What Do The Hawks Need To Do To Get More Physical?

[LordKOTL]

Before I went another route, i was going to school for a musicology degree. There's tons of studys about music enhancing performance, from academic pursuits to rigorous physical activity. These guys need an injection of attitude. Put on some hardstep or some speed metal and maybe they get more aggressive?

Taking the high road....

I don't doubt that music does get the blood moving--it's why I have Slayer, GWAR, Austrian Death Machine, Psychostick, and suprsingly enough, Weird Al's "Polkas" on my playlist when I work out--they do fire you up.

But while on-ice communicationcould be done via signals, you don't want the coaches doing that on the bench, they should talk directly to the players.

Plus, verbally better ideas can be communicated. If the 'hawks are playing, say, Columbus, it's fully possible that guys like, Hossa and Rosival can communicate in Czech or Slovak (they're mutially intelligible), T² and Raanta in Finnish, and if Wennberg's not on the ice, Hjalmarsson, Oduya, Erixon, Kruger, Runblad, and Nordstrom can all communicate verbally in Swedish--a language unlikely to be understood by anyone on the opposing team (and many of our own players), and Columbus, Tyutin, Bobrovski, and Anisimov in Russian.

The point is, on-ice audible communication is more important that "psyching someone up with groovy tunes".

 

[HeHateMe]

Taking the high road....

I don't doubt that music does get the blood moving--it's why I have Slayer, GWAR, Austrian Death Machine, Psychostick, and suprsingly enough, Weird Al's "Polkas" on my playlist when I work out--they do fire you up.

But while on-ice communicationcould be done via signals, you don't want the coaches doing that on the bench, they should talk directly to the players.

Plus, verbally better ideas can be communicated. If the 'hawks are playing, say, Columbus, it's fully possible that guys like, Hossa and Rosival can communicate in Czech or Slovak (they're mutially intelligible), T² and Raanta in Finnish, and if Wennberg's not on the ice, Hjalmarsson, Oduya, Erixon, Kruger, Runblad, and Nordstrom can all communicate verbally in Swedish--a language unlikely to be understood by anyone on the opposing team (and many of our own players), and Columbus, Tyutin, Bobrovski, and Anisimov in Russian.

The point is, on-ice audible communication is more important that "psyching someone up with groovy tunes".

They could turn it down when they don't need to get their hits on?

 

[Pez68]

:lol:

 

[Variable]

Yeeaah this is pointless.

 

[HeHateMe]

Yeeaah this is pointless.

Your face is pointless.

 

[Chief Walking Stick]

Your face is pointless.

Congrats on 15,000 posts coming up in case I don't make it until then.

 

[Novak]

Pfffft, I'll have 15k posts before 2016.

 

[Popinski Soda]

Kane just got his second penalty of the year for unsportsmanlike conduct. Looks like HHMs word was heard.

Whatever. Dude missed some primo opportunities last night. I counted at least, AT LEAST, 3 people he could've maimed on his way to the box. What's more, I don't think it ever even occured to him to try and take his skate(s) off. What the ****, Candy Kane?!

No, we can have fun without creating a troll thread that insults the intelligence of even band wagon hockey fans.

I wasn't offended. Apology accepted, nevertheless.

Gone are the days when a guy like Probert didn't let something as miniscule as a linesman holding him back dish out "frontier justice", where Tom Lysiak would do to a linesman what everyone wished would happen to Steve Walkom, and where Hextall would beat the living snot out of Chelios. You know, the type of play that would make your average member of the Kumbaya anti-fighting coalition curl up under their snuggy with a tub of Haagen Daaz and pine for Lifetime reruns.

The problem with retaliation nowadays is that it never comes out well for the team attacked. Take 2012: Hossa gets blindsided by Torres. Bollig goes out and tries to engage Torres. Torres feels his menses running down his leg and has to adjust his Kotex™, or he turtles--it's hard to tell which. Bollig gets tagged for a 2, a 5, and a 10, while Torres got nothing, and the 'hawks end up having to kill 7 minutes of penalty time.

I love a good spirited hockey scrap as much as anyone who has a Y chromasome and is not afraid to show it; I'm proud to say that I have visited Ground Zero in Piestany. But ultimately the goal is winning the game. Yes, player safety has to come down harder on the Gorilla Salads, Torres, and Cookes of the league (even though Evanger ane knocking Cooke the **** out was one of the most beautiful images in hockey), but if retalition is going to prevent your team from winning you simply don't do it--you beat them on the scoreboard.

The 'hawks, when playing to their strengths, do just that. I love a good fight and am unashamed by being a bloodthirstry neanderthal, but in the words of Sean Connery, "The only thing that matters is the Grail"

Why did you go through the trouble of "trademarking" Kotex lol?

Not my fault my buddies wanted to come visit. The community here doesn't have a problem with me, it's just the mods.

I guess I can only speak for myself, but I rather enjoy your unique take on hijinkery, as well as that of your compatriots.

Your face is pointless.

:yep:

 

[biscuit_in_the_basket]

You know who will help the 'Hawks get more physical.....Olivia Newton John.

 

[LordKOTL]

Why did you go through the trouble of "trademarking" Kotex lol?

Because Kopecky could be lurking anywhere...

 

[MassHavoc]

You know who will help the 'Hawks get more physical.....Olivia Newton John.

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[The Hawk]

Can I get my Buff back, please?

 

[Popinski Soda]

Because Kopecky could be lurking anywhere...

Well played, sir. :lmao:

 

[biscuit_in_the_basket]

BBBBBBBBOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Go back to your own boards.... BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

 

[Spunky Porkstacker]

If I didn't know you I would dislike you for posting this disgusting image.:gary:

 

[biscuit_in_the_basket]

If I didn't know you I would dislike you for posting this disgusting image.:gary:

:elephant:

:marshmallow:

 

[Popinski Soda]

Is that a young Marky Mark?

 

[BlackHawkPaul]

You know who will help the 'Hawks get more physical.....Olivia Newton John.

[video=youtube;9-zf2UBp7fY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-zf2UBp7fY[/video]

 

[Chief Walking Stick]

Interesting how the Hawks mods seem to let people have some fun.

 

[biscuit_in_the_basket]

It's fun when it's fun!