Kane At Center, David Haugh Behind The Keyboard

[southern_cross_116]

you, the fans, deserve better analysis than this stuff.

As dangerous as Kane has become alongside Hossa, eventually coach Joel Quenneville must consider the effects of Kane's absence from the top line on Jonathan Toews — off to an ordinary start by his standards. Eventually, pressure could mount for Bowman to acquire a second-line center so the Hawks can reunite Kane, Toews and Patrick Sharp on a No. 1 line every team fears. Eventually, Kane carrying a chip on his shoulder might not exhaust him but chasing the puck on both ends as the schedule toughens could.

This writer seriously implies that the only option is to maybe acquire a 2nd line center to enable Toews to play with Kane again ... oh really? Is that all you got? I mean seriously, with Kane proving that he can play center, why exactly is it that you might not consider say - another top line winger?

Yes, I know that others, including HW have written the same here- which actually is the point. How is it that guys that basically regurgitate old messageboard posts get paid to write about hockey, without actually considering the immediate facts of a situation???


Note to Mr Haugh, or any other paid journo that comes by here .... Kane performing at center = team flexibility, not team inflexibility requiring a return to lines of a year or 2 ago, maybe try to look to the future the next time you put out a story -it makes it that much more relevant for the readers.


http://www.chicagotribune.com/sport...blackhawks-chicago--20111106,0,4136429.column

 

[tbo41fan]

This guy gets paid to write like this?


Sickening

 

[Dementia]

We have a second line center, his name is Dave Bolland.

Why fix what isn't broken? Everytime I've seen Kane and Hossa on the ice this season I've been excited. Yeah Toews has gotten off to a slow start but he will pick up because he is a class act, he doesn't need Kane on his line to do well.

 

[southern_cross_116]

I was trying to get at too, is that the guys that give their time here to write- irrespective of whether I agree with what they write, have put more thought into their articles here than the quoted professional journalist.

Of course, that is always the way it has been in Chicago (and hockey in papers); if a person tries to get a handle on the sport- they won't, generally, find it there.

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Dem, Bolland is playing 3rd line center. Kane is playing 2nd (or 1st -if you go by production) line center. The point being there is no reason to move Kane from playing center to right wing on Toews line. The main benefit of the Kane playing center is the ability to skate Kane with Hossa (previously they had both played the same position -- right wing, playing on the off wing [meaning that they are both left handed right wings]).

Anyways I suppose it is a recurring theme for me- reading professional writers trying to fake like they know hockey... and getting paid for it.

 

[Everyday I'm Byfuglien]

We have a second line center, his name is Dave Bolland*

*Patrick Sharp.