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Once More Unto The Breach – The Committed Indian's Season Preview: Dineen and 24/7

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We continue our roll through what will matter and what won’t in the upcoming season. Today we go over to longtime guy I Am Not Chico Maki and his two queries.

Will the addition of Dineen (and subtraction of Kompon) be noticed in any tangible way on and/or off the ice?

On the ice maybe. If Kompon was in charge of the power play, then we can assume that Dineen will be as well. If Kitchen takes it over, then God help us all. Anyway, the thing is it’s fun to joke about how incompetent Kompon made the power play (it’s one of Kings’ fans faves), but the Hawks did finish 10th last year with a respectable 19.5% clip. Of course, the year before that they were awful, and each year in the playoffs they’ve been pretty much woeful for long stretches.

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Please Help Fund Edgar's Fight

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Not being a person who reaches out for help frequently, every now and again situations arise where it’s borne out of necessity, and this is one of those times. And it’s necessary to use the audience we have created and trust to help friends of mine.

Edgar, the 8 month old son of two friends of mine, was recently diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor. He’s a sweet, happy child, and his parents are proud, good people, but they are however staring down the predictably immense medical bills for both Edgar’s procedure to remove the tumor, as well as the chemotherapy that is set to begin shortly.  At present he is doing well and hardly knows anything has happened having undergone a procedure last week to remove the malignant tissue, but there is still more treatment to undergo.

So if there’s anything you can spare, please click over to Edgar’s fund raising site, and do not hesitate to pass it along. And many, many people are grateful for anything that can be generously spared. Thank you.

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Once More Unto The Breach – The Committed Indian's Season Preview: Teuvo, Richards, Mashuguna and More

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Time to start, and because he’s earned the right we’re going to kick this off with the very bearded and very Irish MightyMikeD’s queries:

When do we see Teuvo?

That would depend on who you talk to. Most seem to think he’ll start the year in Rockford, in which case it’s likely he would be up no later than the Holidays, depending on the rest of the lineup shakes out and injuries and other various factors.

Me? I think he starts the season with the Hawks.

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A Closer Look At Crawford

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Much like quarterbacks and pitchers, goaltenders often have a rough go of it in Chicago, Corey Crawford is quite familiar with this fact. While he is not one of the elite goalies in the league, he has gotten the job done for the Blackhawks. Last season’s playoff performance left a bit to be desired, but there is more to it than just Crawford’s save percentage.

With the launch of the new stats site war-on-ice.com, comes the availability of newer breakdowns in goaltender statistics that may allow us to look more closely at just how Crawford has performed with Chicago and determine the effect the defense has on his numbers.

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Help Wanted – Rockford Correspondent

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Hello all. We’re turning on all the lights and our machines here at the Lab to get ready for the new hockey season. We’re even trying to dry out Killion, but that’s not going so well. Training camp is only two weeks away, after all.

With that in mind, we need some help. Our Hogs correspondent, Kim Wrona, who did excellent work for us for two seasons, will no longer be able to be our Hogs’ expert due to school commitments. She’ll still be around to comment and chip in when she can/wants, and we thank her for all she’s done.

So we need a new Hogs’ person. Preferably we are looking for someone who lives in or near Rockford (god help you) and gets to all or most of the Hogs home games and follows them pretty closely on the road. If you think you’re the person, or you know someone, please email me at committedindian@gmail.com. If you’re lucky, you can be attacked on Twitter too for nothing you had anything to do with, just like Jen LC!