Blackhawks rebuild becoming a failure in year 2 when the roster is almost entirely vets plugging holes, and all the young guys coming up (vlasic and bedard first, now nazar and dach) are playing very well. Prospects exceeding expectations (rinzel, kantserov, lardis, etc.) Not looking sabres-y imo

Shayna says they need to weaponize their cap space, but that is what they did here

Absolutely baffled on the negativity towards the hawks on the rantanen trade. Expected a late 3rd for Taylor hall 50% retained. They retain 1.6 mil more to get a pick 25 spots earlier. Seems like an easy win and tidy bit of business. Halls value was only sinking lower and lower. 4th liner

bad turnover but how is that a slashing penalty... that one handed tap happens 50 times a game

finally bertuzzi with bedard

Congrats to Sara getting her name on her zoom profile!

Rolston wasn't a Blackhawks draft pick. not sure what you're crying about

He already wasn't playing every day in Rockford, happy for him to get a chance to get into an every day spot in Milwaukee

bears and hawks should switch coaches. neither could possibly do a worse job than the other is currently doing

That hit you describe would be very bad. Good thing it's very clearly not what happened in this case. Phew

i would assume reaves going almost entirely into nurse's head while most of the whitecloud hit was elbow and upper arm into the leaf's player's chest played a bit part, no?

the panthers at least utilize their speed on zone entries sometimes instead of just throwing it in and waiting

surely if they dump it in and ring it around the boards until the ducks take the puck back a few more times, they'll score? they had what? 1 shot in the period until the goalie was pulled?

Aa seen in this clip, one thing that bothers me a bit is after he makes a play, he often kind of pauses as he does next to the wolves net here, and it puts him a step behind the next evolution in play, rather than being on the move with anticipation

Definitely not a lot more wins, but there would at least be a chance at improvement and development with a coach who values puck possession and building chemistry with consistent linemates

Hall hasn't even played badly honestly. it's just so hard to judge individual players when they have zero lineup consistency

could also help if you pick a player that *hasn't* been playing well by most points of view to scratch

I'm losing my mind. The hits just keep on coming with this coach