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Wings vs Hawks: Can it be done?
by Hippy Dave on 05/15/09 at 12:02 AM ET | View all posts by Hippy Dave
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I was ready for the loss. I was ready to even come up with a phrase that the Chief might find useful for the next few years describing our defeat: “The Bullshit.” It made sense at the time; a team that played really, really hard. That arguably bent the rules as far as a team can in order to win. A team that backed that up with equally solid play. A team that played that strong forecheck and aggressive play that makes us chip and chase, which is so foreign to our system, along with the strong goalie; the formula that beats the wings every damn year that we lose a series.
However it is not so, for our man who bleeds Wings Red came through along with the rest of the team when it counted.
Props to Anaheim. Damn, you played so well I wouldn’t have felt THAT bad that we lost to you. Well played. Handshakes all around. I believe neither side would have had a pimply faced preteen crying in their pillows on YouTube.
Now comes the challenge, Chicago. Wrigley field ain’t got nothing on this.
Sat Oct 25, 2008 6 - 5 SO Win Wings
Sat Dec 6, 2008 4 - 5 SO Win Wings
Tue Dec 30, 2008 0 - 4 Win Wings
Thu Jan 1, 2009 6 - 4 Win Wings
Sat Apr 11, 2009 4 - 2 Loss to the Blackhawks
Sun Apr 12, 2009 0 - 3 Loss to the Blackhawks
This record may look like a winning one. But we eeked out those first two games. Rack the middle to up to hangover. The latter two were downright scary. I watched all those games, but the last two rattled me.
All season I knew, in my gut, or maybe lower, than it would come to this. And let me tell you, if I were a betting man (which I am outside of hockey, insomuch as my heart gets in the way), I’d put money on the Hawks. I hate to say it. But they’re going to work us over harder than Anaheim. Can we do it? I hope so. Can they do it? I hope not. The truth is, we both can. And that scares the sh*t out of me. These scrappy little youngsters care more about winning than we do right now, and we have to wake up and smell the.... well.. whatever the hell Chicago smells like.
Your thoughts?
Maholo,
The Hippy
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Did anyone catch Babcock in the press conference? Going on about the hockey gods? He said, “If you believe in the hockey gods, Pronger crosschecks Hudler right into the net, we get a penalty, Cleary goes off the ice, because he’s hurt, they shoot it in the net then they come back in our zone, its 3-2 for us, and there’s a stick layin’ on the ice… and so Ericsson fumbles around because he can’t get over his stick and you think to yourself my goodness.. maybe we’re not sposda do this so.. I never looked at it, doesn’t much matter.”
Word, Mr. Babcock,
Doesn’t Much Matter.
Posted by Hippy Dave from San Francisco by way of Detroit on 05/15/09 at 01:34 AM ET