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Warriors at Mission Bay: Prop B height limits wins by a wide margin no new buildings unless voters approve

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by Jerry Feitelberg

San Francisco Proposition B the measure that restricts any new construction and buildings on San Francisco’s Waterfront won by 18 points 59 percent to 41 percent and will only allow new construction for buildings over 40 feet unless voters approve. If the measure had lost the San Francisco Giants who wanted to build condos and retail on Parking Lot A at AT&T Park would have more than likely been able to proceed with construction with little interference. Ideas for new construction would have been able to move forward without the public’s approval.

The measure was reported losing after polls closed at 7:00PM and there was not much hope for a Prop B defeat after absentee ballots were all counted at the close of the polls. Former San Francisco Mayor Art Agnos who campaigned for Prop B and was saying all along that height limits would protect the beauty of the Waterfront Embarcadero and also would give the city those traditional views of the bay, the Mayor Willie Brown Bay Bridge, and the greater East Bay.

The Golden State Warriors who originally wanted to build their dream arena at Piers 30-32 and realized that the Waterfront neighborhood didn’t want the NBA team as a new neighbor with the new arena and a tower of condos, hotels and retail and later settled for some Mission Bay property where they’ll build a new arena. The new arena at Mission Bay was met with virtually no opposition from Agnos or the Sierra Club.

Jerry Feitelberg is covering the arena developments for Golden State Warriors and Sacramento Kings for http://www.sportsradioservice.com

Michael Duca on A’s and Giants;Comparisons of 74 A’s to 02 Moneyball team;If Giants Morse can get healthy he can be a big bopper

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by Michael Duca

Oakland A’s update: It’s pretty simple and straight forward that 40 years ago when the 1974 Oakland A’s won their third and final straight championship. Author Michael Lewis who wrote Moneyball would have been eight years old and it wouldn’t have been pretty much of a book to read if your comparing the 1974 A’s versus the 2002 team who won 20 straight games that season. You can’t write something until you get the idea and develop the idea.

I’m not sure it would have made a lot of sense for Lewis who spent a full year at the Coliseum and survived sitting with us over on the broadcasters side in the press box for a full season and still managed to write coherently about the subject. You can’t you do that about a team that played 25-27 years earlier. Your going to get unfortunately and it is human nature, the 1974 team is gonna feel like they were slighted. The 74 team held a reunion at the Colisuem last Saturday night.

That 74 team feels slighted because they didn’t get the credit that they desereved when things aren’t done the same way, that they didn’t get the credit that they deserved no matter what because there simply wasn’t the credit to be given then. Baseball was on TV on Saturday hence NBC’s Baseball game of the week. The local broadcast package was not something that the A’s had.

The 74 A’s never had a chance to get the recongnition that the teams do today, people who know baseball know that dynasty who won three straight World Series. The 74 A’s is as good a group of baseball players as anyone alive today has seen, because nobody alive today would remember those great Yankees teams from the 20s, 30s, and 40s. Most of us didn’t see them and can’t because there’s no TV clips from those days.

SF Giants update: Michael Morse the Giants outfielder’s key is to stay healthy, he’s been interupted by nagging irritating injuries for large portions of his career and I’m pretty sure that he doesn’t know the reason for that any better than anyone else or he would have avoided them. It’s not that Morse is a reckless player.

Morse doesn’t do the head first slide that put the Rockies Nolan Arenado on the disabled list for six weeks, he plays the game the right way, he plays the game striaght up but manages to get hurt a lot. If Morse can stay healthy he could end up hitting 25-27 home runs, he can drive in over 100 runs. Morse can be a linchpin for the team.

It will be surprising if Morse can make the All-Star team simply because there’s that silly requirment that every team has to have a player on the team. Your going to wind up usually taking a good outfielder from a bad team and there’s usually three or four bad teams and that pretty much fills up your outfield bench. So guys who don’t get voted in, in the first three outfielders, you usually see a significant drop off in talent once you get past them.

Michael Duca covers the Giants and A’s for http://www.sportsradioservice.com

That’s Amaury’s News and Commentary: In the Southland their raising the roof for the Kings in the finals

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by Amaury Pi Gonzalez

LOS ANGELES–It is hard to believe that the Los Angeles Kings won in that seventh game on Sunday night in Chicago. The San Jose Sharks who had the Kings on the ropes in round one and lost in four don’t want to hear that. I hate to say this because I live in the Bay Area although I work in L.A. but there is something to be said about this but it looks like the stars are aligned for the Kings.

