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Defeatist Attitude

yeah the team is 0-7 when I make a GDT...so i'm doing my best to help get Hughes boys!

1.I thought they told us this road trip would help the team bond?
Apparently not ...stars are not starring ...grunts look like they are not NHL calibre..A Q mess keeps forming.

2. CGY licking their chops to play a team that cannot defend and now cannot score...

3.Q still hitting the Merlot to drown his sorrows.


4.We were told our Cup vets were proud players..apparently not given the last game when all that $$$ got skunked and done in by the Caggiula types (and game before Gaunce type who's ) but our vaunted proud and highly paid core vets came up with basically nada first 2 games of this "bonding" trip.

5.Gaudreau Flames 5 Hawks 2...Book it,Dano!

10 Million Jinx

Rumours abound that the NHL has some sort of clause that prevents all 6 Hawks core vet highest paid players from having good games (too much to ask for all 6 having 'great' games) IN THE SAME GAME... there seems to be a rule that a max of 1 might have the odd great game...a max of 3 might have "good" games occasionally ...but that 3 or more of them shall most often have no show games just about every game with the others being often just meh I'm many of these games.

Thus when can you recall ALL of CC Toews Kane Saad (combined $27 million in cap hit) AND Keith and Seabs all having good games in the same game?

Some games like last game ..we got none of them making any difference ...some with negative dofference-making ...Most games we get 1,2 or maybe of them having good games..the others average/meh or poor games...

But we NEVER get all 6 (CC is the 6th player of this highest paid vet core) seeming to provide good (maybe 1 or 2 great) games in the same game!


Why this never happens (I guess it would provide a laugher) is beyond me .it should happen several times over 82 games..but apparently Never with the Hawks..

SO when I say stars gotta star to win. .I mean SOME of our stars must show up and make a difference to the win cause ...it would seem asking All 6 to show up and "star" is too much to ask..even for 1 game out of 82.

Why this is impossible is beyond me when each of them will have starry games (some more some a lot less over the 82) ...why all 6 cannot put it all together even 1 game of the 82 does not seem unreasonable..and yet..it just NEVER seems to happen.

It has to be a Q thing..as long as he is coaching this team...some "star" goes AWOL ...some " star " goofs up badly costing us. . Others go meh...

We just cannot get all 6 earning their high $$$$ in the same game ..

Frustrating. ..Infuriating .

It really is infuriating. It seems to me that it's been going on for a while that one or two Blackhawks will have a decent game offensively (usually Kane) and the others are mediocre, to be polite. Then we have last game where Kane is playing with the flu and no other Blackhawk takes up the slack. Q hasn't been able to rally the troops for years, yet he remains. That's dumfounding.

Hawks are underdogs again tonight btw...sort of hoping for a prolonged losing streak to get Q out the door

It is kind of Stan's fault too for bringing them here, I agree with you but I get the other side of the argument. I'm at the point where as long as Q is here they need to not give him his toys to play with. It is beyond time for the Hawks to quit wasting time with over the hill vets. I nearly **** a brick when Kunitz and Manning were signed this offseason because I knew Q was going to play them over the yutes. You gotta give Q no choice but to play the yutes, because he'll play plugs like Kruger, Manning and Kunitz over more deserving players 7 days a week including twice on Sunday. If Stan is actually pissed that Q won't play the yutes he has nobody to blame but himself.

Seven Minute PP

who's in charge of that?
an intern?

Get another man on the ice WHAT THE ####!

Why are the Hawks still shorthanded with no penalty lol

It’s up to the coaches to put someone in there for a replacement.

That's on the refs and the Hawks. If you kick a guy you make sure someone is serving it.

If nobody served it...you just put a guy on the ice.

Here's the Rule on Keith's penalty and the penalty kill:
Rule 21 – Match Penalties
21.1 Match Penalty: Match penalties are assessed against players deemed to have "deliberately" injured or attempted to injure an opponent. When a player is assessed a match penalty, he is ejected from the game and officially given 10 PIM. Not only is he ejected from the current game, but he is also suspended indefinitely "until the Commissioner has ruled on the issue."
21.2 Short-handed: The penalty is served as if it were a major penalty, meaning that a teammate (since the actual offender has been ejected) sits in the box for 5 minutes. The teammate to serve the penalty is designated by the "Manager or Coach"; unlike the major penalty rule which allows for leeway in when a player can actually sit in the penalty box, for a match penalty, "such player [must] take his place in the penalty box immediately."

Okay, that was insane
6:47 PP with only one goal – I’ll take it

On the 5 min major there was no one in the box, when the 5 minutes was up no one could come out of the box so I'm not sure what the rule is there but the Hawks just kept 4 guys on for another few minutes.

