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2016 Playoff Thread

They had to have known game 7 could have been a possibility, why not push game 1 back a day?
 
I have no problem with getting the 2nd round started while the 1st round wraps up. Some teams have been sitting since Friday and Saturday... lets get the show on the road.

And yeah, arena availability in the playoffs is huge. If you miss your chance to start a series it can be 2, 3 days longer.
 
I swear Hitchcock is completely trying to sabotage the Blues.

With 39 seconds left in a one goal game seven where Toews was just on for the shift before, Hitch is the one that calls a time out with a faceoff just outside his blue line where he had fresh legs out anyway. He gave the blackhawks a chance to rest Kane and Toews to come out for the last shift.

He then says nothing to his players and neither do his assistants. Why would he do that?? I swear he tried to eff that series up for some bullshiite reason.
 
Yeah, but the Hawks didn't even manage a decent chance in the last 39 seconds.....so for all his stupidity he got that right.
 
That was a great game last night.. what playoff hockey is all about. I'll be interested to see how Dallas matches up against St Louis.
 
Hitch wanted his guys to have a rest. Pietrangalo, J-Bo, Steen, Backes and Stastny pretty much played the whole last 5 minutes.

St. Louis is a great team. That series was some of the best hockey you'll see. Two very well coached highly skilled teams, that play the game fast and aggressively. Complete opposite of the trap days. I kind of wish it was just three more rounds of Blues/Hawks.
 
Kind of funny that Hitch follows up game 7 by playing Tarasenko even less than the previous games. If blues ended up losing, Hitch probably loses his job cause of that. Funny how things work out lol

14 minutes for your best player in a game 7 is fire worthy.


really fun series to watch though
 
rated said:
Kind of funny that Hitch follows up game 7 by playing Tarasenko even less than the previous games. If blues ended up losing, Hitch probably loses his job cause of that. Funny how things work out lol

14 minutes for your best player in a game 7 is fire worthy.


really fun series to watch though
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Hitch must have attended the Jon Cooper school of coaching.
 
Some of you need to stick to fantasy leagues. It's embarrassing to see comments like a coach trying to lose on purpose because he's trying to rest his best shutdown players(after they were out there for so long). The other part, if for example we still had Phil Kessel and were in the playoffs, you would see exact same thing as with Tarasenko(Babcock coaches very similarly.) You'd have Naz, Komarov, Hyman, etc, with most minutes and your skilled players who don't have a great 2 way game when you feel you can get away with it. You are playing players who are more difficult to play against because fact is Chicago is still miles more dangerous than anything St.Louis can throw out there(so why risk trying to beat someone much better at that?)..yet they still won the series and that's pretty much all Hitchcock. Put anyone else to coach and your Tarasenko out there for 20+ minutes idea loses this series much faster.
 
Watching Tarasenko though, he's certainly the Blues most talented player - but he wasn't their best player in that series.
 
PKForce81 said:
Some of you need to stick to fantasy leagues. It's embarrassing to see comments like a coach trying to lose on purpose because he's trying to rest his best shutdown players(after they were out there for so long). The other part, if for example we still had Phil Kessel and were in the playoffs, you would see exact same thing as with Tarasenko(Babcock coaches very similarly.) You'd have Naz, Komarov, Hyman, etc, with most minutes and your skilled players who don't have a great 2 way game when you feel you can get away with it. You are playing players who are more difficult to play against because fact is Chicago is still miles more dangerous than anything St.Louis can throw out there(so why risk trying to beat someone much better at that?)..yet they still won the series and that's pretty much all Hitchcock. Put anyone else to coach and your Tarasenko out there for 20+ minutes idea loses this series much faster.
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I forgot you graduated from Babcocks coaching school. Sorry sir, will never do it again sir.

You're just reading too much into it. It's okay to make a comment about your best player playing 14 minutes in the most important game in the franchises recent history.

You also realize the guy scored 9 goals in 11 games vs the hawks this year, right ?
 
The only forwards with more shifts than Tarasenko's 26 were Steen 34, Schwartz 30 and Stastny 28.

No doubt that he should be in the top 3, but it's not like he's way out of whack. Stastny in particular is getting more shifts in a close game for his Faceoff prowess... and Steen for his defensive play.
 
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I forgot you graduated from Babcocks coaching school. Sorry sir, will never do it again sir.

You're just reading too much into it. It's okay to make a comment about your best player playing 14 minutes in the most important game in the franchises recent history.

You also realize the guy scored 9 goals in 11 games vs the hawks this year, right ?
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This place has become more like gossip between women with comments like this(which in general there's nothing wrong with but it's become so boring and obvious what some of the posters will say that i just mostly come on here when i see ME and few others post). That Hoss post though was just too stupid not to say something. But no, let's get back to some fantasy shit, some of you are really good at it. Maybe get into coaching and see how it works out for ya? Instead of coming back and explaining to me where i was wrong look at your comeback...St.Louis just defeated pretty much the most skilled team in the league(there was no other way to do it because they just aren't anywhere near Chicago's level) and you're still shitting on their coach? Everyone makes some small mistakes(and Babs will too) but you guys focus on some of the dumbest shit and make it seem like you'd do much better. It's unreal.
 
Metalleaf said:
26 shifts and only 14 minutes, so he's barely getting 30 seconds a shift...hard to create chances.
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Hitch actually commented that Tarasenko likes to take short shifts and thats why his minutes are lower.

I'd play him more than 14-16 minutes a game, but Hitch is an awesome coach. That team plays some great hockey.
 
PKForce81 said:
This place has become more like gossip between women with comments like this(which in general there's nothing wrong with but it's become so boring and obvious what some of the posters will say that i just mostly come on here when i see ME and few others post). That Hoss post though was just too stupid not to say something. But no, let's get back to some fantasy shit, some of you are really good at it. Maybe get into coaching and see how it works out for ya? Instead of coming back and explaining to me where i was wrong look at your comeback...St.Louis just defeated pretty much the most skilled team in the league(there was no other way to do it because they just aren't anywhere near Chicago's level) and you're still shitting on their coach? Everyone makes some small mistakes(and Babs will too) but you guys focus on some of the dumbest shit and make it seem like you'd do much better. It's unreal.
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May as well just stop posting altogether since we aren't coaches or GMs or scouts. This is a discussion board, we're free to discuss things are we not?
 
PKForce81 said:
This place has become more like gossip between women with comments like this
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No, this place is dying. Dying because it's gone from being a big forum full of lots of people discussing things to a small clique. HFboards is looked upon with a negative view (with good reasons), but it has something this place solely lacks. People & Hockey discussions ! People like you who only come here to read ME posts are part of the reason this forum is dying.
 
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