A Couple of Young Men, Running Wild In The Mountains: Hawks 6, Avalanche 4

Oh, good gosh, that shouldn't have been so difficult.  LUCKILY, Coach Q tinkered with his forward lines a little and found THE ANSWER.
Well, that's probably not true, but it worked tonight, barely.
Real Quick BITS:
Corey Crawford made a few very good saves and, I believe, played better than his stat line suggests.  No chance there on Duchene's tip-in, maybe a bit too deep in the net for Comeau's and Duchene's second (although he had a recovering Kempny confusing matters) and, although Nieto's tally was probably savable, if Seabrook doesn't cough the puck up in the first place....
The Second Period continues to be The Hawks' nap time as, yet again, a strong first was followed by an indifferent effort in the middle frame.  As frustrating as it is for viewers to behold it's probably causing Q ulcers, spastic colon, etc.
The Avalanche made what appeared at first to be some odd deployment decisions, pitting their top two lines against The Hawks top two units whenever possible, it seemed.  Mistakes and power plays aside, Colorado only really saw those lines get their chances when they were not facing the Toews or Anisimov lines.  Meanwhile, however, The Hawks' bottom six absolutely kicked in the teeth of their Avs' counterparts, with the Moose - Dez - Schmaltz trio dominating to the tune of 80%+ Corsi.  I guess, then, that this is all Colorado has; if their bottom six are gonna get pummeled like this by The Hawks' "Guys" it's sure to be even more of a mess if it's left to them to try to shut down Chicago's scoring lines.  They did what they could with what they have.
That said, Kane and The Arthurs could only put together intermittent bursts of pressure and Toews' line was rather haphazard, creating occasional chances on mainly individual efforts, yet not really working as a unit.
Hossa only seemed to warm up to his new linemates in the second half of the game, just kind of doing his own thing until then, and he managed to tally three secondary assists, but...

...the heavy lifting was done by Tanner Kero and Vinnie Hinostroza.  Kero scored his first on merit of good positioning and being quicker on the rebound than Iginla (who was brutal in every way tonight - take note, Stan Bowman) and, later, made an outstanding pass to Vinnie Hinnie to give The Hawks the lead for good.  For his part, Hinostroza was at his charging, darting best, and managed to combine that with some great finish.  In a dead heat for St. Stormare's affection, Vinnie edges out Kero.