Sharp update
Posted by TimS on Tue, 04/07/2009 - 18:08
According to a source close to the Blackhawks, Patrick Sharp will be ready to play in Game 1 of the playoffs next week.
There's even a chance Sharp may try to play this weekend in one of the Detroit games.
Sharp suffered a laceration to his leg in last Friday's collision with Nashville goalie Pekka Rinne. He apparently did not re-injure the knee that kept him out of 16 games earlier.
The Hawks are saying nothing publicly about the specifics of Sharp's injury or when he might return.
I know times are tough for newspapers. I also know that the DH is not going to send Sassone to all or many regular season road games. Newspapers everywhere are cutting not only travel budgets for beat reporters, but the reporters themselves.
But for the supposed third major daily in the Chicago area, the coverage of road games and after road games stinks. Slapping up AP copy as the only content is not only lazy, but it gives us absolutely no reason to go to the Daily Herald for any coverage. It's a sad day when readers have to rely on the comments from people like Real Wiz and ChicoHawk for an attempt at hockey acumen.
Tim and your editors, do you realize the AP stuff you post is available on tens of thousands of outlets across the web? Do you have any type of plan, strategic or otherwise, on getting local sports fans to come back to your web site for any insight and news? Why not supplement your AP copy with a sidebar, a notebook, and meaningful blogging (in-game, post-game, whatever)?
The Tribune is bankrupt and they sent Kuc to Nashville, and the Sun-Times sent Ziehm, or at least that's what their columns lead us to believe.
So c'mon, let's get a little creative with ways for fresh, insightful content on the Blackhawks, even stuff that won't cost the Daily Herald one extra cent to provide.
Feel free to contact my editors and they will explain the situation to you. Thanks.
Newspapers have been supplementing beat coverage with wire reports for years. They all do it. And i will also say Tim is easily the most prolific of all the Hawk beat writers. Find something better to complain about.
Dude, read again what I wrote. It's not the supplementing that I was calling into question. It's that it's the final week of the season and the ONLY thing the Daily Herald had was AP copy. That's pitiful. You and I agree that "Tim is easily the most prolific of all the Hawk beat writers." That's why it's so ridiculous that Tom Quinlan, or whoever is running things these days, doesn't use a resource like Tim to provide strong content even when he can't travel to road games.
Maybe it has something to do with needing to pay Tim extra or some union rules or whatever. But the only ways local papers have any hope of survival, even with web-only readers, is to provide fresh local content that will draw eyeballs and mouse clicks. Having AP copy be your only source of content after a game for a playoff-bound team that's having a renaissance year and has sold out every game is inexcusable.
Thanks for explaining
but is wallowing in their blues. Their post mortem likely was the loss against Chicago last night.
Wondering how a healthy Pred's team stacks up against the leaue next year. Don't necessarily see Frandson coming aboad, but Colin Wilson should help provide a second scoring line? Wilson should work on his skating this summer. R Jones and Hornqvist should be able to provide more to the team's success as well. Would the team move Ellis and look to add a veteran gaolkeeper? Probably not, as Ellis will make as much or lesss than the veteran netminder? Other draftees that show promise, are not ready for NHL. No chance for Radulov return? Will Sullivan avoid injury?
Time for some of their young blueline crew to step up. The year's worth of experience should make this group even better. Woe upon the league's players whom block his cannon shot. Woebegoten, too, should S Weber take large strides in develoment as in overall consistency and becoming a shut down guy...which he probably won't do just yet, but continues to improve is likely and is key for him.
Tim...great news. Sharpie one of the key snipers we need to have a good playoff. So glad he didn't tweak any ligaments or reinjure the knee that kept him out for that long spell recently.