Saturday 12 December 2015

The Killers: Hawks 2, Jets 0 and Friday's Big Boy

That was a shockingly good effort given the hot mess The Hawks served just last evening.  Pull up a chair.
- Pairing TVR with Keith makes a great deal of sense, actually, with Keith's superior speed and savvy being a better means of covering TVR's lack of footspeed and still-developing positional game.  At least I hope it's still developing.  This is no knock on Seabrook, I just believe that Keith is the better firehose of the two.  We'll see, I guess, if having to mind TVR blunts Keith's sword at all, so to speak.
- All credit to Crawford and the penalty killers tonight.  The Jets, miserable as they can often be, managed only a single shot on the man advantage.  There was also the matter of Byfuglien cutting short one of The Jets' five PPs when he couldn't contain Hossa.  Good sticks, nice work at the dot by Toews and Kruger and some brave shot blocks; that's how it's done, son.
- Outstanding puck movement, once again, on The Hawks' PP, and I love Rundblad's shot.  Those pinpoint passes by Kane and Teravainen were beautiful to behold.
- I may have to refrain from talking shit about Shaw, as he's had three very good games in a row.
He did it all tonight.  His goal wasn't particularly pretty, but any goal is a good goal when they're tough to come by.  Toews was a demon on the PK and, as already mentioned, slayed on faceoffs.
                           Would you mind delivering some Pizano's to my mom?

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