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Shut up, Kittens.

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I am the female Kittens: I have long hair and I like pussy.

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Apparently horton has suffered another set back while recovering from his concussion. Awesome. :BANG

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Epic. :lol

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Sorry I need to sig for awesomeness

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New Bucci: http://proxy.espn.go.com/nhl/story/_...ans-super-bowl

As I started, I was like, "c'mon Bucci, why are you even trying to find common ground between the NFL and NHL?" Then I kept reading. :thumbsup

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No Hjalmarsson, no Montador for Hawks against Sharks. This is going to be a clusterfuck in our own end. Would be a huge win if they could pull together, though.

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Don't worry, we're right about in the middle of one of our slumps. We're a streak-slump team, no in between, and we've given up 9 goals the last two games.

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Ya know the Hawks have lost 6 in a row right? And we've also given up 8 or 9 in our last 2. I think 16 GA in the Hawks' last 3 games.

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Yeah, I know, so you guys are more due to break the slump than we are. And I guess the score will be 7-6 tonight... :lol

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Anyone watch Wings vs. Ducks tonight? The best regular season game I can remember seeing in a very long time. I'm a Wings fan though, so I'm admittedly biased, but both teams just played great the whole way through.

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how we came out of that scrum on the kill, I have no idea. If anything, that was a wash between Toews Thornton Clowe and OD. Joe Thornton is the biggest jagbag in the league.

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That was just about the worst 1st period imaginable. The PP is so bad.

Q has officially lost it, though. He plays Michael fucking Frolik on the 1st line with Hossa and Toews....why? Kid has done nothing all year. Meanwhile, Stalberg gets stuck on the 4th line. We spend nearly 6 minutes of that period on the PP and Stalberg doesn't see the ice once. Meanwhile, we have Brunette-Shaw-Kruger out there on the 2nd unit. It's just nonsense. You have 3 borderline NHL'ers on the 2nd PP unit together. Just let that sink in.

Not to mention the dreadful PK that just gives up goals instantly....2 let in by the PK and another that was disallowed (and was a very soft call).

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I get it. I think we got it in October. Enough already.

We don't need to get into details. There are a lot of things wrong right now

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Thought this was a discussion board. My bad.

Just wondering, you think Q should stay? I'm starting to become on the fence. Just no excuse for Stalberg > 4th line, Frolik > 1st line. Even after Frolik commits a 4-minute high-stick (same thing he did in Calgary) on his first fucking shift.

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Well, the same things have been said since October. I'm tired of having the same discussion.

There has been, no doubt, terrible player management for the Hawks this season, and especially lately. Where to begin?

Lepisto: There is no reason this guy should not have been getting more of an opportunity, unless this guy banged Q's daughter. He has done nothing horrible in all of his time, and the thought that John Scott and Dylan Olsen are getting opportunities before this guy says something. Why is he even on the team? Glad he's playing tonight.

Montador: This guy has not been nearly as bad as the majority of people would say, because he has been stuck with OD and John Scott all damn season. The 3rd worst PK in the league, and John Scott is getting PK time before Montador? What does it take for this guy to get a chance?

Frolik: Without question, he plays his best when with Bolland, and that line played very well at the beginning of the year. Why they have not gone back to this is questionable.

Bickell: Plays his best game of the year against Vancouver, looks to have started to turn the corner, get benched for 3 games. I just don't get it.

I can very well keep going. You pile that on top of Q's ease in switching lines on a period-by-period basis, but will make no adjustment on the PP or PK schemes, especially when Kitch's PK scheme of a triangle +1 system has given him bottom 5 PK his entire coaching career.

I don't get it.

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This sharks broadcast is terrible. Hahn and Remenda are garbage.

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Good period from the Hawks...can't be making mistakes at the opponent's blue-line like that. Tough to win games when you give up 3+ goals every single night.

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2 GA for us is the new 0.

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Hawks need this, turn this bastard around now: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCRae5mRoRE

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Bickell scoring a goal and fighting??!?!? WTF is going on?

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Crawford good lord.

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Stalbergs turnover is worse than Leddy getting worked all the time. Got it?

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I can't decide what is worse, team D or goaltending.

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It is the same song on repeat for the Hawks. On a losing streak like this, with a team this good, the blame is now shifting to the coaches.

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uhh....team D. not even close.

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I'll say. Crawford has looked like a deer in headlights last 2 goals though.

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something needs to change

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Here's what I don't get. Yeah, it was a stupid play. He waited too long to make the pass to Keith, it get deflected bounced in the air, Keith couldn't keep it in >>> 2-on-1

But to bench him for the entirety of the 3rd is just plain stupid when he brings so much energy. Frolik fucking took a 4-min minor (his 2nd in 3 games) in the first minute of the hockey game but he still got more looks on the 1st line after that.

Stalberg fucked up. Ok, yeah, on the same shift that he kept the puck in because of his effort on the fore-check. Doesn't mean you just say fuck off to one of your 6 most skilled forwards for the 3rd period.

Crawford was terrible. Godawful side to side on the first goal....4th goal completely loses his net like usual.....5th goal he just doesn't move. He played horrible on a night when the team as a whole played a pretty strong game and really fucking worked for it.

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Hawks lose in Columbus next week and I believe Q gets the ax, hopefully with Mike Kitchen to follow. Worst run special teams in hockey.