Vladifan

Can someone .GIF Cleary running into the goal post?

He didn't run into it.  He got jammed into it by Seabrook.  Hello?

 

They won't call any of their minor league goons up for this series.  Not unless there's lots of injuries.  

 

Tootoo and Bertuzzi are healthy scratches, if I'm not mistaken.

 

Also, didn't Quincey used to fight once upon a time.  Guy doesn't do anything physical anymore.  

Don't agree about Quincey.  I've seen him in more than one game pounding on guys along the boards. 

This is classy stuff...no one has brought to these guys all year and now they are up against it...at least we belong in the same rink.

THIS.   They don't know how to react.  They've been gliding along for months.  Now, hopefully, it's a little more like treading in a cesspool.  LOVE it.

Is that wave-off the makeup for the non-call?

I thought it was.  But we were overdue.  And the boyz on NBC said it shouldn't have been called.  But then they never mentioned the fact that the refs missed about six calls for us.  Yes.  Well...

Pavel takes a minute during intermission to call Sam Bernstein, and see if he can file a copyright infringement lawsuit against Nyquist

This game is a prime example of how a team can finish their checks without running all over the ice.. you dont have to crush a guy through the glass every time..just get in on them and rub them out into the boards every time. Over the course of a game and series it will make their D make mistakes.  Keep it up..great 2 periods.

I got no more "Likes".  So I give this a smiley.  

Smith just walked on the ice and was the hawks best player this period. Contributes absolutely nothing positive

Hmm.  Sounds like somebody else I know...

Bickell is such a thug

So is Shaw.  So is Bolland.  So is Seabrook.  So is....

Smith is a terrible athlete go to bed

That's bulls***.  He helped thwart a goal.

[quote name="Playmaker" post="2406686" timestamp="1368902201"]Smith is a rookie who is going to make mistakes.  Pucks will get past you at the point.  If Cleary does his job, it's a good scoring chance, and nothing more.  He's a seasoned playoff veteran and shouldn't be making plays like this.  Cleary isn't the scapegoat.  He's getting well deserved criticism for his extremely poor play.[/quote

What you call "well-deserved criticism" is what I'd call obsessive overkill. He is not playing well.  But Cleary commentary has gone from well-chosen, logical and timely remarks to a kind of pubescent, smart-ass, sarcastic let's-all-dump-on-him-because-it's-the-current-thing-to-do thing.  Kind of like mindless, absentee bullying.  What I find interesting about my own reaction is that whether it's my business or not; and even though I don't have any control over it, I feel embarrassed and sad for those of you who are persisting, even when he plays ok.  It's just a guess here.  A stab in the dark?  But I'm thinking the point has been made that Daniel Cleary is not playing well.

GO. FILPPULA!!  You can prove me wrong ANY time you want to!  DOES THIS TEAM LOOK GOOD, OR WHAT??!

GO, BELOVED RED WINGS!!!!!!

Anybody else hear Eddie Ozone rationalizing the dives?  He says everybody's doing it.  So that makes it just all righty, huh, oh forked-tongued wonder.  POS.

We need more goals out of Franzen.

We need more shots on goal out of everybody.  And if there's three of their guys on one of ours, surely someone's open?!

That is overkill, plain and simple, and it probably does come from a sense of insecurity.  I want this pontifying POS to eat it and choke on it.  I want the same thing to happen to him and his team that happened to Woody Paige the time he thought it was the Right and Proper Thing to Do to dismiss the opponent with a flick of his pen.  

GO, WINGS.  Read this and do some of your own ripping and tearing.  You KNOW you can do this.