Quick Hits: 5/28

by AnimalDrew on May 28, 2010 5:00 PM CDT in Quick Hits

Grade 'Em: Darren Helm - I continue evaluating our upcoming RFA/UFA's. This one focuses on the dude I named my site after so you can bet it's a pretty favorable grade. Stop on by and let us know what YOU think.

Red Wings Prospect Smith earns contract, disorderly conduct charge- That's right, the kid we just signed to a three year deal just beat the crap out of somebody at a house party. George Malik of Snapshots reports.

Stanley Cup Finals Preview - Graham from The Hole in the Door breaks down the finals for us. Careful, Graham...they're a special place in the Malebolge (Dante's 8th circle of Hell) for fortune tellers and sooth-sayers.

Helping Chicago, One Bandwagoner At a Time- The boys over at The Winged Wheel have set up an assistance program for all those newly found Chicago Blackhawks fans who have crawled back up from underneath the floorboards now that their team is good again. Nice work, TTW.

SCF Post - Ti from Franzenmuth weighs in on who to root for in the Stanley Cup Finals...Philadelphia Flyers or Chicago Blackhawks. Warning: Ti wanders off the righteous path (can you tell that I'm reading the Divine Comedy?) and picks the wrong team.

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That is pretty funny

Wanting Chicago to win so Crosby isn’t the youngest cap’n to win the cup… bahaha

by mikerlz on May 29, 2010 12:23 PM CDT reply actions

Saw Game 1 of SCF

My Brain is logically saying the Blackhawks Win. But my Heart wants Philly to pull it off.

Game 1 was very entertaining. I didn’t expect such a back and forth game, I thought this would be a case of once Chicago starts rolling Philly just gives the game to them for Game 2. Both teams had plenty of chances, and I think Philly is putting up more of a fight towards the Blackhawks then even the Sharks in their entire WCF series.

P.S. Funny to see the Blackhawks get ~~most~~ all of the brunt of the Powerplay by the Flyers. Even f the Blackhawks get the cup at least their fans will get a taste of what it was like trying to beat the Penguins/Refs in 2008 in order to win the Cup. Dirty play of the Flyers and no calls on them

P.S.S. I hope people don’t compare the Niemi dropping his mask (TWICE) due to a shot to Howard in Game 4 against Pheonix. Because Niemi didn’t make a save with each of those, Howard actually made a Save Maskless B)

P.S.S.S. As much as I hate to admit it, I find comparisons between the 2010 Hawks and 1997 Red Wings rather interesting. Byfuglien is basically a younger, cockier, Holmstrom. Their depth of scoring is unmatched by almost every team, Experienced Defenseman, and a Classy Captain (With the #19 to boot). The only differences are perhaps that many of the 2010 Hawks have plenty of cocky attitudes and as far as I know I don’t think any of the 97 wings hit somebody for you know… 20 cents (Ala Kane) an the Goaltenders with Niemi being a Rookie and Vernon having been an experienced and proven Goalie. Also they were both on droughts. (If this ends up jinxing them that’s all in my favor still though >.>)

by SonicMario(RW) on May 29, 2010 11:02 PM CDT reply actions

I think the crazy scoring

Is partially a product of both teams having so little playoff experience. Pronger has won a Cup, and some of the players on both sides have played in playoff games, but the Finals is an entirely different animal and the goaltenders is particular are unfamiliar with it.

I think that game two will be much less sloppy because most of the jitters will be worked out.

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by Baroque on May 30, 2010 11:19 AM CDT up reply actions