2012-13 Chicago Blackhawks/NHL/Stink Bowman should be FYERRED Thread

[Internet Apex]

This of course is all academic if the Hawks don't win the big shiny cup this year, so I hope we will be arguing this for years to come.

Agreed. It's like, "Which Bulls team was the best?"

FYI, it's 1992. They'd have kicked the shit out of the 96, 97 and 98 teams.

Same team that got taken to 7 games by the Knicks?

That Knicks team was better than any team they faced in the East from 1996-98. People discount that 72-10 team because the East was awful that year. But when you look at the way the best teams turn the switch on and off these days, there's something to be said for how focused that team remained through it all. No way they get the shit kicked out of them. The Jordan of 1996 knew everything there was to know about 1992 Jordan and that's an advantage that you can't overlook.

/basketball talk, I promise.

[Saul Goodman]

I don't know, maybe it's just the victory afterglow, but Game 7 has a whole lot to commend to it, too. The culmination of the series comeback. The culmination 87 years of rivalry. Game 7 overtime in general. Hjalmarsson's no-goal stoking every fear fans had of those fickle asshole hockey gods.

I guess it will probably depend on how the rest of the playoffs go.  For me, Game 5 in Chicago against Nashville was the turning point.  Never again in that playoff season did I feel that the Hawks were in any real danger of losing a series.

Huey'd.

The last five minutes of clock time of Round 1, Game 5, 2010 is up there with the great moments in Chicago Sports History.  Sandberg Game.  Dent / Marshall and snow.  The Shot.

Geoff Blum... etc.

You're all forgetting Atlanta's Tom Glavine winning #300 at Wrigley Field in front of some awestruck left field bleacher season ticket holders.  That has to be right up there at the top.

[Quality Start Machine]

This of course is all academic if the Hawks don't win the big shiny cup this year, so I hope we will be arguing this for years to come.

Agreed. It's like, "Which Bulls team was the best?"

FYI, it's 1992. They'd have kicked the shit out of the 96, 97 and 98 teams.

They would not have kicked the shit out of any of those teams and especially not 1996. Beat them in a seven game series? Who knows? But this is some total Chuckbaggery.

Ditka versus a hurricane. But the hurricane is Hurricane Ditka.

[Internet Apex]

I don't know, maybe it's just the victory afterglow, but Game 7 has a whole lot to commend to it, too. The culmination of the series comeback. The culmination 87 years of rivalry. Game 7 overtime in general. Hjalmarsson's no-goal stoking every fear fans had of those fickle asshole hockey gods.

I guess it will probably depend on how the rest of the playoffs go.  For me, Game 5 in Chicago against Nashville was the turning point.  Never again in that playoff season did I feel that the Hawks were in any real danger of losing a series.

Huey'd.

The last five minutes of clock time of Round 1, Game 5, 2010 is up there with the great moments in Chicago Sports History.  Sandberg Game.  Dent / Marshall and snow.  The Shot.

Geoff Blum... etc.

You're all forgetting Atlanta's Tom Glavine winning #300 at Wrigley Field in front of some awestruck left field bleacher season ticket holders.  That has to be right up there at the top.

How about Greg Maddux winning the World Series in 1995? #31!!!! WOOOO KUBBEEEEZZZZ

[World's #1 Astros Fan]

This of course is all academic if the Hawks don't win the big shiny cup this year, so I hope we will be arguing this for years to come.

Agreed. It's like, "Which Bulls team was the best?"

FYI, it's 1992. They'd have kicked the shit out of the 96, 97 and 98 teams.

Same team that got taken to 7 games by the Knicks?

That Knicks team was better than any team they faced in the East from 1996-98. People discount that 72-10 team because the East was awful that year. But when you look at the way the best teams turn the switch on and off these days, there's something to be said for how focused that team remained through it all. No way they get the shit kicked out of them. The Jordan of 1996 knew everything there was to know about 1992 Jordan and that's an advantage that you can't overlook.

/basketball talk, I promise.

Knicks were not better than the Sonics in '96 and or Jazz in '97 and '98.  They weren't as good as the '93 Knicks team that was on the verge of beating the Bulls in the Conference Finals in '93.  They stole Game #1 and, to their credit, hung tough in Game #6, but that series served as a wakeup call more than the fact that the Knicks were some underrated, lowly-rated seed that would prove to be better than the 12 combatants the Bulls would face from 96-98.

[Internet Apex]

This of course is all academic if the Hawks don't win the big shiny cup this year, so I hope we will be arguing this for years to come.

Agreed. It's like, "Which Bulls team was the best?"

FYI, it's 1992. They'd have kicked the shit out of the 96, 97 and 98 teams.

Same team that got taken to 7 games by the Knicks?

That Knicks team was better than any team they faced in the East from 1996-98. People discount that 72-10 team because the East was awful that year. But when you look at the way the best teams turn the switch on and off these days, there's something to be said for how focused that team remained through it all. No way they get the shit kicked out of them. The Jordan of 1996 knew everything there was to know about 1992 Jordan and that's an advantage that you can't overlook.

/basketball talk, I promise.

Knicks were not better than the Sonics in '96 and or Jazz in '97 and '98.  They weren't as good as the '93 Knicks team that was on the verge of beating the Bulls in the Conference Finals in '93.  They stole Game #1 and, to their credit, hung tough in Game #6, but that series served as a wakeup call more than the fact that the Knicks were some underrated, lowly-rated seed that would prove to be better than the 12 combatants the Bulls would face from 96-98.

I said in the East. Something something Kings suck, go Hockee, go.

[Slaky]

What the fuck are you assholes doing to the only hockee thread

[Quality Start Machine]

Darryl Sutter still looks like Cousin Eddie.

[CT III]

Darryl Sutter still looks like Cousin Eddie.

Actually he looks like a muppet that Jim Henson designed while on acid.

[World's #1 Astros Fan]

What the fuck are you assholes doing to the only hockee thread

Sorry, Slaky.  *Hangs head*

I'm usually good about not taking Apex' Bullsbait.

[Internet Apex]

What the fuck are you assholes doing to the only hockee thread

Sorry, Slaky.  *Hangs head*

I'm usually good about not taking Apex' Bullsbait.

I'm sorry too but in this case Huard and I were arguing the same anti-Chuck position. I'll leave now.

[Saul Goodman]

HOLY SHIT HOCKEY IS AWESOME

[J. Walter Weatherman]

Hockey is awesome. Hockey is the worst.

[Tony]

Hockey is awesome. Hockey is the worst.

I don't like overtime. It's too much. Can't handle it.

[Saul Goodman]

Hockey is awesome. Hockey is the worst.

I don't like overtime. It's too much. Can't handle it.

I don't think there's any sport that commands the viewer's attention like it. (Look out, n00b stating the obvious here.)  Something amazing can happen at any moment with no warning. Roles get reversed in mere seconds. I was so invested during OT I simply couldn't look away. Haven't felt like that as a spectator in a long time. No wonder you all love/hate/love this so much.