Avs at Hawks

[Diehardfan]

Be Bowman's guy?

Stan's going to give him every opportunity to succeed no matter how much he fails.

Far be it for me to agree with much of anything Bowman does these days. The trade should've never happened. But it did. Now he is forced to keep running Nylander out there, trying everything under the sun to make him a viable acquisition. Doubtful from what I've seen that it could happen.....but...if they bailed on him and he went elsewhere and turned the corner
it would be even be more disasterous. Hawks have to keep trying to make it work with him.

 

[Raskolnikov]

I cant believe we are playing them again but for all watching, did you see how angry Dach gets when he turns the puck over? I've seen this several times with him since the summer, recovering his own turnover, and then he deflected the hit with his size their in combination at end of 1st period.

Stan did the best he could, I stand by those other tall centers being pencil necked anisimovs. Dach is a super toews. Give him 3 years.

At least we will be done with this Avs team so when we start to feel good they cant interrupt.

 

[Jack Lantern]

Far be it for me to agree with much of anything Bowman does these days. The trade should've never happened. But it did. Now he is forced to keep running Nylander out there, trying everything under the sun to make him a viable acquisition. Doubtful from what I've seen that it could happen.....but...if they bailed on him and he went elsewhere and turned the corner
it would be even be more disasterous. Hawks have to keep trying to make it work with him.

I read somewhere the Hawks would not be able to protect Jokiharju in the expansion draft. Sort of like what happened to TVR a couple years back when they lost him for no compensation to Vegas.

 

[DaHawkz24]

2 good games in a row for the Hawks!?

 

[Jack Lantern]

2 good games in a row for the Hawks!?

They need to reel off 8-10 straight games and they'll get back in it.

Good to see the Hawks do to the Avs like what the Blues did to us a few weeks ago with that fail 3rd

 

[Tater]

Impressive win tonight. Good fight too.

 

[hawkinmontreal]

Very good win versus the Avs. Being down 3-1 and making a comeback in there barn, impressive for a change.
A few notable things, Toews seems to be playing better with an all around more consistent effort, It’s actually crazy to believe that Keith at 36 is still the engine on the backend and how much the Hawks still rely on him and what he means to the team. Kubalik is looking very good and it’s time to ride Lehner, he has proven he is the go to goalie, sorry CC it’s time to play backup.

 

[MassHavoc]

God damn how my apathy grows.

 

[anotheridiot]

Very good win versus the Avs. Being down 3-1 and making a comeback in there barn, impressive for a change.
A few notable things, Toews seems to be playing better with an all around more consistent effort, It’s actually crazy to believe that Keith at 36 is still the engine on the backend and how much the Hawks still rely on him and what he means to the team. Kubalik is looking very good and it’s time to ride Lehner, he has proven he is the go to goalie, sorry CC it’s time to play backup.

The question I have with Keith though, it does he actually do what the coaches say or is he on his own. end of the game, they went to extra attacker, more than a minute and a half left in the game. Hawks get a stop in play, lines change, Keith stays on. Does he just not skate back to the bench because he thinks he is the only option. He gave Bovquist a miserable handle at the blue paint earler in the third that Bovquist was lucky to just be able to advance some with Avs all around him. He has this hot potato mentality sometimes.

 

[Bigfoot]

Fun game to watch last night. Few take away

Gilbert is the new Bigfoot. Love what this guy does.

Kane working that back check was nice to see

Capt Disconnect looks Connected again

Keith is a fucking monster

Boqvist looks competent paired with Keith

Lehner needs to be re signed

Sikura is nothing more but a tweener

Nylander showing a shit ton of effort in the d-zone

Cat fighting the puck has 0 confidence

Dach IS GOING TO BE A SUPERSTAR

Kubalik looks good with Kaner and Capt

Carpy brings it in day in and day out

Gus getting some mojo back

Finally was nice to see a forecheck for 60 minutes.

 

[Jack Lantern]

Very good win versus the Avs. Being down 3-1 and making a comeback in there barn, impressive for a change.
A few notable things, Toews seems to be playing better with an all around more consistent effort, It’s actually crazy to believe that Keith at 36 is still the engine on the backend and how much the Hawks still rely on him and what he means to the team. Kubalik is looking very good and it’s time to ride Lehner, he has proven he is the go to goalie, sorry CC it’s time to play backup.

Main thing with Toews is he is starting to produce points with consistency which is what the team needs. Haven't looked at the present standings but a couple weeks ago the Blackhawks were in the bottom 3 in Goals scored.

Stead of taking 2 steps forward and 3 steps back, sometime this season they need to get on an extended hot streak to get themselves back in it so they need to keep this momentum going.

 

[LordKOTL]

I read somewhere the Hawks would not be able to protect Jokiharju in the expansion draft. Sort of like what happened to TVR a couple years back when they lost him for no compensation to Vegas.

It's not that he couldn't be protected...it's that he wouldn't automatically be protected. They'd have to use either a D slot or a skater slot--depending if they go the 7F3D or 8 Skaters route.

As it stands now, Toews, Kane, Keith and Seabrook are automatically protected via their NMC's. The only player that meets/is expected to meet exposure requirements is Delia. Everyone else is either unsigned, or has not met the 40/70 exposure requirement. Joker would have been in the mix (unlike Boqvist), but the way the 'hawks are lined up, they could either protect only Joker as a D-man apart from Keityh/Seabs, or they go with the 8 skater scheme if they wanted to protect another D-man, and then possibly expose more FWDs than they want to.

TVR actually was a good scenario--the 'hawks didn't lose much to Vegas--certainly not a blue-chip player and in expansion that's about all you could hope for.

Going into Seattle expansion, I think the only player the would be Can't-lose is Debrincat (at least in terms of those already signed through). You might make somewhat of an argument for Strome, Murph, or Gilbert. so that's how the 'hawks should play it. Had the 'hawks kept Joker, it would've only a question of who gets exposed in his stead. Depending on his development, I personally would have called Maata, deHaan, or even Murph expendable (maybe not Gilbert, but I'll admit I really like his play as a bottom-pair D-man), but I think most likely the dangled piece the Seattle Battle Cattle would take with or without Joker would be a FWD.