Half-Assed GDT: Blues @ Blackhawks: Tying for First- 7pm NBCSN

[The Note]

I'm sure we're all familiar with the situation. Blues need a win to move back into a tie for first. Chicago's slim hopes of a playoff berth were finally put to rest, so they'll be trying to play spoiler. So hopefully no replays of this:

Projected Lineups ​

Schenn - O'Reilly - Tarasenko
Schwartz - Sundqvist - Perron
Maroon - Bozak - Thomas
Sanford - Barbashev - Steen

Dunn - Pietrangelo
Bouwmeester - Parayko
Gunnarsson - Bortuzzo

Binnington



Saad-Toews-Caggiula
Debrincat-Anisimov-Kane
Perlini-Strome-Kahun
Kunitz-Kampf-Kruger

Keith-Gustafsson
Forsling-Seabrook
Dahlstrom-Murphy

Crawford

Go Blues!

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[elkranio]

f*** the hawks

 

[AjaxManifesto]

Yes...screw the Hawks

 

[542365]

I need a gif of that goal Schwartz scored on Crawford last year. Faked the shot, Crawford came way out to challenge, and Schwartz just walked past him and put it in the empty net.

Also Mike Weaver's hit on Patrick Sharp is always fun to watch.

 

[Falco Lombardi]

Screw the Hawks

 

[BuLLeT1291]

Screw the hawks

 

[67Blues]

Hoping that this was the game that the Hawks season hopes were put away. One game too late.

 

[Note Worthy]

**** the Hawks

 

[Vladdy the Impaler]

 

[BlueDream]

Big game for us

 

[Michael Scarn]

An eliminated Duncan Keith, against the surging rivals right before playoffs, I’m sure he’ll be well disciplined with his stick...

 

[Dbrownss]

An eliminated Duncan Keith, against the surging rivals right before playoffs, I’m sure he’ll be well disciplined with his stick...

Introduce him to early retirement

 

[Stupendous Yappi]

I hope the Blues feel like they have unfinished business here. They let Chicago look like the better team early in the year. They let Chicago steal that crucial point last year to set up the Colorado game as the decider. They’re hated rival. And I doubt Nashville loses again, so there may not be a margin for error if they want to win the division. It really is a big game.

I have a feeling we’ll see a great Blues performance tonight. How would that be to have a 3-way tie for the division!

 

[ZigZagBluesFan]

I think if there's going to be a letdown game in the last three it's going to be against the Flyers because they're going to be up for this one.

Tonight we're whoopin' that ass!

 

[Default]

Fabs in for Sanford just this one time pls

go team. Hawks LUL

 

[Stealth JD]

Must win game. We know how those go.

 

[Note Worthy]

Fabs in for Sanford just this one time pls

go team. Hawks LUL

No way, we need Sanford to score more goals off his neck.

 

[Default]

No way, we need Sanford to score more goals off his neck.

But... we've already seen that.

Maybe Fabbri can score off one of his turnovers...

 

[STLegend]

I wonder what Blais status is, he was skating I thought. Seemed like an ankle injury to me.

 

[Davimir Tarablad]

 

[LetsGoBLUES91]

Saad-Toews-Caggiula
Debrincat-Anisimov-Kane
Perlini-Strome-Kahun
Kunitz-Kampf-Kruger

Keith-Gustafsson
Forsling-Seabrook
Dahlstrom-Murphy

Crawford

That's actually not that bad of a lineup. Not good, but not as bad as I thought.

 

[Halak Ness Monster]

What does everyone think about Dunn playing with Pietrangelo? Is this a duo that can stick together throughout the playoffs?

Dunn was benched earlier this year(IIRC) because of sloppy play. However, his game has done a complete 180 and he is playing much better. But is he good enough defensively to play at 5 on 5 with Petro against Seguin, Scheifele, Hertl, Stone, etc in the playoffs?

We aren't breaking up Parayko/JBO anytime soon so I guess it'll have to be Dunn, Gunnar, or Edmundson at 1 LHD in the postseason.

 

[Bobby Orrtuzzo]

For the love of Christ just win

 

[Halak Ness Monster]

Saad-Toews-Caggiula
Debrincat-Anisimov-Kane
Perlini-Strome-Kahun
Kunitz-Kampf-Kruger

Keith-Gustafsson
Forsling-Seabrook
Dahlstrom-Murphy

Crawford

That's actually not that bad of a lineup. Not good, but not as bad as I thought.

They'd be in the playoffs with ease if Keith, Seabrook, and Crawford were 4 years younger.

They have plenty of offensive firepower. The Hawk's defense is just terrible, though. And they no longer have two stud D-men and Hjalmarsson to mask how bad their 4, 5, 6 d-men are.

 

[Default]

Saad-Toews-Caggiula
Debrincat-Anisimov-Kane
Perlini-Strome-Kahun
Kunitz-Kampf-Kruger

Keith-Gustafsson
Forsling-Seabrook
Dahlstrom-Murphy

Crawford

That's actually not that bad of a lineup. Not good, but not as bad as I thought.

Pretty certain Ward is in over Crawford.