Ishdul
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The 2012 Penguins team was also the betting favourites right before the playoffs.Shocked you didn't put the 2013 team that went all-in at the deadline.
The 2012 Penguins team was also the betting favourites right before the playoffs.Shocked you didn't put the 2013 team that went all-in at the deadline.
Yeah, well Keenan lost those series for the Hawks, especially against Minnesota. Keenan was trying to goon it up... Look at the PIM's from that series, the Stars weren't buying into it and the officials weren't having it which is why the Hawks spent half the series in the box... Of course him playing Millen over Belfour was stupid but that's the type of crap Keenan would do... It's like Keenan approached the game from a bizarre psychological angle... To this day I don't understand what he wished to accomplish by sitting his best goaltender, or even his crazy antics by replacing goaltenders multiple times in a game..
At any-rate, those were skilled hockey teams, however Keenan was just a fool.
Here is a good article about Keenan by Jeremy Roenick..
http://deadspin.com/5958837/mike-keenan-the-nhls-last-great-*******-coach
The 1991-1992 Blackhawks went on an 11 game winning streak to the Finals that year. I remember that run cause the Jets choked another 7 game opening round series against the Canucks.
Hawks SHOULD'VE won game 1 against Pittsburgh, talk about lost opportunity.
I will add this, despite Keenan's questionable judgments, Minnesota got away with gooning it up too....
Remember when Chris Chelios got blatantly high sticked, and basically the front of his jersey was covered in blood and there was no call?
That series was a total mess. The officials called the Hawks for everything and Minnesota for nothing, and I think that had to do with the officials not tolerating Keenan's antics...... Sure Keenan got away with that nonsense during the regular season but I don't think the officials or the NHL were going to turn the playoffs into a gong show circus....
The 1991-1992 Blackhawks went on an 11 game winning streak to the Finals that year. I remember that run cause the Jets choked another 7 game opening round series against the Canucks.
Hawks SHOULD'VE won game 1 against Pittsburgh, talk about lost opportunity.
They surely should have. Maybe it's ingrained pessimism from following the Hawks for several decades, but outside of the first period of the first game, the whole 1992 final seemed like they were trying to hold onto a rope which was slipping out of their hands, fighting an uphill battle, despite winning their previous eleven games. When they shut the Penguins down, they got shut down more. When they scored, the Penguins scored more.
Agreed. It will be interesting to see what the Kings do this year.2014 only thing stopping the Blackhawks from a second straight title were the Kings (obviously), what an amazing series tho. Theres a reason a fair amount of people consider it to be the "real" 2014 Stanley Cup Finals.