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This Hawks team is too young, too good, and too.......foreign......to fail like other Chicago teams have at the precipice. ......................................right? :mrgreen:

To me the Hawks looked outplayed last night, especially in the 3rd period. That's an amazing win. They were definitely a different team in OT, controlling much more of the action and getting shots... Niemi just denied the Sharks when it looked like they would surely take the game. He denied them AGAIN. Also, don't know where this version of Buff came from but I like it.

That's terrible. Do no admit this. Time to sell those Sunday tix on ebay, Old Style :) Seriously. I can't believe I'm missing tonight's game, but I will be planted in front of the TV on Sunday afternoon. Nightmare scenario is during the finals though -- we'll be in Florida for most of the first week of June. There better be bars around Sarasota with Versus. Finals end before June 10th, right? I'll be out of the country.

That's terrible. Do no admit this. Time to sell those Sunday tix on ebay, Old Style :)

I can't imagine the reffing would be more biased than it was in game 1, and we won that one. I'm not marking anything as a loss until the final horn sounds.

I don't really think we need Calipari to bring Lebron here... Frankly, it's a positive for us if he doesn't leave, because at this point I'm worried that the Cavs hire him and that that is enough to get him to stay. I never thought about that, but yes that does seem like something the Cavs can do to try to get Lebron to stay.

I smell a tag-team steel cage deathmatch. Winner takes all. Somebody call Vince McMahon.

Sure, let's treat ARam the same way we would a guy who has never played with the Cubs before. Hell, why not? 6, 7 years of great production? To hell with you, you're crap now you bum!

But Gameday says we haven't lost yet! There's still hope!

Yeah, it's not really about whether Sayers should lie or not. It's about how you say it. Sayers doesn't seem to have much of a filter. He just blurts out all kinds of stuff, offensive or not. That's fine, but if you are going to do that then don't act all shocked when someone calls you on the carpet for it. And don't make it seem like it's a black and white, "I either lie or tell the truth" issue.

Shawon had a cannon. yeah, he could throw it 100mph into the 1st base side stands He'd have gotten it there. Probably 10 feet over Lee's head, but it would have gotten there.

It's always kind of fun to see the sports that are popular outside the US.

Seriously, I don't understand how people can think otherwise. add sprinters to the list. there's absolutely no way usain bolt isn't on something, he went from average to greatest of all-time real quick. michael phelps, too. actually, all athletes in general are under suspicion as far as i'm concerned. Me too. Still though, to incorporate accusations about Armstrong into your grand confession is a slimeball thing to do.

San Jose Sharks simply aren't as good as Chicago Blackhawks I'm going to play devil's advocate here and disagree with that sentiment. It's pretty easy to jump on the Sharks because they've lost a couple games at home and are now at a disadvantage. But here's why I think the Sharks still have a chance: 1) I've watched the Sharks put tons of pressure on the Hawks in these first 2 games. They've skated with the Hawks up and down the ice. They've applied solid hits. They haven't looked "outplayed" to me. Niemi has so far weathered those times rather well, which is great for the Hawks, but I've got to figure if they keep that up a couple more goals will make it past. The Sharks have actually generated more shots than the Hawks in more than one period of play (not sure about the overall totals). 2) A couple goals from the Hawks seemed to me to be more of a product of a goal tender not playing his best rather than great net pressure from the Hawks. I'm thinking of the Ladd shot in game 2, and the Big Buff shot in game 1. It wouldn't be beyond imagination to think that Nabokov will shut down those opportunities in future games, leading to tighter games, which means a better opportunity for the Sharks to win. 3) Again, it needs to be mentioned: Hawks have not played well at home. They've simply been a much better road team this year in the playoffs, for whatever reason. If the Sharks win a couple at the United Center because the Hawks play like they have in their 2 previous series, this entire series looks much different. That's my non-expert observer's opinion. Obviously the Hawks could win Friday night and make all of that stuff seem silly. But right now, at this moment -- I still believe it is premature to make overall statements about which team is better or how the series will end up.

Castro Cannon!

Grabow's ideal role is as the reliever brought in after injury to face a junky hitter w/ 2 outs. I'm confident he can succeed.

Of course it's Grabow. Could it have been anyone else?

uuuggh, Lawrence Holmes is busy drumming up calls tonight by declaring the WCF over.

I think their magic has run its course. Philly looks like the better team to me.

What a douche. His first line invalidates his whole opinion. He's lived in Chicago for 5 years. Mission accomplished: he laid a big turd on his blog and generated traffic. Nothing to see here.

i love it when you have the other team believing that yelling and screaming and fighting each other and throwing skates and equipment in the locker room is somehow cathartic and will make them play better. the sharks may well win the series, but it won't be because of some locker room tantrum. Agreed. If they do come back and win, it will be because they made the right adjustments and started playing better, not because they got in each other's faces and brow beat players who weren't performing.

This team has me dancing :stickman:

That seemed like a bad, meaningless penalty to commit leading to the Sharks goal. I hope that is just an isolated gaff. We really did not need to hand them such an opportunity, but we did.

I can't wrap my mind about the Grabow thing, with Marshall just sitting there.

If I owned that house, I might not ever even know that some of the rooms exist. People would be like, "what's down this way?" And I would say, "dunno. let's find out." "You've lived here for 3 years!!"