The Critic

QUOTE(MurcieOne @ Feb 14, 2008 -> 08:17 PM) Valeri Zelepukin anyone? Stop it, I'm getting nauseous.

QUOTE(MurcieOne @ Feb 14, 2008 -> 08:11 PM) So look for Karpotsev to come back any day now and notch a natural hattrick. Some things are unjinxable. Krapotsev will suck for all eternity.

Damn, the past two nights have been fun!

QUOTE(IlliniKrush @ Feb 14, 2008 -> 07:39 PM) All that really needs to be said is Toews Simply amazing that the team's MVP is 19 years old. They really do look like an entirely different team when he plays.

Another steaming turd coming up from Jack Black. "Be Kind, Rewind". Ugh.

I hate hearing Mercury Moron's voice as much as anyone, but (1) I liked watching him play when I was just a little Critic, and (2) you gotta have some kind of sad, pathetic, valueless existence to threaten someone's life because you don't like what he said about your favorite team. EDITED because I forgot about that retarded "B in parentheses = sunglass smiley" thing.

QUOTE(MurcieOne @ Feb 14, 2008 -> 05:02 PM) You really want Skille playing on a line with Adam Burish and Martin Lapointe? They are a black-hole of talent. With Bolland back up with the big club (who played a great game last night) there isnt a spot for Skille to play unless he was on the 4th line. Makes a ton more sense to let him play PP and get tons of icetime in the A. EDIT: Craig Adams is pathetic though.... we should have traded for Karl Stewart, he had a big impact when he was on the team last year. I loved watching Karl Stewart play. IMO he was just fine as a 4th line checking forward. I suppose you're right about Skille making more use of his time in the A, but I just hate watching guys like Adams, Perrault and Lapointe flounder around helplessly while someone who at least wants to be out there is down on the farm. Besides, you never know where Skille would end up when the Random Line Generator was done with him.

QUOTE(Jimbo's Drinker @ Feb 14, 2008 -> 11:36 AM) First year I do not have any tickets, I will wait to see the product on the field. My July game is probably one of just three I will go to, the other two being the "freebies" that come with my daughter's Kids Club membership. Not as much because of how the team may play, but more because I'm not crazy about the prices. If my cousin comes up with some comps like he has the past few years, all the better.

July 21st vs. Texas, section 149, 1/2 price Monday. 3 tickets, 72 bucks total. About as cheap as I can ask for.

Kelly keeps saying Buff didn't score that last goal, and he's right. The Blue Jacket player tried to shoot it over top and roofed it into his own net. Wouldn't be surprised if Lang ends up with the credit for that goal.

Buff with the hat trick! 7-2 Hawks!

QUOTE(MurcieOne @ Feb 13, 2008 -> 07:28 PM) I agree with what your saying, but Robert Lang was supposed to be the guy who made Marty "happy." They played with the Czech National team together and were friends? Seriously, this guy needs to stop worry about being "happy" and start scoring goals, maybe when the Hawks are crazy popular in the city because they're winning will make Marty "happy". 100% correct. Playing professional hockey for a very nice salary in a great city should be plenty enough to make someone happy.

Beautiful pass by Sharp leads to a Wiz goal. SIX to two, Hawks!

QUOTE(MurcieOne @ Feb 13, 2008 -> 07:14 PM) Of course he scores to make me look like a prick... thanks asshole. SORRY, MARTY!!

QUOTE(MurcieOne @ Feb 13, 2008 -> 06:53 PM) Norrena played absolutely horrible that period, Seabrook and Buff had s***ty goals. I have a strange feeling that the hawks are going to go on a little roll here (4/5 wins). Marty Havlat could make this team alot better if played at all like he gave a s***. I was just going to say that the only real negative about that 1st period was Havlat's lazy, disinterested, sloppy play. He really is playing like a guy who's either afraid out there or has quit on the team. He just took a stupid penalty as well. At least he got on the scoresheet somehow.

4-0 Hawks! Buff gets credit for the goal but the puck seemed to go in off the Jackets' defenseman's skate.

Buff picks up a mistake by Russell and the Jackets goalie goes for a stupid pokecheck. Buff sidesteps him and slides it into the empty net. 3-0 Hawks!

SEABROOK on a 4-on-4 breakaway!!!! 2-0 Hawks!!!

QUOTE(CWSGuy406 @ Feb 13, 2008 -> 05:25 PM) Goaltenders are tricky -- outside of the truly elite, it's tough to tell which ones are actually good and which ones are living off the defense that plays in front of them. Even before the Hawks got him, this was my question about Khabibulin.

Pat Kane loves playing the Blue Jackets! PPG, #13 on the year, 1-0 Hawks!

Why does it seem like I've been hearing Crawford's name for 10 years? I was surprised to read that he's only 23 - I thought we'd been waiting for him for much longer.

Holy Bad Buyrates, Batman!!! from Gerweck: According to reports ROH's last PPV "Undeniable" only had 19 total buys on all of Dish Network. As previously reported the PPV only did 36 buys in the entire country of Canada which has led to them no longer being shown there. ROH is likely to stop airing PPV's once the final two have aired. What the hell???? You should be able to get 36 buys from people accidentally hitting "buy" on their remotes!!! ....maybe that's what happened, now that I think about it....

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Feb 12, 2008 -> 07:57 PM) I appreciate the Wings, but you had to see Osgood slumps coming. Oh yeah, definitely. He wasn't going to be as good as he had been all year. I'm just surprised to see him peppered for three in the first period. The Wings usually only give up 3 shots per period (exaggerating, of course, but you get my point) - he must've been absolutely horrible tonight.

My Wings are suffering. Losers of 3 straight and Osgood yanked after giving up 3 in the first period in Nashville. I know the vast majority of you are very happy about this, but I've always been a fan of the Wings (second only to the Hawks), so it's no fun to watch them in a slump like this.

QUOTE(IlliniKrush @ Feb 12, 2008 -> 07:27 PM) Hawks convention July 18-20 90% chance I'll geek out for this. The 10% I left open in case they run it as poorly/greedily as Soxfest.