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RockRaines Grand Master

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You just cant make this s*** up

can't help but feel that the Chicago Blackhawks have revealed themselves to be a classless team.

 

1) While the hit on Seabrook may have chartered into questionable territory for some, I still think that it was a good. Seabrook should have kept his head up. Remember the Getzlaf hit on Hamuis? That was a lot worse, yet Vigneault simply said that he thought it was a clean, and that Hamuis should have kept his head up. Quenneville? He was calling out the player and the team as a whole. One of your best players got rocked. Get over it. We've had it a lot worse this year for injuries than you have, so give it a rest.

 

2) Both Kane and Toews refused to give the Canucks, obviously the superior team, any credit. I'm sorry, Toews and Blackhawks fans, but your team is not the same as last year. Show some class and admit that the Canucks are a better team - and they've been playing like it, too.

 

3) You're up 6 - 1, and you're still using your top PP? If I remember correctly, in a blow-out game earlier this season, Quenneville was bad-mouthing the other team for still using their top PP unit (was it against the Canucks?). Why would you contradict yourself? Again, show some class, and let your other players - you know, the one's you've barely played, or did you forget about them? - have some PP time.

 

4) Blackhawks players were still throwing heavy hits while being up 7-2. Again, show some class and lay off. Anyone thinking that Bieksa was wrong in pummelling Stalberg is out to lunch. Stalberg absolutely deserved it.

 

5) Kane's embellishment of Hamuis hit to the face. Do I really need to say anything else? Grow up, Kane.

 

6) Chicago fans giving our GM a hard time. Seriously, are you kidding me?

 

7) Chicago fans complaining about all the bounces. If you haven't noticed, Blackhawks fans, Samuelsson has had five or six posts this series. Oh, and that 7-2 game? Almost every bounce and every call went your way. Don't bring that up as an argument. That happens in all sports.

 

8) Playing Bolland. While he obviously didn't show any concussion symptoms - admittedly, he played a very good game last night - why would you slot this guy in knowing that he's not one hundred percent healthy against a hard-hitting, superior team? Show that you care more about your players lives than a game of hockey, please.

 

Anyways, I'm just as frustrated with that team as anyone here. I look forward to Thursday.

 

f course we know about your joke of a team. 15 years of being bottom feeders with 23 fans, and only by taking advantage of entry-level contracts is how you have your cup. As far as hockey IQ goes CDC is tops. And we know about Chicago too, it looks like Baghdad and smells like diapers. In contrast vancouver is rated as the best place to live in North America and third in the world. Go back to the smelly hole of a third world city that is Chicago! With fans like Chicago has who needs al Quaeda. See if you would like to see Bowman get harassed by our fans. Frag off!

 

 

Hawks got away with so many things, while Canucks got every single borderline calls against them. The stats means nothing.

 

Hawks fouls 20 times, 2 calls

Canucks fouls 4 times, 2 calls

 

Do you get the picture?

I wonder how much bonus Bettman pays them get when the Hawks win. lol

Where the reffs apologizing to the Hawks for Torres? a make up call or a make up game?

 

Seriously, Keith could have had 6 minutes in the first, but thats fine that he only got 2. As long as they keep it consistent.

Then the Hansen penalty was just a player being strong on his skates. In fact it was Campoli who moved to his left to initiate contact with Hansen.

The charge on Edler was bogus.

The Oreskovich was horrendus.

the iterference on Erhoff (?) on the two on two was a head scratcher.

The non-call on the guy that tried to break Glass' wrist at the end of the game was dangerous.

The spear by Stalberg and interfence on Bieksa was also a non-call.

If they call bullsh*t on us, they should have to call it on them as well. I get a kick out of Simpson saying after another non-call to Chicago that he likes that the reffs put their whistles away. Are you freaking kidding me Craig?!!!!!

 

When the reffs have a game like that, the Nucks don't know what is a penalty and was isn't so they don't play as physical as they should. They totally give momentum to the Hawks. Any of you who ref at any competitive level will know how easy it is (or it can be) to influence the outcome of a game.