We're only down 1 after that power play,
but we’re also down #2 for the rest of the game!

So it takes Keith getting kicked out the game for Joker to get PP time...

They'll have 3 defensemen....and two pylons.
Just like normal

Lmao, Welp we have one competent defensemen left tonight. It's all on you joki. Make us proud.

I was gonna save my expensive bourbon for a good game, but it looks like the High West is getting drank tonight.

The Flames have literally tripled our SOG.

Way too early in this game to just go into a defensive shell.
Flames have too much firepower to last 10 minutes of this.

****ing can't even complete an entry or win a battle.

We can't win this game. There is no offence. Pack it up and hopefully we can bring something better against Carolina at home.

hawks are getting murdered on the boards.

Another night where part of the team gives 100% and another part of the team coasts.

Woooo, ice is tilted, but getting some timely stick saves from the skaters.

Other freaking end, guys!

We're sitting back while they're playing with desperation.

Shots are 17-2 in the 3rd

You knew they were gonna tie this game. Just continuing our streak of literally not playing in the third.

SHOOOOOOOOOOT THEEEEEEEEEEEE PUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!!!!!!!!!!!
If you're entering the zone with a mind to pass you're wasting eveyrone's time.

You could literally see Crow's eyes saying "WHAT THE #### GUYS???" there.

Man what a ####ing #### show.

56 mins of hockey and 13 shots. That’s just unacceptable.

For the love of all that is good, PLEASE GO PLAY IN THE OTHER END!!!

Did we really just give up 4 unanswered goals? This team sucks, I'm sorry

Of course it's Frolik….

LOLOLOLOLOLLLLL IT HAD TO BE FROLIK
WE’RE DOOOOMED

LOL. Of course it's only right to end this game the way we started it.

GDT curse

This is a very horrifying road trip.
Though losing terribly to the Alberta teams is pretty on brand for the Hawks.
5 losses in a row is not good, Hawks. I want to hope it’ll be better against the Canes but well, coming off a long break. We’ll see.

The Chicago Blackhawks, a team with no toes because all we do is play on our heels

Ruuta doing his best Schmatz impersonation:
skating behind the opposition’s goal, and then around the other side, only to lose the puck at the end…

Can’t enter the zone 6-4.

I know we’re not where we used to be
But it really does seem like everyone who was called out as dead is coming back nicely – Cap, Duncs, Seabs, even Saad now getting there. Long may it continue

15 shots in 60 minutes. Pathetic.

Glad we had the goalie pulled, tanking our goal differential could be a difference maker in the tank standings.

Kane...Zero shots on goal and -2

Saad 1 g and Evendors. ..but he'a $6.0 ...now is 7 pts aND still +2:for the season...BUT nly 4 goals/7 pts

FROLIK only costs $4.3 on cap hit ..he has 7 goals (no assists)...but now is +6 and probably better pk guy than Saad ...

tonight FROLIK had 5 shots on goal and 1 goal and +1 in about 6 minutes less playing time than Saad ..

The point this if FROLIK is "just another guy" albeit at $4.3 ...then shouldn't Saad be a lot MORE for $6.0?
KANE as I said Zero shots on goal...Saad only the 1 shot (he scored on it but barely) ...Ties had 3 shots on goal and 1 goa early..


But the point is the game on the line in period 3 and we had $27 million out there in Kane Saad and Toes ..and they muster zilch !!!Stars paid like stars gotta star ..and when they were needed to show most in period 3 ..we got Mada out of them..WHILE Flame stats like Mona Han stepped it up and even their cheaper "just another giuy"like FROLIK also stepped it
up..while our $27 million trio QUIT.

Stats?Leadership? MIA ...especially when nerd most .They did not elevate. .they QUIT..

“...again?!”

The Flames are relentless, I’ll give them that much.

The Hawks are not going to win playing like this.

If Chicago even got to 20 shots this game is probably over.

But we all know what'll happen when (or if) the game goes to OT.

EDIT: Never mind. Another pathetic effort by a Flames opponent.

Flames play against the Ducks on Wednesday.

They’ve gotten the Habs, Hawks, Sabres, Rangers, Avs.

Must be nice having a soft schedule.

What a garbage effort from the Blackhawks.

Saw that coming a mile away. Only took them a million more shots. Rittich looked like ass too, just needed to get some actual shots on him.

**** sake the Hawks are useless.

Jesus Christ do teams just stop trying in the 3rd against Calgary?

Was it the Hartly years where Calgary would seem to comeback in the third every time?

Reminiscent of that.