Are We Doing This Or Not? Predators 5, Hawks 0

Was that the worst game The Hawks have played in eight years?  Maybe not, but it may have been the worst playoff game they've fumbled through.
It's not like the team was universally bad, although several Hawks were, indeed, outright awful.  It's more that enough Hawks players were bad enough, often enough, for things to get out of control pretty quickly.  Infuriatingly, when they needed to step things up, they actually played worse, even when Nashville were content to let The Hawks come at them and just tried to limit their chances.
By the midpoint of the third period our guys were squeezing their sticks so hard they looked like Del Griffith's steering wheel in Planes Trains & Automobiles.
Panarin appeared indifferent for much of the game.
Hjalmarsson couldn't complete a pass for love nor money.
Every defenseman, for that matter, made at least one pass to nowhere.  That said, oftentimes the forwards were so far up-ice and heading the wrong way it certainly made it more difficult to break out than it needed to be.
Toews and Schmaltz, I thought, put forth a good effort, anyway, but rarely at the same time.
Rasmussen had a mostly good game....for Dennis Rasmussen, but even that was undone by his failure to knock Sissons on his ass, 'cos he was the only guy in a position to do so.
Don't even get me started on T-V-fucking-R.  This team will never meet their potential as long as that waste of skin is in the lineup, let alone soaking up 15+ precious minutes of ice time.
And then....

This idiot posted what must be a team record 5% Corsi.  How is that even possible?  I guess we'll be treated to seven minutes of Tomas Jurco in Game Three, but even that would be better than Hartman's stupidity tonight.  Another game like that and he'll be a Las Vegas Golden-whatever soon enough.

Gotta get the first goal on Monday.  If these guys get down early again, even by a goal, it could be lights out.