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This Is Chicago’s Year
by Paul on 11/28/09 at 04:27 PM ET
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from Rick Morrissey of the Chicago Tribune,
My suggestion is to enjoy the ride and assume it’s going to get even better as the season goes along. Why shouldn’t it?
When the Hawks skated all over the Sharks in a 7-2 road victory Wednesday, you could hear the rest of the league letting out an involuntary “whoa—what is that?” The Sharks have the best record in the NHL, and the Blackhawks made them look like a junior team from Saskatoon.
The game featured the long-awaited debut of Marian Hossa, and he scored two goals as if it were the most natural thing to do after spending four months rehabbing his surgically repaired shoulder.
Before the victory over the Sharks, the Hawks had put together a seven-game winning streak. Now with Hossa in the lineup in San Jose, here came an epiphany like a rush up the ice: Why not this season?
I thought the Hawks were another year away from being a serious threat to win the Stanley Cup, that the Red Wings or the Penguins or the Sharks still would rule, but what we’re seeing now changes everything. Why not this season indeed?
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Why not? Two words. Cristobal Huet.
Posted by cs6687 on 11/28/09 at 05:10 PM ET
It’s not often a Pens and Wings fans agree on anything, but we do on this issue. Huet is a major sieve and you can bet your ass he will be tested by likely all 3 of SJ, Det and Pitts.
Posted by cainer4wingsglory on 11/28/09 at 05:16 PM ET
Great to see them keeping a level head about the whole thing too.
Posted by Aaron from Boston on 11/28/09 at 06:41 PM ET
Chicago’s good, and I’ll admit that it wouldn’t break my heart if they went all they way this year. The real fans in Chicago have had a tough decade or two and as a Detroit fan, seeing Hossa get the lift the cup wouldn’t kill me. That being said, of course, I’ll still root against them if they play Detroit.
Don’t count your chickens before they’re hatched though, Chicago. A lot of people were saying the same thing about us last year.
Posted by DetroitNick on 11/28/09 at 06:50 PM ET
Could someone call the woefully under-achieving Poultry in Anaheim and let them know this is Chicago’s year?
Posted by Red Winger from Sault Ste Marie on 11/28/09 at 07:16 PM ET
Ignore Huet for a moment (he DOES show flashes of brilliance sometimes). Why aren’t Chicago contenders? Because they’re SOFT…not soft like Atlanta…soft like the Canadiens…soft like Downy soft possibly Charmin, at least Scott has a little grit. Soft teams don’t win the cup because they can’t wear teams down. At least not anymore.
Posted by stoneman from vegas on 11/28/09 at 09:53 PM ET
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Why not? Two words. Cristobal Huet.
Posted by cs6687 on 11/28/09 at 05:10 PM ET