The Kings might go all the way, they have won against all odds and they were on the verge of elimination by the Sharks and here they are and now their going to the Stanley Cup Finals. The Kings won last in 2012 for the Stanley Cup and they might win it again as they start game one here in L.A. on Wednesday night.

Everything is happening for the Kings, this is what makes sports fascinating, here’s a team that was on the precipice to being eliminated three weeks ago by the Sharks now their going to the big dance. So this might be another L.A.Kings year in 2014. The Kings have more lives than a cat they were almost killed off in each of the three rounds against the Sharks, Ducks, Blackhawks and lived to play in the finals.

Imagine that your on the Kings right now they feel like they can beat anybody right now, bring on the Russian team, bring on the Olympic team, they don’t care, but hopefully they don’t take it to the point of complacency. The Kings right now are the team that feels like if they show up and their going to win.

California Chrome ready for Belmont Preakness: The name California Chrome sounds like a old Chevy Impala and it’s such a great name and I’m not a horse aficionado but I read a lot about it. Now that they’re allowing CA Chrome to wear the breathing strip on the bridge of his nose he looks like he might be the first Triple Crown winner since 1978 this Saturday.

There are 40 million people who will either be tuned in on radio or watching this race on Saturday, it will be a widely watched event one of the biggest horse races in recent history. With a name like California Chrome how can you go wrong with a name like that.

When I first heard about CA Chrome’s breathing device you couldn’t help but think do horses go to sleep with that on strip on like humans? I never heard of such a thing but this is the ultimate betting sport and a lot of people’s money is riding on Saturday’s Belmont race and are betting on CA Chrome to win.

By the way I met the jockey for CA Chrome his name is Victor Espinoza and he threw out the first ball at Angels Stadium in Anaheim about a couple weeks ago right after he won the second race. Espinoza is a little guy who is going to be inducted into the Horse Jockey Hall of Fame.

So CA Chrome has a great jockey and a great horse and he has a good chance to win it and it looks like he’s the favorite and should win it barring any surprises for the Triple Crown for California Chrome.

Amaury Pi Gonzalez is the Spanish TV voice for Angels baseball and does News and Commentary each week for http://www.sportsradioservice.com

NHL Stanley Cup Finals: Kings are in survival mode as they open up against Rangers on Wednesday

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by Larry Leavitt

NY Rangers @ Los Angeles: Who’s got the easier schedule? Obviously the Rangers closed out early and are getting healthy while the Kings were in Chicago for their game seven and playing the Chicago Blackhawks during their down time. So if you give the tilt of the scales towards the health side to the Rangers as they’ve been resting and relaxing waiting to find out who beat up each other.

The Kings just completed their third game seven that they won all on the road, their used to this amount of play. The Blackhawks are a very physical team and it didn’t seem like anyone got overly hurt. Of the Hawks and Kings it looked like the Kings were the ones who got the worst of the hits.

The one who got the worst hit was the Kings Drew Doughty, he might have actually reinjured his shoulder. Doughty kept playing but that would be the question mark would Doughty be healthy enough to continue this series? He’s going to play no matter what but don’t be surprised afterwards if he had a shoulder separation or something that was wrong with his shoulder which happened at the end of the season.

The first game will be played Wednesday night at Staples Center in L.A. and the Kings have a tremendous crowd, they’ll be loud, and pulling for the Kings.The Kings are in one of the bigger markets in the U.S. L.A. which behind New York at number two. This is what the NHL wanted as far as getting people to watch and having two big names in it. Most people would say that the west coast teams have the tougher competition and therefore had to go through a lot more to get to the finals.

The Kings in this instance would have the edge as far as their level of play, but those New York Rangers you can’t count them out they’re a good team. The Rangers are peaking at the right time and their playing real well together. It’s a team sport and they are playing well together and are doing the right things.

If you were going to pick who was going to make it on goaltending alone the Rangers Hendrik Lundqvist has been really hot lately and the Kings goalie Jonathan Quick has let some mediocre goals go in and they’ve been really bad. He’s had some good games but not as his standards have been.

Regarding overtime, it’s funny in series one, two and three, you see somebody have a lot of pressure on the offensive zone and your not really worried about it because they got time to react and to recover. Overtime is sudden death and as soon as the goal goes in it’s over. Every time a team was on offensive you were glued to the set because this could be the play.

