Illiniaaron
- Geneseo, IL
A nice five game winning streak the past couple weeks. Big six game road trip, play teams in the northeast (Devils, Rangers) and go out west too (Oilers, Flames).
A nice five game winning streak the past couple weeks. Big six game road trip, play teams in the northeast (Devils, Rangers) and go out west too (Oilers, Flames).
Crawford has given up 7 goals in during the 5 game winning streak. I wonder if people still think he's an average goalie.
Crow should be in the Vezina hunt. Leads the league in save percentage and GAA. Criminally underrated.
Crow should be in the Vezina hunt. Leads the league in save percentage and GAA. Criminally underrated.
Crow should be in the Vezina hunt. Leads the league in save percentage and GAA. Criminally underrated.
It's truly absurd. You watch, the next even remotely borderline goal he allows in a big situation, you'll have meatball fans pinning everything on him.
My sense is that's just hockey fans generally. The goalie is the easiest person to blame.
Um, yeah, they just got drilled by a Canuck team that had won only one out of last nine games. Now Crawford may be out for an extended period. Not looking so hot.
Courtesy of Backyard Hockey on the HF board:
Much needed 2 points
Keith an absolute disaster.
Finally a goal from a D man and 2 pp goals - which should happen. Worst pk team in the league
PK unit gives up another goal. They have been terrible of late
Crazy but Hartman was arguably the best skater for the Hawks tonite.
Glass was very good. Saw waaaay too many shots.
First line terrible once again. Not a good thing when Lance Bouma is a better forward than anyone on the first line.
Toews with weak board battles and terrible turnovers. Third period shift where both he and Saad completely whiff on shots.
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Couldn't have said it better.
You want to put the guy who is in charge of a dismal defense in charge of the entire team?
Agreed that the current regime may not be working anymore. At what point does Bowman gets blamed for where they are? I mean, Tallon essentially got fired for too many bad contracts and every bad contract on the books now (Seabs, Panik, Toews) was done by Stan.
Bowman has had a rough last few years. He made a big deal of talking about how last season was unacceptable. What does that make this season? The big trades from this past summer have been busts.
Disagree.
Hammer has been bad/injured this year and Murphy has been good and improving on top of that. Murphy now is much better that even Hammer of last season and he is cheaper. Murphy is a solid #4 at this point and he has the ceiling of a good #3 (and his AAV is 3.85, this is a really good deal for a top 4 D).
Saad's been disappointing. But he's younger (slightly) than Panarin, fills more of a need (PF) and, most importantly, is under contract for far longer. Panarin is going to be north of $7M in 1.5 seasons. Maybe $8M if the cap rises as much as projected.
I love Hammer and Panarin, but Bowman was right to trade them. That said, I definitely share your frustration with the team.