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Post by stbhawks19 on Apr 5, 2018 16:42:39 GMT
STAYING PUT: Chicago #Blackhawks president John McDonough announces that head coach Joel Quenneville and GM Stan Bowman will remain with the team for the 2018-19 season tsn.ca/1.1047882 #TSNHockey
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Post by khawk20 on Apr 5, 2018 16:45:51 GMT
FUCK. OFF.
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Post by khawk20 on Apr 5, 2018 16:46:53 GMT
...might mean Q is bumped up the ladder though, and not be coach. Stun too, perhaps? (Who am I kidding....fuck sakes) Bad news people...Stan is still in charge of the spending, the UFA signings, possibly the most important draft in the last decade, the TRADES, and the Qualifying offers.... sigh.
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Post by lari on Apr 5, 2018 16:58:06 GMT
This means no rebuild and no more young players.
It's the one last go at a Cup!
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Post by soccer24 on Apr 5, 2018 16:59:57 GMT
Crawford's injury and lack of a viable backup saved Q this season.
But it will be a short leash next year.
Premature predictiosn for next year: The last two years I expected this team to be a playoff bubble team. Instead they went from winning division to losing the division. I see them as effectively the same group next year. Some guys a little older but I expect Saad to bump up, and probably some improvement from Debrincat and/or Schmaltz. And Keith probably recovers from an abysmall year as well. So this coming season is the year they finally end up being the playoff bubble team I thought they have been the last couple years now. That's enough to keep Q in place all year, but a first round exit sends him packing.
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Post by jrsamu on Apr 5, 2018 17:10:05 GMT
Even with Crawford, without a legitimate top 4 defenseman and a different mix of forwards (or at least a major improvement and contribution from guys who can actually win or keep the puck), that fill out the non-core spots (and all this is assuming #19, #2 and #7 have more in the tank than they showed this year), this is not a playoff team next year either. It may be a fun team to watch score goals....and continue to give up a lot more.
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Post by jimc on Apr 5, 2018 17:52:42 GMT
Typically cheap and cowardly move by the HWks. Gutless.
Have to cater to the 'fans' who dont know hockey didnt exist before 2009.
Fuck them.
Any improvement by the kids gets off-set by further degradation of the core...once 88 starts regressing, they are fuckrd.
Where is this narrative coming from that Crow injury is why they missed playoffs? J F C. Look at that fucking roster...
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Post by soccer24 on Apr 5, 2018 18:24:33 GMT
Even with Crawford, without a legitimate top 4 defenseman and a different mix of forwards (or at least a major improvement and contribution from guys who can actually win or keep the puck), that fill out the non-core spots (and all this is assuming #19, #2 and #7 have more in the tank than they showed this year), this is not a playoff team next year either. It may be a fun team to watch score goals....and continue to give up a lot more.
I think 2 can rebound. 7 is certainly done. 19 I could see having one year where if things go right for him, he can have a 1-year resurgence of sorts. He won't be tops in the league again, but I think he might be able to have one mroe year where he elevates his game.
For Jim: I don't buy the narrative that Crow is why the Hawks, but it's out there. I will subscribe to a slightly different narrative though: Once Crawford went down, there was no chance the Hawks were going to make the playoffs with the goalie ensemble they had left.
There were defintiely other things that kept them out, but even if you patched some of those other things, brought in the ideal coach of your personal preference, Forsberg/Glass/Berube/Delia/Foster is probably the worst set of goalies the Hawks have ever seen.
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Post by profile1 on Apr 5, 2018 18:43:56 GMT
McD's big 2018 fuck you to fans....keep Stun, keep Q and raise ticket prices.
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Post by lari on Apr 5, 2018 18:52:15 GMT
Have to cater to the 'fans' who dont know hockey didnt exist before 2009. They don't want to risk losing a true Hawks fan like Justin Bieber.
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Post by jimc on Apr 5, 2018 19:03:42 GMT
ZERO playoff eins in 2 seasons
Nothing to see here.
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Post by jimc on Apr 5, 2018 19:04:48 GMT
And I agree...the contingency behind Crow was garbage from the get go...and I said so from the time of the trade
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Post by gadi on Apr 5, 2018 19:33:15 GMT
Typically cheap and cowardly move by the HWks. Gutless. Have to cater to the 'fans' who dont know hockey didnt exist before 2009. Most of those fans aren't paying attention now either. Look at how the secondary market has cratered, how many STHers are jumping ship, how little attention the Hawks get in the local media. No one gives a shit. Which makes this move even more baffling to me. Short of a huge McSplash at UFA, this team will have zero buzz going into next season. And assuming the team is mediocre/fringe playoff, that lack of buzz will continue and be obvious from the empty seats starting to become the norm at the UC. This move is cheap, gutless and completely stupid in every sense. Unless Rocky gets a cut of Q's huge Binny's endorsement deal, this will hurt the bottom line long term. So in other words, a classic Wirtz move../
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Post by jrsamu on Apr 5, 2018 19:40:53 GMT
To throw one more Molotov cocktail on the fire, it is not going to lengthen #19s career that he is the go to guy on his line that is planted in the crease and the tough spaces. This is the part of the Hawks evolution into a "small perimeter-oriented team that is maddening to watch, it is self-perpetuating FUBAR.
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Post by Pez68 on Apr 5, 2018 19:43:34 GMT
Lol. I guess I'll have a lot more free time next season. Because I won't be watching this awful hockey again...
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