UMFan83

I love this article and how it says things like, Pujols would really help the Phillies out because their lineup is really left handed right now. Or it would help them out because he's easily the best hitter in baseball and makes Chase Utley look like Neifi Perez. I mean does that mean that the Phillies wouldn't do that deal if Howard was actually right handed instead of lefty?

From CSN's Hawks beat guy: Man, these quotes can easily be taken out of context but this seems like a fragile team emotionally. On the ice when the Hawks start blowing a lead they looked shell shocked. All season they've been unable to regroup when something like this happens. I mean hell the last time the Hawks were really playing dominant was just before that 3rd period collapse against Minnesota. Even since that game the Hawks haven't looked the same. It's like that singular game turned the season and the Hawks have been unable to completely regroup. I'm probably way overreacting though. Actually I know I am. But it's interesting to point out anyways.

expletive Sorry, it ended up apparently being just rampant twitter speculation. Q said he had a day to day injury. However, Q said Campbell might be out for awhile and won't make the upcoming roadtrip. Say what you want about Campbell but this D gets a lot worse if he's not out there.

I don't know doesn't the NIT start on Tuesday? Shouldnt you, as a Michigan fan, have that date circled and remembered on your calendar? Hell doesnt Mich run the tourney? :D Michigan has a basketball team? I thought we stopped playing basketball the year after the Fab 5. What is the "Fab 5"? /NCAA record book

There are rumors on 300 level that Hossa is out for the year with a shoulder injury, but at this point there are no links, just posters claiming they've heard from reliable sources.

I don't know doesn't the NIT start on Tuesday? Shouldnt you, as a Michigan fan, have that date circled and remembered on your calendar? Hell doesnt Mich run the tourney? :D Zing!

Oh man, you guys are hilarious when things go bad for awhile. Also, no team in the history of sports has ever recovered from a slump, so this team will pretty much be awful forever. Guaranteed. See my post after yesterday's game. You should probably know by now that most people don't post rationally when they are [expletive] pissed off after a devastating loss. Instead of saying "boy the defense has looked bad lately. They are much better than this" it comes out as "In the last 2 months our defense has probably been in the bottom 10 in the league". Regardless, my point is that its been long enough that I cannot consider this a slump anymore. The defense is becoming a legit weakness on this team.

This game just pisses me off so much. So the Hawks have a 3-0 lead and have to kill a double minor. With :05 left in the first penalty, the Hawks commit a second penalty, and the Caps score. So that kills a whole 5 seconds off the penalty and gives the Caps a 5 on 3 for 2 minutes. But even still, the Hawks do a great job on the 5 on 3 kill, until 5 seconds left in the penalty where the Caps [expletive] score again. I mean seriously what crap luck. Instead of stealing the momentum back from Washington and holding a 3-1 lead, its 3-2 with Washington holding all the momentum. So it was no shock at all when the Caps tied it up 2 seconds later. Just in the past week we've given up 5 goals in a period blowing a 2-0 lead to Detroit, given up 3 goals in the 3rd period and blowing a 1 goal lead with 2 minutes left and losing with 2 seconds left, 2 seconds from getting a point, and then blew a 3-0 lead in the span of 3 minutes. Just an awful and pathetic week for the Blackhawks. This team went from looking like they had very few holes in December to looking like they have way too many holes to count in March. And Sulley what a week for me. I watched DePaul finish off a 8-23 season where they've won 1 out of their last 35 conference games. I watched Michigan hoops start the season ranked 16th, and playing horrible basketball all year and having both of their rivals MSU and OSU steal wins away from Michigan with buzzer beaters, making Michigan miss the NCAA Tournament for the 12th time in the last 13 years. I watched Michigan football start out 4-0 and 5-2, needed only to win 1 of their last 5 games to make a bowl game, with games against Illinois and Purdue still on the schedule, and they lost them all including losses to MSU and OSU for the second year in a row. And then just this week alone, I've watched the Hawks go 1-2-1, and having what WGN radio postgame is calling 2 "foundation shaking losses" in the last 2 days, as well as watch the Bulls go from 3 games up on a playoff spot to 2 games behind with a nice little 7 game losing streak in which our best 3 players have been hurt, and 2 players that we traded to other teams are thriving and leading their teams ahead of us for playoff spots. Sports suck right now.

I don't know doesn't the NIT start on Tuesday?

If I wasn't lazy, I would go back in this thread and count all the times we've praised the D for being awesome earlier in the year. We once thought that Keith and Seabrook was the best young defensive line in the league. In the last 2 months our defense has probably been in the bottom 10 in the league.

I have horrible luck. I started watching the game today right after the Hawks scored the 3rd goal. So I watched the Caps score 4 goals on us. Yay. We blow.

0-1-1 weekend We blew a 1 goal lead with 2 minutes left and lost yesterday. We blew a 3 goal lead with 11 minutes left and lost today. This team is in disarray.

Maybe if we get into a shootout.

Yay we got a point!

How many times do you have to think stuff like this and get burned? Apparently at least a few more times.

I've decided that I really just want 1 point out of this. If we go 0-4 this weekend it would be horrible. Just hold them off the last 4:30

I know it's been all the way since Wednesday since we've won.

They are just launching shot after shot.

I don't know how any casual hockey fan could watch the Hawks the last 2 weeks and think they are Cup contenders.

The Caps were [expletive] sleepwalking through this entire game showing no interest in winning the game. Then they try for 5 minutes, catch 2 ridiculous breaks and score 3 goals and tie it.

And now it's tied WHAT THE [expletive]? Why do we always [expletive] collapse?

Of course they score just as the 5 on 3 is ending. [expletive] my life. The Blackhawks have the worst [expletive] luck. Instead of retaking all the momentum from the Caps, the Caps are now completely owning the momentum.

Doesn't the goal just end the first penalty, which had like 5 seconds left on it? You can't take away the first penalty and the delayed penalty with a goal.

Horrible break. Of course they score with like 5 seconds left on the first PP. Now we have 2 minutes of 5 on 3. So it's probably gonna be 3-2 in a second.

I think Illinois and Minny deserve in over Va Tech. Va Tech has a strength of schedule of 132 thats the only reason they have the record they do. Give Illinois that type of schedule and they arent 19-14. Same goes for Minny. I agree, I think Illinois deserves to be in. But in my opinion, the committee will determine the B10 deserves 5 teams and fairly or not will have to choose between the Illini and Minnesota. Right now Minny has all factors in their favor. Which is ironic because the ACC only really deserves 5 teams and is somehow going to get 7 if they let VaTech in. I'm usually against Big 10 teams making the tourney whenever possible, but it's a pretty solid, deep league this year, and in my biased opinion the middle ACC teams just don't pass the eye test. I watched pieces of the GaTech/UNC tournament game and the Jackets looked just plain stupid out there at times. It would be funny if the first time the Big Ten wins the Big Ten/ACC Challenge, the ACC ends up with more teams in the tourney at the expense of more deserving Big Ten teams.