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Jimmydeicide wrote:Stop crying its not like the puck went in the net after it went out of play.XXXIV wrote:25k fine for Joel. You tell em Joe!
Oh yeah and way to go Magic Man!
They do it cause they are allowed to.MERACE wrote:
Ya, Vader, of course the refs missed that dirty play!
-MERACE
Oh okay. Yeah that call was disgraceful.Jimmydeicide wrote:I was referring to the missed calls of all missed calls the Detroit goal against kings, similar but not even close.
And dont raise your eyebrows at me.
Well said.vader29 wrote:So a $25,000 fine for grabbing your own crotch and a $5,000 fine for wacking someone else's crotch with your stick? Yeah that makes sense.
They are going to be ok. It's going to be a close series, Crawford has to stay sharp.XXXIV wrote:Oh and the Hawks better wake the f*** up or its going to be a very short series.
They looked like s*** in the first period. No energy at all. Just bad.
They sure look good now. They have been humming after the first.10spro wrote:They are going to be ok. It's going to be a close series, Crawford has to stay sharp.XXXIV wrote:Oh and the Hawks better wake the f*** up or its going to be a very short series.
They looked like s*** in the first period. No energy at all. Just bad.
It's the NHL, what do you expect it's run by a bunch of dick heads.vader29 wrote:So a $25,000 fine for grabbing your own crotch and a $5,000 fine for wacking someone else's crotch with your stick? Yeah that makes sense.
Blues are focused on the bigger picture right now....so they probably just continue to pay their game. Maybe some payback before it's over though...hopefully. Also Greg Millen reported that they have audio of Toews saying "Wakey Wakey Backes" while he was knocked out on the ice. Lost a lot of respect for Johnny T today if that report is accurate.Well I wouldn't go that far but both games were come from behind OT wins...so I'm pretty sure any team would be pretty excited over that instead of a regulation win.Inuyasha wrote:Blues celebrating last 2 wins like they won the cup. What's w that. It's just the first round.
To my eyes so far it's as much a case of the Hawks frustration over not being able to play their game their way as anything else. I think the combo of good tough Blues hockey, too many key players out of form because of recent injury and overall fatigue after the long run last season, short offseason and the Olympics is just making it tough for their best players to dictate the play. You have a possession team that just can't keep the puck. Their stretch passes are just not connecting and they're losing on far too many of the effort plays.Heartless, dirty and stupid will get you beat.
Just ask the Blackhawks.
It’s as if the Hawks were begging to blow Game 2 of the playoff series against the Blues, and St. Louis accommodated.
The Hawks were heartless early, and they were dirty and stupid late, choking away another third-period lead and losing another game in overtime.
Frankly, they deserved it. They deserved to lose a game in which they looked like amateurs a majority of the time.
It was enough to make you grab your crotch in disgust.
The Hawks came out reluctant to go to the tough areas and they weren’t wild about defending those spots, either. If they didn’t lose every battle for loose pucks, then they were losing the important ones.
This was how a defending champion responds to a triple-overtime loss?
The Hawks gave up the first goal again, and this time they allowed the Blues to score late in the first period for a 2-0 lead.
Uninspired. Unmotivated. Lazy. Inept. Just dumb. However you want to characterize the Hawks’ start, it was embarrassing the way they gave away the first 30 minutes Saturday afternoon.
Their power play became such a joke that two Olympians collided at the St. Louis blue line to create a shorthanded breakaway.
The Hawks drew enough lazy and stupid penalties in the second period that a rout wasn’t far off. But at least the Hawks’ penalty killers were engaged. It wasn’t much, but it was enough to leave the Hawks just one shot away from making it a game.
And Duncan Keith launched that shot late in the second period, firing a puck past Ryan Miller after it deflected off one of Miller’s teammates.
Note the formula: Slap shot by a Hawks defenseman, deflection off a Blues skater, puck in the back of the net.
Unbelievably, that worked two more times. Brent Seabrook tied the game that way early in the third period, and a couple minutes later, Michal Rozsival put the Hawks ahead.
Blackhawks coach Joel Quenneville demanded traffic in front of the Blues net to beat Miller, and thankfully the Blues accommodated.
And so, after three lucky bounces, the Hawks tried to protect another third-period lead. They failed to do it in Game 1. They failed in Game 2, only this time, they added a special brand of dirty and stupid.
Bryan Bickell stuck out his left leg and blatantly nailed Vladimir Sobotka’s knee. That’s not just dirty and stupid, that Canuck dirty and stupid.
The Blues went on the power play with less than five minutes to go in a one-goal game, and before the Hawks could kill it and get out of trouble and get out of St. Louis with a split, Seabrook launched himself into Blues captain David Backes and likely launched himself into a suspension.
Seabrook lined up Backes behind the Hawks’ net and drove his right shoulder into Backes’ face, drawing blood and a major penalty.
Again, Canuck-caliber dirty and stupid.
You cannot target the head. You cannot make the head the principal point of contact. And you’re an idiot to risk what happened while trying to kill a penalty and protect a late lead in a playoff game in a series you already trail by a game.
And so, of course the Blues scored the tying goal. They did it excruciatingly late --- 6.4 seconds remained --- and forced a second straight overtime affair because the Hawks blew a second straight lead in the dying minutes.
If you believe in cheater’s proof, you shouldn’t be surprised that Barrett Jackman scored 5:50 into overtime to give the Blues the victory and a two-games-to-none series lead.
If you don’t believe in hockey karma, then go with this: Is that any way to win a Stanley Cup?
Seapuss should be out the rest of this series. Don't worry about Toews, Reaves already put a smashing on him so he'll have more coming to him.tjung0831 wrote:GO BLUES! What a cheapshot by Seabrooke though but hey...they finally got David Backes. Too bad they are heading back to Chicago down 2 games!
