Wicked Something: Hawks 1, Bruins 0

Once again, The Hawks were outshot, outskated and struggled mightily at the dot, yet came away with a fortunate victory.  In contrast to their usual scheme, though, which is to start alright, have a crap second period and see what happens in the third, The Hawks got marginally better as the game wore on.  I'm not sure that's important.
As has been the case so many times in games in which The Hawks struggled to compete it was a series of "small" plays, base hits rather than home runs, that led to their one and only goal; a turnover forced by a defenseman, followed by a hard charge up-ice, two short, accurate passes and the trailing winger has most of the net to shoot at.  Sounds like a vintage Keith-to-Kane-to-Toews-to-Hossa kind of play, doesn't it?  Well, part of that is right, as this play began with Michal Kempny pinching off Frank Vatrano and chipping the puck ahead to Vinnie Hinostroza who made The Bruins blue line in about a second, swerved around a Bruin or two as well as his linemate, Kero, who somehow ended up ahead of Vinnie Hinnie to the right of the net.  Hinostroza hits Kero with a short pass and Kero quickly goes cross-crease to Hossa.  Bingo.
Of course this is not suggesting that Kero & Hino are the next Kane & Toews - it just pleases me immensely that, in a game in which the Old Boys couldn't get much done, it was the young fellas putting on a tribute act that got them the win.  They're not always going to be able to pull that off so let's just take it when we can get it.
Da Bits:
Tanner Kero has had three pretty good games in a row.  I'm not ready to say he's The Answer, but he may be better than I had at first envisioned, and certainly greater than the sum of his parts.  Overall, he didn't have the best night, as his line was trounced possession-wise, but he still managed to do some good things.
The Bruins appear to be in a similar position as The Hawks in that they have a handful of dependable veterans, a couple of very fine Young Fellas and a bunch of Guys.  On this night our Guys were better than their guys and almost everyone else was incidental.
Kane & The Arthurs were an utter non-event for the second game running. They held the puck a lot, actually, but didn't create much in the way of quality chances.  Apart from on the power plays they weren't hitting their passes very well and, even then, they weren't great in that department.  It felt like a lot of cycling, cycling, cycling and then no one open or in position for a pass.  One more game like this and I'll bet we see this line shaken up.
Michal Kempny had an eventful evening, with a roughly equal amount of solid plays and WTF plays. About once each week, it seems, he floats a pass to absolutely no one.  Happily, that and a couple of other goofy things, did not get him stapled to the bench, as he had a very solid second half of the game and, as mentioned, started the play that resulted in the goal.
Ryan Hartman is doing just fine, in general, but he HAS to stop it with the shots from on or behind the goal line.

Hossa was there when he was most needed and Vinnie Hinnie and Kero did some neat stuff to set him up, but a handful of decent shifts is not enough to impress our Swedish friend.  Think back to the first period when Boston was chucking like mad and The Hawks D couldn't clear a rebound to save their lives....Scott Darling kept The Hawks in it with a chance to win it.