We are the most disciplined team in the NHL. Our chirpers don't chirped, every one of our undisciplined players have been sent packing (O'Brian etc.), and we go quietly to the box on almost every penalty, no matter how stupid.

 

The last team in the league to take undisciplined penalties is the Vancouver Canucks.

 

We are the fastest. Our over all team speed is the best in the league, easily. Yet we are completely unable to draw penalties with it.

 

We are the most talented team in the league, by so much it's ridiculous. We are going to win, or have a candidate in the hunt for, every single piece of hardware the league has to offer. Even the Calder, where Schneider was in the hunt. Yet all that talent can be hooked, tripped, slashed without ever drawing a penalty.

 

We take the puck into the opposition's end five on five, and make it look like a power play. I'm not talking about spending 30 seconds cycling to get one chance, I'm talking about setting up and getting chance after chance for an entire shift. We do this over and over again.

 

And yet we are taking all the penalties.

 

How does this little piece of magic occur? The usual platitudes to explain penalties are:

 

"When you're playing undisciplined hockey, you're going to take penalties."

 

"When you get that much pressure on a team, they are going to be forced to take penalties"

 

"When you have that much speed, you are going to draw penalties"

 

The Vancouver Canucks are easily the best team, our play could be used as the exemplar of how to draw penalties, at least by all the favourite sayings of hockey commentators.

 

Yet we are getting all the penalties, and Chicago is getting virtually none.

 

How can it be explained?

 

 

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IlliniKrush Grand Master

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One of the best ones, proving this guy knows nothing, is this:

 

3) You're up 6 - 1, and you're still using your top PP? If I remember correctly, in a blow-out game earlier this season, Quenneville was bad-mouthing the other team for still using their top PP unit (was it against the Canucks?). Why would you contradict yourself? Again, show some class, and let your other players - you know, the one's you've barely played, or did you forget about them? - have some PP time.

 

 

 

Well mr. hockey, we put our top guys out there because you were running around like a bunch of ass clowns, so we wanted to tack on another one for good measure. The penalty in reference was the Edler charging call.

 

Usually, yes, you call off the dogs. But Canucks being idiots? Let's go score again.

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QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ Apr 20, 2011 -> 05:11 PM)
One of the best ones, proving this guy knows nothing, is this:

 

3) You're up 6 - 1, and you're still using your top PP? If I remember correctly, in a blow-out game earlier this season, Quenneville was bad-mouthing the other team for still using their top PP unit (was it against the Canucks?). Why would you contradict yourself? Again, show some class, and let your other players - you know, the one's you've barely played, or did you forget about them? - have some PP time.

 

 

 

Well mr. hockey, we put our top guys out there because you were running around like a bunch of ass clowns, so we wanted to tack on another one for good measure. The penalty in reference was the Edler charging call.

 

Usually, yes, you call off the dogs. But Canucks being idiots? Let's go score again.

It's the playoffs and its two teams that hate each other. f*** 'em.

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QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ Apr 20, 2011 -> 05:11 PM)
One of the best ones, proving this guy knows nothing, is this:

 

3) You're up 6 - 1, and you're still using your top PP? If I remember correctly, in a blow-out game earlier this season, Quenneville was bad-mouthing the other team for still using their top PP unit (was it against the Canucks?). Why would you contradict yourself? Again, show some class, and let your other players - you know, the one's you've barely played, or did you forget about them? - have some PP time.

 

 

 

Well mr. hockey, we put our top guys out there because you were running around like a bunch of ass clowns, so we wanted to tack on another one for good measure. The penalty in reference was the Edler charging call.

 

Usually, yes, you call off the dogs. But Canucks being idiots? Let's go score again.

Not to mention the only thing that he could possible be talking about here is when Vigneault, the coach of his team, complained that the Hawks were running up the score when they were winning 6-0 earlier this year. How comical is it when you're trying to take a dig at the opposing coach, but you're really talking about your own team whining about getting their ass kicked.

