GDT: 12/2/24 Hawks @ Leafs 6:30 CHSN
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GIADF
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Does 23 get benched again? How could Joey A. be worse than the team minus machine?
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deytookerjaabs
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Just watching this team try to get up the ice from their own zone shift to shift is more painful than the result of any specific game.
Hawkaholic
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Of the top six he has been the worst the last couple of games and he was doing a lot of contact avoidance and stick reaching tonight. Is Reichel the only guy who got the "i don't care how skilled you are you have to be two feet from the boards and in contact with opponents when you're digging pucks out". 23 could use some of that.
Larmer83
I'm taking the high road moving forward.
Toews2Bickell
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Dont Care - Nazar - Bedard
whenever Nazar is ready this year
wait when was Richardson extended
ChurchOfMatthews
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These kids in Rockford better save us because I don’t know where else the talent is going to come from unless we’re going to be a gutter team the next 3 years too
TLEH
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We are going to be bad again next year too.
Hattrick Kane
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As long as they’re the youngest team in the league and they let the kids play and make mistakes. As opposed to overpaying more vets to make make mistakes and not give a f***.
Crow
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Hopefully bad enough to scheme our way into the McKenna discussion. Could you imagine if we draft say Martone at #2 and then McKenna at #1 the following year too? Its not out of the realm of possibility.
And even if its not those 2....the fact of the matter is that after these next 2 drafts(by the start of the 2026/27 season)...no matter how painful and never ending the process may seem along the way....we're going to be absolutely loaded with young talent + tons of cap space + a new head coach.
To this day most fans still underestimate how long we truly have to go before our rebuild is complete. We aren't nearly as far along as say Anaheim or even San Jose. I personally think our strategy of early focus on building from the back end up and loading up with a ton of promising D prospects will pay off in the end. I'm confident that we're going to add multiple top-tier forward prospects in the coming 2 years to round everything out.
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It is going to take time and probably by the end of this decade we might see Hawks fighting for a playoff spot. Just look how Ottawa is doing.
Imagine being a professional hockey player and just straight up losing Matthews in what is essentially a 3 on 5 situation. LOL
LR HAS to go.
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Naturally. But I hope we’re bad with a little more direction and purpose where these prospects can start filling in the Brodie/Martinez/Hall/Anderson/etc…slots.
Hopefully we have a new coach and can develop some identity with Rockford kids filling out the roster. Another bad season is fine. Another pointlessly bad season like this one is not. This year helps no one except our 1st round draft selection.
Toews2Bickell
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good because they need multiple top 3-5 picks and forward is not close to elite yet
you mean paying 2-4x market rate on some of these vets to bring "character" isnt a good strategy??
From Ben Pope this morning"
"It didn’t work offensively tonight, but they had some good shifts in the ‘O’ zone,’’ Richardson said. ‘‘Taylor [Hall] gives them a little speed and [is] strong on the puck, ‘Bert’ is usually around that net and Connor is a playmaker, so it’s the makeup of a good line. It just didn’t connect tonight.’’
Hall strong on the puck? He turned puck over twice on one shift!
And lost count how many times Hawks can't get puck out or turn over at their blue line.
"It didn’t work offensively tonight, but they had some good shifts in the ‘O’ zone,’’ Richardson said. ‘‘Taylor [Hall] gives them a little speed and [is] strong on the puck, ‘Bert’ is usually around that net and Connor is a playmaker, so it’s the makeup of a good line. It just didn’t connect tonight.’’
Hall strong on the puck? He turned puck over twice on one shift!
And lost count how many times Hawks can't get puck out or turn over at their blue line.
Hawkaholic
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All Hall does is hog the puck, skate fast down the wing, and puts bad angled shots on net. That's if he doesn't turn it over in his own zone or the neutral zone before he makes it to the offensive zone.
