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Post by Pez68 on Feb 2, 2018 0:01:42 GMT
I'm actually planning to watch this one... Last game was pretty entertaining. Hawks need to continue to use their speed on the forecheck, play aggressive, and get the defense involved on the rush. They are actually pretty damn good when they dictate the pace.
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Post by jimc on Feb 2, 2018 5:24:35 GMT
Seabrook...oy ve
Fucking useless.
Totally unacceptable loss....thats 2 in van this season...look back on these when they miss the playoffs by 4 pts.
Fucking stunned cunt PP strikes again.
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Post by Pez68 on Feb 2, 2018 5:33:38 GMT
The PP has pretty much single handedly cost them the season. If you take away the Ottawa anomaly, they are 6 for their last 76 since Dec. 1st!!!
Seabrook is such a fat, useless piece of shit. A fucking duster made him his bitch in front of the net. Fitting way to effectively end the season.
Toews? Either his diet has completely fucked up his health, or he has some kind of illness(I also saw a low testosterone theory on HF). There's no other explanation for his lack of energy. He looked good for 2-3 rushes tonight, and then the tank was completely empty. And I mean EMPTY. He didn't even have energy to stay on his fucking skates. I play with more energy when I have the flu.
Kane was fucking useless tonight. And when I say useless...I actually mean a detriment every time he was on the ice.
Active sticks on full display on 3 of the Vancouver goals... Fucking pathetic coaching staff.
Schmaltz, DeBrincat(man can he shoot), Hinostroza, Kampf, Duclair, the best forwards. Seems to be a common theme lately.
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Post by jimc on Feb 2, 2018 6:13:16 GMT
JT a really solid opening 20 mins...and then...ghost
This D corps fucking sucks...Osterle is a scrub
Kane -3 on the night...last 6 games 0 G -6
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Post by brendan on Feb 2, 2018 8:00:40 GMT
almost impossible to have low testosterone. so many ways to artificially produce it. he did have good first. just might be toast offensively..eclair is a pylon not helping.
such a fucking joke. no chance for these guys with this group.
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Post by dhull10 on Feb 2, 2018 10:12:13 GMT
I guess it's asking too much from these guys to win 3 games in a row. Kane seems to be fantastic or useless no middle ground.
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Post by khawk20 on Feb 2, 2018 11:29:08 GMT
This is a very disappointing loss but I'm not as upset as I thought I would be with them losing. This is who they are this year. One or two good games consecutively does not mean games three and four will be the same or even the same effort will be present.
A long losing streak to improve lottery chances is probably more of a possibility than finishing out of the playoffs by three or four points at this stage, and I won't grouse too much about it if it goes that way. They need to hit the reset button in a lot of places and finishing terrible is how that's going to be begun.
I miss Crow. Forsberg isn't terrible and has his games and moments of really great play, but you're always waiting for "that goal" to go in, whether it does or not.
And for fuck sakes someone tell him to stop playing the puck. He treats it like a grenade.
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Post by lari on Feb 2, 2018 12:23:25 GMT
Seabrook is such a fat, useless piece of shit. A fat, useless, rich piece of shit.
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Post by lari on Feb 2, 2018 12:24:53 GMT
I guess it's asking too much from these guys to win 3 games in a row. Kane seems to be fantastic or useless no middle ground. Even when he's "fantastic", he's on the ice for too many goals against.
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Post by profile1 on Feb 2, 2018 12:30:10 GMT
This is who the Hawks are this year. Maybe one game in five do they look good. Otherwise, they are just a bad team.
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Post by soccer24 on Feb 2, 2018 13:53:07 GMT
Yeah, the team has enough talented players to where they can look good on occassion. Toews isn't what he used to be, but we're still going to see flashes of that player. DeBrincat and Schmaltz can step-up every now and then too. So when you see this nu-core click, the team is going to look pretty well. But being able to maintain that level of play is out of the question.
But really it's that defense that continues to hold them down. The unit of Keith, Seabs, Hjalmarsson, and Oduya/Campbell were really effective at what they could do. They were able to move the puck out of their own zone quickly, and transition to offense for a quick counter punch. This current group is far from those capabilities. And its funny because you'll see people that want to rave about how well one of them is, because he managed to score a 2 goals or so over 4 games. ...But that sort of thing wasn't ever really what gave the Hawks their strength. They still suck in their own end and in the transition game. Wasn't it last season that the team & media were fawning all over Forsling? lolz
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Post by Merpes on Feb 2, 2018 14:13:40 GMT
They couldn't loss this game and yet they did.
Close the books on playoff chances.
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Post by Merpes on Feb 2, 2018 14:16:54 GMT
Saad will finish with maybe 35 points, lol.
Stan really has no idea what he is doing. With one move, he is winning now, and another move, he is building for the future. This is why the Hawks look like they do.
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Post by jimc on Feb 2, 2018 14:18:56 GMT
This D corps absolutely SUCKS at puck retrieval. They compound this by being really weak at starting the rush and outletting the puck effectively.
A bunch of static, useless PMDs who cant actually move said puck, and just stand in a spot on the ice and wave their sticks at attacking skaters. You really couldnt coach this team to be any worse. Just mind boggling.
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Post by khawk20 on Feb 2, 2018 14:21:40 GMT
They couldn't loss this game and yet they did. Close the books on playoff chances. Even Pat on the home broadcast ran down who won and got points in the West that were relevant to the Hawks playoff chances and when it was at 3-2 basically said that this was their season. I don't think it was a minute after that and Van scored to make it 4-2. You could hear the air come right out of Pat's call. When your chief TV shill knows the score on the season, and says so, anyone that can't see it at this point is truly an Armdancer-for-life.
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