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hocktock
Chicago Blackhawks
Location: Over by dere.
Joined: 07.15.2015

May 23 @ 9:21 PM ET
Hock, I like him too, but Q will neuter him, he's got to go out and find some of the resident tough guys and challenge them , he starts winning some tilts, he'll get noticed and respect out there. We already know he can play, but then again it goes back to Q.
Someone mentioned Mark Hunter as a potential GM replacement, he was a hard nosed player, he'll hire a coach of the same ilk.

- wonthecup10



I'd rather have Bolland, Bickell, Brouwer types. Bruisers not brawlers.

JMO
bogiedoc
Chicago Blackhawks
Location: VA
Joined: 09.27.2011

May 23 @ 9:22 PM ET
100 % in agreement. The "NO check" NO intensity Blackhawks are losing fans by leaps and bounds.....and another year of "Soft" additions will cost some jobs.
Toughen Up Organization !!

- Hawkytalk


a team can toughen up without the assasins like wilson...
bogiedoc
Chicago Blackhawks
Location: VA
Joined: 09.27.2011

May 23 @ 9:22 PM ET
I'd rather have Bolland, Bickell, Brouwer types. Bruisers not brawlers.

JMO

- hocktock



Colbyboy
Chicago Blackhawks
Location: Summerside , PEI
Joined: 12.14.2013

May 23 @ 9:24 PM ET
Give me Tom Wilson any day and find me a Braeden Point at 79th overall in the draft
BetweenTheDots
Chicago Blackhawks
Location: IL
Joined: 06.13.2015

May 23 @ 9:31 PM ET
Looks like just maybe the Bolts should of kept Bishop. Ruh Roh
bogiedoc
Chicago Blackhawks
Location: VA
Joined: 09.27.2011

May 23 @ 9:36 PM ET
Looks like just maybe the Bolts should of kept Bishop. Ruh Roh
- BetweenTheDots


i had bolts and jets in the finals...


caps have played with alot of fire and passion the last 2 games...

Scott1977
Season Ticket Holder
Chicago Blackhawks
Location: Yorkville, IL
Joined: 08.30.2012

May 23 @ 9:36 PM ET
Give me Tom Wilson any day and find me a Braeden Point at 79th overall in the draft
- Colbyboy

Thats called good scounting and drafting unlike the hawks of late. Besides dcat smaltz and saad. No top 6 fowards in tje system no goalie to take over crow position when he is done no top 4 d men for now some have potential to become a top 4 d man. So this draft bowman and company need to hit on alot on this draft. Don't want to hear drafting late thats a comp out. Other cup winner have drafted late and hit on those players.
BetweenTheDots
Chicago Blackhawks
Location: IL
Joined: 06.13.2015

May 23 @ 9:41 PM ET
i had bolts and jets in the finals...


caps have played with alot of fire and passion the last 2 games...

- bogiedoc


I know some disagree but Holtby has been the better goalie in every series so far.
bogiedoc
Chicago Blackhawks
Location: VA
Joined: 09.27.2011

May 23 @ 9:42 PM ET
not a fan of orpik...but thats a charge or boarding 100%..

good ole McCaully the best of the worst
wonthecup10
Season Ticket Holder
Joined: 02.05.2008

May 23 @ 9:44 PM ET
come on WTC...a pycho out of control head case out to hurt players like wilson is the reason the caps are 1 game from the finals...get a grip...

hawks won 3 cups WITHOUT FELON'S like him...

he is a disgrace to the sport...but thats what the NHL continues to want and tolerate...so be it

- bogiedoc


He just plays on the edge some times, but he's pretty much a player like Al Secord was when it comes to the tough stuff. I can't watch another year of the crap we saw last year. And what does Bowman do? Go out and sign more rolls of Charman. I'm gonna give him this draft and free agency period with guarded optimism, but yesterday offered me nothing unless it's just Rockford depth. Sometimes injuries happen in hockey, it's a contact sport, yes there is a fair amount of cheap stuff in today's game, call me a mouth breather if you must, but get rid of that instigator rule and you watch some of these players that are playing out of their shoes because they hide behind. That rule with no retribution. Case and point , how many times did Jonathen Toews get rung up with no answer back? Even the announcers, some of them ex players called this current bunch out. Hell maybe Toews is just tired of getting rung up and no one has his back. I blame Q and Bowman for that.

As far as the 3teams that won, at 1time Seabrooke played balls out, we had Byfuglien, Eager, Burrish, Ladd and a few others that laid it all out on the line and could handle theirselves in a scrap. This team has NADDA. Osterle Blows, same with Gusteffson and several other non contact don't care type players,
We had Kempny, look at him now. I have to start wondering about Q when he keeps a guy that couldn't even make Edmonton and let Kempney walk?
A good Start would be drafting Brady Tkachuk or Evan Bouchard, then address the physical part of the team through FA or trades, ........ Or get rid of the coach.

StLBravesFan
Season Ticket Holder
Chicago Blackhawks
Location: IL
Joined: 07.03.2011

May 23 @ 9:44 PM ET
I enjoy a lot of your insight, but YOUR team is sitting home now , maybe the Sunday morning no check leagues suits that type of play you arre looking for. I for 1 want the Hawks to get a couple of big fiery bruisers that can play. I hope this Soft Euro influx the Bowman is enamoured with bites him right in the ass. None of those guys he just signed will amount to anything. If they are so good, why didn't their agents place them with better teams on the upswing? Tom Wilson in a Hawk uni? I'm n!
- wonthecup10


Five years in the league on a pretty good team - Wilson has never (until now) gotten past the second round.

