Faxes from Uncle Dale

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  • First Period Thread – Hawks at Capitals

    Well I, I am a time bomb. And I, I lay forgotten at the bottom of your heart, I’m fine. Ticking away the hours ’til I blow your world apart.

  • Senioritis – Hawks at Capitals Preview, Pregame Thread, Cocktail Hour

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    Game Time: 6:00PM Central
    TV/Radio: CSN, NBCSN, 87.7FM The Game
    Politics Is All One Big Ass Blast: Japer’s Rink, Russian Machine Never Breaks

    With the Colorado Avalanche winning last night and usurping the top spot in the division, the Hawks are now sealed into the #3 seed in the Central Division and will start the playoffs on the road. However, there are still two games left in the regular season, the penultimate of which will take place tonight in D.C. against the already eliminated Capitals. Exhibition hockey in April. Wonderful.

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  • Morning Links 4/11/14

    Morning Links 4/11/14

    Let us all hope the videos continue with Brian Leetch: TSN

    Teuvo time in Rock Vegas: CSN AUTO

    BYCRACKY: Tribune

    This is an upset: PuckDaddy

    This may just be a Miracle: ESPN

    Not the first and not the last: Sportsnet.Ca

    Hockey’s Flagship is in trouble: CBC

     

  • Atop The Sugar Pile – Regular Season Edition

    Atop The Sugar Pile – Regular Season Edition

    I thought I’d knock this out today, with two games to end the season and attendance at HockeeNight’s thing on Saturday making Sunday completely useless. So let’s do our full season Atop The Sugar Pile.

    The Dizzying Highs

    Niklas Hjalmarsson – I named him The CI’s Player Of The Season in last night’s issue. And for me, everything has basically centered around him this campaign. Yes, Duncan Keith is the main cog in the engine, or maybe even the engine himself, that drives the Hawks game. But Keith was allowed to be that this season because Hammer was so good and earning the top assignments. It allowed Keith to dominate lesser competition, and when Keith is controlling the ice everything about the Hawks’ game opens up.

    While we can look at almost every other Hawks and find a portion of their season that dipped or had a slump, it’s hard for me to remember a time when Hammer’s game varied 5% either way. The only time he looked vulnerable was lately when he had to be paired with Sheldon Brookbank. But who wouldn’t? Hammer’s poise defensively and with the puck has been startling to watch when you consider where he was two years ago. He never panics, he’s always in position, and his short but assured passes to the middle simple deflate every forecheck and start the Hawks the other way.

    Has he been the all around game that Keith has? No. But he’s the best defensive defenseman on the team this year. He might be the best kept secret in the NHL, but I don’t think it’ll stay that way for much longer.

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  • Morning Links 4/10/14

    Morning Links 4/10/14

    Finally: CTA

    Another great Photoshop: HN

    It’s some dock supervisor at Pier 34. He says the Titanic just arrived SCH

    Soon: TSN

    About Time: Tribune

  • Come Back Here! I'm Not Through Demeaning You: Blackhawks 3 – Habs 2 (OT)

    Come Back Here! I'm Not Through Demeaning You: Blackhawks 3 – Habs 2 (OT)

    Sometimes the end of the regular season presents incredibly exciting hockey as both teams are fighting for their post-season lives or hoping to make a reputation for themselves as they head to the next round.

    And sometimes it presents some absolute stinkers.

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  • Third Period Thread – Canadiens vs Hawks

    If you could save yourself, you’d save us all. Is that what you called me for, is that why you’re knocking on my door? The time I’ve spent, working myself to death, thought that’s what you wanted. I thought you needed my help. To make it good again, to make us strong. To make you happy, to push you along. And gain some respect, to be thrown a crumb. I was on my knees, when you knocked me down.

  • Second Period Thread – Canadiens vs Hawks

    The wheels fell off, the bottom dropped out, the checks all bounced, I came in your mouth. Your mother came calling but there was no one around. The trash caught fire when the leaves turned brown, the vultures were circling when the circus left town. I left you a note but I wrote it in disappearing ink.

  • First Period Thread – Canadiens vs Hawks

    On a free ride home from the embassy I saw the governor, and his lover holding hands. When I got to my place, I emptied my suitcase and opened the windows wide.

  • D's Equal Degrees – Canadiens vs Hawks Preview, Pregame Thread, Juice Cleanse

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    Game Time: 6:30PM Central
    TV/Radio: CSN, TSN (Anglophone), RDS (Francophone), 87.7FM The Game
    Les Incompétents: Habs EOTP

    Tonight the home schedule for the Hawks’ regular season comes to its thrilling conclusion with an Original Six Matchup (TM) against their perpetually entitled ancient nemesis Montreal Canadiens. And neither really have much to play for at this stage heading into the final weekend of the season.

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