TGDT: 11/14 Ducks @ Blackhawks 6:00PM CSN/NHLN

[Chief Walking Stick]

Dead giveaway that this line-up is fake: Scott is scratched. LOL

Few guys on the Ducks I'd like to see Scott fight... but since the objective is to WIN the game I'd like him to sit.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qx5WwrlVsUk

 

[puckjim]

Nice fucking fan.



I'm praying you sell them all.

Yes, because it's impossible to be a fan if you just watch on television.

 

[TJD]

I can't believe you guys really think those are the lines. Why would Toews, Bolland, and Sharp, who are the only centers on the team, be on the wings?



Shredder FTW!

 

[R K]

Yes, because it's impossible to be a fan if you just watch on television.

That comment was fucking assinine.



Period.

 

[R K]

I can't believe you guys really think those are the lines. Why would Toews, Bolland, and Sharp, who are the only centers on the team, be on the wings?



Shredder FTW!

I was hoping he was joking.

 

[R K]

Dead giveaway that this line-up is fake: Scott is scratched. LOL

He was scratched last night LOL!



For those watching the game on TV the Chat should be open tonight and from now on will be open for all the road games. Assuming I'm here.



No more Stuttering Fucking Bill.

 

[Rex]

Here they are:



Hossa-Stalberg-Brouwer

Bolland-Kopecky-Toews

Dowell-Skille-Sharp

Kane-Bickell-Pisani

 

[Rdrhwke]

I was hoping he was joking.

I stil am.

 

[Chief Walking Stick]

He was scratched last night LOL!

Absolutely zero reason he should have been in the line-up against the Predators, he only has one job and there was no reason for him to need to do it last night. I know most of you believe he shouldn't be in the line-up against any team, but Q for some reason still believes in enforcers and tonight might be a good night to have him in the line-up since the Ducks play REALLY dirty when they are losing.

 

[R K]

Absolutely zero reason he should have been in the line-up against the Predators, he only has one job and there was no reason for him to need to do it last night. I know most of you believe he shouldn't be in the line-up against any team, but Q for some reason still believes in enforcers and tonight might be a good night to have him in the line-up since the Ducks play REALLY dirty when they are losing.

Eh, Q has the same strange MAN LOVE for Scott he had with Walker. And Walker was no enforcer.

 

[TJD]

Eh, Q has the same strange MAN LOVE for Scott he had with Walker. And Walker was no enforcer.

I liked Walker because he could play a regular shift and wasn't a terrible defensemen.



Scott can't play period.

 

[roshinaya]

I am hoping for a win obviously, but I fear the worst. After the bad start the Ducks have really turned it around and are firing on all cylinders. Every Hawk, this also includes the coaching staff, will need to bring their A game if they want to win.

 

[PatrickShart]

Walker wasnt a terrible defenceman?

 

[BigPete]

All I can say is Q needs to stop fucking with lines, get Cullisuck and '**** you Boynton' out of the lineup somehow, and stop splitting up Seabs-Keith and Campbell-Hjarmalsson. Then maybe the guys can start jelling and stop finding ways to lose.



Tall order, I know. But with the Quacks uptrending we have to simplify from behind the bench first.

 

[Pez68]

You want to wake up our big money players? Give Bickell/Dowell/Skille top line minutes, including PP time. Let Sharp/Toews/Kane ride the fourth line minutes out tonight. Hell, scratch Brouwer and Kopecky too, and let Scott and Hendry play forward. Let them watch from the bench as players making less than 10%(league minimum) of their salary outplay them. The minutes played needs to be switched tonight. If your big dogs aren't going to pull your sled, put them back in the dog house and find ones that will.



Oh, and Q should watch from the press box tonight too. He's been just as bad as any of the "core".

 

[Shredder]

OK, here's how I would line up:



Brouwer-Toews-Kane

Stalberg-Sharp-Hossa

Bickell-Dowell-Skille

Pisani-Bolland-Kopecky



Buuuuut, we all know Kopecky and Bolland are going to get their 17-18 minutes of ice time and Pisani will stumble around for 14. In the meantime, we'll be lucky if Stalberg and Skille reach double digits.



Kopecky's got one point in his last 11 games to go with a whopping -15. That's on the "go-sit-in-the-press-box" level of awful if you ask me. Despite that, he's played at least 16 minutes in all of those games except the last two. I guess that's what we get when it seems the only other option according to Quenneville is dressing Scott...

 

[PatrickShart]

Here's what I'd like to see...

Brouwer - Toews - Kane

Stalberg - Sharp - Hossa

Kopecky - Bolland - Skille

Bickell - Dowell - Pisani



Now I know people wont like that 3rd line, but I think they could be effective. Kopecky gets under other teams skin...always in front of the net, hacking away. Bolland needs to get back to being a pest and Skille's speed/work ethic can give fits. They may not light it up offensively, but I think they can agitate as a line (something I think the team needs)





Not that any of our ideas matter.

 

[Ton]

Stalberg/Toews/Kane

Kopecky/Sharp/Hossa

Brouwer/Bolland/Skille

Bickell/Dowell/Pisani



IMO that's how it should be. Yeah Kopecky has played like crap but he also has not played with Hossa since his return. Every now and then, Brouwer can pop into one of those lines while one of Kopecky/Stalberg drop to the 3rd line.



For the love of God, why the hell did Q break up his two most productive lines? Toews and Kane were most productive with the two games they played with Stalberg (10 points in two freaking games and he breaks them up?) then when Hossa comes back, he fails to place him where he was most productive... with SHARP AND KOPECKY. You know, when Hossa had 11 points in 11 games... Kopecky had 8 points in 11 games... and Sharp had like 15 points in 11 games? Anyone remember that... those were the days... three freakin' weeks ago!!



He wants to get them firing on all cylinders, then put together what works.



This is always how it should be: Kane with Toews... Hossa with Sharp. If things get stale, switch centers, Hossa with Toews, Kane with Sharp... why is that? Because all of them have chemistry. Don't fucking handcuff Hossa with Bolland and on top of that put Kane there (who has never had chemistry with Hossa, nor has he ever played well on the LW) and say "oh, well I tried, we just need to find something that works". It never worked before, so wtf is the use in trying it now?



With Toews/Kane and Sharp/Hossa, whoever plays on the opposite wing is riding shotgun. Its going to be a revolving door of Stalberg, Brouwer, and Kopecky all season, its just a matter of who is playing better IMO.



Its a simple concept, really, this isn't rocket science.

 

[PatrickShart]

Ton. You have one job. Make sure there is chat today. You were cursed yesterday for some asshole we had to deal with/couldnt boot. Shame on you.

 

[Ton]

Ton. You have one job. Make sure there is chat today. You were cursed yesterday for some asshole we had to deal with/couldnt boot. Shame on you.

I'll make sure I kick you as soon as you enter. lol



Really though, I had an engagement party to go to yesterday, the chat will be open today.