GDT: Attack on Chicago, 7:30PM SNET-E

[Mark Effin Stone]

Stone was awesome last night,great vision! Hopefully he can get a long run now without any injury.

 

[arglebargle]

Regin looked kind of motivated for the Hawks. Too bad it takes a revenge motive for him to actually play with some intensity.

 

[mcnorth]

I've lost a dozen posts at the end of GDT's here at HF when we switched over to PGT... and here we are posting with impunity. Feels wrong.

It is wrong.

 

[PeterSidorkiewicz]

Lets ride Anderson to the playoffs, #beastmode.

 

[Berserker*]

Stone continues to look good. Nice to see he is translating it into production. Will be hard for the team to ignore him again at the start of next season.

Imagine if they actually grew some and tried out a prospect heavy lineup.

Hoffman - Spezza - Hemsky
Stone - Turris - Macarthur
Greening - Smith - Condra
Pageau - Zibanejad - Dacosta

Scratch: Michalek, Neil

Karlsson - Methot
Ceci - Wiercoch
Gryba - Cowen

Scratch: Phillips

What do we have to lose?

What do we have to lose?

That would be one of the softest group of forwards in the league.

 

[TruSensCoach]

Stone continues to look good. Nice to see he is translating it into production. Will be hard for the team to ignore him again at the start of next season.

Imagine if they actually grew some and tried out a prospect heavy lineup.

Hoffman - Spezza - Hemsky
Stone - Turris - Macarthur
Greening - Smith - Condra
Pageau - Zibanejad - Dacosta

Scratch: Michalek, Neil

Karlsson - Methot
Ceci - Wiercoch
Gryba - Cowen

Scratch: Phillips

What do we have to lose?

What do we have to lose?

Sorry to say but that's a brutal lineup and in what world do u play greening condra pagaeu or da costa over michalek?

 

[LynxBud]

Lets ride Anderson to the playoffs, #beastmode.

That'd be something. Somehow I still have hope, and I consider myself a realist. It's weird.

 

[Spez]

Am I the only one who thinks we'd be up there with the pack at 80 pts if Andy hadn't gotten hurt against Nashville? For starters we wouldn't have collapsed vs the habs and there was a good chance we would have beaten the bolts at home and Andy likely would have saved 1 of the 2 panther goals. That's 4 pts that Lehner has cost us since Andy went down.

 

[PeterSidorkiewicz]

That'd be something. Somehow I still have hope, and I consider myself a realist. It's weird.

I consider myself the same and I somehow have hope too, it probably has to do with the fact the east is terrible.

 

[TheNewEra]

I consider myself the same and I somehow have hope too, it probably has to do with the fact the east is terrible.

it definitely helps that of the 5 teams ahead of us, 3 of them are on losing streaks and the other 2 have had OT losses

 

[Super Cake]

Am I the only one who thinks we'd be up there with the pack at 80 pts if Andy hadn't gotten hurt against Nashville? For starters we wouldn't have collapsed vs the habs and there was a good chance we would have beaten the bolts at home and Andy likely would have saved 1 of the 2 panther goals. That's 4 pts that Lehner has cost us since Andy went down.

Probably. But it was a good learning experience for Lehner. He needs to know what it takes to be a starting goaltender in this league.

 

[blahblah3]

it definitely helps that of the 5 teams ahead of us, 3 of them are on losing streaks and the other 2 have had OT losses

They also have harder schedules. I wouldn't be surprised if they go <500.

 

[HSF]

they also play each other a few times which is what will probably kill us

 

[SilverSeven]

- I think Ryan will be ready to go by next season no?

- Scratching Michalek for Greening or Condra has me scratching my head...

- Zib on the fourth line now?

- I like the sentiment, but the execution leaves me wanting...

This is for this year. I wouldnt ice that line up when trying to get into the playoffs. Condra and Greening will likely be playing for the Sens next year. Michalek likely will not.

Why? He needs to be on a scoring line.

He is. People are WAY too hung up on numbering lines.

Sorry to say but that's a brutal lineup and in what world do u play greening condra pagaeu or da costa over michalek?

Michalek shouldnt be here next season. Lets see what we look like without him.

That would be one of the softest group of forwards in the league.

We arent making the playoffs. Might as well see what the kids can do.

 

[Berserker*]

We arent making the playoffs. Might as well see what the kids can do.

I must have misread your post. I thought you wanted to role those lines going into next season. Although, we have some restrictions on the mount of players we can call up now. With all of Stone, Hoffman and Ceci up I think we have may 1 or two more call ups left. So we might want to pick the most deserving player. Also we don't want to decimate Bingo's roster as they are still fighting for a playoff spot.

 

[Alfie#11]

Lets ride Anderson to the playoffs, #beastmode.

Somehow I'm feeling this too. Teams around the last spots aren't playing well and we're not so far off. We'll have do go on a big run and the others continue to flounder but I'm just feeling like it's possible.

Both wildcards are up for grabs too, not just one spot.

Andy has been known to get on those rolls....

 

[SuperDuper101]

Phillips out, reduced minutes for Neil because he fought. Team wins games... not surprised. Why oh why has Wier not been in the lineup all year.

 

[starling]

That would be one of the softest group of forwards in the league.

Chicago: 1245 Hits
Ottawa: 2142 Hits

Give me more of that softness.

 

[PoutineSp00nZ]

Chicago: 1245 Hits
Ottawa: 2142 Hits

Give me more of that softness.

Yeah, except Chicago is an elite team with grizzled vets that know how to win and 3 legit superstar players up front, nevermind on defense.

That team is ****ing stacked, a bad comparison for Ottawa.

 

[Othello*]

Greening Smith Neil still suck

 

[Berserker*]

Chicago: 1245 Hits
Ottawa: 2142 Hits

Give me more of that softness.

You do realize that a softer team isn't necessarily a better team? As for Chicago, most fans don;t appreciate the fact that their style of play is similar to a physical team aside fro the hits. Much like a physical team, they put a ton of pressure on the puck carriers. They take away time and space and force teams to make bad plays and turnover pucks. They are a poor example of a "soft" team.

You want a "soft" team go look at the Habs. You want more "softness" that is what we are going to get. A team that gets bullied out of the playoffs in the first round.

 

[CanadianHockey]

Chicago: 1245 Hits
Ottawa: 2142 Hits

Give me more of that softness.

I imagine Chicago has the puck so much they don't have time to throw hits.

 

[Larionov]

Almost forgot - big giant "get stuffed" to all of the "long time" Blackhawks fans in the building last night with their Jonathan Toews jerseys. I have no problem with Toews, but blatant bandwagon fans make me nauseous...

 

[Micklebot]

I imagine Chicago has the puck so much they don't have time to throw hits.

Not that much more they don't. A more likely explanation is with more skill, the dump and chase far less, but I guess in the end it all factors in when you have that big of a difference

 

[CanadianHockey]

Not that much more they don't. A more likely explanation is with more skill, the dump and chase far less, but I guess in the end it all factors in when you have that big of a difference

I don't think we dump and chase that often. Seem to be more of a rush team.