I was kinda happy for the Hawks to win since at least it was nice to see Hossa win the cup and I liked the more offensively inclined team winning since it usually puts the type of thoughts into General Managers heads that I want them thinking, but the Hawks' antics the past week have reminded me why I am not a fan of the Hawks. The whole whiteboard Pronger is gay thing, Burish's stupid comments(he sure is an irrelevant player, why is the media even talking to him?), even Kane's shit isn't very cute. However, I have the future to look forward to.
I've talked a few times with the fantasy people about how bad Chicago's cap situation is looking forward to next year - I'd have been shocked if they won one in the next three or four years if they didn't get this year's cup. Not expecting them to do nearly as well next year, but it'll be interesting to see how they play the next three weeks. The players might be celebrating, but the GM and friends better be working now if they want to go deep next year.
I'm posting mostly in NHL 11 news, since I know more than the four(three of us right now...) who play on the EASHL team player.
Lots of new features, there's finally a trailer out(
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/video/video.php?v=404578672389 on Facebook but I'll look for a link for the non-trendy kids later). We knew most of the stuff it tells us - broken sticks, completely new hitting engine and physics engine in the game in general, completely redone faceoffs which is good because its always been terrible, new dekes where you can do ridiculous things like jump over laying players, etc. Pausing the trailer in their stupid feature spam I noticed there are new celebrations now and also disallowed goals... which kinda worries me because I score quite a few that shouldn't count online, lol.