Sunday 14 February 2016

The Rockford Shuffle

From nhl,blackhawks.com:

The Chicago Blackhawks announced today they have recalled center Vincent Hinostroza from the Rockford IceHogs of the American Hockey League. Additionally, the Blackhawks have placed forward Marian Hossa on Injured Reserve.

First, so what?
Second, Coach Q stated that they did not believe Hossa's injury to be serious, so let's hope that's correct.
Third, yes, Brent Seabrook scored two goals and was inevitably named Second Star, but I don't know when I've seen him play worse.  His lazy-dogging it back to The Hawks' bench caused the penalty...power play...goal...loss.  And before anyone says it was Kane Keith that jumped the boards early, sure, I guess one could say that, but I've been in that situation a thousand times and it ain't that simple.  You anticipate the player coming off to move with some urgency, and you time your hop over the boards based on that expectation. And it was bloody overtime, man; if you're not going to show some urgency in that situation, when ya' gonna?

(Edit: mistakenly implicated Kane in the OT goof.)

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