Q-Shot: Stan Bowman's Flawed Chicago Blackhawks 

The Yinzer speaks the truth

Hjalmarrson was the true #2 defensemen in Chicago.

Agree agree agree, now my daughter gets to start her love out the hawks just as i did, falling from the top and residing within the basement for years awaiting the right circumstances to attack suddenly and dominate for almost a decade

lol he's a lot nicer than you I could only imagine how hard you'd roast the Blackhawks in a lolcow video.

I mean you continuously burn the bolts badly.... i mean we try. Why burn!

well the 2010 cup is more "Mickey Mouse" like now but the other 2 cups to me are still legit. Obviously what happened in 2010 sucked but thank god it didn't happen in 2013 because I think 2013 was the best one out of the 3.

Would they have gotten Dahlin?

Marcus Galeano Jack Hughes

Cippy YT gotcha, confused on the years

How times change. Since the hawks have no hopes this year. I'll cheer you guys down south to go all the way. You guys are too good not to go all the way.

Amazing how a 62-16-4 team got swept.

the only one that actually did work was bringing back versteeg immediately after the 2013 cup.

The channel is pretty new. Soon this guy is gonna get the following he deserves.

I find this guy much funnier and knowledgeable than UrinatingTree tbh.

Give it time. It takes a good while to grow a channel organically and RU-vid is weird in terms of channel exposure. Give it a year or two of steady production and the numbers will rise as well.

He's UnderratedTree

this guy is way better

Khabibulin sucked

Keith and Seabrook have full no movement contracts. You aren’t releasing them😂

Chris Benoit They can be waived off if approved by them. And I can’t even believe that we are in the playoff race at all right now. Go Hawks!

Stephen Bailin you be careful with the yinzer already lurking in these comments

@@suckmypuck91 Nah, man, opinions are opinions. I don't have a problem with that thinking at all. And to be fair, he probably did do a better job than I would've done. So if anyone asks me to do a Blackhawks vid, I'll point them to this. Simple enough.

UrinatingTree true true, although you roasting the hawks would be hilarious. And sad.

These videos take a very long time to make. It is possible that he had finished the video before the trade happened.

haha! maybe next year dude

might33duck 😬😬😬

Fair point. He and Keith were put through the ringer over the years and miles can add up against premier talent. BUT.....I just felt that looking at his zone deployment, it was pretty alarming to see his possession numbers be that slanted at times when given "favorable" offensive zone starts. You look at a guy like Hjalmarsson's relative ratios and they may not look too hot, like Seabrook's. However, he was firmly planted in the defensive zone and it's easier to understand why the numbers may look that way, versus Seabrook's o-zone deployment. That's where I was coming from.

He’s not really making any arguments in the video just stating every bad move Bowman has made, regardless of why he was in the position of why he had to make it.

@John Sabp maybe the fact we lost tavares and are doing better, also mike milbury

“To be fair” *then completely sucks up to the man who has contributed to the team being worst in the league while only giving vague excuses*

Owen Wilson Wow Don’t At Me yeah vague excuses, as in bowman won 2 cups and should have won a 3rd in a cap system rigged to force him to gamble away quality players that he can’t fit under the cap. Yeah some of his gambles didn’t pay off, but that’s bound to happen. He deserves a chance to retool the team.

Eitan Ben Dor Let me make clear how much of an advocate I was when Q was fired about how we should be looking back at his legacy and his future and less about what this has to do with Bowman, I also questioned the level of his coaching in today’s NHL and what he’s done to young players, but Bowman has traded great AND shitty players away and we’ve only gotten shit in return, coaching changes happen all over the league and just happened in Detroit with a legend a few years ago only Bab left after the team hit rock bottom. Why should Bowman have a chance to retool the team if it’s his fault we’re the team *we are*? Open your eyes we’re the laughing stock of the league in dead last with LA because of where Bowman’s direction has led us. I tend to tell people they overeact the Seabs contract, if it were $2 Million lower no one would really bat an eye, but boy has both Keith and Seabrook both dropped off of their game, and Bowman traded away the true #2 defensemen in Hjalmarrsson, that was a horrible trade, Murphy looks like a possible top 4 but Hjalmarrsson meant so much more to this teams defense then the other 4 defensemen (besides Keith) COMBINED. It’s easy to see why Raanta looks like a number 1 goalie with the D in front of him, another player we got shit in return for. Bowman couldn’t predict Hossa’s retirement but he can’t salary dump to save his life, he’s given up Hino and Teuvo *FOR FREE*, you look at other teams that make salary dumps and they only lose *THAT ONE PLAYER*. Bowman feels he needs to sweeten every pot and then never gets a return at least of equal value. It’s so fucking stupid when teams are taking less value in other deals with worse returns! Bowman did not win those 2 cups, they all won them together, the players on the ice won those cups, more specifically the same group as in 2010, it wasn’t the depth it was the upfront talent, we have 4 lines of depth now but no top lines you need those players like Sharp, Hossa, Panarin, Teravainen, and I understand sometimes you have to trade players because of the cap, but GET EQUAL VALUE, WHY IS HE LOSING EVERY TRADE? I’m serious look at his trading record it’s sad. Let’s not forget it was Bowman who offered these deals that got us to cap hell, why the fuck did he sign Toews to a $10.5M contract when he’s never even seen 70 points? Toews wasn’t even the best player on his line HOSSA WAS. Why the fuck did you overpay Seabrook, don’t give me the “3 Cups” excuse because the entire team did that but as individuals he gave out contracts and should know they didn’t account for that percentage of the roster! These things aren’t gambles, don’t make trades for *gamble* players who are in the AHL that have potential, if they truly were going to be stars they wouldn’t be in the AHL, there are no high quality talents there so he should stop fucking trades for players in there. Trade for NHL level talent.

Chris Benoit I dunno man, Strome is pretty good 👌