Bright Lights, Big Goals: Hawks 5, Rangers 3 and Tuesday's Big Boy

Yep, big goals, big saves and a couple of incredible passes.  Here are some quick bits, some good, some not so much:
- Neither team could kill a penalty for love nor money and, without Hinostroza's careless high stick that precipitated two Rangers goals, this game would probably have been a laugher, because...
- ...Henrik Lundquist was awful.  It's rare, but it happens.
- Corey Crawford, on the other hand, was near-perfect, despite allowing three goals.  I have a tough time faulting a goalie for power play goals against unless they themselves do something stupid.  The Hayes goal was a product of momentary incompetence on the part of Gustafsson and Rozsival as well as a terrific pass by Oskar Lindberg.
- The Hawks' defense was not especially good tonight.  Seabrook had another game in which he seemed indifferent, Gustafsson looked yippy a lot of the time, Rozsie and TVR both spent an awful lot of time standing around.  Add all that up and you'll get more shots against, chances and goals than your opposition deserves.
- At the other end, The Hawks moved the puck rather well in fits and starts, and it seemed that every time they entered the zone cleanly and had a chance to set up they scored. Teravainen laid down a couple of slick passes in which first Desjardins and later, Shaw, really just had to be there to deflect the puck in. That said, there was a bit of good fortune thrown in there; while Teravainen's pass to Desi was undeniably excellent, the events that allowed The Hawks to maintain possession in the first place were less "puck movement" than "repeatedly throwing it behind the net and hoping for the best".  I'm pretty sure that Hjalmarsson's pass to Teravainen was, in fact, a ridiculously poor shot that Teuvo was able to corral.
- Keith Yandle is a bit of an asshat, isn't he? And how did Daniel Paille go from an occasional healthy scratch in Rockford to playing ten minutes per night for NYR?  And he wants to be my latex salesman?
- Large Arthur officially has 15 assists this season, but his efforts without the puck have led to far more than 15 additional goals. He's big, hard to move and gets hisself in front of goalies without delay.  On The Hawks' go-ahead goal Anisimov drew two Rangers to him while he drove to the net, leaving Panarin free as the trailer, and left completely alone by Jesper Fast, to take his shot.  All good work that doesn't show up on the scoresheet.

Teravainen was good, Crawford was great, but tonight was all about Small Arthur and his first career hat trick.

                                                       Connor Mc-what-now?