So where do we begin? The first 30 minutes? The last 30 minutes period? The last 6 seconds? The overtime? The hit? I’m really not sure. This felt like about 4 games in one and there’s likely still about four more games left.
I’ll just get right to my thoughts. Apologies for the randomness as I’m still a bit scatterbrained after experiencing that.
You can call me lazy
You can call me wrong
Cause I was born a liar
My home is kind, man it pays to be blind
I promise to forget you run on
No swallowed pride, no conspiracy lined
Broken promise of the virtue, run on, Lord run on
Well I’m feelin’ left behind, Lord what a waste of time
They’re coming to get you, run on
How can I respect your crime
When all you criminals whine
They bought and sold you, run on, run on
vs. 
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.
So 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.
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.
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.
Ouch: Chicago Tribune
A grabber: PuckDaddy
This is fantastic:The Full Amonte
Brad Richards..earning his money TSN
Captain Slovak-America comes through: TSN 2
Gonna just leave this up for now and our full wrap will be up in the morning. After all, you lot have to work in the morning. Or most of you. I’m guessing. 85% OF THE WORLD’S WORKING, THE OTHER 15 COME HERE…