Everyone take a pill a bit..jeez...
- TrueGrit

I'm with you.

So here we go, our board is full blown gyna-hysterics a half day in.

First, I am all for improving your team, but running a hockey team is not like playing poker, that is shuffling the deck and dealing new hands one after the other. You don't just make a move to make a move.

Second, JJ said it best here earlier in thread, that is the other 29 teams are not out there to feed us players at our whim. To be blunt, much of the bantor and wishful thinking here is so assonine it is not even worth commenting on. I am waiting to hear the pirri for getzlaff stuff. 90% of the league is looking for that elusive elite 2nd line center.

Third, no doubt they want to add a goalie. JJ has confirmed the conversations.

Anyways, as I said a million times last year, our roster is top 5 talent wise in the league. All the female doging and complaining like a bunch of entitled whiners. Most of the league would love our team to root for. We were 2 wins from winning division. Keep in mind 8th seed Kings won cup. The league is full of parity. Deal with it.

I like those 4 lines, they are deep and talented and balanced. How much fun will that be. Get Leddy on PP, gets some depth defense minutes from Rosival and off we go.

Everyone take a pill a bit..jeez...
- TrueGrit

Normally, I would agree with you, but what has Bowman done to improve the current on-ice Hawks in 3+ years? There is no one in the front office here that can evaluate current NHL talent, where Tallon and Dudley excelled.

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Part of me hopes the Hawks miss the playoffs this year so both Q and Bowman get canned!!! Would love the clown McD gone with them...nothing like a baseball man replacing a very good GM with an unqualified asshat!!! What a joke...
- hawks2010

I don't want to miss the playoffs just so people get fired. I wouldn't mind seeing Bowman and McD gone, as long as they are replaced my more competent people, but neither is likely. And if Bowman is replaced after the season it will be another McD patsy who is a yes man. No chance to hire someone like Brian Burke if McD is there, he would never co-exist with Burke, and McD isn't going anywhere.

I don't have any major problems with Q. He has to play the crappy roster Bowman gives him.

So do we sign another vet dman for this shortened year?
- hockey nut 28

As long as Bowman can sign someone to a deal that can be stashed in Rockford, why not?

I don't want to miss the playoffs just so people get fired. I wouldn't mind seeing Bowman and McD gone, as long as they are replaced my more competent people, but neither is likely. And if Bowman is replaced after the season it will be another McD patsy who is a yes man. No chance to hire someone like Brian Burke if McD is there, he would never co-exist with Burke, and McD isn't going anywhere.

I don't have any major problems with Q. He has to play the crappy roster Bowman gives him.
- Hemingways

I wish that was the only issue.

Q blows.

Also, the Hawks are continuing to talk to "Eastern Conference teams" today.

any thought on the Habs,hawks connections? i dont think they would be talking goalie exchanges, seeing as kari ramo was probably the best guy we had and he left with cammi. any rumors MB and SB talking?

Robidas?

"You'll get nothing, AND LIKE IT!"
- Studebakerhawk

Exactly. As long as Stan's running the show.

Robidas?
- NoobasaurusRex

Fistric?

didn't read comments so probably already said but...

J. Bernier to CHI could be a good fit.
- gretzky

Possibly, but other Western Conference teams aren't going to help us fill a weakness, unless we greatly overpay in a trade. I just hope Stanton shows he can be a 7th Dman, so we can trade for an Ottawa goalie. Montador is done. He will sit the rest of his deal on LTIR like Pronger and Savard.

Fistric?
- Ogilthorpe2

We will take olesz and his contract if you give us something good for 1 of them.

I don't want to miss the playoffs just so people get fired. I wouldn't mind seeing Bowman and McD gone, as long as they are replaced my more competent people, but neither is likely. And if Bowman is replaced after the season it will be another McD patsy who is a yes man. No chance to hire someone like Brian Burke if McD is there, he would never co-exist with Burke, and McD isn't going anywhere.

I don't have any major problems with Q. He has to play the crappy roster Bowman gives him.
- Hemingways

McD = McCaskey? I hope not... And Q had to play Scott over a much better Lepisto?

Twenty some games in, with our schedule to start the season, the Hawks could be the ones looking towards next year....
- hawks2010

Exactly!

