I expected so much more from him watching home well he played for the London Knights in Junior. Just one of those things I guess.

he went from 200th most to 110th most Goals in the NHL last night.

Chicago just doesn't like playing there 8-4 & 9-2... Ouch.

Russ1642: Wikipedia has the list of players with eight or more points in a game. (new window)

The crazy entry is the two Stasny brothers having an 8 point game in the same game.

WhyteRaven74: Russ1642: Wikipedia has the list of players with eight or more points in a game. (new window)

The crazy entry is the two Stasny brothers having an 8 point game in the same game.

or that Mario did it 3 times in ONE season.

the Blackhawks are pissing the holy fark out of me.

Un gagner etes vous!

More a sign of our shiatty goaltending than an indication of this guy's offensive brilliance. When your keeper makes farking Sam Gagner put up Lemieux stats, you know you've got problems.

nekom: WhyteRaven74: The crazy entry is the two Stasny brothers having an 8 point game in the same game.

Does anything know anything about that? Seemed unbelievable so I looked into it, This (new window) wiki page states that both Peter and Anton would set rookie records, each earning eight points in a game on February 22, 1981, leading Quebec to an 11-7 win over the Washington Capitals.

wat?

Assists are points too, and from what I can find:

Most Points, One Road Game



8 - Peter Stastny, Que., Feb. 22, 1981, at Was., 4 goals, 4 assists.

Que. 11, Was. 7.

- Anton Stastny, Que., Feb. 22, 1981, at Was., 3 goals, 5 assists.

detroitdoesntsuckthatbad: Chicago just doesn't like playing there 8-4 & 9-2... Ouch.

Or apparently starting a major league goalie.

Even as a Blackhawks fan I was hoping he'd get 9 or 10 in garbage time because cool shiat like that doesn't happen very often.

nekom: LucklessWonder: Assists are points too, and from what I can find:

Ahh that explains it. Didn't realize they counted assists. Still an impressive feat.

A few hockey stats clarified for the outsider:

Points = goals + assists

+/- = you get plus 1 for every even-strength or shorthanded goal your team scores while you're on the ice, and minus 1 for every even-strength or shorthanded goal the other team scores while you're on the ice.

PIM = minutes of penalty time assessed. May not correspond to amount of penalty times actually served, or to the amount of powerplay time that results.

GAA = goals allowed by a goaltender for every 60 minutes of ice time.

it really shows how the scoring in the league has gone down since the 80s, but it's good to see that it's still possible for crazy shiat to happen.

/why is there an evangelist on my tv??

farking hell, why did I miss this game?

Also, if he can put up consistent points over the next couple weeks, maybe he'll actually be the trade bait some folks are thinking he is. Question is, what do the Oilers get in return? No one's going to give up a blue chip d-man to get Gagner...

And also, the smiles in that pic of Gagner and Hallsy, that's the look of a couple guys who are going to get a ton of pussy...

WhyteRaven74: Russ1642: Wikipedia has the list of players with eight or more points in a game. (new window)

The crazy entry is the two Stasny brothers having an 8 point game in the same game.

Peter Stasny is probably the best non-Canadian to ever play in the NHL (and probably among the 10-best period). He was so good it was scary, almost to a Lemieux-Gretzky level. If he hadn't have lost so many years behind the Iron Curtain I have no doubt he'd be Top-5 All-Time in NHL scoring.

The way Crawford's been playing this season, I think third graders could score on his glove side with beach balls. Seriously, this guy is struggling mightily. I like him, but the Hawks will not go far in the playoffs with him in net.

That said, Gagner was a sight to be seen last night. Good on him.

Spare a point, buddy?

Rev.K: devioustrevor: Peter Stasny is probably the best non-Canadian to ever play in the NHL (and probably among the 10-best period).

Yet he never had a 50-goal season.

I'm not knocking him, I agree, he's extremely talented, but it's so weird to me that he never got 50 in a single season.

You need an illustration of how good he was. Look at the numbers he put up on some historically bad Quebec Nordiques teams. Quebec wasn't good until the last few years before moving to Denver when they had accumulated players like Sakic, Nolan, Sundin, Forsberg et al.

devioustrevor: Peter Stasny is probably the best non-Canadian to ever play in the NHL (and probably among the 10-best period).

