1. Marian Hossa isnt this bad. Hossa has 2 goals. That is good enough to rank 9th on the hawks in the playoffs. Yes, Hossa has 9 assists but the hawks didnt pay him ubber money to rack up assists. Besides his overtime winner (which was obviously was huge), name me another play he has collected a point on? He has to show this series. He is here to score goals. He has 51 shots which is good for 2nd on the team in the playoffs. The goals will go in and he will a force finally in this series.
2. Who hasnt the hawks defense stopped? Sedin twins = non factor. Sharks top line that was the #1 line for the gold winning team canada had to be split up best 2 of the 3 forwards were non-factors. The top forwards of the flyers will be seeing keith and seabrook a whole lot which means the goal light wont be going off for the flyers.
3. 1-2-3-4 score. Yes, the matchup of byfuglien vs. pronger will be a great battle in front. Maybe pronger can stop the hawks 1st line of toews-kane-buff. But, the flyers only really go 4 deep on defense. Im assuming that pronger and his partner will be out there when the hawks 1st line is on the ice and the second pair of flyers dmen will be out there when hossa-sharp-brower step on the ice. Even if the flyers vaunted defense can stop those 2 lines, the hawks will come out on top. The hawks 3rd line of bolland-versteeg-ladd and their 4th line of eager-burish-madden have scored all season and the flyers just simply dont have enough depth on defense to stop all 4 hawks lines. I would look for big scoring from the 3rd and 4th lines in this series. Ane with that I'm picking Kris Versteeg as the Hawks MVP of this series. Not only will he do a great job with the rest of his linemates containing the Flyers' top offensive line but he will have 6+ pts.
Hawks in 6!
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