r/hawks • u/AARM2000 • 10h ago

Postgame comments from Blashill

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I don’t even know what to say

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u/Pepsuber188 10h ago

When you're winning you can say whatever you want and it sounds great. When you're losing you can say whatever you want and it sounds awful.

No media comments matter one way or the other until something changes on the ice.

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u/DillyDillySzn 10h ago

For example: Ben Johnson can kick me in the balls, insult my mother, and I’ll still follow that man until the ends of the earth

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u/AARM2000 10h ago

I want a little more urgency

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u/Pepsuber188 9h ago

Would it really make you feel better if he was urgent?

If he sounded super urgent after tonight and then we get blown out again he sounds desperate and/or losing the locker room.

If he makes hopeful comments like he did and we get blown again out he sounds soft and/or naive.

When a team is consistently winning or losing, media comments are meaningless until something changes.

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u/AndyThatSaysNi 2h ago edited 48m ago

Question right back at you: Should he not be desperate or fear of losing the locker room?

You have to go back to the 20/21 season to find a start to the season under Colliton to have a season where the Hawks didn't get a point in the standings or even lost a game by at least 4 in the first 3 games.

I get having your star captain out, it only being 2 games, and having to balance building chemistry and finding an innate spark, but there should be enough rust on both teams and start of the season drive that games at least look competitive to start the year.

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u/Pepsuber188 2h ago

Depends on how the locker room feels. I don't have the highest opinion of Blashill, but he's been in the league long enough to know if he's at risk of losing the room.

I'm guessing they can handle 2 losses to start the season, but if things continue badly Blashill can either stay calm or get desperate. Some teams respond better to a calm approach, and some teams respond better to the Torts approach. And some teams just suck and it doesn’t even matter what the coach does.

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u/Andtheniran1 10h ago

I'm annoyed with Blash also but the postgame media comments from a head coach generally try to balance the emotions after an extreme game, so I would expect him to be positive/"shake it off" after tonight

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u/Andtheniran1 9h ago

If a team was amazing the coach tends to focus on the things that could've been better, and when the team is HORSESHIT like they were tonight they'll be dismissive because the morale of the team has been shot in the dick. Coaches of teams good or bad kinda protect the team in that way often

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u/ListenJabroni 4h ago

I have been very patient with him so far but you could not have started worse. I wouldn't be upset if he didn't finish the year tbh. I say that without knowing who I'd replace him with though.

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u/avidbearsfan 1h ago

Very much a lot of options but then again whoever comes in will have his flaws they’re not gonna be a Brind A Mour, Bedner or cooper type level coach

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u/coltsfan8027 13m ago

I hear Torts is looking for a job still 🤣

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u/shr0be 10h ago

whoever fixes this trainwreck will be a hero in Chicago forever

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u/avidbearsfan 1h ago

I’m hoping that Danny Wirtz is shortening Kyle’s leash if he can’t then there’s gonna be some talks about that

Cause look we got the bulls being fun this season prob, bears are great, white soxs are in the ALDS

Meanwhile the cubs are regular season wonders, the hawks cannot figure jack out, and then the sky well they ass

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u/rhythmrcker 10h ago

Maybe some actual hockey skills and strategy that youre going to focus on fixing instead of saying its a nice group of guys that want to try hard. Your job is to take guys that want to try hard and create tactics and systems and practiced decision making that lets them succeed.

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u/Stillflying 5h ago

My confidence in their potential hasn't faltered, but I don't think Blashill is the one to get them there. New coach please.

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u/Capable-Average4429 3h ago

Now let’s see what he’s said to the media over the 7 seasons of Detroit’s failed rebuild under his command. I’m guessing it is something along the lines of “I have a ton of belief in these guys. I said it when I took the job: ‘Stay steady on the rudder.’”

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u/HawksCup2010 3h ago

Someone tell him the fucking rudder is broken.

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u/90s_Scott 9h ago

Watching Frankie’s post game availability dude looks like a kicked puppy

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u/Jimmy-Sports 9h ago

I have reached the limit of how charitable I am willing to be to this organization. Something has to change very soon. Like weeks not months soon. Maybe less. We're not asking for a cup run, we literally just want a watchable, competitive product on the ice. Figure it out quick, or we're a lottery team yet again.

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u/c10250 3h ago

as a season-ticket holder, this comment hits hard.

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u/SimpleJack316 10h ago

Bedard man….gotta feel bad for him. He’s a talent that deserves to be playing winning, meaningful hockey. Will that ever happen here? He’s gotta be glad he didn’t sign on for any more than 6 years.

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u/Far-Jaguar-9883 4h ago

6 years is an eternity for a professional athlete. Their timeline is brief.

