I think you can also pencil Stephen Johns and Adam Clendening in on the Hawks 3rd D pairing, Leddy on the 2nd, and Oduya/Roszival/Brookbrank out of town. May keep Roszival and platoon him again.
not a fan of Oduya? I kinda like him and think he has had continued slow development. I like the Swedish pod we have. But with Johns coming up, Keith and Seabrook, Leddy, and I haven't heard of Clendiening yet? good things?
How do defensive rotations differ? I'm still learning....
I object to any fairweather fan BS....I didn't have a choice and I came back in 2005 or 2006. Not sure...the problem was I watched blackhawks as a kid all the time and Chelios/Roenick were of course my favorite players in 1993. You can imagine my surprise when I came back to hockey and found them both still playing 13 years later!!
But you have to understand....the NHL back in the day had serious television issues. I couldn't follow them except occossional games and playoffs. Right? Playoffs. So I watched the Sharks some where I lived, and watched playoffs, but my heart was with the Hawks. Once television opened up I was able to come back to the bears with Directv in 2001, and I was only able to afford NHL Ice one time....but to accuse every noob who didn't play hockey or be able to watch given the issue with NHL programming I don't think is fair. Perhaps many Chicagoans came back to the Blackhawks because they actaully could at a time when the team turned things around and started to make the playoffs when I could watch.
I'm trying to learn. The only sport I am a master of rules and tactics is soccer and football. Rugby and BBall still confound me some even though I played them. I finally figured out offside in the NHL....its not hard but remember the way you think about it is so different from Soccer that I had a blocker to actually understand that a hard line sets the offside, not a player and I just didn't get the clearing the zone thing and that all offensive players had to reestablish onsides. Its so much better to watch now. But like defensive zone responsibilities in bball, or half the cray cray in rugby....I still don't understand defense much in NHL. How long those guys play,
and I noticed the importance defensively of which direction you are going and where your bench is for shifts. Like how you can get caught switching defenseively if your bench is by your offensive blue line instead of your own. Is that real?
/pours one out for injured Kaner