With the tough early schedule Bowman should be looking to make the team stronger now. He can't afford to wait and see how the team is doing and then make a deal at the trade deadline. A poor start over the first 10-15 games could leave a team out of the playoffs.

FYI - @DarrenDreger_

#Breaking: #Canucks trade Roberto Luongo to #Leafs in exchange for Tyler Bozak and a 1st. Confirmed.


Loungo saga is over.

FYI - @DarrenDreger_

#Breaking: #Canucks trade Roberto Luongo to #Leafs in exchange for Tyler Bozak and a 1st. Confirmed.


Loungo saga is over.
- TyCamScore

Not the real Dreger.

Not the real Dreger.
- Nucker101

haha. fooled again. Hate those fake accounts.

McD = ...And Q had to play Scott over a much better Lepisto?
- hawks2010

When Bowman gives him ZERO physical dmen (other than Seabs), I understand that move. I don't agree with it, but I understand it.

It seems like we have Seabrook and then 87 of the exact same player on defense (undersized, non physical guys who can move the puck but don't score and have weak/innacurate slapshots) - Keith/Oduya/Leddy/Hammer/Roszival.

They need to move Leddy in some kind of deal for a more physical, preferably RH shot Dman who can play on the 2nd pairing. If they had another guy like that, you pair him up with either Hammer or Oduya and the other plays with Roszival, who occasionally is rested by Brookbank. That's not so bad. But having no Dmen who check other than Seabs (and Brookbank to an extent, but we'll see how much he actually plays), that's not acceptable. Same with all of our forwards.

Bowman doesn't seem to understand how to construct a roster.

Bishop,or Anderson ?

haha. fooled again. Hate those fake accounts.
- TyCamScore

At this point, I expect them to be fake whenever someone posts the. It's shocking when it's actually the real insider.

Possibly, but other Western Conference teams aren't going to help us fill a weakness, unless we greatly overpay in a trade. I just hope Stanton shows he can be a 7th Dman, so we can trade for an Ottawa goalie. Montador is done. He will sit the rest of his deal on LTIR like Pronger and Savard.
- hawks2010

I think he's capable of filling that role.

FYI - @DarrenDreger_

#Breaking: #Canucks trade Roberto Luongo to #Leafs in exchange for Tyler Bozak and a 1st. Confirmed.


Loungo saga is over.
- TyCamScore

Mike Gillis, is that you with the fake Dreger account?

John Jaeckel: Hawks "Close" On Deal Last Night
- John Jaeckel

LOL, I love when bloggers like you pretend to have sources and be insiders.

When Bowman gives him ZERO physical dmen (other than Seabs), I understand that move. I don't agree with it, but I understand it.

It seems like we have Seabrook and then 87 of the exact same player on defense (undersized, non physical guys who can move the puck but don't score and have weak/innacurate slapshots) - Keith/Oduya/Leddy/Hammer/Roszival.

They need to move Leddy in some kind of deal for a more physical, preferably RH shot Dman who can play on the 2nd pairing. If they had another guy like that, you pair him up with either Hammer or Oduya and the other plays with Roszival, who occasionally is rested by Brookbank. That's not so bad. But having no Dmen who check other than Seabs (and Brookbank to an extent, but we'll see how much he actually plays), that's not acceptable. Same with all of our forwards.

Bowman doesn't seem to understand how to construct a roster.
- Hemingways

And Q doesn't seem to understand that it doesn't matter who he wants on the roster, it's his job to adjust the team's style to play to the strengths of the roster that he does have.

He doesn't seem to get that Keith sucks on the PP, and would be better served getting some much needed rest when the Hawks have the man advantage.

He doesn't seem to get that changing the lines every 3rd shift is not conducive to building chemistry/confidence from game to game.

He doesn't seem to get that Sharp is god aweful in the shootout and should never be a top 3 pick for that idiotic, gimmicky ending of a game.

He doesn't seem to get that having perennial loser, "yes men" as assistants instead of free thinking, intelligent coaches, who may sometimes (gasp) provide opposing views can be detrimental to the good of the team.

I could go on, but I've grown tired of arguing over this yahoo.

Wait till next year....

Sounds like another Chicago team I know. Common denominator?
- Ogilthorpe2

McDonut