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Great result, but man the youth rears its head in the 3rd. You gotta nitpick to find fault in anything Bedard has done this yr but up 2-0 with 9:00 left in the 3rd you don’t try and skate thru two defenders at the attack blueline. The hook with less than 2 too go up 1 was bad to. It almost cost em points. …. Club was connected and came in layers and waves. Along with their speed and structure the Kings couldn’t handle the Hawks for long stretches. That should only get better with NHL reps and familiarity with Blashill’s systems.
Slowly but surely I’m starting to believe Knight is a Hawk. What a blessing for Hawk fans.
For 3/4th of the 1st the Hawks looked more connected as a group than I’ve seen this yr. Every line. If this is what Blashill’s systems will look like once the team gets them down the club will regularly be dangerous and structured… Really great brand.
Wow, what a game. … The one thing I was sure about when Bedard was in jrs waas the kid has the best shot I’ve ever seen. Add the work ethic he’s shown since Day 1 and the kid is showing all of us his pride took over and his time in the NHL was not has not been good enough.
Kid at 20 is dragging the team with him.
Great breakdown, Frenchy. ….. Hawks have been better than anyone could have hoped for. They’re playing meaningful games, in the playoff hunt while WHILE they’re developing young players at the NHL level.
And indeed, possession needs to improve to take another step. Reasonable to think that will improve as the young players get 40-50-60 games of NHL reps.
KD and Blashill are hitting on most every decision with KD showing crazy patience. Rebuild is on a solid foundation.
A comeback win 3 goals down in the 1st is always huge but to do it to end a rough 5 game skid is a helluva building block and confidence builder. Team seems bought in and accepting the coaching as a group…… And indeed, this is the Bedard we all thought we were getting. The kid had that look in the preseason with an aggressive bend to his knees, playing low and hungry.
Too bad they couldn’t build on that effort with a couple more home games but start a rough west coast trip instead.
They gonna move Burakovsky up to the 1st PP unit in the 3rd? … He looks rusty for being out such a short time to my eye but he’s a big piece of thAt PP.
Make a save, Svedberg, for cryin out loud……. Even without the goal Greene looks as good as I’ve seen him as a pro. Kid making great reads and plays all over the joint…. Make a save Svedberg, you goof. …… Good to know Broisset is practicing. .. Sved waiver exempt?
really nice work here, Frenchy…. You summed it up, sometimes you win ones you should lose and lose some you should win. Like bad calls, not meant for you Dots, and bounces they even out over 82 games. .. These kinda games are crucial for a young group that is visibly taking steps.
And yea man, the kids are going toe to toe with the heavies and are in every one of these things. They are a hungry group (a wonderful identity) so far and with their skill and exuberance they’re a handful for every opponent. .. And it’s fun to watch. They swarmed MN imposing their will for 40 minutes and every minute of a game/effort like that you feel they can get dangerous in a blink.
Besides it sounds like Frondell was playing so well and getting a ton of media attention they demoted him to the 3rd line? They said it was best for his development? At one point they played him minimum minutes and the Blackhawks got involved.
Did I miss some reporting on Frondell?
Wonderful answer to the most adversity this young group has seen this season against the best and fastest in the league. A bad period v SEA, their answer to that was getting mutilated in BUF, who beat CAR today to make it 5 wins in the last 6 games, then this game…… In a season where every damn thing has gone right until the 3rd v SEA this period was a great answer.
Don’t need to be Toe Blake to figure out this club took the coaching outa the last 4 periods and came out STRUCTURED, fast and hungry. Was worried about the structure after that BUF game. First time this yr it totally collapsed and it was damn near every shift…… They still may get beat 5-nuttin and I’ll be ok with the game cuz of that 1st.
Highlight of the 1st for me was Bedard won an unclean opening faceoff v MacKinnon, flew into the Ozone, backchecked at 100 MPH to the redline and got OFF the ice after a 27 second shift. Kid plays hockey like that and 184 dominoes fall from that. ……. That’s winning hockey which is followed by goals, wins and cups.
