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  1. Hairyducked Idiot
    Technically, the rule is "two players," but the goalkeeper is almost always the second one, so we just think of it as one.
  2. Hairyducked Idiot
    Scored against the host team in the opener. Also vaguely resembling an offside play. But incredibly vaguely right? I mean, there was a SA player in front of everybody the whole time. Just one. I haven't seen a close replay yet, but you have to have two. Usually, you have to have two, and the goalkeeper was moving up to play him offside. I don't know if he got there or not.
  3. Hairyducked Idiot
    Scored against the host team in the opener. Also vaguely resembling an offside play.
  4. Hairyducked Idiot
    Watching the coverage of the parade on WGN. 350k people expected, and I think I see 325k tags hanging down from Kane jerseys.
  5. Hairyducked Idiot
    It's going to be beautiful to see Mexico get jobbed by the refs today.
  6. Hairyducked Idiot
    What if we don't win the draft lottery to get Kane? What if we don't lose the draft lottery to get stuck with Barker instead of Ovechkin or Malkin? Here's a fantastic one: What if Niemi doesn't beat out Crawford on the last day of exhibition season?
  7. Hairyducked Idiot
    And Duncan Keith is incredibly lucky he's not the new Bartman right now. That turnover to start overtime was absolutely horrific, and it ended with a puck bouncing toward Niemi that could have easily bounced over his leg instead of into it.
  8. Hairyducked Idiot
    I think that I've watched the highlights at least two dozen times today, and listened to the WGN Radio call at least 40. That Niemi save on Carter in the closing minutes of the third is epic. It looks at first glance that Carter just choked and put it right into Niemi's mask. But then you watch, and Carter took a perfect cross-net pass, and instead of just flailing over, Niemi used his sick leg strength and low center of gravity to get over in a good butterfly position, and then used that good position to lean forward and cut off any elevation angle that Carter would have had. Most important save in Blackhawks team history.
  9. Hairyducked Idiot
    The heart of it was that dexter thought that the March swoon was a sign of something fundamentally flawed with the team and that we'd crash and burn in the playoffs, especially without a new goalie. My contention was that slumps and streaks happen for no apparent reason, and that the March swoon was nothing more than a slump and had no bearing on whether we'd be slumping or streaking come playoff time. I also figured either Huet or Niemi was capable of going on a hot streak, although I was slightly more partial to Huet, and that even if they didn't the Hawks could outscore teams.
  10. Hairyducked Idiot
    On a dramatic, overtime game winner by the face of the franchise, to cap off an epic six-game series of high-scoring, one-goal games. :yahoo:
  11. Hairyducked Idiot
    The 7-2 win over San Jose is a good call. That capped off an 8-game winning streak.
  12. Hairyducked Idiot
    I used up all that credit on the time between games 3 and 5. I get a little back for calling for line changes after line 4 though.
  13. Hairyducked Idiot
    This season, the Blackhawks were the absolute best team in the league according to a plurality, maybe even a majority, of statheads and scouts. Next season, they'll be back in the pack among 6-8 teams that can be called Cup contenders. Woo!
  14. Hairyducked Idiot
    Very good point. Almost all of this team's playoff losses came when Campbell was hurt or strangely ineffective/low on ice time (I suspect some sort of injury).
  15. Hairyducked Idiot
    I'm not sure they want to move him. Maybe they do. I kind of feel like this consensus has wrapped around the basic framework of the Blackhawks' offseason (trade Sopel, waive Huet, move a couple of Versteeg/Ladd/Byfuglien/Sharp) but really, I wonder if the Blackhawks brass has plans entirely of their own.
  16. Hairyducked Idiot
    Ladd was picked No. 4 in the 2004 draft, right after Ovechkin (who would might have had if we didn't lose the last game), Malkin (who we would have had if Washington hadn't won the draft lottery) and Cam Barker (who we ended up with). It's weird to think of him in that class, he feels like a crafty veteran. And he's already won two Cups. I really hope we find a way to keep him, or at least extract a king's ransome for his RFA rights.
  17. Hairyducked Idiot
    Some fun stats for why Toews deserves the Conn Smythe and people who look at 3 points in 6 Final games just don't get it: Toews won more faceoffs than he lost in every Final game. Toews won 60.2% of his faceoffs in the playoffs, tops among forwards who had at least 225 faceoffs. Toews took 460 faceoffs, tops in the league. He took 33.7% of the Blackhawks' faceoffs. Toews was 7th in the playoffs in shorthanded time on ice. Toews led all forwards in the playoffs with 32 takeaways. He had just 9 giveaways, for a +23 differential that tied with Dave Bolland for best in the playoffs. He had just 4 penalty minutes in 22 playoff games. And while he was doing all this, he scored 29 points, second in the playoffs.
  18. Hairyducked Idiot
    And the best part is: These players aren't going for nothing. Guys like Versteeg, Sharp, etc. have strong trade value. The Blackhawks will be restocking up on picks and prospects into an already loaded system.
  19. Hairyducked Idiot
    The general assumption is that they will waive Huet and either send him to Rockford or allow him to sign with a European team (and pay the difference), not buy him out. And that they'll trade Sopel no matter what. I think with his playoff performance it won't be hard to find a taker. The cap stuff is going to be interesting and it will hurt, but the reality is that this team will still have the same top-2 defensemen playing 28 minutes a game, and they'll still have Kane, Toews and Hossa. They'll be right there with San Jose, Detroit, and L.A. as the top teams in the West yet again.
  20. Hairyducked Idiot
    What a wonderful problem to have, btw.
  21. Hairyducked Idiot
    It may not be the full $1.3 million. It depends on exactly how much they were under the cap at the end of the season, which only the league knows for sure. All those little moves like sending Skille back to Rockford between games may have helped in the end, plus Johnsson's injury.
  22. Hairyducked Idiot
    I wouldn't overreact just yet. Enjoy the moment. We don't know what Toews' actual bonus situation was, we don't know how much room was left under the cap, and we don't know what the cap will be next year. We have a pretty good idea. But these rules get so complicated it can be hard to tell. http://www.hockeybuzz.com/cap-central/team.php?team=CHI
  23. Hairyducked Idiot
    I was hoping they could keep two of three out of Sharp/Byfuglien/Versteeg. That bonus means that's not going to happen unless they can get someone to take Campbell.
  24. Hairyducked Idiot
    Wait, never mind, those are the *minimum* values. He can get up to $2 million in Schedule B bonuses. That hurts.
  25. Hairyducked Idiot
    The way it works is that if a guy has bonuses in his contract, they have to count against the cap until he doesn't hit them. So let's say Kane has a 50-goal bonus for $100k. That $100k counts against your cap until the season is over, even if he needs 20 goals on the last day of the season to reach it. You can exceed the cap by up to 7.5% because of the bonuses. The downside to exceeding the cap with the bonus cushion is that if the player reaches the bonus, it counts against next year's cap. So any bonuses Kane, Toews or Keith reached this season will count against next year's cap. But I really don't think there's any $1.3 million bonuses out there, unless I've been reading and understanding the CBA incorrectly.
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