Oh captain my captain: Blackhawks
Buff 2.0: ESPN Chicago
3 7s tomorrow: TSN
Tell us a story Uncle Dale: PHT
I wouldn’t want him here but I’ve gone 180 on Luuuu: SI
We, along with Andrew Cieslak from HockeeNight.com, were asked by Yahoo!’s Puck Daddy blog, to write the eulogy for the St. Louis Blues. Here’s the link for it:
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Still we wait: NHL
So who do you want: CSN
The captain is scoring: ESPN Chicago
The SJS want to keep the playoff choker crown away from STL: PHT
Meanwhile as the game gets faster: TSN
On yet another off day, and a Tuesday at that, it’s more than likely that an infusion of energy would be more than welcome. Fortunately the band Torche and bearded frontman Steve Brooks are more than up for the task.
Looks like we’re going to have a few days to kill and clean up whatever’s lying around after Sunday’s snuffing of River Scum. So just some points I wanted to get through in the wake.
-I didn’t really have any numbers to back up just how good Duncan Keith was yesterday. I checked them out today. Thanks to Ryan Lambert’s “What We Learned” on Puck Daddy as well for pointing this out. Keith had a 60.6% Corsi-percentage in a game where his team didn’t come close to winning that battle. Even Toews got his head kicked in in terms of possession. Keith’s Relative Corsi Percentage was +27.3%.
Interestingly enough, Keith saw most of his time with Saad, Kruger, and Shaw, and it’s no coincidence that that line had its best game of the series, culminating in the last two goals. Perhaps this was a ploy by Q to get the bottom of the roster going. Or maybe that’s just how it worked out.
Keith also was deployed against Tarasenko and Schwartz. It says they combined for five shots. I certainly don’t remember any of them so I’m guessing they all came on the PP. And look, that line didn’t score, and the Blues are done playing hockey for the season. Easy how that works, no?
Toasted ravs, man. Don’t ask, it’s just a St. Louis thing.
Leave no doubt: Blackhawks
Too much of a good thing: ESPN Chicago
Deuce is wild: CSN
Silver lining: PHT
Ducks advance: PD
P.S. be sure to send Joe congrats (or condolences depending on your feelings) when he gets back to links next week, he got married on Saturday.
All series long, we kept saying and thinking that at some point the Hawks were going to grab this by the scruff, play their game, and wipe the Blues right out of the equation. We saw flashes of it. The first 38 minutes of Game 4, but that was undone by 15 minutes of pissing down their leg. There were moments in Game 5, but that was undone by surges by the Blues. Then you started to worry that the Hawks didn’t have it in the holster any more, that something was missing.
And then the 3rd period happened.
All series long, we kept saying and thinking that at some point the Hawks were going to grab this by the scruff, play their game, and wipe the Blues right out of the equation. We saw flashes of it. The first 38 minutes of Game 4, but that was undone by 15 minutes of pissing down their leg. There were moments in Game 5, but that was undone by surges by the Blues. Then you started to worry that the Hawks didn’t have it in the holster any more, that something was missing.
And then the 3rd period happened.
