I'll Take Quality and Quantity: Hawks 6, Avalanche 3 and Sunday's Big Boy

Outshot, somehow, and outworked for stretches here and there, but tonight was one of those nights when the puck just goes in.
- That said, it wasn't a bad effort for The Hawks at all.  Yeah, there were a few missed assignments and Crawford looked a little foolish overcommitting so badly on Duchense's second goal, which was a distraction, at least, from Rozsival and TVR wheezing away, completely paralyzed.  The Av's outshot The Hawks slightly but there were perhaps only six or seven real scoring chances there. 
- Hjalmarsson played a strong game again, with a couple of tremendous passes at key moments.  Rozsival had the stretch pass working alright, too.
- Okay, Mashinter scored and actually had another couple of looks, so look for him to get some power play time real soon. In seriousness, he's actually more poised in-close than I had given him credit for, but that lousy shot off the rush late in the first brought things back to earth in a hurry.
- Another strong game from Toews who, rather stealthily, notched three points tonight.  On his left wing though, despite collecting a pair of helpies, Andrew Shaw was a ball of confusion all evening, either a step out of sync or out of position entirely on a lot of plays.
- Two rarely-seen things occurred tonight: Semyon Varlamov gacked one against The Hawks, in The UC no less, where he's been historically stellar, and each of The Hawks' centers were north of 50% on face offs.  These revelations have me checking the lunar schedule...

Two goals, a typical hard-nosed effort and renewed hope that he may still have a chance to hit 500 career goals by the end of the year earn Hoss The Belt tonight.

When Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone he already had two missed calls from                                                                  Hossa.