The Blackhawks looked like they had more offensive zone timing than the Kings did but the Kings got the lucky break and you have to feel sorry for the Hawks goalie Corey Crawford it was not that he couldn’t see the puck. It was deflected in, and he was playing the shot and it got deflected off one of his own players. It happens it’s not Crawford’s fault but it got L.A. into the finals.

Larry Leavitt is covering the NHL Stanley Cup Finals for http://www.sportsradioservice.com

NBA Finals report: Expect tight ball games with coaches Pop and Spo with X’s and O’s

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by David Zizmor

San Antonio vs. Miami: At the beginning of this season we were all talking about that great finals last year between the Spurs and the Heat that went seven games and saw the Spurs lose it on a missed shot by Tim Duncan with only seconds left in game seven, giving the Heat their second title in three years for back to back titles.

It was a fantastic series the best in years and the same two teams are back again. The whole season long we thought that the Spurs and Heat were on a collision course and low and behold here they are facing each other again. This should be a great match, you have the Heat’s LeBron James the best player in the game.

You have the Spurs head coach Grep Popovich the best coach in the game and you have one of the best teams in NBA history in the Spurs a team that made the playoffs for 15 straight years. The Spurs have won four titles and they just keep putting together great runs. This is a team that everybody would have thought would have faded by now as Tim Duncan got older.

Just because Duncan is older doesn’t mean he’s not effective and that’s what we’ve seen so far. Popovich has done a great job managing Duncan’s time and allowed him to rest as much as possible for a 39 year old. That has kept Duncan fairly effective here in the late going this season.

You would figure after 82 regular season games, 12 playoff wins, that Duncan, Tony Parker, and Manu Ginobili are all guys who have been around the block a few times. They might be a little bit tired but no, these guys are still playing great basketball and more importantly their getting contributions from other players on this team.

Most notably Kawhi Leonard who has just been fantastic for the Spurs, your really seeing him come into his own this year which is exactly what the Spurs needed to continue being one of the top teams this year. On the flip side of the ball the Heat what can you say about LeBron that hasn’t already been said. The guy’s the best player in the league, even though he didn’t win the MVP this year.

The Heat’s Dwayne Wade has been very good, Chris Bosh has been coming on as of late, and they have a great supporting cast that really knows their role and Heat head coach Eric Spoelstra doesn’t get the high praise that Popovich does but you don’t make four finals in the row without being a good coach. It’s be a series of strategy and skill and Spoelstra and Popovich will be those wizards behind the Heat and Spurs curtains.

David Zizmor is covering the NBA Finals for http://www.sportsradioservice.com

NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs: With the Rangers off to the Finals Hawks making a comeback against LA

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by Larry Leavitt

New York Rangers in the Stanley Cup Finals: There are multiple ways you could look at this last series that the Rangers won in six games. The Rangers came out firing on all cylinders with a very strong game, Rangers goalie Henrik Lundqvist was making some amazing saves. The score in game six could have been 5 or 6-0, but it was a Ranger one goal win over the Montreal Candadiens 1-0.

The true love of the sport and the best feeling of the game was having of all people the Rangers center Dominic Moore a former San Jose Shark score the game winning goal and the only goal for the Rangers to help them go onto the finals. Moore when he was with San Jose found out that his wife had cancer and missed the playoffs because they were taking care of his wife.

Moore left hockey after a year she passed away and finally came back into hockey and got back with the Rangers and what a Cinderella story for Moore and you couldn’t be happier for the guy who really went through some trials and tribulations in his personal life, hockey life and now he’s on top of the world getting that game winning goal to help New York get into the finals.

For the Rangers it’s huge that they are in the Stanley Cup Finals, the NHL offices are right there in New York and New York is the major metropolitan communications center for sports and of course the number one TV market in the U.S. let alone the world. The Rangers haven’t been in the finals since 1993 whiich they won against the L.A. Kings.

Chicago (3) vs. Los Angeles (3): The Chicago Blackhawks evened up the series 3-3 on Friday night against the Los Angeles Kings with a one goal win 4-3 in game six forcing a game seven which will be Sunday night in Chicago that will decide who will go to the Stanley Cup Finals. The Hawks have now won two striaght after losing three straight and falling 3-1 in the series only to even it up on Friday.

