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  1. 17 Seconds
    Pretty much how I feel. Game 1, 2, and 4 were right there for the Sharks to win. Niemi was the biggest difference, and the Hawks skaters made a few more plays and a couple fewer mistakes. Game 2 was the one game where I thought they flat out dominated... especially in the 3rd when they slowed down play and just allowed SJ nothing at all. I'm not saying the Hawks didn't deserve to sweep. They earned all 4 games for sure. Just saying that the Sharks skated right with us all series.
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    I've never implied you were insulting the Hawks. If you took it that way, then I'm sorry, but that wasn't what I was trying to say. To me, it seemed you were trying to defend the Sharks. The reality is, how the Sharks played against the Hawks has been the playoff M.O. for the last few years. Then you haven't watched the Sharks in the last few years. This season, Heatley didn't play well, but was hurt. Thornton wasn't great but he was much better than he had been in previous years,. Marleau was great. The team as a whole played well. The hawks were just a little bit better. I just don't understand why it's so hard for you to admit that the Sharks skated right with the Hawks for 3 of the 4 games and could have easily won any of those. It's very strange that you can't admit it.
  3. 17 Seconds
    I know. I never said it wasn't. It was a very convincing series against a great team. They absolutely earned it. RedFlash just likes making it seem like I'm insulting the team when I'm not.
  4. 17 Seconds
    Who is playing the "what if" game? We're not talking about who deserved the win. I'm talking about the statement that the hawks "dominated" the Sharks, which just isn't true. See how RedFlash makes the argument into something it's not? I point out that we outplayed them but didn't "dominate" the series (as if there's some shame in that or something), and he pretends I'm saying the Hawks didn't deserve to win or that we got lucky. The Hawks deserved to win. They were the better team. They did not dominate the series. I want to know where anybody said anything remotely close to this.
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    why do you keep acting like i'm insulting the blackhawks or something? you're talking about a bunch of stuff i never even brought up. all i said was that it's not accurate to say we dominated them. 3 of the 4 games were pretty evenly played. Now i'm interested to hear how you spin this and act like I'm saying the Hawks didn't deserve to win and that the Sharks are better. Seriously, any time anybody says anything about this team other than that they're awesome, you get all offended and act like we're trashing the team.
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    i hate to go with the "you must not have watched the games" line, but did you? nobody who watched all 4 games can honestly say that he played as well as he could have what if he doesn't give up the soft byfuglien goal in game 1? what if he stops the bolland breakaway in game 3? what if he doesn't score on himself in game 4 to get the hawks back into it? all 3 of those games ended up being won by a single goa l(the empty netter in game 4 wouldn't have happened). so yes, the series was that close, even if you can't admit it for some reason. the blackhawks could EASILY be down 3-1 right now. i'm not saying this to take away from the blackhawks at all. san jose is a great team and sweeping them by dominaing them all 4 games was unrealistic. "There are a lot of people who are going to say it was a one-way series," defenseman Dan Boyle said. "Anyone who knows anything about hockey knows that three of those four games could certainly have gone our way." boyle is right, and most unbiased hawks fans would agree
  7. 17 Seconds
    oh, is it always the captain that accepts it? i'm dumb
  8. 17 Seconds
    i would not waste any assets (especially guys like cash, castro, the jacksons, etc) on any starting pitcher right now... and especially not on a rental of an older pitcher. we're looking set with starting pitching for at least next year. zambrano, dempster, wells, silva, cashner, gorz, marshall, jay jackson, etc. some of those guys are obviously suspect and could suck, but i think it's a pretty safe bet that we'll be able to put together a solid rotation out of those guys next season
  9. 17 Seconds
    i think people confuse rose's ceiling with how good he actually is right now
  10. 17 Seconds
    again, i never argued anything about the matchup. on paper, yeah.. it's one of the lesser matchups ever. i just thought you were selling niemi short by seemingly comparing him with leighton, who sucks. niemi doesn't suck. and im not saying fluery sucks. i'm just saying i don't understand how you can call the guy "very good" when he's been pretty mediocre for his career.
  11. 17 Seconds
    this might be relevant if fleury didn't play behind a good team
  12. 17 Seconds
    no, fleury is very good. cam ward is good too. not really. those guys reputations seem to be living on their draft status and stanley cup runs. especially fluery marc andre fluery has had only one good season. the rest of his career he's been mediocre to bad. cam ward is a pretty solid goalie now (not great), but he was atrocious during the regular season before his cup run. if we're talking about goalie matchups heading into a final, he was a worse bet than niemi. so i don't get it, are you saying that osgood sucks and niemi is good? because they're pretty similar, both put up very good numbers behind great defenses. your assessment of fleury is laughable. i never even said anything about osgood. and you can say what you want aobut my assessment of fleury, but where are the results? can you please show me? he's had exactly one good season, and one average one. and like sponge said, my friend in pittsburgh always bitches about fluery and shares the opinion that he's still living off his cup run hype. i just don't understand how you can possible call fluery a "very good" goalie when the results usually aren't there.
  13. 17 Seconds
    marc andre fluery has a .907 career save percentage, and was at .905 this year. he's only had one year over .912. really, fluery has to be one of the more overrated players in the NHL at this point.
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    no, fleury is very good. cam ward is good too. not really. those guys reputations seem to be living on their draft status and stanley cup runs. especially fluery marc andre fluery has had only one good season. the rest of his career he's been mediocre to bad. cam ward is a pretty solid goalie now (not great), but he was atrocious during the regular season before his cup run. if we're talking about goalie matchups heading into a final, he was a worse bet than niemi.
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    NO Do you think there's a chance he could make Rose even 1/50th as good defensively as Ronda? That way Rose would only be half as good as Ronda overall. Dude, Rondo made Thibodeau, not the other way around. You know that. You could let Derrick play with a sword, outlaw calling any kind of violations on him and he'd still be worse than Rajon. Somebody's jealous of those MVP cheers Rondo was getting. I wonder how many more seasons it will take for Rose to win his first playoff series. (Rondo won a title by this point btw) you're really stooping to counting titles and playoff series? rondo is better than rose, you don't need to do things like this.
  16. 17 Seconds
    cam ward vs dwayne roloson was pretty bad too
  17. 17 Seconds
    i just meant that you're selling niemi short by implying that he's part of a "bad goalie matchup". leighton is the only bad goaltender in this series. the better question would be "is michael leighton the worst goaltender to play in a stanley cup?"
  18. 17 Seconds
    thats so awesome. now im sad he's dead
  19. 17 Seconds
    finally vince carter pays dividends. i don't think they win this game without vinsanity
  20. 17 Seconds
    no. michael leighton sucks and niemi doesn't.
  21. 17 Seconds
    welp, you heard it from dwight. god did it, not them.
  22. 17 Seconds
    paul pierce is taking over!!
  23. 17 Seconds
    i'm glad. night games in the postseason always feel a lot bigger and more climactic to me.
  24. 17 Seconds
    I know we've been burned as Cub fans and maybe it's hard to wrap our minds around our team being the better team but, one can slice it a million ways. And it'll lead to the same conclusion the Hawks are the best team in the NHL. They bested the Sharks, they'll beat the Flyers as well, no matter how many ways we try to manifest the Flyers as something more than they are. oh i know, i'm not arguing any of that. i'm just saying it's really unfair to san jose to say we dominated them. they could have easily won 3 of the 4 games. but yeah, the hawks are definitely showing they are the class of the NHL this year
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    pat kane leads the league in STDs just another thing patrick kane is awesome at
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