Ducks Gameday—You can't say "Hawks" without saying "Ox"
by Earl Sleek on Jan 28, 2009 7:49 AM PST
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Chicago Blackhawks (25-12-8, 4th in west) at Anaheim Ducks (24-21-5, t-5th in west)
For your Hawks point of view, Second City Hockey
Yeah, I know I said yesterday that I was going to write something up about the assets the Ducks could sell going into this trade deadline season, and I will get to that pretty soon, but (a) the trade deadline is still a ways away, (b) I'm too lazy to update my spreadsheets right now, and (c) among the players I was going to talk about (the checking line and Niedermayer/Pronger, mostly), who didn't have a hell of a game last night? Their winning performance is too fresh in the memory -- can't let that taint our thinking. Plus who wants to update spreadsheets?
Instead, I'll just spend an extra day on the whole Year of the Ox wave that appeared to help the Ducks win convincingly yesterday.
This seems a way for the Ducks to get featured on Versus.
It's only been one game thus far played in Year of the Ox, but the Ducks scored seven goals -- something they hadn't done in any game during Year of the Rat -- and their power play chipped in with a smooth 1-for-1 efficiency. I'll take it. Also it's worth noting that megakid Bobby Ryan scored his tenth goal of the month of January last night -- and he wasn't even on one of the two best forward lines of the night.
Prediction: Unfortunately, I won't be around for game comments tonight, but I'm trusting that the web-footed ones can carry on without me. Tonight's primary question: which J.S. Giguere will show up? Ducks 5, Hawks 2. Goals by Ryan, Ebbett x2, Pahlsson, and Perry.
Go Ducks.
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Fingers crossed...
I’d love to see another 7 goals tonight, but I’d settle for one more than those other guys.
Maybe this All Star break was what they needed…
Maybe it was the threats of being traded…
OR…the Chinese New Year.
All valid arguments!
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Bah, I give up
I was looking for a handy website that could show me the NHL’s top goal-scorers for January 2009, but I can’t find it. The best I could find was looking at top goal scorers for the past 30 days in Yahoo fantasy hockey.
1. B. Ryan, 10
1. M. Cammalleri, 10
3. Z. Parise, 9
3. I. Kovalchuk, 9
5. D. Roy, 8
5. P. Marleau, 8
5. V. Lecavalier, 8
5. J. Blake, 8
9. A. Kostitsyn, 7
9. D. Langkow, 7
9. E. Cole, 7
9. C. Perry, 7
9. R. Nash, 7
9. O. Nolan, 7
Cammalleri, btw, had two goals on December 31.
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I just realized something…
Is there any particular reason why the Duck is always blue? Maybe I missed something at the very beginning of BoC.
No reason really — blue is just a handy color in my MS Paint. It does have a bit of a tradition — frequent commenter Spade in Victorhell has affectionately named the blue duck Frank or Spike or something (don’t rightly recall at the moment).
But no pressing reason, I suppose.
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hahaha
ralph…cuz he drinks so much…my guess he prays the porcilen god quite often
we trash the ducks yesterday then though go and kick ass…..
maybe we should trash some more….so they can win tonite
El Spade-o
by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Jan 28, 2009 11:15 AM PST reply actions
ralph…cuz he drinks so much…
That’s right. Heh.
maybe we should trash some more….so they can win tonite
I’m in. That J.S. Giguere — he couldn’t save a dollar.
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That J.S. Giguere — he couldn’t save a dollar. /bq.
It’s starting to get to him – nothing ever seemed to bother JS in the past. Well, except Ryan Smyth. Now he’s smashing sticks and melting down on a regular basis. That was ideal for Ron Hextall, but I don’t think it’s going to help Jiggy.
I suppose the silver lining is we can rely on the Ducks to score 7 goals a game the rest of the way.
Right?
Anyone?
Carlyle should ask the Kings about how to come to terms with having a struggling goalie. They’ve had a good couple years to work that one out.
I think the answer, though, is something like this:
“Get used to losing.”
But that kind of goes for all teams (see Red Wings, the recently).
You're not gonna be at the game, are you Sleek?
Is that why you won’t be available for comments? No, you would have said to look for your green shirt on TV if that were the case.