The Hawks have come back strong, they never took a shift off, and the Kings had their chances, they had with their shots and they couldn’t find the back of the net, the Kings out shot the Hawks 29-25.This game six was razor thin one goal win for Chicago, just getting by the Kings again. Game five the game that sparked Chicago and got them their mojo back was one of the best hockey games I’ve ever seen and I’ve seen a few decades worth in my time.

The Hawks won in double over time in game five 5-4 and it didn’t matter what teams were playing but just watching the two teams at work, the engery of the sport, they said the 20 minute third period took 26 minutes because they had few stoppages of plays because of whistles. The on ice officals were letting them play the Kings and Hawks were going back and forth and each team had chances and I didn’t want to see it end.

In game five the star of the game was the Hawks Michal Handzus who scored the game winning goal in that second overtime for his fourth goal of the playoffs. This was the game that got the Hawks right back into this series and they tied this thing up in game six on Friday night without forcing a sudden death and yes a one goal victory to bring this to a game seven on Sunday.

Larry Leavitt is covering the Stanley Cup Finals for http://www.sportsradioservice.com

NBA Playoffs: Home floor great advantage for host OKC;Heat could put it away tonite in game six

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by David Zizmor

San Antonio (3) vs. Oklahoma City (2): It’s not a coinindence that the Spurs won on Thursday night 117-89 in game five and they were at home. Every home team have won in this series and this is the continuing trend, there also have been some adjustments that the Spurs made. Obviously they play much better at home that’s usually the key in the NBA home court advantage is a very big deal.

One of the problems that the Spurs have been having in the last few games since OKC’s Serge Ibaka came back is containing him. If you watched games three and four when Ibaka came back and OKC had home court advantage what you saw was not only does San Antonio have trouble containing him on offense but also because he’s a big guy with good moves down low.

The Spurs have trouble trying to stop him on offense and defensive glass they had trouble getting around his defensive presence and that really altered the way the Spurs played and it kind of just limited them especially on defense. Ibaka is really good before he was blocking shots left and right. The Spurs needed a way to get around him to move him around not just on offense but on defense.

This is what the Spurs did and OKC didn’t expect it, the Spurs put Matt Bonner at center and put Tiago Splitter in and Splitter played about 12 mintues. He’s not a key player for the Spurs he’s been typically their starter because he’s a big guy he’s a center and Bonner is not your typical center and plays power forward. The Spurs and Thunder go at it again on Saturday for game six.

Miami (3) vs. Indiana (2): The Heat let up a little bit in game five losing 93-90 and obviously the Pacers had home court advantage and that helped them right there. The Pacers fans have been just amazing, they’re very knowledgeable than any fans in the NBA and they really legitimately hate the Miami Heat. This has been building up in this series all along so there is just a lot of emotion involved.

When your playing on that floor in Indianapolis a lot of that washes down on the players and it definitely engergizes Indiana and it impacts the Heat too. Even with all that in their favor the Pacers are still only able to win by three points and that was after a mediocre game from the Heat. The Pacers had their shot and they kind of blew it.

Earlier in this series the Pacers had a little bit of momentum going in after that first win and they really had Miami on the ropes in game two but then they let Miami get back in and pull out the victory. If the Pacers were able to pull off that game two victory and go back to Miami with a two game lead that would have been huge.

A Pacers victory would have changed the face of this series but instead they split it and the Heat took two in Miami. The Heat have a 3-2 lead going into Saturday night’s game, it’s questionable now if the Pacers have the fire power, the consistency to win any more games in Miami and this is where game six is on Friday night.

David Zizmor is covering the NBA Playoffs for http://www.sportsradioservice.com

Michael Duca on the A’s and Giants: Donaldson is turning out to be the A’s gamer;The Giants Panda is back with improved average

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by Michael Duca

OAKLAND–I was right down on the field when Josh Donaldson hit his walk off homerun on Wednesday night at the Coliseum in the A’s 3-1 win and I had mentioned to somebody standing next to me that the bottom of the ninth was not going to be quick and easy just because the Tigers pitcher Anibal Sanchez had thrown a lot of pitches. Sanchez had 104 and the A’s Coco Crisp worked the count on Sanchez for awhile and hit a ball down the third base line for a double.

Tigers Manager Brad Ausmus came out and replaced Sanchez with relief pitcher Joe Nathan whose scuffled this year, he brought an ERA of 4.58 into the game and if your closer has an ERA like that you’ve given up a lot of runs. There was a long at bat by the A’s John Jaso that resulted in an opposite field ball that hit off Tigers third baseman Nick Castellanos’ glove to put runners on first and third.

