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hahahahahahahahhahahahah
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unbelievable that this game is tied right now. it feels like that was the first time they had gotten the puck in our zone in like a half hour.
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i fuckin hate baseball fans
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id do it too
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i hope you're right do you think q should go back to huet over niemi now?
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There's a lot of mediocrity right there. The myth that you have to have a great goalie to win the Stanley Cup comes from the fact that a mediocre goalie who wins the Cup is automatically considered great for having won it. Those four guys I cut out above all have career save percentages lower than Huet's .915. Fleury does too, actually. save percentage of those players the year they won the cup (we're talking aobut how good they were when they won the cup, not how good their careers were): Fleury- .912 Osgood0 .914 Giguere- .918 Ward- .882 Khabibulin- .910 Brodeur- .914 Hasek- .915 Roy- .913 Brodeur- .910 Belfour- .915 huet this year- .902 the only guy under .910 was ward, and he was 21 and a rookie at the time so the .882 wasn't really a true indicator of how good he was (although i dont think he's very good anyways)
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you know what i mean when i say wasted season. if we have a roster this great, but we end up falling short because of the lack of a goalie, how is that not a wasted season? also, with the cap issues... this year is the best rosxter we're going to have. obviously we're stuill going to be good, but this is the year with the best chance. and i don't agree that making it to the western conference finals this year is any kind of accomplishment. we did that last year and we're a much better team this year. a championship is the goal right now, nothing else. if we end up as the 1 or 2 seed and flame out in the playoffs and it's due to bad goaltending, you really wouldn't call it a wasted season?
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i'm only half serious with the "wasted season" stuff, but there's a very good chance it's true. last 10 stanley cup goalies Fleury Osgood Giguere Ward Khabibulin Brodeur Hasek Roy Brodeur Belfour pretty much all of those guys are in another league than huet, with the exception of maybe osgood (although osgood was pretty good that year). goaltending is far and away the most important position in the playoffs. now, of course it's possible for any goalie to win the stanley cup. but kyle specifically is making it seem like huet could take the hawks to the cup and it wouldn't really be a huge surprise. if that's true, then there would be more scrub goalies like huet with their names on the stanley cup. that list is pretty telling. to me, this "well huet can get hot blah blah" stuff is not far off from "well the cards won 83 games and won the world series so..." stuff. is it possible? of course. but relying on that is pretty weak, because it's highly unlikely. so yeah, i think there's pretty good reason to feel like our lack of a goalie might make this end up being a wasted season.
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Some of the folks over on RealGM are pretty convinced of it. A good friend of mine knows his sister real well. He likes the ganja like a fat kid likes cake. So? So he may be [expletive] high and not drunk. Is it that hard to figure out why I posted that? no, we got it.
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wasted season
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i just saw jimmy johnson in a commercial for extenze wtf
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yeah, it really is hard to get excited about our chances of winning a cup with the goalies we have. it would be such a shame too. such an amazing team ruined due to the lack of one position. i really have a feeling that someone will be brought in tomorrow though. just not sure if it will be somebody good.
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in the first. and i never said they never did it. just seemed like they didn't come back very often, but apparently it's not as bad as i thought. i wonder why we aren't hearing more about tim thomas. rask has completely taken over as the bruins number 1 goalie (he's started 7 straight games for boston), and it was already known that he was the future number 1 for boston even before that. i see no reason why thomas wouldn't be on the market.
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guess not. i just cant remember off hand any games where we rallied from 2 or more down late.
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fair enough. i did say multiple goals though. are there stats on that?
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not game thread whining. i've said it before. maybe early in the game not so much, but i'd like to see how many times this team has come back late in the game.
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the first 2 goals for NY were off TERRIBLE turnovers from seabrook and then johnsson and i've said this before, but i don't like how this team packs it in when they go down multiple goals. with the high scoring offense we have, you'd think they'd be able to come back from 2 or 3 down pretty easily,. but they don't. they fold. very concerning. Actually, on the contrary, they've shown repeatedly they can come back from almost any deficit. yep they've shown they can. they just don't do it very often, especially late in the game.
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man, this game has contained all the annoying parts of the hawks this season. bad turnovers, horrible goaltending, and now a piece of [expletive] goalie standing on his head. 39 shots on roloson and only 2 goals? GTFO
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the first 2 goals for NY were off TERRIBLE turnovers from seabrook and then johnsson and i've said this before, but i don't like how this team packs it in when they go down multiple goals. with the high scoring offense we have, you'd think they'd be able to come back from 2 or 3 down pretty easily,. but they don't. they fold. very concerning.
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early in the year huet was on one of his streaks where he's not bad, and niemi was playing great. now huet is on one of his lenghthy slides and niemi is back down to earth. seems like he was a product of small sample size. he's been hot garbage since they started trying to give him more playing time. q looked completely disgusted when he pulled niemi early in the 2nd. i have a feeling we're going to get a goalie, but not a very good one. maybe a stiff like turco or something, which still might be better than what we have.
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not as bad as our goalies
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this is embarrassing. another game completely flipped by horrible goaltending. we completely dominated them inb the first period, but 4 soft goals have completely taken the hawks legs away and are now getting outplayed by a garbage team that has gained confidence. make a trade for a goalie by tomorrow or this is going to be a wasted season, period.
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lol and now another one edit: and now niemi gets the hook. what a nightmare goalie situation
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2 goals for the islanders on 2 awful, awful turnovers and another questionable goal from niemi. jesus.
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hawks looked amazing in the 1st