Well, That Was Fun: Hawks vs. Oilers Big Boy

Okay, so it was against The Oilers and all that comes with (or fails to come with) that, but it was still mighty good and fun to see an offensive explosion for a change.  Looking at the boxscore many aspects of this game were close run; The Hawks outshot The Oilers by only five shots, and scoring chances were nearly even.  What made the difference, though were these:
- The Oilers goaltenders were not great.  That may be too kind, as Ben Scrivens was horrible, actually.
- Scrivens and his replacement, Viktor Fasth received no favours from their defence who failed to keep up with The Hawks' forwards, failed to clear many (any?) rebounds and provided virtually no front-of-the-net presence.
- The Oil's forwards fared little better in the keeping up department, as juggernauts such as Versteeg and Carcillo were too much for the likes of Aulie and Nugent-Hopkins and The Hawks hit for two power play goals on seven chances.
- The early lead allowed Coach Q to "rest" his top players a little.  Rozsival and Clendenning played north of 19 minutes and Kane, Toews and Hossa all played less than 17 minutes.
- Phillip Danault looked just fine, albeit against The Oilers.
- All but four Hawks players registered at least one point.
- Marian Hossa.

A sneaky four-point-night gets Hoss The Belt for a day.  I say sneaky because he was just doing what he always does and in no way appeared to be playing better or differently than usual.  After not getting the bounces so many times this season Hoss seemed to get all the bounces last night, and he may finally be regressing to his own mean. The eight points he's notched in his last five games represent more than half of his fifteen points to date, so maybe he's overcome his dreadfully slow start, points-wise, anyway.

Canucks tonight.  More, please.