Post by jimc on Feb 16, 2018 16:29:47 GMT
Perhaps there is some shock at just HOW bad the Hawks are, but that they are a non'playoff team that just isnt competitive should come as NO surprise.
If you look at what little step and fetch it stan 'accomplished' in the off-season, the Hawks deserve to be right where they are.
First off, he made an incredibly poor trade, repatriating Saad for Panarin.The Hawks offense has suffered all year (not counting opening night!) As a result. Lets be honest. Saad cant hold a candle to Panarin's offensive contributions...and his once-vaunted all around game is now non-existent...very likely a result of not having a healthy Toews and Hossa to carry him. So lets be honest...Saad replaced about 3/4 of what old and broken Hossa might have provided this year. Panarin has not been replaced, in any way.
What did stan do to replace the lost offense at F? Sharp, Bouma and Wingells. 2 4th liners and an AHL turd. Wonderful...bringing back Sharp and expecting any production out of him was laughably stupid, based on his last 2 seasons of sharply declining production...expecting he might contribute regulatly in the top 6 was retarded. Cointing on him at all was pure foolishness.
In terms of C depth, stan failed again...he was supposed to help take some of the heavy minutes burden off of Toews by replacing Markus Kruger...well, his 'big' move was to trade away Tyler Motte and promote David Kampf...leaving the Hawks with quite possibly the worst collection of centers in the league. Broken down Toews, always-injured Anisimov, not a centre Schmaltz...who has now been replaced by not a centre Hartman, and not an NHL player Kampf. fucking genius...and throw in a few random games of Bouma or Wingells or Hino or some other scrub.
On D, the little genius managed to turn over 4 of his 6 starting D from last year...including the absolutely terrible Hammer trade...and replaced each of them with a more shitty pylon this year. Osterle. Kempny. Rutta. Forsling. Gustaffson. Murphy. Puke...complete and total embarrassment. For a team that was supposed to 'compete' this year, Blowman misidentified just about every single need.
Then there was replacing Darling...stan went from possibly the bezt b/u situation last season to unquestionably the worst this season. I get Darling was too expensive, but the level of suck from all 3 of Forsberg, Glass and Berube has been an epic shitstorm. A complete and total fail.
Hey...look...John Hayden...a very small soft and timid team needs exactly what he brings to the table...lets send him down and replace him with a twat on skates...Tomas Jurco...hey...brilliant.
Every single thing Stund has touched this year has turned to shit...he literally made every single move come out wrong. The only possible 'win' was getting Phx to tsmake his awful Panik deal. What he got back is really irrelevent...and he plays like it. Save for one single game early on, Duclair has been a complete farce....actually performing at a lower ppg level than he did in fucking Phx...and having zero touch around the net. Pretty obvious why the yotes were so eager to accept any offer to dump him. Kid is all kinds of fast, but just so lazy and positionally clueless.
Stan Bowman gets a fat fucking F for this abortion of a year, and absolutely deserves to be fired...he is an abomination.
If you look at what little step and fetch it stan 'accomplished' in the off-season, the Hawks deserve to be right where they are.
First off, he made an incredibly poor trade, repatriating Saad for Panarin.The Hawks offense has suffered all year (not counting opening night!) As a result. Lets be honest. Saad cant hold a candle to Panarin's offensive contributions...and his once-vaunted all around game is now non-existent...very likely a result of not having a healthy Toews and Hossa to carry him. So lets be honest...Saad replaced about 3/4 of what old and broken Hossa might have provided this year. Panarin has not been replaced, in any way.
What did stan do to replace the lost offense at F? Sharp, Bouma and Wingells. 2 4th liners and an AHL turd. Wonderful...bringing back Sharp and expecting any production out of him was laughably stupid, based on his last 2 seasons of sharply declining production...expecting he might contribute regulatly in the top 6 was retarded. Cointing on him at all was pure foolishness.
In terms of C depth, stan failed again...he was supposed to help take some of the heavy minutes burden off of Toews by replacing Markus Kruger...well, his 'big' move was to trade away Tyler Motte and promote David Kampf...leaving the Hawks with quite possibly the worst collection of centers in the league. Broken down Toews, always-injured Anisimov, not a centre Schmaltz...who has now been replaced by not a centre Hartman, and not an NHL player Kampf. fucking genius...and throw in a few random games of Bouma or Wingells or Hino or some other scrub.
On D, the little genius managed to turn over 4 of his 6 starting D from last year...including the absolutely terrible Hammer trade...and replaced each of them with a more shitty pylon this year. Osterle. Kempny. Rutta. Forsling. Gustaffson. Murphy. Puke...complete and total embarrassment. For a team that was supposed to 'compete' this year, Blowman misidentified just about every single need.
Then there was replacing Darling...stan went from possibly the bezt b/u situation last season to unquestionably the worst this season. I get Darling was too expensive, but the level of suck from all 3 of Forsberg, Glass and Berube has been an epic shitstorm. A complete and total fail.
Hey...look...John Hayden...a very small soft and timid team needs exactly what he brings to the table...lets send him down and replace him with a twat on skates...Tomas Jurco...hey...brilliant.
Every single thing Stund has touched this year has turned to shit...he literally made every single move come out wrong. The only possible 'win' was getting Phx to tsmake his awful Panik deal. What he got back is really irrelevent...and he plays like it. Save for one single game early on, Duclair has been a complete farce....actually performing at a lower ppg level than he did in fucking Phx...and having zero touch around the net. Pretty obvious why the yotes were so eager to accept any offer to dump him. Kid is all kinds of fast, but just so lazy and positionally clueless.
Stan Bowman gets a fat fucking F for this abortion of a year, and absolutely deserves to be fired...he is an abomination.