Oh well, but I’ll be there, look for the black shirt in the sea of black shirts. Also I’m sitting too high up for the camera to see me anyway so it’s going to make it quite difficult.
Ducks are undefeated in games that I attend, as far as I know:
Last time: Jan 11 vs Devils: 4 – 3 win
Game in 1994 which I wrote about in my elementary school Journal: 5 – 1 win over Blues
People who save up for a rainy day are like milk. And milk goes good with cookies, so you should have those people over for cookies.
Game in 1994 which I wrote about in my elementary school Journal: 5 – 1 win over Blues
haha, did you have to look that up in your journal, or did you remember it?
Same here…I’ll be in my Selanne jersey, in a sea of Selanne jerseys…way to high up to be seen! LOVE IT!
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You kids have fun out there tonight
Nah, I’ll be watching the game on TV tonight — and I may pop into the comments — but I’ve got some friends coming over, too, and liveblogging makes for a poor host.
I am going to the game on Monday against the Sabres, though, and I’ll be somewhere in the upper deck. Too lazy to look up where, though.
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Have you yet to consider the Feb 18 Kings/Ducks game?
I am going to the game on Monday against the Sabres
Better hope the Oilers softened them up for you. I don’t think you wanna see a 10-2 loss… then again, the last two games the Kings have played in Buffalo were 10-1 and 5-0, so I’m not one to speak.
Fuck you, Denis Gauthier
Yeah I found that Journal over the summer and read about it. I remember going to the games but I don’t remember the scores, and this is the only one that I wrote down, I guess.
I’m also pretty sure that my parents told me Wayne Gretzky was on the Ducks back then just to make me happy, the way Colin Cowherd says he takes his kids to minor league games (cheaper tickets/beer) and tells them they’re at Fenway Park watching the Red Sox play.
People who save up for a rainy day are like milk. And milk goes good with cookies, so you should have those people over for cookies.
..which means he’s gonna end up scoring four goals in the final two minutes of the third period.
Fuck you, Denis Gauthier
It’ll probably be a 5-0 Blackhawks lead by that time, so it wouldn’t matter =)
Fuck you, Denis Gauthier
OUCH!
It’s okay…that still leaves Bobby Ryan with 2 minutes…and as a Kings fan, you know what he can do with 2 minutes!!
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Yeah. But I forget, did the Ducks win that game?
And that two minutes was actually about twenty, because of the intermission. So I don’t count that.
Fuck you, Denis Gauthier
So, I’m finally back. I haven’t commented in like a week… because there hasn’t been any hockey in a week. Also because I’m slightly depressed about my NHL 09 game… after finishing my third season in BAP mode, I decided to sign with the Devils (basically because red is a bad-ass color) to a 4-year deal. All is right with the world, except the NJ GM decided to screw me over. He signed… DENIS GAUTHIER!! I had to play with the bitch for three years in LA, so the one chance I have for some freedom, he follows me across the country.
A couple days ago, the NHL 09 gods must’ve heard my cries, since the GM thankfully traded him to Detroit, so now he’s the Wings’ problem =) I was so stoked, but now I’m depressed again. In my last game, a couple hours ago, I lost 4-0 to the Kings in my player’s return to Staples Center… Seriously, how does anybody lose 4-0 to anybody in ’09?
This seems a way for the Ducks to get featured on Versus.
There’s no such thing as bad coverage, especially when you play on the Pacific. But anyway, I wonder what it’s like to watch your team on Versus. I wouldn’t know; the Kings haven’t had a nationally-televised game on Versus since the 2006-07 season… and they choked against the Sharks.
Btw, by “nationally-televised”, I mean nationally televised in America. The only games they’ve played were on HNIC.
Fuck you, Denis Gauthier
So, I’m finally back. I haven’t commented in like a week… because there hasn’t been any hockey in a week.
Welcome back, dude. Sorry to hear about your NHL 09 troubles. As for me, I finished one season on easy but haven’t progressed since then — instead I’m doing some Guitar Hero.
the Kings haven’t had a nationally-televised game on Versus since the 2006-07 season…
Just think — there’s some kid on the east coast who’s going to ask in a few years: “Wait, the Kings are still around?”
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Just think — there’s some kid on the east coast who’s going to ask in a few years: "Wait, the Kings are still around?"
