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Get It Together There, Grouch: Hawks at Blues Game 2 Preview/Pregame Thread/Purple Wedding

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Hawk Wrestler vs. old_school_blue_l

PUCK DROP: 2pm Central

TV/RADIO: NBC, 87.7FM

GOOD GOD DON’T GO HERE: St. Louis Gametime

Guessing the legs will still be a little sore even two days after playing a game and two-thirds, but the Hawks will have to find the juice anyway as they look to even this series. While it’s not absolutely vital it would certainly behoove them to do so. I had hoped that the Hawks could jump on what had to be a fragile team after St. Louis’s finish to the season and get them questioning themselves from jump street. They couldn’t do that, so the challenge gets a little tougher with the Blues finding their feet a little. Certainly Ryan Miller will take a lot out of his performance in the last four periods of Game 1.

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Beard Of The Day – April 19th – Brian Blessed

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Actor And Adventurer Brian Blessed-1736236So yeah, the Hawks dropped Game 1 in a pretty awful fashion. They need to come back tougher and maybe just a bit weirder than before. So who better than Brain Blessed to inspire them. Not only is his beard out of this world, he’s also led a life most of us couldn’t even dream of. Who else could have claimed to have sparred with the Dalai Lama and had several attempts to climb Everest. From outstanding acting to extreme adventurer, Blessed is the spirit the Hawks should draw inspiration from.

 

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Was She Asking For It? Was She Asking Nice?: Hawks 3 – Blues 4 (3OT)

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Well that feels like drunk sex, no? All that labor and you’re exhausted and it isn’t even really that fun but you’re supposed to be there and then you don’t even get the conclusion. Just an odd look and an admission you should probably both go to sleep.

The thing is, the Hawks could have gotten away with it in Game 1. In fact, they probably should have gotten away with it. Because they weren’t terribly good. Their passing was awful, their changes for the last two periods were simply abhorrent (which is not something we’ve seen a lot of in the Quenneville era) and for regulation they basically just looked off. And that’s being kind. Yet still, when you have the lead in  playoff game with less than five to go, you have to see that out. The Hawks cost themselves a game and 42 extra minutes of hockey by not doing so. And they got there by letting a team up off the mat, which actually has been something of a pattern at times.

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Beard Of The Day – April 18th – Mac Lethal

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Mac Lethal

If any city in the Midwest has an even greater distaste for St. Louis, it’s Kansas City (both the Kansas and Missouri sides), and that’s before even getting into how Cardinals fans still won’t shut up about how they got jobbed in the 1985 World Series. And there’s no one more proud of his Kansas City heritage than rapper Mac Lethal.

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First Period Thread – Game 1 – Hawks at Blues

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Day one has just begun, I’m battered, burning, dazed, and numb. Beginnings feel more like ends, friends feel less and less like friends. Shake, shake, shake, shake off another dumb mistake, I’m stupider than you, you can see it in my face. See it in my sloping brow and forehead, I’m missing all your missives ’cause I’m stone dead.

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Trouble In River City – Game 1 – Hawks at Blues Preview, Pregame Thread, Zip Line Adventure

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Game Time: 7:00PM Central
TV/Radio: CSN, NBCSN, CBC (Anglo), RDS2 (Franco), WGN-AM 720
Mung: St. Louis Game Time

When the new playoff format was announced under the plans for realignment, even dating back to the first iteration of the plan nearly two years ago, it seemed like a foregone conclusion that the Hawks and Blues would collide in the playoffs on an annual basis. In fact, creating and amplifying that kind of rivalry was basically the point of the new format. However, it’s unlikely that anyone had this series pegged for the first round, including these two teams themselves.