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solid period

outside of the game, sure. but don't all the other players hate them? then they get destroyed everytime they miss a kick

wasn't it sulley that was pimping turco hard even before most people started considering him an option?

gene wojciechowski is doing gene wojciechowski things again http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/columns/story?columnist=wojciechowski_gene&page=wojciechowski/101020&sportCat=mlb i love how he's been on the ryno-for-manager bandwagon forever, and the whole time his only reaosning is that he's a former cubs great and it's good for the fans. he never talks about the actual baseball impact.

That sure worked out well last year. Cashner's already in there due to necessity, and his career is probably ruined because of it. Can't wait to see Jay Jackson and Chris Archer warming up in the 6th and 7th next year. I'd hardly say a career is ruined by going to the bullpen. Maybe he will never be a 220 inning $20m ace, but there odds weren't all that great of it happening in the first place. You can have a great career in the bullpen, whether you stay there forever or move out of it eventually. so you have to be a 20 million dollar ace for it to be worth not going to the bullpen? even if cashner turns into a solid 2 or 3, that's better than a reliever.

i just don't see why the sharks thought it was a good idea to go from nabakov to niemi/nittymaki. playoff performances aside, nabakov is a good regular season goalie and one of the reasons they've been a top seed the last few years. those other 2 guys are mediocre at best.

his mustache makes me smile too

ok now why is nenad smiling

he's not sandberg, so whatever. that's how low my expectations are with this organization's decision making right now. my hopes for a successful offseason were "hire whoever, just not sandberg" you never let me down, cubs.

can imb please explain to me why thabo and nenad are the 2 they chose behind durant

kyle korver may need surgery for a cyst in his ankle. boozer, brewer, and now korver. all 3 jazz players hurt.

btw, niemi got lit up again tonight. 9 goals given up his last 2 starts, and 11 overall in 3 starts this season.

I dont know if he is overrated. I dont think too many people think he is an elite dman. I think most think he is just a very good dman. He is overpaid. Really? Ever since Tampa won the Cup is seems like he's definitely been considered elite. I know plus/minus on it's own doesn't tell you a ton, but it's always stoof out to me that he's considered a stud, yet never has shown it in the +/- department. he's only +6 the last 2 years, and that's on a sharks team with massive goal differentials. again i know it doesn't mean much, but when his +/- is consistently underwhelming on a yearly basis, it makes me put more stock into it.

rick rypien sucker punches brad staubitz and then goes after a fan (as the homer canucks commentator pretends that the fan reached over first) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqEtA-RovA4

figured this is a good place to post cliff lee's ridiculous career postseason stats 64.1 IP 40 H 7 BB 67 K 1 HR .58 WHIP .197 OBA .426 OPSA this postseason he has 1 bb and 34 k's

I issued my mea culpas about Campbell, as DM suggested, after the Ovechkin hit. His impact was obvious moving the puck. And to be fair, that's a good bit of my criticism of the team's current play. The breakout is very sluggish, the forwards aren't moving with conviction through the neutral zone and they aren't crashing on the forecheck (except for Toews and Bickell). Campbell won't solve that last part, but he'll make those 3rd and 4th lines look better, no doubt. And, of course, he'll get either Boynton or Cullimore off the ice, which is always a good thing. I still think the contract was a reach. That was Tallon's big splash. He didn't let the market settle out, and after Boyle got his deal it was clear how much over market Campbell got. Now, maybe he wouldn't have gotten him if he waited a few days and didn't make that huge offer. We'll never know. But I can say that he should not be making more than Keith and Seabrook. to be fair, i think dan boyle is somewhat overrated too.

i wouldn't erase any move the hawks made over the last few years, because it all ended up with us winning a cup. any tiny change could alter everything. that includes huet. i'm glad we signed huet. if we don't sign him, we either re-sign khabi or someone else. niemi probably never gets a chance, and maybe the goalie that ends up playing for us in the postseason ends up being terrible. everything would have been different, and who knows what ends up happening thank you huet, for sucking and being part of the perfect storm that ended with the cup in chicago.

last year's hawks were pretty simple. they were completely and ridiculously dominant in the first half, and decidely mediocre in the second half (even goal differential, etc). this year's team will never be the dominant team that the 09-10 Hawks were for a good portion or that season. that's just not going to happen. we'll still be good, but the reason we were so ridiculoous last year was because of insane depth (and GOOD depth), which is what we lost this offseason. remember how ridiculous our 3rd line usually was last season? [expletive], even our 4th line was good. we were stacked. i haven't checked, but we aren't outshooting teams like we were last year so far. that was one of the main things that stood out last season. we would just obliterate teams in shot differential every night. really though, a 4-2-1 start is definitely encouraging when you consider a) we have a LOT of new faces that have to get used to each other b) we have a lot of young players trying to get comfortable (which also makes the above point even more exaggerated) c) we're missing campbell like i said a few days ago, i think we should all start to accept the fact that brian campbell is more valuable to this team than we gave him credit for prior to the ovechkin hit. our defense immediately went to complete [expletive] after he went down with the broken collarbone, then when he came back in the playoffs our defense immediately got getter again. he's crazily overpaid, but that's not the point. as a 4th d-man, he's great. we're also missing sopel, who was really good in the second half last year and through the playoffs. he was key on the PK and a beast at blocking shots. he was slow as hell and couldn't skate, shoot, or stick handle.... but he didn't make mistakes either. he was a luxury at the 5th spot, and another example of the depth we lost. i think we look good though. we aren't going to compete for the president's, but we should be a 4-5 seed or better if we stay healthy.

btw, cullimore was the main reason that OT goal happened

nick boynton is brutal. wtf is that guy doing out there

he should holdout

Yea but I'm equally back and forth on Cashner. So happy that we fucked with him this season when he was finally dominating as a starter. That's an all-time bonehead Cubs move for me. Just sickening.

Great park for him. I think he'll go down as one of my favorite Cubs of all time, if only for running over Molina (and knocking him out of the game) and the hilarious glove slam

cowboys are done

grabbed the jersey on the way up, and it was enough to slow his jump. it was probably uncatachable, but it was close enough where you gotta call it. you could argue that he could have possibly tipped it up in the air and then caught it or something