In a few years, they might not be. They’ll probably to move to Kansas City, MO (which I’ve never understood… it’s KANSAS City, not Missouri City).
Fuck you, Denis Gauthier
Selanne is playing and Hayward sounds like he’s gonna lay a wad in his pants.
by chris in torrance on Jan 28, 2009 7:35 PM PST reply actions
the Kings haven’t had a nationally-televised game on Versus since the 2006-07 season…
This is wrong. They started the season in London last year with the Ducks. Versus televised one of them.
by chris in torrance on Jan 28, 2009 7:39 PM PST reply actions
Oh, really? I didn’t remember that. I don’t know why I thought the first game of the season wouldn’t be nationally televised, but I thought both games were just on FSN West. Thanks for correcting me.
But in any case, they were only given that game by default, as far as I’m concerned, as it was the season opener for the league.
Fuck you, Denis Gauthier
Puhahaha. Ahlers and Hayward are killing me. Hayward, after a whine-fest over the call on the Ducks, talks about the importance for the DUCKS to remain calm and collected. Ahlers: “Heed your own advice!”
10 bucks says he said “that’s a bad call” a couple times like every sports announcer does and you called it a whine fest because it’s Hayward.
People who save up for a rainy day are like milk. And milk goes good with cookies, so you should have those people over for cookies.
I have it recorded, but off the top of my head, the quote that stands out is something like (when the Hawks scored on the Montador penalty):
“He should skate out of the box straight up to the referee and shake his hand for giving Chicago that goal” or something like that. No — Hayward was on another level last night. I think he spent the greater part of a period palpably angry at the referees.
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The funny thing is you guys call Hayward a complainer, and a whiner…
…you should see YOU talking about Hayward.
People who save up for a rainy day are like milk. And milk goes good with cookies, so you should have those people over for cookies.
I don’t know — I’ve probably spent more than two years on this blog never once talking about Hayward. Most of the recent commentary has been in response to people defending him.
It’s a useless exercise, but you could look throughout the entire BoC archives, posts and comments, and I bet I haven’t mentioned Hayward more than fifty times — just most of those comments have come recently.
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has been in response to people defending him
so…. Me.
And I think * everyone * has done it more recently. I’m sure it’s been around a while, it just seems to have become a bit of a trend lately, and that’s why I keep defending him.
People who save up for a rainy day are like milk. And milk goes good with cookies, so you should have those people over for cookies.
Yikes. I’m going to try explain my position below, but in the end, I have a feeling we’re just going to have to agree to disagree. I do take your point about complaining, and in the future, I’ll try to keep (most of) my thoughts to myself.
My response to your comment above is that there is a difference (or there should be, anyway) between a team’s color commentator and the average fan. I’m not saying the calls weren’t bad calls. I was upset. But I’m a fan. Being a team’s color commentator is different. I don’t know anything about sports commentary, so I can’t clearly outline the standards and duties of the job. Obviously, it’s impossible to be perfectly objective, but there’s got to be some level of professionalism. I appreciate that Hayward is a Ducks fan, and I often share his frustration and annoyance. But I think that when he gets upset, his way of expressing that emotion is inappropriate for his role as commentator. Other teams’ guys might do the same thing, but I’ve listened to a lot of opponents’ announcers this year, and in my opinion, Hayward does seem to be among the more frequent offenders.
Ultimately, this comes down to personal opinions, and I suppose that me repeating the same opinion is not helpful or all that interesting. And, this is a small point, but in my original comment, I was more amused by Ahler’s response than I was annoyed with Hayward.
I was on the fence about the man
until he created the “Through the hase” segments.
The intro is ridiculous. It is kind of like Happy Gilmore when he creates the subway comercial, but Adam Sandler MADE that OVER the top stupid on purpose, so it was kind of funny.
The Hase crap is just plain bad. And they played it not once, but twice (and did not bother to skip the intro the second time they did it, an intro that is at the begining AND ENDING of the segment)
And the MST3000 thing was WORSE than that, if that’s posible.
Never seen or heard of that. All I’ve seen besides the game is Hockey 101
People who save up for a rainy day are like milk. And milk goes good with cookies, so you should have those people over for cookies.
I’ve heard of it, but I don’t think I’ve sat down and watched one yet. Then again, I’m not heavily into the “please give me more Hayward” camp.
