UMFan83

Game Hawks gotta be completely out of confidence at this point.

Well this is likely game. Nice turnover (again) Hawks.

And watch their goalie stand on his head the entire game!

Has there been any stathead work into goal differential and if we should care that much about it? I'm not convinced, because unlike baseball, in hockey you actually do change your style of play depending on the relative score. Well yeah they are a team that puts the trap on when they have the lead so they probably got a lot of close wins this year. Meanwhile they lack scoring punch, making it hard for them to come from behind so their opponents probably tacked on a few goals while Nashville was rushing the puck. But still, a 0 goal differential has to tell you something. I bet if we lose this series, it's gonna be like the DBacks in 07, sweepin the Cubs and then getting embarrassed in the next round.

If we lose this, we will have given our opponent their first series win of the year in 4 of our 5 series played.

What holliday? ;)

I can't think of any decently lengthy stretch where I could say the Hawks have out played the Predators in this game. Just a complete domination by the 7 seed with a 0 goal differential on the season.

This. World Cup soccer? That's a great point, but that's not til what June.

Yep

The worst thing about potentially losing in the first round is that all we're left with is the [expletive] Cubs. I'm not ready for that.

Huh? They are such a long suffering sports city. They deserve to hand stupid Chicago another humiliating defeat. I guess. I just have no respect whatsoever for their hockey culture. Those fans don't deserve [expletive]. I was definitely being sarcastic. They don't deserve [expletive].

Huh? They are such a long suffering sports city. They deserve to hand stupid Chicago another humiliating defeat.

2 of the least penalized teams in hockey, playing in the damn playoffs, have been called for 8 penalties in 27 minutes of hockey. Wow.

Mother [expletive] The Preds are going to win this series.

Yeah that was one of the worst turnovers I've ever seen especially with an extra man on the ice.

Make that 3, holy [expletive] was that a bad one.

I've already counted 2 times this period that the Hawks turned it over in their own zone. Come on.

I was about to write that despite appearances, he's only given up runs in three of his appearances. Doesn't stop his ERA from being over 10 Grabow IP H R ER BB K HR PC ST ST% P/IP IR IRS IRS% BB/9 K/9 HR/9 WHIP ERA 04/05 vs. Atla 0.7 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 3 0.75 6.0 3 1 0.33 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 04/07 vs. Atla 0.7 2 2 2 0 0 1 15 11 0.73 22.5 0 0 0.00 0.00 0.00 13.50 3.00 27.00 04/08 vs. Atla 0.0 0 0 0 1 0 0 5 1 0.20 0.0 1 0 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 04/10 vs. Cincy 1.0 1 0 0 0 1 0 14 9 0.64 14.0 0 0 0.00 0.00 9.00 0.00 1.00 0.00 04/11 vs. Cincy 0.3 2 2 2 1 1 0 18 10 0.56 54.0 3 2 0.67 27.00 27.00 0.00 9.00 54.00 04/15 vs. Milw 1.0 2 1 0 0 0 0 19 14 0.74 19.0 0 0 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 2.00 0.00 04/16 vs. Houst 1.0 1 0 0 0 1 0 10 7 0.70 10.0 0 0 0.00 0.00 9.00 0.00 1.00 0.00 season totals 4.7 8 5 4 2 3 1 85 55 0.65 18.2 7 3 0.43 3.86 5.79 1.93 2.14 7.71 And yet in some of the appearances where he didn't allow an earned run, 1 time he allowed an unearned run, another time he allowed 1 of his inherited runners to score, another time he allowed a walk to the only batter he faced, and the other 2 times he legitimately pitched a solid scoreless inning, although he allowed a baserunner each time.

Really random question...if a pitch bounces off the dirt and hits a player, is it still a HBP?

And yet they are 0-3 on the PP and we are 5 seconds away from 1-2

Quick, everyone flip to WGN to see the Cubs make their last 2 outs of the game. Edit: 1 out

Seriously, he looked like he was going to be benched midway through the season.

Do you think the refs noticed both teams were getting rather testy at the end of the 2nd game and are being quick on the whistle to stop the shenanagins?

Holy crap. Some of the situations where the Hawks don't score just boggle my mind. We have an amazingly difficult time hitting an open net. Good move though.

Finally. I'm pretty sure that a period in the playoffs isn't supposed to have a team on the PP 40% of the time. Very nice Hawks! Big PP goal before the end of the period!