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  1. Hairyducked Idiot
    Not that bad. Even though some didn't want to admit it, no one expects the Hawks to win this series. Even down 0-2 and tied 3-3 in this one, they've played better than I thought they would/could.
  2. Hairyducked Idiot
    All the more reason not to lose tonight.
  3. Hairyducked Idiot
    Worst five minute since Oct. 2003? Wait, when was the opening five minutes against Carolina in the NFL playoffs?
  4. Hairyducked Idiot
    As bad as the defense was, the offense needs to generate something in the third. You can't make the defense play for minutes on end.
  5. Hairyducked Idiot
    *whistle* interference They're going to call something anyway. Might as well get your pound of flesh. You just can't. The NHL hasn't been allowing people to clear the front of the net without the puck there for a long time.
  6. Hairyducked Idiot
    The first couple minutes of the period we'll see if these guys have the stones to win this thing. The defense has been terrible. Walker, Campbell, Yjarmalsson. Just terrible. Seabrook has had some nice plays and some bad ones in this game. Keith has been consistently good though. Haven't noticed Barker one way or the other.
  7. Hairyducked Idiot
    *whistle* interference
  8. Hairyducked Idiot
    I'd say that's more of a sign that Detroit is really, really good. But that was some awful defense.
  9. Hairyducked Idiot
    Story's still the same: Got to win this game.
  10. Hairyducked Idiot
    Dang. I was starting to believe for a few minutes there.
  11. Hairyducked Idiot
    Okay. Feel free to play now.
  12. Hairyducked Idiot
    I hate the "he stood near my goalie, I have to punch him" idea so, so much. Especially when you *know* they are going to be looking for makeup calls.
  13. Hairyducked Idiot
    Yahoo says Lebda got one.
  14. Hairyducked Idiot
    yah, its totally legal to hit a guy who never had the puck. while leaving your feet and following through with a flying elbow. oh, and going straight for a headshot as well. The puck was at his feet. It's weird that they called it interference. It was charging, it was elbowing, it was a lot of things, but it wasn't interference.
  15. Hairyducked Idiot
    What a weird period. I don't think I've ever seen a team spend that much time on the PP in one period. The good news is that Detroit is down to 5 d-men and they all have 10 minutes of PK time on their legs. Should be nice and tired in the third period.
  16. Hairyducked Idiot
    Osgood wasn't going to keep it up forever. We should have had more than two last game, too.
  17. Hairyducked Idiot
    We're not getting 2003 Soriano at 2b. We're getting 2009 Soriano at 2b, with six years of wear and tear on his legs. Yeah but we don't have the 2008 Fontenot. We have the craptastic new model where everything of good was stripped and only the cheap bad is left. That doesn't mean you can start plugging guys in to important defensive positions who have absolutely, positively no business playing those positions. Why not just put Hoff at 2nd?
  18. Hairyducked Idiot
    We're not getting 2003 Soriano at 2b. We're getting 2009 Soriano at 2b, with six years of wear and tear on his legs.
  19. Hairyducked Idiot
    If you want to replace Fontenot in the lineup with Hoff, it might be better defensively to just go with four outfielders.
  20. Hairyducked Idiot
    As has been mentioned, it's just too broad of a brush to paint. "Reality" shows means so many different things. It means celebrity awfulness; it means really, really complicated game shows; it means docudramas like Deadliest Catch. Would travel shows like No Reservations count?
  21. Hairyducked Idiot
    Crosby is at 13 now for the playoffs, right? Record is 19?
  22. Hairyducked Idiot
    I said "his entire career" because I meant his entire career. What phrase would you prefer I use? Entire career is something you say when talking about a retired player or somebody who has been around a long time. It's 2 years, his first two years in the league, or something like that. Fine. It's an irrelevant to distraction to the primary point, so I'll go back and edit the post.
  23. Hairyducked Idiot
    Crosby is also a +30 for his career. +/- is like the batting average of hockey. It ignores a lot of important things and doesn't give you a real picture of overall value, but it's still silly to ignore what it does say. A .245 hitter isn't hitting for average, and a minus player who puts up a lot of points is not good defensively.
  24. Hairyducked Idiot
    I said "his entire career" because I meant his entire career. What phrase would you prefer I use?
  25. Hairyducked Idiot
    His +/- in the minos is irrelevant. He outclassed other players by such a wide margin. You can always point to individual goals and say "it wasn't his fault." But that doesn't explain why it happens so often throughout his entire career. It's a simple fact that goals happen more often for both teams when Patrick Kane is on the ice at even strength. He's fantastic offensively and awful defensively. He can't win a battle on the boards to save his life, and his backchecking is weak at best and disinterested at worst. If you take out the empty-netters dragging down his +/-, he's probably about even at even strength, i.e. he's just as bad defensively as he is good offensively. But since you can count on him for 40 points on the PP and he doesn't need to play on the PK, he's still a wonderful player to have. But for some reason, among Hawks fans, it's taboo to mention his defense. It's weird, because it's plain as day. It's like saying Sosa didn't strike out a lot or that Ramirez is injury prone. It doesn't mean they aren't great players, it's just who they are.
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