GDT: Fire Q @ Flames 9:00 PM (CT) NBCSCH

[Rooh]

Was going to put a little more effort into the GDT, but the team can't even score a damn goal.

yeah the team is 0-7 when I make a GDT...so i'm doing my best to help get Hughes boys!

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[CallMeShaft]

You mentioning how you're trying your best to get us Hughes means a Hawks win tonight. This team is good at doing things you don't necessarily want or expect. They are the TrollHawks after all.

Edit: Also just realized the game is at 9(!). Guess I'll be watching SNL on delay via my DVR.

 

[Rooh]

You mentioning how you're trying your best to get us Hughes means a Hawks win tonight. This team is good at doing things you don't necessarily want or expect. They are the TrollHawks after all.

Edit: Also just realized the game is at 9(!). Guess I'll be watching SNL on delay via my DVR.

 

[hawksfan50]

1.I thought they told us this road trip would help the team bond?
Apparently not ...stars are not starring ...grunts look like they are not NHL calibre..A Q mess keeps forming.

2. CGY licking their chops to play a team that cannot defend and now cannot score...

3.Q still hitting the Merlot to drown his sorrows.


4.We were told our Cup vets were proud players..apparently not given the last game when all that $$$ got skunked and done in by the Caggiula types (and game before Gaunce type who's ) but our vaunted proud and highly paid core vets came up with basically nada first 2 games of this "bonding" trip.

5.Gaudreau Flames 5 Hawks 2...Book it,Dano!

 

[hawksfan50]

Rumours abound that the NHL has some sort of clause that prevents all 6 Hawks core vet highest paid players from having good games (too much to ask for all 6 having 'great' games) IN THE SAME GAME... there seems to be a rule that a max of 1 might have the odd great game...a max of 3 might have "good" games occasionally ...but that 3 or more of them shall most often have no show games just about every game with the others being often just meh I'm many of these games.

Thus when can you recall ALL of CC Toews Kane Saad (combined $27 million in cap hit) AND Keith and Seabs all having good games in the same game?

Some games like last game ..we got none of them making any difference ...some with negative dofference-making ...Most games we get 1,2 or maybe of them having good games..the others average/meh or poor games...

But we NEVER get all 6 (CC is the 6th player of this highest paid vet core) seeming to provide good (maybe 1 or 2 great) games in the same game!


Why this never happens (I guess it would provide a laugher) is beyond me .it should happen several times over 82 games..but apparently Never with the Hawks..

SO when I say stars gotta star to win. .I mean SOME of our stars must show up and make a difference to the win cause ...it would seem asking All 6 to show up and "star" is too much to ask..even for 1 game out of 82.

Why this is impossible is beyond me when each of them will have starry games (some more some a lot less over the 82) ...why all 6 cannot put it all together even 1 game of the 82 does not seem unreasonable..and yet..it just NEVER seems to happen.

It has to be a Q thing..as long as he is coaching this team...some "star" goes AWOL ...some " star " goofs up badly costing us. . Others go meh...

We just cannot get all 6 earning their high $$$$ in the same game ..

Frustrating. ..Infuriating .

 

[Enyaw]

Lets Go Hawks

 

[BobbyJet]

Rumours abound that the NHL has some sort of clause that prevents all 6 Hawks core vet highest paid players from having good games (too much to ask for all 6 having 'great' games) IN THE SAME GAME... there seems to be a rule that a max of 1 might have the odd great game...a max of 3 might have "good" games occasionally ...but that 3 or more of them shall most often have no show games just about every game with the others being often just meh I'm many of these games.

Thus when can you recall ALL of CC Toews Kane Saad (combined $27 million in cap hit) AND Keith and Seabs all having good games in the same game?

Some games like last game ..we got none of them making any difference ...some with negative dofference-making ...Most games we get 1,2 or maybe of them having good games..the others average/meh or poor games...

But we NEVER get all 6 (CC is the 6th player of this highest paid vet core) seeming to provide good (maybe 1 or 2 great) games in the same game!


Why this never happens (I guess it would provide a laugher) is beyond me .it should happen several times over 82 games..but apparently Never with the Hawks..

SO when I say stars gotta star to win. .I mean SOME of our stars must show up and make a difference to the win cause ...it would seem asking All 6 to show up and "star" is too much to ask..even for 1 game out of 82.

