Idiot Parade: The Three....What are the Opposite of Stars?

Third: TVR

Even though he coughed up the puck that led to what was ultimately the game winning goal, Van Riemsdyk gets some slack because he shouldn't have even been there in the first place.  I assume he's just doing the best he can, which ain't much.

Second: Q

How can someone be so smart yet so dumb?  Quenneville is in consideration for a Lifetime Achievement Award for persisting with Van Riemsdyk.  TVR racked up the worst +/- of all regular Hawks defencemen this season and currently has the worst +/- of all Hawks in the playoffs.  Yet he never missed a game and didn't even miss a shift after an error that many other coaches might consider grounds for euthanasia.  Q has been accused of having blinders on where his "guys" are concerned but this is the most extreme example of his failure to recognize a truly mediocre hockey player being passed off as an NHL regular.

First: Shaw

Embarrassing, unacceptable and somewhat typical.  This is doubly irritating because it occurred in the last stages of an otherwise excellent game by Shaw.  If things go poorly tonight in St. Loomis this event could well be Shaw's last actions in a Hawks uniform, which is a horrible way to go out.