawks. I didn't post that to say your post wasn't relevant. I just started getting carried away for some reason after reading your story, and I didn't give a crap that its way off topic ha
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    Yeah well I saw Bonnie Hunt at Blue Bayou once after a Cubs home opener. My friend swore it was her and I didnt believe her, so I asked her. I didn't really know anything about her so after she replied "yes", I just stared at her blankly for a second and said "nice to meet you" and quickly sat back down. Yes guys THE Bonnie Hunt! Oh and 2 weeks ago before my kickball game, Blago was jogging by and everyone noticed him and called him over. One of my teammates pitched him the ball and he pretended like he was going to kick it, and instead ran past it and waved to us awkwardly as he jogged away. I got tons more boring C-list celebrity run in stories to share, like the time I accidently bumped into Jeff Garlin (literally) on State Street, or the time I was walking my dogs and saw Dempster walking down Addison with his kid and in a stroller, and my idiot dogs started barking like crazy at the stroller, but I don't want to be known as a name dropper
  7. UMFan83
    When you can't get rid of them and need to sell them for half price, you just let me know :)
  8. UMFan83
    I'd complain about the Cubs but: A) I don't care B) Another team I root for won a major professional sports championship last night. This is my bridge I'm using to ignore the Cubs: 1. NHL Playoffs until mid-June - CHECK 2. World Cup until mid-July 3. Bears open in Bourbonais/Bulls FA frenzy/watch Stanley Cup Finals DVD over and over and over again 4. Bears Preseason, followed by Hawks preseason/Weeks 1-4 of the NFL season Before you know it it's October and the Cubs are long gone for the winter. Yay?
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    I posted that story a few pages ago. Afterwards at about 9am, they went to Ann Sather to get some breakfast and left around 10. Funny when I walked to the train today I heard helicopters buzzing overhead and wondered why they were still out and about (they were all over Wrigleyville last night). Apparently I read that newscopters were following them around all morning. Those guys must be passed out right now. A tiring hockey game and then an entire night/morning of partying? I'd be [expletive] wiped after that. Ann Sathers isn't that good. I'd have gone home and passed out. I'm just mad that no one informed them that there was a closer Ann Sather on Southport that they could have gone to instead of the one on Belmont. I would have loved to have bumped into the Stanley Cup on my way to the train this morning.
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    I figure it'd be best if we have a dedicated World Cup thread. I know there's a terrific soccer thread that we all use, but I figured a seperate World Cup thread would be nice to have. I'll post the groups and stuff in this post for reference later unless everyone is opposed to this thread's existance. Looking forward to using the World Cup as another bridge between the Stanley Cup Finals and Bourbonais! U-S-A!
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    I posted that story a few pages ago. Afterwards at about 9am, they went to Ann Sather to get some breakfast and left around 10. Funny when I walked to the train today I heard helicopters buzzing overhead and wondered why they were still out and about (they were all over Wrigleyville last night). Apparently I read that newscopters were following them around all morning.
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    this is true, and they won the cup. Not that they will not be a contender next season, but this off season would have a different feel about it if the Hawks didnt win and they had to sell off some peaces to make the cap. Yes, probably while we all flipped out after game 3 and 4. This was our best shot for the next couple of years most likely. detroit's corps isn't getting any younger or better. toews is going to be molesting them for years, no worries. This is what championship sulley looks like?? Nice
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    this is true, and they won the cup. Not that they will not be a contender next season, but this off season would have a different feel about it if the Hawks didnt win and they had to sell off some peaces to make the cap. Yes, probably while we all flipped out after game 3 and 4. This was our best shot for the next couple of years most likely.
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    That's why I buy it. Lou's behavior of late makes me think he's stopped caring. I don't know this of course; its supposition on my part based on the circumstances. I briefly saw a minute or two of the Cubs game yesterday....has Lou stopped shaving? The guy is totally losing it.
  15. UMFan83
    I believe it's legit.
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    I know I'm just bitching about this because it's affecting my team, but it's kind of weird that an award that is voted on by just 11 people can have the ability to screw over a team as much as it will for us. I mean those 11 voters for the Conn Smythe had the ability to make a difference in how gutted our team will be next year. Now I doubt any of the voters probably even realized that when they voted, but still. Anyways, I'm not really seriously complaining about the process that much, if the Hawks didn't wnat that to bite them they shouldnt have put it in his rookie deal or they shouldn't have won the Cup.
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    I mean it's good for us long term to face this head on. As long as we trust the org's scouting, being able to get rid a few of these guys for prospects/picks will only help us reload the team in the long run. And next year, guys like Beach should be able to give the Hawks a lot of what they are losing. I don't think it's crazy to suggest they can make a run next year. But we probably have less room for error than we did this year. I also worry whenever a young core achieves the highest goal so early in their careers in terms of a potential hangover effect.
  18. UMFan83
    So is that saying that Toews bonus is already included in his cap hit?
  19. UMFan83
    Well there goes the relief that we had for the cap going up next year. That really really hurts us. I think we were like 7 million over next years cap with only 13 players signed. Now we're like 8.3 million over, so we have to get rid of 8.3 million, in addition to clearing more space to fill up the team. That 1.3 million might be the difference between someone like Sharp or Buff or Versteeg being on next years team.
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    You gotta be [expletive] me? How has no one thought of this/mentioned this before?
  21. UMFan83
    After the Hawks landed at O'Hare around 4, they headed to Harry Carey's in Rosemont to celebrate with champaigne. Afterwards, a bunch of them headed to The Pony in Lakeview, which is like 5-6 blocks from my house and stayed there drinking jagerbombs until 7AM. Afterwards, Toews and his friends headed to Ann Sather near Belmont and Sheffield, aka steps from the Brown Line trainstop I was at to take the train to work today and ate breakfast until 10AM
  22. UMFan83
    he should be absolutely ecstatic that the flyers got to game 6 of the cup finals, that team was left for dead so many times this year and in the post-season. all for nothing? that's pretty disrespectful to say, i understand emotions are running hot right after a loss in the finals, but the flyers outperformed all expectations and went farther than any one could have imagined them going at the beginning of the playoffs. [expletive] you, timmonen. Yeah but when you get that far in a postseason you believe you are going to win. You don't think you can win, or think you will win, you believe that you are going to win until it's not possible anymore. I don't think anyone on the Flyers expected to lose in Philly. You need confidence and a strong will to be a championship contending team and this flyers team oozed confidence.
  23. UMFan83
    My favorite part of that radio call is hearing people in the background going crazy yelling in celebration.
  24. UMFan83
    Nice recap, but you forgot to mention 2008-2009: NHL All Star. I think that's a worthy enough achievement to list.
  25. UMFan83
    More total stanley cups, and for everyone besides Boston, more recent cups.
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