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Angry At Numbers 6/5
Time to just go through some numbers popping out from Game 1 and beyond. You love it when we get nerdy. Nerds are in, you know it, I know it. If only I paid this much attention to math in high school (I think I got a 590 on the Math section on the SAT while rocking the verbal, and my Rain Main-like father never forgave me for it, despite the fact that he was a writer. It was a strange family).
38.2%
That was Jonathan Toews’s Corsi number for Game 1, and that’s with the score adjusted. It’s the third lowest number he has produced in the past two playoffs, as Kopitar kicked him down to a 37% in Game 6 last year in L.A. (while Kane dragged them out of the pits like little Miho got Clive Owen), and earlier last spring Mikko Koivu held him to a 25% in Game 4 against Minnesota. But that’s it, and I guess it says a lot that the Hawks went 2-1 in those games. It’s not a formula the Hawks would have any intention on repeating, though. And just how likely is it the Lightning can keep Toews down… down on the ground…
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Stanley Cup Finals Morning Links 6.5.2015
All quiet on the chomping front:ESPN CHICAGO
TVR? Let’s Go Hawks
Yes but only for Vermette:BU
**Listen to Spiegs & Goff, for Sam’s spots & Jason Goff has the best nickname for #80**
Literally…Sweet Jesus! PD
Probably not:NBC
Well its hard to get warm in a skybox:TS
Yes if he isn’t cute:SCH
Sour Grapes…Draft Better:NJ.com
I figured this was fitting:Chicago Tribune
Dolla Dolla Bills Y’all:USA TODAY
For the foodies:NY Times
This is going to keep happening:Montreal Gazette
I heard a lot about most of it, but what I did hear, I did not hear any of that:TSN
Non-Hockey but Wow:Globe and Mail
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Stanley Cup Final Morning Links 6/4/15
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Change Of Heart: Hawks 2 – Lightning 1 (Hawks Lead 1-0)
Have a narrative, why don’t you? With the Hawks top six not producing much, and after the residents here proclaimed it would be the Hawks’ forward depth that would prove to be the difference, here comes the third line providing both goals that put the Hawks up in this series. And no, of course not, there’s no way that Teuvo Teravainen coming up big makes me feel especially good after all the shit we got for extolling his virtues. Why would you ever think that? He’s not special in any way.
As we previewed this series, and most others did, I feel like it was generally agreed that John Cooper was a pretty good coach. And while he probably wouldn’t come up with some novelty for this, he would do what was necessary. Well, tonight he kind of fucked up.
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Southeast First – Game 1 – Hawks at Lightning Preview, Pregame Thread, Insurance Claim
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Game Time: 7:00PM Central
TV/Radio: NBC, CBC, TVA, WGN-AM 720
Reinventing Axl Rose: Raw ChargeA year later, the Blackhawks finally find themselves in the position they should have been in with 20 minutes to play against the Kings on June 1st. And with them, a return to the only hockey that matters. Hockey whose outcome will determine names engraved in silver, and on the Hawks’ side of the ledger, a chance at solidifying even much more than that. Standing in their way is now the Tampa Bay Lightning, a team more than comfortable at not only playing the exact game the Hawks want to and possibly even faster, but also gleefully seizing the opportunity to play the upstarts and define their own story rather than be a footnote in someone else’s.
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Borders And Boundaries: Tampa Special Teams And Matchups
Have to thank the girlfriend for providing the Less Than Jake reference, because I’m not a fan but we need to vary it from Against Me! and Tom Petty. Like once or twice.
So we’ve got to wrap up this preview, and cover the special teams for Tampa and how it all plays out. Let’s get to it.
