Throwdown Lowdown – Blackhawks @ Blues 2-6-10

Eager: "BUT HE PUNCHED ME!" Ref: "Yeah, he was supposed to." Image via Red Light District, a Blackhawks blog on ChicagoNow.com

As most Sharks-Blues games are, Thursday’s match was a violent affair.  However, apart from rabbit-punches and other general pugilistic activities, there were no fights to report.  So the Blues stand at 5th in the NHL with 46 fights and that 21-13-12 fight record they’ve held on to since last Saturday.

This will be an abbreviated report, as we previewed the Chicago Blackhawks’ lack of fighting tendencies this past Wednesday.  Nothing has changed, so instead of rehashing everything I said then, we’ll just link to it here.  It contains all the possible fighters, all the stats, and everything else.  This is not to say that the Blackhawks lack physicality . . . I’m just saying that they don’t like to fight.  Sure, it makes my job easier . . . but this isn’t SUPPOSED to be this easy!

DJ King got his first action of the season on Thursday night and was well enough involved that he may get a repeat performance Saturday.  If that’s the case, expect him to point out a certain gentleman named Ben Eager and try to scrap with him.  If King isn’t in, Cam Janssen may be slotted back into the lineup and would do pretty much the same thing.  However, Eager doesn’t like to go with primary fighters . . . he usually battles with secondary fighters such as Brad Winchester or BJ Crombeen.  And this is irritating.  STEP ON UP, BEN!  Just as long as no one goes after Dustin Byfuglien, all is well.  That dude scares me.  And is it sad that I didn’t have to look up his name to spell it correctly?  That’s HOW MUCH he scares me.

The Note have a tendency to lose whenever I show up to watch them at the home barn.  For the sake of the team’s playoff push, let’s hope this “tradition” does not continue.

LET’S GO BLUES!!!!!

Information obtained via the incomparable Fried Chicken’s Hockey Fights