as bob brenly would say..... what a dead ass team. like i said before, time to make some big times changes. toews is off limits, nobody else is. even kane. i'm not talking about dumping anybody, but it's time to mix things up. this has gone on for a year and a half now. this group is dead. look at what the flyers did last year. i remember a quote from their GM during the 24/7 thing on HBO. something about how when they made all the changes during the offseason (carter, richards, etc) that he didn't know for sure that they'd be a better team, but he knew they'd be a different team. i think we're at that point with the blackhawks. last year you could give them the benefit of the doubt and say it was the cup hangover. that's not an excuse anymore. things are just stale, and i think it's to the point where it can't be salvaged. i mean, i feel like it's a complete tossup whether or not we even make the playoffs, and that's sad. also, i'm still pissed at the moves that were made this offseason. to me it was flat out cheapness and it's costing us any chance we had at a cup run this season. people can say bowman has the right idea with adding toughness, but it always seemed stupid to me when the players we added sucked. yeah great, we added toughness. too bad they all suck. we lost what turned out to be our best d-man, and we made up for it by adding andrew molina and a bunch of screp heap guys. great. who could have ever predicted that they'd be worse than last year? oh, and i want keith gone. i wouldnt give him away or anything, but just seeing this guy play makes me want to turn the game off. maybe he shouldn't have admitted that he wasn't giving max effort last year if he was going to come out this season and play even worse. just a thought.