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You must be delusional
11 has been awesome
- Maggie

I Took it back. He has been offensive, and yet defensively challenged.

Awesome awesome awesome shift!!!
- TommyHawk

yes sir that was one of those shifts where you get on the edge of your seat...and say...they are going to pot one here

So let's assume he doesn't fall, do you see anywhere he can go without still hitting Darling?

I'm not sure he had enough room to cut in front of him and he certainly wasn't trying to go around the net. I'd have given him 2 and explained that he needed to take a better line around the crease to ensure not hitting the goalie.
- stljam

if a goal scored on that play....that has to wiped out..intentional or not

I Took it back. He has been offensive, and yet defensively challenged.
- ksilvy58

wouldn't controlling the puck in the O zone count as defensively keeping it away from the other team?

wouldn't controlling the puck in the O zone count as defensively keeping it away from the other team?
- dpard

No. Although 11 has been good.

Defense is when you don't have the puck.

So let's assume he doesn't fall, do you see anywhere he can go without still hitting Darling?

I'm not sure he had enough room to cut in front of him and he certainly wasn't trying to go around the net. I'd have given him 2 and explained that he needed to take a better line around the crease to ensure not hitting the goalie.
- stljam

Agreed. But the Preds can do no wrong

No. Although 11 has been good.

Defense is when you don't have the puck.
- kwolf68

aahhhhhhh......gee thanks

Late to the show. I want to see the Blackhawks goalies start playing like Billy Smith. 2 plays already that should have been goalie interference calls go Nashville's way. Game 2 - Player standing in the blue and cross-checks Crawford. Sure they had to waive the goal, but how is that not intentional? Today, Wilson covers up his charge with a weak slide into Darling, again in the blue paint. How is that any different than a player taking a line to play a puck behind a net and running into the goalie as he arrives at the puck the same time?

Time to knock Pekker Inne out of the series. Enough of this BS.

Just out of curiosity but how was that not delay of game on Keith for the puck hitting his skate when he is sitting on the top of the bench?

Just out of curiosity but how was that not delay of game on Keith for the puck hitting his skate when he is sitting on the top of the bench?
- Feds91Stammer

So then anytime a puck hits a player on the bench it should be a delay of game?

So does Q scratch him for game 4?
- Dieselhead

Q should get kicked in the arse for scratching him in games 1 and 2 when they needed his grit and toughness.

Just out of curiosity but how was that not delay of game on Keith for the puck hitting his skate when he is sitting on the top of the bench?
- Feds91Stammer

Sitting on top of the boards is not considered on the ice but on the bench

So then anytime a puck hits a player on the bench it should be a delay of game?
- powerenforcer

Why were his legs in the playing surface?

Sitting on top of the boards is not considered on the ice but on the bench
- molly2522

That's why it's delay of game not too many men...

Just out of curiosity but how was that not delay of game on Keith for the puck hitting his skate when he is sitting on the top of the bench?
- Feds91Stammer

I'll answer your question with another question: how is that delay of game?

So does Q scratch him for game 4?
- Dieselhead

Who knows?...

...the Rosetta Stone for Q's line blender has yet to be discovered.

Why were his legs in the playing surface?
- Feds91Stammer

Go ask him. Can this silly issue be moved passed?

Who knows?...

...the Rosetta Stone for Q's line blender has yet to be discovered.
- ArlingtonRob

much better performace so far by the Hawks. keep the foot on the Gas!

I'll answer your question with another question: how is that delay of game?
- CBHawks88

Brendan Smith was called for it a week ago for hitting a puck with his glove while reaching over into the playing surface. Its why I ask. Is this somehow a judgement call?

Brendan Smith was called for it a week ago for hitting a puck with his glove while reaching over into the playing surface. Its why I ask. Is this somehow a judgement call?
- Feds91Stammer

Every call is a judgement call in today's NHL

Quick whistle for the Preds.... They have been taking forever to call it for the hawks

Every call is a judgement call in today's NHL
- CBHawks88

I guess so

Gotta luv the quick whistle.

2 very different situations:

Puck under Darling's pad - Preds get 5 whacks.

Puck rolling through Rinne's pads into the net - instant whistle.