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My favorite Chicago sports writer.

 

Canucks prove gutless against Hawks

 

By BARRY ROZNER

The Vancouver Canucks have long been known as a team that will crack under the strain, succumb to the pressure and ultimately choke away a chance to win the Stanley Cup.

 

But now they’ve shown the entire NHL they’re gutless, too.

 

Raffi Torres tops the list and Kevin Bieksa isn’t far behind.

 

They’re both fairly typical of the “new” NHL, which has created an environment where players aren’t held accountable.

 

The players used to police these matters and settle scores — think Darren McCarty-Claude Lemieux and Dirk Graham-Vlad Konstantinov — and the game was safer because of it, but now the league would rather have Torres running around trying to end careers and never force him to answer for it.

 

John Scott had every intention of putting Torres in his place Tuesday night late in the game, but as he engaged Torres at the faceoff circle, referee Dan O’Rourke tossed them both, robbing the Hawks of a chance to set things straight.

 

That’s maddening enough — and you wonder why Scott didn’t wait until the puck dropped — but then Bieksa suddenly became a tough guy with Scott gone for the night.

 

He jumped legendary enforcer Viktor Stalberg and began throwing punches before Stalberg even knew he was in a fight.

 

Wow, Bieksa is some brave man. Does he kick kittens, too?

 

About 10 minutes earlier, Tanner Glass refused to fight Scott, and when he couldn’t get Glass involved, Scott waited too long to have a conversation with Bieksa, who feigned hearing loss and wouldn’t even look at Scott — the equivalent of going into the turtle.

 

Why does the phrase, “Hiding behind your mom’s skirt,” come to mind?

 

Meanwhile, how did referee Brad Meier fail to call the instigator on Bieksa? He pretended not to see it because it carries a one-game suspension when it occurs in the final five minutes.

 

Nice job, fellas.

 

And then there’s Vancouver coach Alain Vigneault, who’s as weak as his players and encourages this spineless behavior.

 

You think of a guy like Ducks coach Randy Carlyle, who had James Wisniewski on the ice at the end of a game against the Hawks in March 2010 to answer for an earlier hit on Brent Seabrook.

 

Wisniewski knew what was coming and got the better of Nick Boynton, but that wasn’t the point. Carlyle didn’t want carry-over so he didn’t protect Wisniewski or hide him on the bench.

 

That’s the NHL Carlyle knows, but in Gary Bettman’s NHL, Torres gets no suspension, Scott gets tossed and Vigneault has Bieksa on the ice to go after an unsuspecting Stalberg.

 

You can see where the Canucks get their guts.

 

Hopefully, this series goes long enough for the Hawks to make it right.

 

If not, they better have long memories.

 

Bobby Lu

 

Speaking of weak, the mentally fragile Roberto Luongo could have pulled himself at the end of the second period down 4, or even after the first goal of the third that put his team behind 6-1.

 

Instead, he waited until a scrum broke out 200 feet away and slithered off to cower on the bench while the UC crowd had its attention focused on other matters.

 

This is one strong group of men.

 

Case for defense

 

Brian Campbell leads the team in giveaways, is last in hits and was the worst Hawk for three games.

 

And while his poor defense is never a surprise — like on the Canucks’ first goal Tuesday — an offensive defenseman is supposed to shoot the puck and he was passing up far too many good looks through three games.

 

It drives the Hawks’ coaching staff nuts when the defense is unable or unwilling to get pucks to the net, but that’s something they finally did in Game 4.

 

After getting 1 point with 4 shots and a minus-4 through three games, Campbell had a goal, a post, 3 shots and a plus-4 in Game 4.

 

No one expects him to play defense, but Campbell can help in a huge way offensively when he gets pucks to the net and joins the play the way he did Tuesday.

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QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Apr 21, 2011 -> 10:54 PM)
That was one awesome period. Keep the pedal to the metal and step on their throats here in the 2nd and lets get this series back to the UC!

exactly get it back to the UC and then who knows what happens from there....1 period at a time

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