Faxes from Uncle Dale

Author: Sam Fels

  • Postgame Discussion Thread

    Hey, so all of us ended up with commitments tonight and couldn’t really provide a wrap that wouldn’t be utter bullshit. Whatever, that makes us 39 of 40 this year. So discuss all the goings on here, and we’ll be back tomorrow.

  • Dr. Quenneville (Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Goalie Situation….Or At Least Not Hate It)

    Dr. Quenneville (Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Goalie Situation….Or At Least Not Hate It)

    Gotten a little bored of doing some of our recurring posts, when we’ve even had time to get to them, so today I’m just going to spit out whatever’s rattling around in my freshly-shorn scalp at the moment.

    So let’s start with what I’ve been most vocal about, and that’s the goalies. It’s funny, it was perfectly encapsulated by a discussion that was had during the afternoon transition on The Score 670 between Dan McNeil and Dan Bernstein.

    I know a lot of you hate both of them, and I understand why. And in full disclosure, they’re both friends of mine and have been for a while. But today they illustrated how this Crawford-Emery debate is actually two different debates that only have a little to do with each other.

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  • Hawks at Wild 3rd Period Thread

    Runnin’ from the sun again, it’s alright, alright
    Runnin’ from the dreams you seem to lose
    You’ve been runnin’ for awhile, awhile…
    You can’t slow down…

  • Hawks at Wild 2nd Period Thread

    Starin’ at the wall like it’s a window, don’t know
    Blinded by the dreams you seem to lose.
    You’ve been starin’ for a while, knock it down
    Starin’ at the wall, you don’t know, don’t know…

  • Hawks at Wild 1st Period Thread

    Standin’ on the ceiling babe, it’s alright
    Suspended by the dreams you seem to lose
    You been floatin’ for awhile, awhile, can’t hold on
    Standin’ on the ceiling baby, it’s alright, it’s alright

  • I Am The Smart, S-M-R-T: Hawks at Wild Preview/Pregame Thread/Obedience School

    Hawk Wrestler v. Zakk-Wylde-by-Ivan-Chopik

    FACEOFF: 7pm

    TV/RADIO: CSN, NBCSN, TSN2 , WIND 560AM

    FUNNY LOOKIN’ IN A GENERAL KINDA WAY: Hockey Wilderness

    It would appear the over-arching theme of tonight’s game is our coach once again deciding to create a controversy and make himself (and no one else) feel like a genius. Ray Emery will get the start again, for reasons you’ll have to figure out yourself. I got nothin’.

    It’s not a matter of seeing if Emery can go back-to-back, because he did this weekend. It’s not about riding a roll, because Emery was basically “meh” on Sunday. This isn’t about establishing a goalie platoon (which he shouldn’t be doing anyway), because if it was then Crawford would be rotated in.

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  • Hawks at Preds 3rd Period Thread

    You’re on a different road, I’m in the milky way
    You want me down on earth, but I am up in space
    You’re so damn hard to please, we gotta kill this switch
    You’re from the 70’s, but I’m a 90’s b*tch

  • Hawks at Preds 2nd Period Thread

    I threw your sh*t into a bag and pushed it down the stairs.
    I crashed my car into the bridge.

  • Hawks at Preds 1st Period Thread

    I got this feeling on the summer day when you were gone.

    I crashed my car into the bridge.

    I watched, I let it burn.

  • Let’s Play Two: Hawks at Preds Preview/Pregame Thread/Game of Pepper

    Hawk Wrestler vs. 511-3

    FACEOFF: 2pm Central
    TV/RADIO:     CSN, WGN Radio 720
    DON’T TELL ME NO LIES AND KEEP YOUR HANDS TO YOURSELF: On The Forecheck

    These used to be a regular thing in an NHL schedule. I remember a time when it felt like the Hawks and Leafs played about 15 weekend back-to-backs against each other per season, with the Saturday in Toronto and the return back on Madison. They seem to have gone away now, which is a shame. Maybe with the division schedule next year, they’ll return a little. We shall see.

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