Dots, you don’t have to explain or apologize for how you feel when you root for your club. There is no right or wrong…… But, and I think I mentioned to you 5-10 yrs ago, it’s too bad that bad calls take that much enjoyment outa the experience for you. .. When all is said and done hockey/sport is an escape for the majority of fans no matter the sport or continent. And we need it.
Quiet efficiency. Structure in every piece you write. … Doubt you even realize it but you use words and phrases in your thoughts scouts use everyday that even good writers use infrequently.
Really helpful to any fan base but especially so for a franchise in a total tear down. .. You’re making better hockey minds no matter their level of knowledge, Frenchy.
For anyone who even played HS sports they learn that it’s from losses that real improvement is made. I have a feeling Blashill and Crew won’t miss the chance teach the group the valuable lessons from a loss like this…. That’s good if you don’t squander these opportunities.
He has to get away from the 11/7 split. We played two periods with 10 forwards. They were gassed in the third period. If you have to worry about these defenseman so much, maybe they don’t belong in the NHL.
Yep. The forwards were spent come the 3rd period. They had 5 forwards that skated over 20 minutes and they have a 6:00 puck drop 1,000 miles away the next day. ……. I absolutely loved how the 11-7 format has worked for THIS roster. It perfectly acclimated 3 green Dmen to the Bigs thru sheltered minutes. But, it might have run its course to an extent.
We all know, and especially the organIzation knows, that every young player hits a wall in their first full season and running an 11-7 format for too long will exacerbate this. Think how the group didn’t (couldn’t) move their feet in the 3rd. Now imagine an over taxed young group will look in games 60-70-80?
Looked at the lines and loved the fact that TT was bumped to L3 with Mikahev and Donato. With L1 and L2 able to score that L3 is not only dangerous, and will give then secondary scoring, but they can shut down as well. This is what we all clamored for. A fast dangerous top 6 with a legit difference making bottom 6. Depth! ….. Losing Burakovsky is gonna hurt but less so when you have Dickinson coming back bumping TT back up to the top 6.
<p class=”userway-s15-active” data-userway-s15-styled=”true” style=”font-family: UDF, serif !important; transition: all;”>The NHL has no integrity. These Refs are horrible. The slash happened right in front of him and then he is so thin-skinned that he has to call Bedard for unsportsmanlike conduct. He blew it and he had to hide his embarrassment. Why doesn’t the NHL protect players’ heads? The NFL goes out of its way to do it. Twice in the last two games! The NHL will never be anything more than a junior league. Their officiating is crap!
I’ve been saying for years, the NHL will change when they lose a lawsuit. They don’t have NFL money where the commissioner makes $50M a year. Last night’s loss will be worth 5 extra wins this season. They just learned the hard way hockey is a 3 period game.
For sure. You have to get thru games in a season where the calls don’t go your way, you’re frustrated against a muck it up team, not let your frustrations put you in the box, goals that are deflected in for when you played the sequence perfectly, when you don’t get any puck luck, where you lose players in game and forced to play shorthanded and on and on. No team that is a serious threat in the playoffs has not learned these things along the way. … None of them.
Nobody can win anything meaningful without conquering adversity and you don’t learn without games like this one………. And, Bedard knows it. The guy who will be on the ice the most and take every single important minute of every season. After the game he said I have to be better, I can’t put my team in bad spots like I did.
Not really the refs gave it to them.
I don’t blame Bedard one bit you work your ass off and some ref who for whatever reason looked the other way on a slash, I’m surprised more players don’t have the courage to call them out. He did the right thing and i hope this team keeps doing it.
Too each his own but I hope the Hawk’s takeaway is nothing like your post, Dots. Keeping your mouth shut in a tied game, that your group gave up 2 3rd period goals to lose the lead with 2:30 left is Hockey 101 for a 15 yr old. ……… Watching the SEA feed Eddie O pointed out the ref didn’t put his arm up until Bedard reached the blueline sniveling the whole way. Ref will give you your bitch but don’t be a punk about it or you go on the PK and lose games/points.
Ref’s fault the team stopped moving their feet in the 3rd, Dots?