This guy and his six Vezinas, two Harts, two Pearsons, three Jennings, six All-Star Games, two Cups, and Olympic gold medal might disagree.

hachijuhachi: The way Crawford's been playing this season, I think third graders could score on his glove side with beach balls. Seriously, this guy is struggling mightily. I like him, but the Hawks will not go far in the playoffs with him in net.

That said, Gagner was a sight to be seen last night. Good on him.

Yeah, Gagner was on fire last night. Crawford did let in some terrible goals, but I can't jump on the anti-Corey bandwagon just yet. He's a young goaltender who's going to have his ups and downs throughout the regular season, but I do think that the playoff run this year could be make or break for him and his confidence.

Remember though that in the latest games with the Wings and the Nucks (top of the league, and likely playoff opponents) he's put up good numbers and kept us in the games with some huge stops. If Schneider hadn't stood on his head on Tuesday the Hawks would have walked away with a W on the road in Vancouver.

Russ1642: Wikipedia has the list of players with eight or more points in a game. (new window)

So did the Stastny brothers each score 4 goals, while assisting his brother with his 4 goals to both tally 8 points in the February 22, 1981 game? I can't find a box score, but the Nordiques scored 11 goals in the game...

keylock71: Wow... Good for him. Sorry I missed that game.

Also sorry I had to watch the Bruins play another shiatty game against Carolina. Carolina The Whalers have never swept a season series against the Bruins until this year.

Get it together, boys!

They looked lost last night...and Tuukka was not his usual self.

TJWitz: Remember though that in the latest games with the Wings and the Nucks (top of the league, and likely playoff opponents) he's put up good numbers and kept us in the games with some huge stops. If Schneider hadn't stood on his head on Tuesday the Hawks would have walked away with a W on the road in Vancouver.

You're right. It just seems like Crow's off-nights are coming more frequently. In October he was consistently great. He's also generally lights-out in those ridiculous shootouts. I just think that if there's a time to go out and get a Miller (who, admittedly, hasn't had a great season) this is the time to do it. The Sabres are all but done. Miller's stock is probably at an all-time low at this point. If that guy gets hot, which isn't unlikely in a new situation with new d-men in front of him, that's a goalie who could take a team with the Hawks' firepower to a Cup win.

I was just pissed that I stayed up to the end of that VAN game. It was a great game, but the ending was a huge dick-stomp.

hachijuhachi: TJWitz: Remember though that in the latest games with the Wings and the Nucks (top of the league, and likely playoff opponents) he's put up good numbers and kept us in the games with some huge stops. If Schneider hadn't stood on his head on Tuesday the Hawks would have walked away with a W on the road in Vancouver.

You're right. It just seems like Crow's off-nights are coming more frequently. In October he was consistently great. He's also generally lights-out in those ridiculous shootouts. I just think that if there's a time to go out and get a Miller (who, admittedly, hasn't had a great season) this is the time to do it. The Sabres are all but done. Miller's stock is probably at an all-time low at this point. If that guy gets hot, which isn't unlikely in a new situation with new d-men in front of him, that's a goalie who could take a team with the Hawks' firepower to a Cup win.

I was just pissed that I stayed up to the end of that VAN game. It was a great game, but the ending was a huge dick-stomp.

Maybe it's just me but it seems like the Hawks' defense has not been helping either Crawford or Emery very much lately.

When they won the cup opposing teams were getting about 20 shots a game, and this year it seems that giving up 35 has been happening way too often.

hachijuhachi: I was just pissed that I stayed up to the end of that VAN game. It was a great game, but the ending was a huge dick-stomp.

god me too. Crawford was pretty good in that game. I had no idea Gagner was having such an awesome game last night, I turned the game off when they went down 6-4.

This Oiler fan is happy about Sam's gem of a game last night!

The Central is insanely good this season. 4 teams with 65+ points is unreal.

I'm all in favor of making the Oilers play the Blackhawks for every remaining game of the season. 'Tis the only way we make the playoffs at this point.