No question Hawks need to get tougher, need to check better - but there’s a difference between getting tough players who can finish checks (not Finnish Czechs) and get into and win battles on the boards - and thugs like Wilson who hit dangerously and fight too often.
BetweenTheDots
Chicago Blackhawks
Location: IL
Joined: 06.13.2015

May 23 @ 9:45 PM ET
Vascilesky is looking more like Vaseline
hocktock
Chicago Blackhawks
Location: Over by dere.
Joined: 07.15.2015

May 23 @ 9:48 PM ET
i had bolts and jets in the finals...


caps have played with alot of fire and passion the last 2 games...

- bogiedoc


Vegas or bust.
FourOrr
Chicago Blackhawks
Location: Libertyville, IL
Joined: 01.26.2012

May 23 @ 9:52 PM ET
Eddie O with nice jab at Q for his mismanagement of Kempny.
bogiedoc
Chicago Blackhawks
Location: VA
Joined: 09.27.2011

May 23 @ 9:52 PM ET
Five years in the league on a pretty good team - Wilson has never (until now) gotten past the second round.

No question Hawks need to get tougher, need to check better - but there’s a difference between getting tough players who can finish checks (not Finnish Czechs) and get into and win battles on the boards - and thugs like Wilson who hit dangerously and fight too often.

- StLBravesFan


that is my argument.....

let me say it again the hawks between 2013-2015 won 2 cups, 10 of 11 playoff series with out psycho felons like wilson...guys like him are pointless to winning and are not needed...

those teams have plenty of toughness just ask the 2015 anaheim thugs...oops mean ducks...


bogiedoc
Chicago Blackhawks
Location: VA
Joined: 09.27.2011

May 23 @ 9:53 PM ET
Vascilesky is looking more like Vaseline
- BetweenTheDots


caps are playing a strong game again and the bolts have no answer
BetweenTheDots
Chicago Blackhawks
Location: IL
Joined: 06.13.2015

May 23 @ 9:53 PM ET
Eddie O with nice jab at Q for his mismanagement of Kempny.
- FourOrr


Not to defend Q, but he is the one with 3 rings not Eddie. Just saying
BobP.
Chicago Blackhawks
Location: Joliet, IL
Joined: 12.29.2010

May 23 @ 9:55 PM ET
Interesting comments by Eddie-O about Kempny. Seems like he was saying the guy was always looking over his shoulder in Chicago. Under Trotz he knows he can just go out and play. Not defending Kempny so much, but more as an observation about what might be wrong in Chicago on a larger scale.
FourOrr
Chicago Blackhawks
Location: Libertyville, IL
Joined: 01.26.2012

May 23 @ 9:59 PM ET
Not to defend Q, but he is the one with 3 rings not Eddie. Just saying
- BetweenTheDots

Point well taken but there is also the case of Q being let go from Colorado for not developing the young players, especially on defense as I recall.
StLBravesFan
Season Ticket Holder
Chicago Blackhawks
Location: IL
Joined: 07.03.2011

May 23 @ 10:01 PM ET
Not to defend Q, but he is the one with 3 rings not Eddie. Just saying
- BetweenTheDots


But Eddie doesn’t seem to be wrong about Q, at least in this case.
StLBravesFan
Season Ticket Holder
Chicago Blackhawks
Location: IL
Joined: 07.03.2011

May 23 @ 10:05 PM ET
Interesting comments by Eddie-O about Kempny. Seems like he was saying the guy was always looking over his shoulder in Chicago. Under Trotz he knows he can just go out and play. Not defending Kempny so much, but more as an observation about what might be wrong in Chicago on a larger scale.
- BobP.


Give Q a team that SHOULD win and he WILL win more often than almost any othe coach.

Phil Jackson with skates.

But like Jackson - not good at building a young team into true contenders.
BetweenTheDots
Chicago Blackhawks
Location: IL
Joined: 06.13.2015

May 23 @ 10:07 PM ET
Point well taken but there is also the case of Q being let go from Colorado for not developing the young players, especially on defense as I recall.
- FourOrr


Hard to develop something the Avs never had after their championship year. They still don't have any stud defenseman, just saying
BobP.
Chicago Blackhawks
Location: Joliet, IL
Joined: 12.29.2010

May 23 @ 10:07 PM ET
Give Q a team that SHOULD win and he WILL win more often than almost any othe coach.

Phil Jackson with skates.

But like Jackson - not good at building a young team into true contenders.

- StLBravesFan



i agree completely……….very good analogy
powerenforcer
Chicago Blackhawks
Location: Wheeling, IL
Joined: 09.24.2009

May 23 @ 10:08 PM ET
not a fan of orpik...but thats a charge or boarding 100%..

good ole McCaully the best of the worst

- bogiedoc



Yes I agree. How do you not call that? I'd like to hear Paul Stewart's take on that. He has a man-crush on McCaully.
Spec41971
Chicago Blackhawks
Location: Rolling meadows, IL
Joined: 03.04.2017

May 23 @ 10:10 PM ET
I am sure you guys are watching this Washington in Tampa game tonight, how about the fire and passion that Tom Wilson plays with? Any chance any of the current Blackhawks play with that passion? Not a goddamn chance!
- wonthecup10


Seabrook at the post-game buffet!
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