Tuesday 22 November 2016

About Last Night: Hawks: None of the Goals, Oilers: All of the Goals

I would have been sorry that I waited to watch this hot mess, except that I had some really good soup while I watched the game, so that's something.

Despite outshooting The Oilers and "winning" the possession game, The Hawks simply could not get anything going in this one.  The only line that was consistently creating chances was the Hartman - Hino - Panik trio, but even they failed to hit the net very often and, let's face it, those three have to work twice as hard to generate offense than The Hawks' top two lines.
Forsling had another horrible night.
Keith somehow got a few shots through, to go along with the dozen or so that were blocked or ricocheted off a teammate's leg. The Oilers were credited with a whopping 21 blocked shots, so The Hawks' failure to get anything substantial going may have been at least partly down to not being judicious when choosing to shoot.
Crow was dogshit; he knows it, and he'll know how to bounce back from that.

Worst of all, I had to listen to those jackanapes on The Oilers' broadcast team say "Jarmalson" about a hundred times.  
                              It's all in there, guys, even JALL-MAR-SON.

1 comment:

  1. Well, I'm really glad you enjoyed the 'really good soup', at least! I enjoyed your fantastically honest and no-holding-back game insights, as always!!

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