And the MST3000 thing was WORSE than that, if that’s possible.
Heh, I only saw that going on in DVR fast-forward. And I’ll take your word that in real time it was terrible — no need to for me to really find out.
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It was bad.
I caught up to my DVR at that point so I was in real time.
I should have just left the room for a few minutes, but it was like a train wreck. I knew it was bad, but I had to watch. But only that one time, I swear, I will make a fucking beer run the second that crap comes on next time, even if I have plenty of beer and I know I will miss a Bobby Ryan 2 minute hat trick if I don’t get back inm time. It’s just not worth it.
Disappointment
Close game there but I’m not totally sure what happened at the end with the net coming off. It seemed like they ruled that the puck went in, but after the net was off. Was that the case?
People who save up for a rainy day are like milk. And milk goes good with cookies, so you should have those people over for cookies.
Puck didn’t go in, unfortunately, but Hayward insisted that the refs screwed the Ducks somehow.
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What happend at the end with the net coming off was that Duncan Keith pushed it off. He got caught with his back to the play. The player he was defending, Pahlsson, was on his wallet, and Keith decided it would be easy to just shove the net off to get a whistle.
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I agree, but when I was watching it, Hayward actually did say that the referees have a lot to look at, especially that they pretty much have to follow the puck all the time, and Hayward said that he could understand how they might’ve missed it. Also, consider the fast pace of the game. In real-time speed, out of the corner of his eye, the referee wouldn’t be able to tell if Keith was pushing the net off or if he was pushed into the net.
Should’ve been a penalty shot, since it was in the final two minutes (as opposed to a delay of game penalty), but the refs missed it. I agree with what Hayward said about it should’ve been a PS, but I’m really just thankful that he at least gave the refs some credit for understandably missing the call…
Still think he’s a bitch, and the Ducks would probably be better off without him as the color guy. Seriously, “Through the Hayz?” His name doesn’t even have a “z” sound in it!!
Fuck you, Denis Gauthier
But “Through the Hay” was probably taken by some cowboy rodeo show on Versus.
So thanks for clearing that up Morbo. Sucky ending to the game, but it was still a blast being there. Except for this woman behind me who didn’t understand anything.
“So they’re allowed to change people right in the middle of a play?” she asks her coworker. A basketball fan, I figured. My suspicions were confirmed later when she said “I don’t watch many sports, I just like to watch basketball.” It doesn’t seem that annoying, but you had to be there: there was sort of a condescending tone toward hockey. Blah, I just had to get that out.
People who save up for a rainy day are like milk. And milk goes good with cookies, so you should have those people over for cookies.
Did you all see the GM hint that maybe there is chemistry problems in the room?
Pronger to Toronto for what could very well end up a loterey pick and prospects.
I don’t usually pay too much attention to lockerroom stuff, as I think it’s a bet reactive — if the team wins, locker rooms are always fine; if a team loses, then locker room problems suddenly appear.
Toronto would be somewhat interesting — there’s obviously the Burke/Murray connection, but they might have the right mix of high picks, young talent, and cap space. The only thing missing, I think, is a shot at this year’s postseason.
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Whoa
I wasn’t expecting this news. Nothing imminent, of course, but Beauchemin’s back on the ice?
I wonder if that will matter.
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Yeah, maybe it will turn out that Beauchemin was actually babysitting Niedermayer
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GREAT!
I think the Parros extension is kinda random myself. I mean…I guess he was just low on my list of priorities.
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I think I had Parros third on my list — not because he’s very critical, but he’s a good combination of cheap and popular. It’s sort of a no-brainer, I think, even though I’ve never been a tremendous Parros fan myself.
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even though I’ve never been a tremendous Parros fan myself.
Me either…but this year he’s improved greatly. Or maybe it’s just that I love Bobby Ryan and he makes others around him appear better than they seem? Whatever…I’ll take it.
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What’s funny is that Parros’s wikipedia page has it’s own section just on his mustache.
People who save up for a rainy day are like milk. And milk goes good with cookies, so you should have those people over for cookies.
It’s because that thing has a life of it’s own.
My co-worker said last night that it makes him look older than he actually is. Agreed.
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Young, stacheless Parros
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