4-1: Blackhawks
Wild stars dimming: PHT
Let’s just label every page on his calendar April: CSN
2 for 20: ESPN Chicago
Uh, that’s a, that’s no good: PD
I doubt you’ll see a more h0-hum game in the second round of the playoffs than this afternoon’s. It’s clear that the Wild haven’t completely caught the attention of the Hawks’ faithful yet, and they haven’t caused the Hawks to think that they have to pull out the full arsenal. At least not yet. And the Hawks still lead this series 2-0 heading back to St. Paul.
The Hawks exerted a lot of control in the 1st period, without using it to strangle the Wild. They held them to two shots while only managed seven themselves, though they the attempts were 12-4. While the 2nd shows the Wild got 13 shots, half of those were piled in during a power play and almost all of them came on one goalmouth scramble. The 2nd wasn’t really any looser than the 1st, and came capped off with a Brandon Saad laster into the top corner right after a power play after the Wild didn’t fully deal with a cross-ice pass from Bickell.
While the Hawks weren’t as aggressive in the 3rd, it didn’t feel like they were completely turtling. The Wild got one goal off a really well-worked rush from Erik Haula and Cody McCormick (what?) but after that the Hawks soaked up whatever pressure there was and waited for a chance to seal it. They got two. Hossa hit the crossbar. Bickell didn’t. After the Wild goal they only managed six more shot attempts and it was pretty easily seen out.
Shall we? We shall.
Then the sun disintegrates
Between a wall of clouds
I summer where I winter at
No one is allowed there
Getting drunk on the beach
Or playing in a band
And getting out of school
Meant getting out of hand
I guess I better think up a way to spend my time
Just when I’m ready to sit inside, it’s summertime
Should I go swimming or get a friend to hang around
It’s back to summer, it’s back to basics, hang around
vs 
Game Time: 2:00PM Central
TV/Radio: NBC, RDS, TSN/WGN720
Hootenanny: Hockey Wilderness
Game 1 was far from perfect. There was yet another two goal lead that vanished and some glaring holes were once again visible. The Hawks are capable of pulling away from a team in a hurry (just watch whenever Kaner decides to freak the fuck out) but they’ve also shown they are more than willing to let other teams right back into games. I would be more concerned with this trait if it didn’t seem to be a league-wide thing this year. It seems every game has had its share of blown two-goal leads. Not sure of the reason for it but at least it makes for some pretty exciting, heart attack inducing hockey.
Perhaps the best known of all post-Impresionalist painters, Van Gogh was born in the Netherlands and quickly developed a love for drawing. He wouldn’t actually being to paint until his late 20’s. Once he began though, he became a prolific painter, producing more than a 2,000 pieces in just over a decade.
Like many artists, Van Gogh struggled mightily in life and at the time of his death, very few people were familiar with his work. His work was began was dark earth tones like in The Potato Eaters but a move to the south of France would influence him to use the bright vivid colors he would become best known for. Van Gogh also knew he had a pretty solid beard and would use himself for subject matter often.
I have no scientific research to back this up, but I don’t recall a team that ever took 6 games to wrap up a series then proceeded to have nearly a week off in the playoffs. But that’s what the Blackhawks were given after their arduous series with the St. Louis Blues. Coming into Friday’s Game 1, the tried and true narrative of Rust vs. Rest was on full display for all to see.
The conclusion drawn: Meh, who knows.
For all of the attention that Parliament/Funkadelic has justly gotten over their many decades of interplanetary funk, by and large, the most talented musician in the wide-spanning collective goes under recognized by the general public, with George Clinton and Bootsy Collins’ outsized personae getting most of the recognition. But it was the subdued genius of bearded guitarist Eddie Hazel that really made the music stand out.
If you feel like nothing, you’ve only been taking what they’re giving.
