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you got your chance and you blew it, niemi here's to huet in the playoffs!

i like after he gets bumped when he's just kind of soaring through the air with his legs kicking

sweeet

I think he picked the 2nd half because that was more in line of what Harden actually does (compared to his career) and that his first half was more of an outlier or flukish. i know, but weren't they talking about what they'd have to replace for last year's 83 win team? i thought that was the context of the conversation.... how the cubs would improve/downgrade from last year's team, meaning only harden's 2009 stats would be relevant.

They've got pitchers taking up like half their roster. as do most teams in baseball woosh?

Good point, I think most of us remember the dominant Harden and forget that he had been regressing. Harden put up a line of 4-3, 2.55 ERA, 12 GS , 67 IP, 1.119 WHIP, 11.8 SO/9 in the second half last year. We don't have anyone on the roster that is going to replace Harden (Gorzo, Silva, Samardzija, Marshall) that is capable of pitching that well over the course of a half a season In April Soriano OPS'd .955 and then he OPS'd .992 in August. So for over 25% of his AB's he was a .950+ OPS hitter. That doesn't mean that Soriano had a good year or that he is irreplaceable. That doesn't make sense and is a week argument. Half of Harden's season last year was very good not two random months throughout the season like you present with Soriano. I am not saying Harden is irreplaceable, just that the guys we are attempting to replace him with is going to make him more irreplaceable as none of them will be able to be as good as Harden was in the second half last year. you don't really make sense. you're picking out the half year where he was awesome and not pointing out that he was equally bad the other half. picking out half a season when you're talking about replacing production is dumb. look at his overall numbers, because his first half affected the team just as much as his second half.

maybe, but that division sucks so they could still win it. oakland is the only team that looks crappy

you mean he is a great team

???? they've been attacking and controlling the puck all game. the flames have had a few good pushes but they havent lasted long. hawks should be up like 5-1 right now I'm talking since about 7 minutes left in the game, we take the puck in their zone, and dump it into our zone whenever challenged. I'm just saying I'm used to the Hawks in these situations pushing hard for the third goal to put the game out of reach. they only did that for like 3 minutes, and that was when calgary was pushing hard Exactly, it happened and I wasn't used to seeing it. It was much longer than 3 minutes though. Since your challenging all my posts (and that's fine), to respond to your other comment, I kinda missed most of the first 2 periods, but I was aware they were dominiating the play. It wasn't pretty, it was a game we grinded out, despite not converting on a lot of our chances. Our game winning goal was a deflection off a skate...it was one of those kind of games. no i agree that there were parts of the game (especially after the hawks took the 2-1 lead) where calgary was pushing hard and the hawks were back on the heels, i just think you're selling them a little bit short overall. i thought they played outstanding. but yeah, you should seen kiprusoff in the first 30 or so minutes of the game. he was insane. he robbed madden alone 3 times point blank. he's the only reason they were still in the game in the second half.

???? they've been attacking and controlling the puck all game. the flames have had a few good pushes but they havent lasted long. hawks should be up like 5-1 right now I'm talking since about 7 minutes left in the game, we take the puck in their zone, and dump it into our zone whenever challenged. I'm just saying I'm used to the Hawks in these situations pushing hard for the third goal to put the game out of reach. they only did that for like 3 minutes, and that was when calgary was pushing hard

why wasn't it pretty? i think you're underestimating how well they played tonight. it was a very pretty win. they dominated them for the majority of the game and the only reason the game was close was kiprusoff standing on his head for the first 2 periods. niemi was also very, very good.

???? they've been attacking and controlling the puck all game. the flames have had a few good pushes but they havent lasted long. hawks should be up like 5-1 right now

flames are desperate and pushing hard. gonna have to work hard these final 4 minutes

they did for like 3 minutes but since then the hawks are back to dominating

4th line strikes again

versteeg are you serious? we better not lose this game, but we probably will

seriously, why does this ALWAYS happen to us? we've completely dominated this game but are only tied because of a stupid as goalie. we should have at LEAST 4 goals right now

are you kidding me kiprusoff? gtfo

and they miss a call against the flames now

that's a slash?

man, [expletive] kiprusoff. we should have like 3 goals

niemi for starter!

it does seem like a power play would be better sometimes, but a penalty shot is still the mugh higher percentage play

actually just use the yahoo.com feed. it's the game of the night so you can watch for free and it's better quality than the atdhe feed

atdhe.net always has one. if that's one isn't working, PM me and i'll give you a link to a second place