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  1. Hairyducked Idiot
    Yeah, all two years of it. Two years isn't enough sample size to draw a conclusion about what kind of player he is right now? No, but it's a bit short to use phrases like "entire career". You wouldn't make many conclusions about a 20 year old major leaguer, not sure why you seem so prepared to do so with Kane. Not at all. You are just reading things that aren't there. "has been true his entire career" is clearly past tense, so I assumed that 'to date' was implied. Kane will get better defensively with time. Right now, he's a liability in that phase of the game, and he makes it up with his offense. He's a guy who makes goals happen both ways, he just makes sure more happens for his team. In a league as conservative as this one, that's interesting to me.
  2. Hairyducked Idiot
    Yeah, all two years of it. Two years isn't enough sample size to draw a conclusion about what kind of player he is right now?
  3. Hairyducked Idiot
    A few of those goals against were pretty blatantly the fault of careless defenders though. True, but at the same time, Kane was pretty close to Samuelsson when the play started and pretty far behind him when it ended. And I'm pretty sure Kane's the faster skater. But regardless of individual goals, it's just a perpetuation of what's been true for the two years he's been in the league: More goals go in for both teams when he is on the ice.
  4. Hairyducked Idiot
    Patrick Kane is such a fascinating hockey player. On the one hand, he has 12 points in 13 playoff games and the Wings are scared enough of him to make Lidstrom his personal defender. On the other hand, he's got the worst +/- on the team in the playoffs, -8. He's got five power-play points, so that would mean that by my calculations he's had 15 even-strength goals scored against the Hawks while he's on the ice. A couple of those would be empty-netters, though.
  5. Hairyducked Idiot
    Funny story I remember from the first day of my first psych class: The teacher asked us to imagine a coin-flipping contest held in the main quad. Everyone in the school was asked to attend. Every 10 minutes there was a whistle, and you had to flip your coin. Heads, you were still alive, tails you left. After a little more than half a dozen rounds, we were down to the last 64 flippers. These were clearly the most talented flippers in the school. But when they flipped this time, some of them weren't 100% focused, and only 32 remained. Of those 32, it turned out some just weren't as good as we thought, and only 16 remained. In the round of 8, the crowd noise pumped up about half, and only those four remained. The pressure finally became too much for two of them, and we were down to the final two. But one of them just wanted it more, and he was the only one to flip heads, thus proving scientifically that he was the most skilled coin-flipper in the school.
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    Actually, psych class is exactly where I learned why this is *wrong*. People have trouble accepting randomness, so their minds invent reasons as to why things happen, such as deciding that team that wins had "good mental makeup."
  7. Hairyducked Idiot
    Top 5, generally, and that's with already having promoted so many awesome young players. They are pretty much out of elite prospects, I don't think there's another Toews, Kane or Seabrook down there, but they've got more potential NHLers than any team in the league. Depth should never be a problem. We definitely have a chance to pass them. We're just still two steps away (maybe closer to 1.5) on the Awful>young and talented>elite contender>Cup-winner continuum, and every step is a chance for a team to fall off the wagon. Nothing's guaranteed.
  8. Hairyducked Idiot
    Their farm system is still top-half. Zetterberg is 29, Franzen is 29, Draper is 28. I'd love for them to be bad, but unfortunately, it's going to be awhile. And they still manage to get free agents to take cheap deals to play with them and try to win a Cup.
  9. Hairyducked Idiot
    To be honest, though, we got some very favorable matchups to get to this point, especially in the first round. Calgary without Regehr isn't playoff quality, and Vancouver turned out to be nowhere near as good as I thought. Without Luongo, they'd be looking at a top-3 draft pick.
  10. Hairyducked Idiot
    I'm still astounded that any Hawks fans actually wanted to face Detroit. Even ignoring the difference in quality between the the Ducks and the Red Wings, the Ducks' style of play is exactly what the Hawks are built to beat. We could have skated around their D and their offense isn't good enough to take advantage of our turnovers defensively.
  11. Hairyducked Idiot
    Yep. That's who the Blackhawks are as a team. My biggest problem with the game tonight is 38 shots, 2 goals. A team built around offensive talent like the Hawks are has to do better than that.
  12. Hairyducked Idiot
    I'm a complete noob when it comes to hockey but shouldn't a defenseman be able to play defense better than he plays offense? Campbell's idea of defense is to skate it by three guys and down to the other end of the ice so you aren't on defense anymore.
  13. Hairyducked Idiot
    Top 10 in points among defensemen. Set up the gamewinner by knowing not to shoot when there was no lane.
  14. Hairyducked Idiot
    Yeah, I just noticed that on a replay. It should have been a 2-on-1 at worst.
  15. Hairyducked Idiot
    Campbell took a risk. That's who he is. I wish he didn't have the huge contract he does, but as long as he's on your team, you are going to have some very nice plays for goals and some awful ones to give up goals. He's the Patrick Kane of defensemen.
  16. Hairyducked Idiot
    Agreed.
  17. Hairyducked Idiot
    darn
  18. Hairyducked Idiot
    Cubs' season has started? hadn't even noticed...
  19. Hairyducked Idiot
    In hockey, there are going to be missed calls and cheap calls for and against both teams. Yes, tonight, there was a cluster of bad ones that hurt the Hawks in the last 10 minutes. But it gets old that 40% of the posts in every hockey game-day thread for every team in every game is complaining about the refs.
  20. Hairyducked Idiot
    Five power plays, including a 5-on-3. Missed calls? Sure. Part of hockey. [expletive] off Same to you.
  21. Hairyducked Idiot
    Hawks have been the better team two out of three periods.
  22. Hairyducked Idiot
    Five power plays, including a 5-on-3. Missed calls? Sure. Part of hockey.
  23. Hairyducked Idiot
    Crying in 3...2...1...
  24. Hairyducked Idiot
    I'm really, really glad he's splitting Kane and Toews sometimes. It helps.
  25. Hairyducked Idiot
    Prolonged pressure, control the play, tying goal. Toewzer with 2?
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