With one out the Tigers were looking for the double play and Nathan tried to sneak a first pitch sinker in that didn’t sink and Donaldson went yard with it. The most excited guy was A’s pitcher Scott Kazmir who was in danger with a terrible loss at 1-0 after pitching a brilliant game out there.

Sanchez painted the strike zone beautifully, his fastball was clocked at 94-95 but he was moving it in and out, he was able to back off just a little bit and then he threw it at 91-92, he was not finding the strike zone and Sanchez is not a really tall pitcher and plate umpire was Jerry Meals who is about 5’6 and that by defintition is when your sight changes, his visual has his eyes starting lower so the strike zone is going to be a little bit lower.

SF Giants update: Giants pitcher Tim Lincecum who pitched five innings of no hit ball against the Cubs on Tuesday afternoon at AT&T was lifted he could have pitched maybe one more inning and he had 94 pitches, with 32 pitches in the first inning, and in that inning he had absolutely no command of the first inning and Timmy had no idea where the ball was going.

Despite the result SF won it 5-0 and Lincecum was able to fight and figure out ways to win games when doesn’t bring his best stuff out to the mound with him. The fact of the matter he still is mechanically out of whack. He’s not leaning forward into the pitches. He’s not pushing his upper body forward into the target.

If Lincecum can find a way to quickly correct that things will go well because he’s clearly becoming more and more of a pitcher and less and less of a thrower. However you have to be concerned about back to back outings like he’s had and he’s throwing a ton of pitches and this is a guy whose walked three hitters in his first three starts this year. Now Lincecum has 35 walks, the Giants have to be worried about that he averaging more and he’s walked 11 batters in nine innings his last two outtings.

As far as Giants third baseman Pablo Sandoval is concerned the Panda is back, there’s just no two ways about it, the Panda is back, that guy who was occupying his uniform for the first month of the season and hitting .166 and working counts and looking like he was struggling on every swing, has been replaced by the original article.

Sandoval is aggressively swinging at anything that is within the same time zone as home plate, you can’t be a good bad ball hitter and all of sudden be a good select ball hitter. There were a lot of people happy to see that Sandoval worked 13 walks in the first month and half of the season. Sandoval is now hitting .246 an improvement since April.

Michael Duca does commentary each week on the A’s and Giants for http://www.sportsradioservice.com

Warriors arena at Mission Bay: Potential voters for Prop B most likely no shows on election day

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by Jerry Feitelberg

The poll takers have asked around and when the question comes up about San Francisco Propositon B the intitiative that seek height limits on San Francisco’s Waterfront those taking the polls get a surprise in the previous weeks, but not so much a surprise now. The response has been some won’t be coming down to their local polling place and vote for the measure.

Pollsters have reported that ever since the Golden State Warriors opted out of building at Piers 30-32 at the Embarcadero that was satifactory to the pro B voters and they have figured why bother. Recent polls have shown that Prop B is losing by as much as 5-9 points ever since the W’s said they were going to build their new arena at Mission Bay the team’s second choice.

Before the Warriors Mission Bay arena announcement it looked like Prop B was going to win hands down after neighborhood groups rallied to City Hall to get the amendment on the ballot but now that all has changed and voters or enough of them have said they won’t attend the yes on Prop B voting campaign this coming Tuesday.

Also if the trend on elections is correct on off season elections one out of four of the electorate will not show up. Both sides of the Prop B fight have seen huge campaign donations pour into what might be one of San Francisco’s most important and conroversial elections in recent memory. A lot is riding on Prop B from both sides, for those in favor of the measure such as the Sierra Club, former San Francisco Mayor Art Agnos, former San Francisco Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin and the greater Waterfront neighborhood who don’t want to see high rise development unless voter approved that stretches from the Ferry Buiding to Pier 70 in the Dog Patch district of the city the measure if passed means protection for their views of the Bay, the Bridge and the East Bay.

Mission Bay development for the Warriors was not going to be an objection with the Yes on B campaign as it’s further away enough that it won’t block the Bay views that the neighborhood wanted to protect. Meanwhile the No on B campaign lead by Bruce Agid a community advocate who appears on a number of TV ads is a energy consultant who also had a stint with PG&E said in the ad that Prop B is a ” political free for all” he said that the measure would open up loop holes that developers can use to avoid environmental regulations.

