Scheinds pulls a Mike Smith after coughing up 5 in the 3rd vs the Stars....nasty stick work as he leaves the ice!!
Stars now tied with the Wings...Stars thy destiny once again for you is on your stks: clse at home vs Jackets then Wings - bogiedoc
And the good news OR bad news is kari Lehtonen is back. Had a great game. Still want to face Dallas. Minny can slip, too. St Louis will be moving up and could get Van or San jose\LA
Had to pay my taxes this week but should be getting a commission check tomorrow....then it's off to the sizzler and getting play off tix. - UnnamedSource
Last I read - day to day, lower body. Q expects him at practice on Friday, but he won't dress for the game. Carter Hutton recalled from Rockford to back up Crawford.
Location: Lake in the Hills, IL Joined: 06.06.2009
Apr 19 @ 6:47 AM ET
Watch out for these two phuck sticks....
- Ogilthorpe2
One is dead, the other at large; Watertown, MA
Suspects shot and killed MIT officer during 7-11 robbery. Carjacked a vehicle too. First suspect (dark hat) killed in gunfire with police. Suspects were also alleged to be lobbing some form of homemade bombs at police during high speed chase. Second suspect (white hat) held up in what's believed to be a 3-block area in Watertown. All beantown mass transit shut down. Reverse 911 calls already made.
Gentleman's bet to you all that this show will try to showcase McDoosh as the "star" of the episode, and architect of the team's success. I am eagerly awaiting the road to the cup where the Hawks will face CBJ, LAK, and ANA. We will finally see if speed kills in the playoffs, or if speed and brute force are a better approach.
I invite everyone to read his Wikipedia profile. Pay special attention to the notes indicating the original wording of the profile was edited by an unidentifiable user profile specifically to credit him for "guiding the team to the Cup" in 2010.
Sorry John McD - real Hawk fans know the 2010 Cup group was Dale Tallon's team. - Return of the Roar
Pathetic - anyone with a marketing degree could have done what McCub did. Sure the one goal campaign was great, but he's still using it. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to put Hawk home games on TV, bring back the legends of the franchise and get Pat Foley back, hire a bunch of young guns in the media and marketing area and then market the crap out of the team. The team that was built by Dale.
Stan can certainly take credit for this year's squad, but they haven't won a playoff series yet under his guidance. The second season awaits.
Pathetic - anyone with a marketing degree could have done what McCub did. Sure the one goal campaign was great, but he's still using it. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to put Hawk home games on TV, bring back the legends of the franchise and get Pat Foley back, hire a bunch of young guns in the media and marketing area and then market the crap out of the team. The team that was built by Dale.
Stan can certainly take credit for this year's squad, but they haven't won a playoff series yet under his guidance. The second season awaits. - DK002
Tallon built the team. McDonough had next to nothing to do with it.
None of the marketing moves you describe above were genius. All kind of obvious. That said, he did them all and he did them all well. They captured the essence of Hawk history—Hull, Mikita, etc—and they masterfully tied it to the new guard. I give them maximum props for that. The stuff is well-produced.
They kinda could use a new campaign. One Goal Classics kinda feels to me like they can't agree on a new direction. Not surprising in light of the results over the last two years on ice results. Further proof that it all starts with the on-ice product.
Location: Lake in the Hills, IL Joined: 06.06.2009
Apr 19 @ 8:25 AM ET
Pathetic - anyone with a marketing degree could have done what McCub did. Sure the one goal campaign was great, but he's still using it. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to put Hawk home games on TV, bring back the legends of the franchise and get Pat Foley back, hire a bunch of young guns in the media and marketing area and then market the crap out of the team. The team that was built by Dale.
Stan can certainly take credit for this year's squad, but they haven't won a playoff series yet under his guidance. The second season awaits. - DK002
Don't be so sure anyone with a marketing degree could do that.
Now while I won't defend McD at times, I will say he did what would be expected from someone who - regardless of what some folks want to believe - made a marketing juggernaut at 1060 W. Addison St.
Only looking back can it be considered "intuitively obvious" what McD did. His job was to put the 'Hawks back into the conversation as a MAJOR LEAGUE team in a MAJOR LEAGUE city. I couldn't care less about the underlings of the resurrected "one goal" commercials. His job is to now KEEP the 'Hawks at the forefront of folks minds AND to harness the minds of more folks not already on the bandwagon.
As much as many of us here lament his persona or visibility in general, he must be doing enough of the right things according to Rocky. I firmly believe that if he was to have a different direction, Rocky would have made such an edict and none of us would know until after we saw it happen.
For better or for worse - and I sure hope its the former - this is McD's FO, SB's roster and Q's coaching staff. They are all on the clock. And I won't pretend for one minute how long or short that clock is.
As long as the 'Hawks organization put a Stanley Cup favourite on the ice, I'm OK with how everything else turns out. If things should go south, it's up to Rocky to enable change(s).
For now, can we take a step back, look at a 33-5-4 team that is as solid as the 09-10 team at the same juncture in their respective seasons and take note? Take note that this team is playing quite well overall and even with its flaws, looks to be one of the teams with the fewest flaws?
