Wild Vs Hawks: Game Two

GAME ONE RECAP

We didn't win.  Close game, Hards was amazing, Suter was Studly. 

You've all read everything there is to read on game one at this point so there's no need for me to rehash it. 

What They're Saying To Your Face
If there's one complaint/concern about the Wild this post season it's the fact that they are consistently inconsistent.  Okay, okay - that's THE complaint/concern about the Wild in any given season, for any given game.  Even Parise and Suter admit they don't know why sometimes the team shows up and sometimes it doesn't.  And just in case it wasn't clear enough to the Team of 18,000 how inconsistent their team is, apparently the rest of the NHL has figured it out as well. 

From Chicago Trib's coverage - Quote from Patrick Kane:

 

 “When they play like they want to, they can score four or five goals a night and keep it out of their net with maybe one of the best defensemen in the league [in Suter]. It’s a dangerous team. You definitely have to be careful with them. They’re a team that I’ve watched throughout the year and it seems like one night they look like the best team in the NHL and the next night they look like they don’t even want to be out there.”

 

Wow. Just Wow.  The Wild should have that last sentence printed up in giant lettering and pasted in front of every locker, shower head, urinal and on every hockey stick.  How embarrassing to know that's what the rest of the league thinks of you. 

 

Wild vs Hawks - Game Two

First Period: Wild Suck. Frolick scores - Hawks up 1-0

Second Period: Wild Suck. Frolick scores - Hawks up 2-0. Seto scores late in the period. Hawks lead 2-1.

Third Period: Wild Suck - nobody's watching anymore. Hawks win it 5-2.
Best tweet of the night: "Well, at least Lindy Ruff will have a job next season."

MEMORIES

Rachael Blount takes us back, waaay back.  And I find myself laughing out loud reading names like Chris Chelios, Dave Manson and Mike Peluso - Shane Churla, Basil McRae, and Mark Tinordi.  Holy Old Time Hockey! 

 

HOCKEY COVERAGE EXTRAORDINAIRE

I don't go a day without listening to the Backhand Shelf Podcast.  You shouldn't either.  CAUTION - Effinghiemers Fly Freely so keep your volume low at work. 

 

Backhand Shelf - The Score Blogs  - Justin Bourne, Jo Innes, Cam Charron, Jake Goldsbie, etc.

 

Twitter Feeds To Follow For Fun:

@Starting_Goalie

@notkevingorg

@Hockey_Humor

@CauseItsTheCup

What They're Saying To Your Face, Part II
Really Wild?  Fight Till End... AGAIN??  Is Leipold so broke from Parise's and Suter's contracts that he couldn't afford the printing of SOMETHING, ANYTHING new for the playoff slogan?  The guys at Backhand Shelf even made fun of this rerun.  And we wonder why we're the laughing stock of the league?

 

Dear GEICO - You SUCK

 

Dear Duluth Trading Company: Ewwwww

 

Breach Baby Turns 39...AGAIN!
Give it up for Robyn who's celebrating another turn around the sun.  Hope you had a fun night celebrating with friends and cake!