Agid says that Prop B which restricts height limitations on the waterfront would reduce support for transportation, open space, and affordable housing. Former Mayor Agnos questioned the Warriors at the time of the planning at Piers 30-32 about affordable housing and would there be any at all when Golden State proposed building retail and condo towers across the street from the new arena at the piers.

The argument of developer restrictions on the No side goes mainly to the side of development that would be profitable for the city translating jobs, retail, condos, transportation and the like but no arena where the Warriors originally wanted it by Piers 30-32 because of their committment to Mission Bay. If Prop B loses and as of this writing it’s behind in the polls the Waterfront could be a development mecca and a backfire to what it’s writers originally intended it for to protect over development.

It would ironically leave the Warriors out of the picture because they’re committed at Mission Bay and businesses like the San Francisco Giants can develop on Parking lot A where they have plans for retail and a retail village near the AT&T site and a full retail development at Piers 70 as proposed by Forest City Development, without height restrictions there will be free reign and it’s all because voters thought that Prop B was delivered once the Warriors backed off from Piers 30-32.

The Yes on B folks say that if the measure loses it will be a developmental free for all at the Embarcadero. One things for certain free for all indeed.

Jerry Feitelberg is covering the Golden State Warriors and Sacramento Kings arena developments for http://www.sportsradioservice.com

NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs: Habs get a breath of life in game five win head back to MSG;Hawks pinned to the mat with Kings counting down

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by Larry Leavitt

Montreal vs. NY Rangers: On Tuesday night in game five to trail by just one game 3-2 the Montreal Canadiens played one of their best games at this point in this best of seven series with a 7-4 win over the New York Rangers at the Bell Centre in Montreal. The Habs ended up giving up a three goal lead in the second period when it literally looked like a tennis match going back and forth, it’s amazing how quiet the Bell Centre got in the middle of the second period.

Then how loud it got in the third period when the Habs scored two goals to pull away, there were some really poor goaltending in the second period there were some lucky goals but that’s part of winning the Stanley Cup you have to have some luck with you and get some lucky bounces. Some of those goals deflecting off the skate and purely destroying the puck at the net.

Some of the goaltenders (there were three, two for NYR and one for the Habs) they really should have stopped some of those shots and some were some great shots. You had a little of everything and the Habs had to come back and they had a little of everything to make it happen. The physicality and the hitting folks in this series has helped Montreal make the difference this thing is not over.

The Canadiens Rene Bourque who scored a hat trick on Tuesday night was spectacular and if Montreal can get that out of a player whose scored nine goals all season and here he is in the playoffs and he’s got seven goals so far he’s really lifted his game.

That little spark is going to help people like, Max Pacioretty who hasn’t really had his game lifted and hasn’t been the All-Star that he should be, he scored his fifth goal of the Stanley Cup on Tuesday night. There is more potential in him and he’s going to have a good game and he should be looking forward to the next game and this will lift the team and it will show they have the attitude, they have the drive, they can do it they had some really good goaltending from Dustin Tokarski.

Los Angeles vs. Chicago: The Kings who are just one game away from putting this one away leading the Chicago Blackhawks 3-1, the Kings are actually showing that they can dominate a team. The Hawks just kind of folded after winning game one, they just disappeared but there’s no doubt about it the Hawks have the depth to make this a series and they have the talent.

It’s just the Kings absolutley controled them and showed them whose the boss in this series. The Kings just displayed all facets of the game which just took over. The Kings goalie Jonathan Quick did a fantastic job, tough, great passing, he played a great game and the Kings are playing a great game of hockey right now and their going to be very hard to beat.

What the Hawks have to do right now is pull themselves into a room and say “look guys we obviously didn’t play our best game we have much better games in us let’s go back to where we were and let’s go back to what won us Stanley Cups in the past, let’s go back to playing Blackhawks hockey, let’s play our game, let’s beat this goal but not to the point that it takes us out of our play, let’s get our passing down, let’s get our rushes together.”

The Hawks just didn’t look like they were on the same page as far as the game plan, their last game in which they lost by three goals in game four. If the Hawks head coach Joel Quenneville can settle them down and make a new list and remind these guys they have been there before, they just need to stop and reset their game plan. We’ll see how this all works out as the Hawks and Kings match up for game five at the United Center in Chicago Wednesday night.

Larry Leavitt is covering the NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs for http://www.sportsradioservice.com