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you should have watched the finals... he sucks. i don't know why you're goofing on laviolette about this, what's he supposed to say? that his goalie isn't good but he doesn't have a better option? he said what he could to give his guy confidence. no, i know he was trying to give him confidence. i just didn't like the way he got all combatitive and acted like it was stupid for people to be asking about him. "liehgton? why the hell would i pull him? best numbers in the playoffs!" leighton sucks and was having a horrible SCF. stop acting like you were shocked that there was speculation about it.

lol @ the sharks "dominating" them for 3 of the 4 games. what a clown. as you guys know, i've been the one who was defending the sharks play and i still think that series was played pretty evenly, but the sharks dominated 3 of the 4 games? please -- Sat Jun 12, 2010 9:39 pm -- my favorite was reading though the game thread on a canucks board from game 6 of the SCF and seeing about 30 "NOT HIM.. ANYBODY BUT HIM" posts right after kane scored. so awesome -- Sat Jun 12, 2010 9:40 pm -- so apparently there's a new feature on this board that puts consecutive posts you make into the same post?

i think hjalmarsson needs to be a priority. i don't think we can afford to lose him

this is why i have never and will never listen to sports radio

Toews Kane Hossa Sharp Seabrook Keith Hjalmarsson Campbell Bolland Just keep all those guys, and do what you have to with the rest. The next guy on that list would be Ladd, but I've kind of accepted that he's probably going to have to go.

The regular season is irrelevant now. I'll take the guy that's going to show up when the games matter over the long 82 game stretch. He's actually, you know, good in the playoffs and has some pretty valuable assets. Of course I'm one of the bigger Buff fans on here, but I think it's an absolute mistake to trade him if you're going to use the regular season reasoning. I don't want Bolland going anywhere either. Definition of a great two-way player. Get rid of Versteeg, Sopel, Madden, Huet, and Burish. Keep Nik, Niemi, and Ladd. We'll see where we go from there. i don't think byfuglien was as good in the postseason as people made him out to be, to be honest. he scored a bunch of "playoff goals" and got in the canucks heads, but there's a reason he was -4 in the postseason and -7 in the regular season. and why is the regular season irrelevant? we're still going to be a good team next season, but we're not going to be as good as this year and coast to a top 2 seed. we could be easily end up fighting for home ice in the first round, so yeah. regular season is far from "irrelevant". would i like to keep him? sure, just like i'd like to keep guys like ladd and versteeg. we're going to lose valuable players, and i think he's the guy who has the biggest discrepency between percieved value and actual value on the team. the guy simply does not give it his all for the majority of the games he plays. and with the kane/toews bonus wrinkle, getting rid of versteeg/sopel/madden/burish won't be enough, even if they waive huet to the minors. there's going to be another guy they're going to have to lose.

good to see versteeg giving us one last versteeg moment as a blackhawk (there are many similar moments with him off the ice if you do some youtube searching). i won't miss him as a player, but i'll miss him as verbeauty

i saw a post on a wings boards regarding the additional 4m cap hit from the toews/kane bonuses. he said something like "and the hits keep on coming for the blackhawks". that specific line made me laugh pretty hard. we won a [expletive] stanley cup 2 days ago, but "the hits keep on coming". yeah, blackhawk nation is in complete disarray right now. basically rock bottom

yeah, we can't afford to lose any of the big 4 on d. hjalmarsson has to stay.

flyers won't commit to leighton for next season? i'm interested to hear how lavs feels about this. leighton had the best numbers in the playoffs!

i'm not worrying about it, i'm enjoying it and pointing out the hilarity. what's wrong with enjoying your rival suffer through your team winning a championship?

Hey Suppan, YOU'RE FUCKIN OUT

No, that's he main problem. He's never right. And what the hell are you talking about with Chicago blaming Steve Stone?

from a wings forum you heard it. we lucked out by playing trash like vancouver and san jose

I'm reading some Red Wings forums, and it's pretty hilarious

I can live without Buff, but Bolland would be hard to part with. That guy seems to be a bit of a rising star. yes, bolland needs to stay. he wasn't fully back from the injury until around the beginning of the vancouver series. i liked him before this season, and after this postseason i like him even more. pleeeeeeeease keep bolland.

i really hope byfuglien is one of the guys to go. not because i want him to go, but because i think his value is at an all time high right now, and we know what regular season byfuglien is like. he now has a stanley cup ring, and there is no olympic team to try to make next season. where will his motivation come from? SELL HIGH

I didn't see it yet, but I'm fine with booing him. He's worthless and his contract (though admittedly not his fault) may hamstring the team for the next few years. c'mon. why boo him for accepting a contract? what was he supposed to do? turn it down because he didn't think he deserved it? and either way, booing ANY player at a championship parade is just really really weak. "eff you huet, if you didn't suck so bad, maybe we finish with 117 points instead of 112! thanks a lot, you bum"

"umm, i really think the key to the playoffs for the hawks was buhhfooglienn. i cant wait until next season to see what kind of numbers this guy can put up now that he's developed into an elite player."

Cam Barker's planning his day with the Cup. Didn't he play enough games this year? Havlat is wondering why he sucked so much this year. He played enough games, but you have to finish with the team too, I think. I'll check. The Hawks might give him a ring, though. all you have to do is play 41 games in the regular season or 1 game in the finals.

Cam Barker's planning his day with the Cup. Didn't he play enough games this year? yeah, i guess you're right. he played 51. for some reason i thought it was way lower than that. so is he really going to get a day with the cup? that's pretty funny if it actually goes down like that.

i wonder what guys like martin havlat and cam barker are feeling

yeah, i'd expect him to be around average next season.

I don't understand this thought process. The idea that you've "earned" it more because you've watched more. I'm a huge Chicago sports fan, but for (I think) pretty reasonable reasons, I haven't had a lot of Blackhawks interest previously. I've had a casual passing interest...enough to care whether they won or lost, but not enough to watch the games on a regular basis. But (like many in town I suspect, based on TV ratings for Chicago), I followed the playoffs religiously. Why would you begrudge those people? it's fine that they exist, i just don't want to be around them.

yeah. i'm obviously fine with going into next season with him as our goalie, but i still don't know what to make out of that guy. even when he's going good, he seems to be flopping around... yet it seems to work a lot.you'd think winning a stanley cup would tell you what kind of goalie you have, but i still don't know. no matter what happens though, i'll always love him.