Im with BHP and TV Vulture. </p>
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So far the Hawks have played down to the Blues level. Resorting to cheap hits and big bluster. There is a reason I don't like the Blues and it is because they are goons. They would rather hit and trash talk then play the game. I have no use for a Blackhawks team that will do the same.</p>
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Toews, Hossa, Kaner, Sharpie. Between those 4 any given night there should be at least one goal. At <u>least</u>. Between the rest of the forwards Shaw, Bickell, Saad, Kruger, and ol' Slowy there should be another goal. It is great the D have scored. That usually is a sign that things are humming along. and D men scoring is icing on a cake.</p>
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Look, I don't mind a board rattling hit. Look at Hammers hit in game one. That was a thing of beauty. Bickells hit on I think it was Oshie was great too. But Seabs hit was, in my mind, questionable. Puck was not near Backes. Did he charge, yeah maybe. I will admit that I am biased, and I will scream it from the rafters at the UC. I don't think the hit is black and white. </p>
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I will say it sickens me that folk are reveling in the injury. "Wakey Wakey" tshirts? Really? The Blues are idiots to complain about that and the "even more horrible stuff" said after the hit. It is trash talk. That happens every game, between star players and scrubs. STFU. But to poke the bear and make signs and shirts and other paraphernalia celebrating a persons injury is just mind boggling. What if that was the Hawks C instead of the Blues? Any shirt or sign that said Wakey Waky would be decried as worse then bush league, and to many, would be the reason that team will never win a Cup again. Shitty fans are everywhere, but that totally smacks of Vancouver level trolling.</p>