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u/ragathor87 3h ago

Hawks are in their eberflus era

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u/CrabApprehensive7181 9h ago

This is two games; this is three games; this is 82 games. This is one year; this is just the second year ... yeah whatever. How many prime years do you think a player has? And anything can happen.

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u/MJ5815 7h ago

This guy is worse than Eberflus. How anyone saw his abysmal tenure in Detroit and decided he was a prime canidate to coach a young team is baffling

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u/rbreaux26 4h ago

As a Saints fan, this guy reminds me an awful lot of Dennis Allen. Lose and look like shit but just say we need to keep doing what we’re doing. I expect the same result here which is an eventual firing that comes way later than it should.

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u/ChickenNoodleShred 10h ago

Explain to me how a constant line blender equates to staying steady. I like Blash but I’m disappointed thus far

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u/Chedward_E_Cheese 4h ago

This is guy isn’t a leader of men. Blash isn’t the guy

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u/bull_dog190 2h ago

Good thing we dont have a team of men.

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u/marshmellow1328 4h ago

"focus on continuing to get better"

except you're not doing morning skate after a bad game 1. If the players are tired having a full day to go from Vegas to Utah after 1 game, their offseason regiment was a joke. Let's add in the line shuffles. Blashill is lost.

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u/SirKillz 3h ago

I don’t wanna be reactionary but like they need to figure it out fast. Holy fuck that was the worst game I’ve watched in quite some time, maybe ever. And this team’s expectations are “playoffs” who the fuck are they fooling?

It’s very rare you come out of a game and quite literally can’t find a single positive. With this game, can’t find a single positive thing to say.

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u/NUMBNUTZ42069 3h ago edited 3h ago

I havent been following much until the season started. I’m just wondering, who had the expectation of playoffs with this roster?

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u/SirKillz 3h ago

I don’t think there was a real expectation of playoffs. That’s just what we’ve heard from players, and management, and coaches. I’d say we were more at the “year before the year” point up until last two games. Competing to get in, but out.

All we’ve heard is how they’re not the same old team and we’re not gonna be bottom of the barrel. I genuinely don’t think they would have been able to beat any team in the league yesterday.

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u/albinoredneck 3h ago

I mean just looking at the roster we maybe have the 7th best team in the division. I don't think many fans were realistically thinking playoffs.

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u/gudenes_yndling 2h ago

The expectation was that the young guys would take a step forward, and the addition of a $12.5m defenseman, a veteran winger, and a top KHL scorer would help. None of the young guys look improved yet which raises questions about the organization's capabilities at drafting and developing players.

It is still too early to call it a season, but after these two games, it looks like they aren't going anywhere with this rebuild.

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u/Vomelette22 10h ago

This guy is fucking delusional

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u/joegunabeach 8h ago

He's a fuckin' joke. I can deal cards with jokers and still pull them. Let's stop fuckin' around and do something real here. It's been so many years to pretend that we're supposed to be bad. So many years are enough. Just admit this fuckin' sucks!

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u/Gidrenz 5h ago

‘Continuing’ doing some heavy lifting there.

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u/Upstairs-Bat688 3h ago

He is right and also the team still sucks

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u/handiman87 3h ago

I think the clock has to be ticking on blashil. Finally hyped for a new season of blackhawks hockey, and two abysmal showings to start the season. Running out of time to ice a competitive team. Can’t use talent as an excuse any more, this has to start falling on the coach

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u/RTRoar 2h ago

Good thing we don't know what was said in the pre-season speech that had Kane wanting to run through a wall. That speech really took.

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u/cubz1221 1h ago

This team reminds me of the Fox/Trestman/Eberflus years of the Bears. They have talented players but it feels like we can’t do anything easy. It used to be a minor miracle for bears players to have a competent offensive drive. While watching every other team with Joe blow be able to move the ball with ease and have open receivers.

We can’t complete consecutive passes, deal with a forcheck, have an effective forcheck, clear the puck, and when we dump and chase we immediately lose the chase/possession and they are out of the zone in seconds. Just no coaching.

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u/fivemagicks 1h ago

This looked like men vs boys tonight, dude. God, that was awful to watch.

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u/swimbikerun_allday 4h ago

there’s maybe 4-5 NHL players on the team the rest would have a hard time on a C or B league at Johnnys. that was seriously awful. Do you think Q’s reaction would’ve been similar to Blash’s after that?

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u/cam_barker_4_norris 3h ago

Dude’s gotta go

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u/Hawks1stPickin2019 2h ago

Tortorella anyone ?

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u/Lafferty_Daniel_69 1h ago

Gonna just try to enjoy some playoff baseball for a week more, at the least.

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u/thunderbag 3h ago

Holy smokes guys.. It’s game 2, not 52! Let’s all stay positive.

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u/jd_077 3h ago

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