EL ROCKSTEADY
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My favorite teams
just curious have not really followed either team. Obviously Ducks have best record.
I would rather play the ducks...
Quick is one of the best goalies in hockey if not the best... If he gets hot it he can take over a series...
I would rather play Anaheim... They are a great team but Quick is the big difference to me...
Give me the Kings all day. They don't have the speed or the depth scoring to compete with the Hawks.
those numbers can be thrown out. they are irrelevant to the present.
The playoffs can do funny things -- the Hawks traded for a guy in the late 80's - Alain Chevrier -a journeyman goalie basically... this was just before Belfour came along ... so the goalie situation was really up in the air.
This guy basically carried the Hawks in the playoffs that year... of course he was a guy with an over 4 career GAA. It can happen if some guy gets really hot - it has happened before ...
That's how I take Dewey's point being.
Actually you can expand that to more than just goalies - it is really funny how sometimes playoff heroes come from some unexpected guys - another one for the Hawks in the past was Jocelyn Lemieux ... he was always basically a 4th liner although I think he might have been a high draft choice of the Blues - guys can and have gotten on a roll...
I suppose though otoh -those Hawk teams never actually won anything -so it is probably what it is ... maybe just what narrative a team that doesn't win spins itself to feel better about next season.
Frankly I have never been in this position as a Hawk fan -- I was always far more used to working out ways to look forward to next season and that season would usually be exactly the same as the last -with the end result being at best - losing to Edmonton or Calgary... this is a pretty good time to be a Hawk fan.
Crawford this postseason: 12 GP, .931 SA%, 1.97 GAA
Quick this postseason: 13 GP, .914 SA%, 2.78 GAA
Yeah, not worried about the Kings at all. And the Ducks with a rookie goalie?
:andruw:
Excuse me while I clear my calendar for the first two weeks of June.
You know how this works DMelt... cynical Chicago fans must assume the best about opposing teams and the worst about their own team so when the disappointment they assume is coming actually arrives, they can take solace in being able to say "I told you so!".
It is a time honored tradition of Chicago sports..... I can't believe in my team until they have already won the game.
Crawford this postseason: 12 GP, .931 SA%, 1.97 GAA
Quick this postseason: 13 GP, .914 SA%, 2.78 GAA
Yeah, not worried about the Kings at all. And the Ducks with a rookie goalie?
:andruw:
Excuse me while I clear my calendar for the first two weeks of June.
Not to burst your bubble but.......Ken Dryden 70-71 Canadiens, rookie goalie.....Conn Smythe winner.
Won a game 7 in the finals played in Chicago. Not comparing Gibson to him or anything....
Just saying