Maybe It's Better This Way: Canucks 5, Hawks 4

It's time for another The Good, The Bad and The Ugly post.  This won't take long.
The Good
- Great possession stats, a gaudy shot count and a rare night in which The Hawks won the faceoff game.  How do you lose a game with numbers like this?  I'll get to that.
- There were some very good individual performances: Hartman, obviously, and Hossa put together a solid game after a bit of a haphazard start.  Panik was strong on the puck all evening, and both Hayden and Rasmussen made excellent plays at both ends of the ice.  
The Bad
- Two goals against were precipitated by The Hawks' forwards bolting downrange before they had established control of the puck.
- Five goals against on fifteen shots. While three of the four allowed by Crawford were on odd-man rushes or deft redirections, the poke check attempt on Sutter's first goal was clumsy and maybe a little impatient.
- The penalty call on Toews in overtime was as soft as they come.  Maybe they felt that Toews embellished the shove from Edler that propelled him into Ryan Miller?
- Where was Kane for the first 45 minutes of the game?  
The Ugly
- Duncan Keith: six giveaways.  Soupy, another three.  Jurco, two giveaways in a mere seven minutes.  I've seen quite enough of Jurco, now.
- Seabrook simply could not keep the puck within The Canucks blueline.
- TVR and Jurco gave up on the second Sutter goal.  Unacceptable.

So, yeah, maybe it's a good thing to have lost this one.  The game came pretty easily to The Hawks, yet they really only applied a full effort in the last ten minutes or so.  Again.  Losing to a team that's basically senior citizens and Guys, after pummeling them in all regards except the score, might be just the thing to create some urgency and perhaps inspire The Hawks to bring their A Game in the first two periods.  I'd be embarrassed and I rather hope The Hawks are, as well..