Faxes from Uncle Dale

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  • Lock Up When You Leave

    Lock Up When You Leave

    It doesn’t look any better in the light of day I guess. While losing to the best team out there shouldn’t carry too much shame, you still feel the Hawks had a hand in their own destruction. We’ve been here for four exits, they’ve all been different. 2009 was simply not being ready and being outclassed, and that was the beginning. 2011 hurt because it was Vancouver and the Hawks were so close to pulling off that upset, but they really had no business even getting to a Game 7 and needed the Canucks to turn off for two games to do so. The Hawks wouldn’t have gone much farther that year anyway.

    It’s a little similar to 2012, where you definitely felt the Hawks left something out there. That was also self-inflicted, or partly, due to Crawford’s bad OT goals, a roster with holes again, and a great performance from Mike Smith.

    But we have to sort out the rubble, so let’s do so.

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  • Mourning Links 6/2/14

    Mourning Links 6/2/14

    Well fuck: Blackhawks

    Defensive lapses: CSN

    Now learn from it: PHT

    Looking forward: HF

    Next up?: NHL

    Two bad series seem to be all anyone remembers: H-R

  • Jumped Into The River Too Many Times To Make It Home: Kings 5 – Hawks 4 (OT) (Kings Win Series 4-3)

    Jumped Into The River Too Many Times To Make It Home: Kings 5 – Hawks 4 (OT) (Kings Win Series 4-3)

    Box Score

    Event Summary

    Extra Skater

    I suppose it would be a cop-out for me to say, “What can I say?” But yet I’m left with nothing else. Before this series started, a lot of us thought it was basically a coin flip. It would be decided on such small margins and plays that it would be folly to try and handicap how it would go. And that’s what it did come down to. A Game 7 overtime, ended on a flipped shot that hits Leddy and floats into the net. Not some great play. Not some massive breakdown. Just a bounce. Didn’t go the Hawks way. Season over.

    It would hurt more if I could sit here and say that the Kings aren’t worthy Western Conference champs (and soon to be Stanley Cup champs). But no one around here is going to say that. Because they are. So would the Hawks have been. Just didn’t go their way. A classic series, one neither side will ever forget. Would be better if the Hawks won. But here we are.

    We could nitpick about this or that. There’s plenty of time for that tomorrow and the rest of the summer. I sit here and all I can think is that with all the Hawks had put in their way, especially recently but all season (mostly from within), this was as worthy a defense as they could put forth. This is going out on their shields. They made the next champs push to a level that no Kings fan thought they had within them. It’s not enough for now, but it’s hardly worth apologizing for.

    Let’s do it one more time, shall we?

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  • Kings At Blackhawks – Game 7 – Third Period Thread

    I won’t apologize
    For acting outta line
    You see the way I am
    You leave any time you can cause
    I’m crazy and I’m hurt

  • Kings At Blackhawks – Game 7 – Second Period Thread

    I heard the same old talk talk talk
    The same old lines
    Don’t do that to me today
    Yeah if you know what’s good for you, you’ll get out of my way

  • Kings At Blackhawks – Game 7 – First Period Thread

    I’m about to have a nervous breakdown
    My head really hurts
    If I don’t find a way out of here
    I’m gonna go berserk cause
    I’m crazy and I’m hurt

  • We've Got The Neutron Bomb – Kings At Blackhawks – Preview/Pregame Thread/Coming To Jesus

    King Jerry Lawler  @  oldschool

    Game Time: 7:00PM CDT
    TV/Radio: NBCSN, CBC, RDS/WGN720
    You Bet That I’ve Got Something Personal Against You: The Royal Half, Jewels From The Crown, Battle of California

    After two pretty thrilling games, things now end up on back on Madison for one final showdown as the Hawks were able to upset the Kings in LA on Friday. The big question is simply – how much do the Hawks have left in the tank?

    As Fels stated after Wednesday’s game, the Hawks were running in the red for just about the whole game. And of course they did with with largely only 9 forwards. Things were more of the same Friday night. Bollig played only 6:46, Handzus only 9:25. Patrick Kane meanwhile played 20:40, more than any other forward and more than even Seabrook. It certainly didn’t hurt his game in the third though.

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  • Beard Of The Day – June 1st – Dave Lombardo

    dave lombardo

    The Godfather of Double Bass? One of the most influential drummers in metal, and in rock period? A founding metal of the definitive thrash metal act of its era? It has to be Dave Lombardo of Slayer.

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  • Like Dolphins Can Swim: Blackhawks 4, Kings 3

    Like Dolphins Can Swim: Blackhawks 4, Kings 3

    Box Score

    Event Summary

    Extra Skater

    I’m not really sure what’s more amazing about Game 6. The fact that there were three lead changes in the third period, the fact that the Hawks played a must-win game on the road utilizing only 14 and a half skaters, the Hawks were able to score two goals in the third period on a mere 3 shots or that that Hawks won said game.

    I suppose there will be a day when poor decisions come home to roost and ultimately cost the Hawks dearly but if it wasn’t going to happen in Game 6, I’m not sure it will happen anytime soon. In other words, not today.

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  • Beard Of The Day – May 31st – Detective Lester Freamon

    Lester+Freamon

    We’re building something here, detective. We’re building it from scratch. All the pieces matter.