Game 2 IGT: Blackhawks @ Blues 4/15 at 7 p.m.

[DMelt36]

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Puckdrop - 7:00 p.m.
TV - CSN Chicago, NBC Sports Network
Radio - WGN AM 720
Web - Stream available at NBC Sports website and through Live Extra app

Game 1 review/Game 2 preview at CCS: Blues doomed to repeat same mistakes against Blackhawks​

As you can read in that article above, Blues coach Ken Hitchcock seems convinced that the Blues didn't hit enough in Game 1. But if he's going to sit back in a neutral zone trap like he did in Game 1, and dare the Hawks to find their way through that zone ... then this series just doesn't seem like it's going to last very long, does it? The Blues have the ability to beat the Hawks, but that doesn't seem like the right way. We'll see what happens in Game 2.

I'll update the line combos after the morning skate, because I've got a feeling Mashinter isn't going to suit up for tonight's game after taking a bad penalty in Game 1.

PROJECTED LINE COMBOS:

LET'S GO HAWKS!!

 

[Tater]

Could really use a win here. I predict they will.

 

[DMelt36]

Could really use a win here. I predict they will.

I'm with ya. Keith's return pushes the Hawks over the top.

 

[clonetrooper264]

Just win

 

[DMelt36]

Still going with this Mashinter experiment, apparently.

Lines at practice:

Ladd-Toews-Hossa
Panarin-Anisimov-Kane
Mashinter-Teuvo-Fleischmann
Desjardins-Kruger-Shaw

 

[Spunky Porkstacker]

Hitchcock on Tarasenko: "He told us the day he got here about Panarin. At least once a month. ... We all look a little dumb right now."

 

[clonetrooper264]

Still going with this Mashinter experiment, apparently.

Lines at practice:

Ladd-Toews-Hossa
Panarin-Anisimov-Kane
Mashinter-Teuvo-Fleischmann
Desjardins-Kruger-Shaw

I can't fathom why...

 

[Ares]

Still going with this Mashinter experiment, apparently.

Lines at practice:

Ladd-Toews-Hossa
Panarin-Anisimov-Kane
Mashinter-Teuvo-Fleischmann
Desjardins-Kruger-Shaw

 

[Scoot26]

Sent from the mod station in Nome, Alaska.

 

[MassHavoc]

Can Keith play 3rd line wing also.

 

[clonetrooper264]

Can Keith play 3rd line wing also.

He might as well

 

[Ares]

Can Keith play 3rd line wing also.

No... we gonna sit Keith and just double shift Mashinter on the #1 D pairing

 

[MassHavoc]

No... we gonna sit Keith and just double shift Mashinter on the #1 D pairing

disliked.

 

[Ares]

disliked.

 

[ClydeLee]

Well if the Blues want to throw around 70 hits, the Hawks need those big body targets to soap up hits like Svedberg and Mash. You even saw Reeves and Brouwer take runs on them as if that was a big wise tactic.

 

[MassHavoc]

Ok.. I laughed... a bit audibly at that one. haha.

 

[Tater]

hitchcock on tarasenko: "he told us the day he got here about panarin. At least once a month. ... We all look a little dumb right now."

lol

 

[Tater]

Comcrap is listing the game as showing on NBC and CSN, which is it? Which do I record?

 

[DMelt36]

Comcrap is listing the game as showing on NBC and CSN, which is it? Which do I record?

It's both, I believe. And I'm pretty sure its Doc Emrick on the NBC call, if you're into that type of thing.

 

[Tater]

It's both, I believe. And I'm pretty sure its Doc Emrick on the NBC call, if you're into that type of thing.

Thanks, it's gonna be a tough call which to watch/listen to. Edzo just pisses me off to often during a game.