Why this is impossible is beyond me when each of them will have starry games (some more some a lot less over the 82) ...why all 6 cannot put it all together even 1 game of the 82 does not seem unreasonable..and yet..it just NEVER seems to happen.

It has to be a Q thing..as long as he is coaching this team...some "star" goes AWOL ...some " star " goofs up badly costing us. . Others go meh...

We just cannot get all 6 earning their high $$$$ in the same game ..

Frustrating. ..Infuriating .

It really is infuriating. It seems to me that it's been going on for a while that one or two Blackhawks will have a decent game offensively (usually Kane) and the others are mediocre, to be polite. Then we have last game where Kane is playing with the flu and no other Blackhawk takes up the slack. Q hasn't been able to rally the troops for years, yet he remains. That's dumfounding.

 

[featherhawk]

Whatever it takes for Q to get moved is what must happen

 

[Wayne Primeau]

Here's what to expect from the Flames tonight:

Gaudreau - Monahan - Lindholm
Tkachuk - Backlund - Frolik
Bennett - Jankowski - Neal
Dube - Ryan - Hathaway

Giordano - Brodie
Hanifin - Hamonic
Valimaki - Andersson

Rittich

 

[idontusethisanymore]

Those GIFs are awesome

 

[RememberTheRoar]

 

[Toews2Bickell]

Does Q realize his lineup fiddling adds zero ev and likely cost them because he refuses to ice anywhere near optimal lineup combination...I get making tweaks here and there but he always takes it to extremes..and why is hayden sitting for completely useless martinsen

 

[CokenoPepsi]

I see it has begun...Toews can no longer produce so he gets Saad who has looked better past few games too.

Cat should be with Kane

 

[featherhawk]

kunitz and martinsen eh...

what a f***ing shit show Q is, either he has Korsikoff's disease from all the free samples from binny's over the years or he has early Alzheimers disease. Synapes have gone cold in his bucket and they are not connecting.

Seriously, get this guy a full blown assessment from a Geriatric Specialist.

those two guys are barely AHL players let alone NHL players.

the hawks would be better off simply double shifting Kane and Cat all game long than having those two useless plugs on the bench or ice.

 

[idontusethisanymore]

Does Q realize his lineup fiddling adds zero ev and likely cost them because he refuses to ice anywhere near optimal lineup combination...I get making tweaks here and there but he always takes it to extremes..and why is hayden sitting for completely useless martinsen

I honestly have no clue why Q seemingly doesn't like Hayden. He's a great player but he hasn't gotten an opportunity to play at all this year. It's honestly pretty unfortunate. Hopefully he can get in the lineup on a consistent basis pretty soon.

 

[St Anley]

That bottom 6 looks really awful.

 

[RememberTheRoar]

I see it has begun...Toews can no longer produce so he gets Saad who has looked better past few games too.

Cat should be with Kane

I see it has begun. You’ve stopped the backhand compliments of Toews and are back to the outright criticisms.

 

[idontusethisanymore]

That bottom 6 looks really awful.

Agreed. Slot Hayden in for Kruger/Kunitz/Martinsen and the bottom 6 instantly becomes better.

 

[CokenoPepsi]

I see it has begun. You’ve stopped the backhand compliments of Toews and are back to the outright criticisms.

I'm always fair...and unfortunatly Toews has been crap lately and is bringing down Cat.

Now they loading up one line...we will see what happens

 

[BK]

I'm always fair...and unfortunatly Toews has been crap lately and is bringing down Cat.

Now they loading up one line...we will see what happens

This is just not accurate.

 

[Toews2Bickell]

Kunitz is such a Q guy. 1 point all year and plays top 9 minutes with pp time every game...hopefully the D pairs aren’t as f***ed

 

[RememberTheRoar]

I'm always fair...and unfortunatly Toews has been crap lately and is bringing down Cat.

Now they loading up one line...we will see what happens

 

[KirkAlbuquerque]

Is Crawford in nets tonight?

 

[featherhawk]

Is Crawford in nets tonight?

He was confirmed on left wing locks website

 

[idontusethisanymore]

Kunitz is such a Q guy. 1 point all year and plays top 9 minutes with pp time every game...hopefully the D pairs aren’t as ****ed

These are the D pairs tonight

Keith-Jokiharju
Gustafsson-Seabrook
Manning-Rutta