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  • First The Lights, Then The Collar Goes Up, And The Wind Begins To Blow: Wild 1 – Hawks 2 (Hawks lead 3-2)

    First The Lights, Then The Collar Goes Up, And The Wind Begins To Blow: Wild 1 – Hawks 2 (Hawks lead 3-2)

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    The Wild were never going to let it be pretty. While they’ve varied their approach in the first four games, from period to period even, a pivotal Game 5 on the road saw them fall back into the trap that gave the Hawks headaches in Game 3. But after a jittery opening 5-10 minutes, the Hawks started to come to grips with what they saw. And despite conceding the opener as a direct result of a pick play that Stockton and Malone would have been proud of that opened up space for Terror From Hell Erik Haula, the Hawks began to get a tighter and tighter grip on this one.

    It was far from perfect. While the Hawks support was better, they were more willing to try the middle of the ice to get out of the zone, to chip and chase, the execution was off. Every time Oduya tried to field a pass or puck along the boards, my eyeballs rolled back in my head. Keith was trying far too much dip-trip-rip-fantasia behind his goal line and at Minny’s blue line. Nick Leddy looks terrified to make a mistake (wonder why that may be). Because what the Hawks have to do when a team pinches down on them along the boards in their zone has to be so precise, when it doesn’t work it can get urpy.

    But they slowly got better, got their goal to tie it, worked to get their second and then squeezed the rest out. They had to get through some chances but it didn’t feel like Crawford had to drink the blood of virgins to get through the final 10 minutes.

    All that adds up to a series lead.

    Let’s do it.

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  • Wild At Hawks – Game 5 – Third Period Thread

    You’re a rich girl and you’ve gone to far
    Cause you know it don’t matter anyway
    You can rely on the old man’s money
    You can rely on the old man’s money
    It’s a bitch girl and it’s gone too far
    Cause you know it don’t matter anyway

  • Wild At Hawks – Game 5 – Second Period Thread

    High and dry, out of the rain
    It’s so easy to hurt others when you can’t feel pain
    And don’t you know that a love can’t grow
    Cause there’s too much to give, cause you’d rather live
    For the thrill of it all.

  • Wild At Hawks – Game 5 – First Period Thread

    Don’t you know, don’t you know
    That it’s wrong to take what is given you
    So far gone, on your own
    You can get along if you try to be strong
    But you’ll never be strong

  • Baby, I'm A Star: Wild At Blackhawks – Game 5 – Preview/Pre-Game Thread/Sales Optimization Meeting

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    Game Time: 8:00PM Central
    TV/Radio: CNBC, TSN (Anglo), RDS2 (Franco)/WGN720
    Terms of Psychic Warfare: Hockey Wilderness

    After two disappointing games, the series now shifts back to the UC as the Hawks attempt to take back the series lead. I don’t know how many times we’ve said it, or how many times you’ve heard it, but we all know the phrase “It’s not a series until the home-team loses”. That hardly feels like the case though when the first two games were decided by breakout third periods for the Hawks who very easily could have lost either game. On the trip to MN, the Hawks clearly looked like the slower and more beatable team. They simply weren’t close contests, even in Game 4 when at least the score wasn’t too off.

    It’s hard to make a case that the sky is falling for the Hawks. On paper, they’re clearly the better team. By just about any way of looking at it, they shouldn’t have a problem with this Wild, even as improved as they are from last year. But that’s hardly the case among the Hawks fans right now. They just got punched in the face pretty squarely in the last two games and it’s hard to not think the Wild may come through as the underdogs. That can easily swing the other way today though. One good period is all it really takes for this Hawks team to pull away from the Wild. If we could not wait til the third, that’d be great.

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  • Beard Of The Day – May 11th – Sir Patrick Stewart

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    Now that things have taken a turn in the series against the Wild, it’s high time that the Blackhawks to begin taking their task seriously. And there’s no one better at conveying the gravity of a situation than serious Shakespearean actor Sir Patrick Stewart.

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  • If It's Any Consolation, I Don't Begin to Understand Them: Wild 4, Blackhawks 2

    If It's Any Consolation, I Don't Begin to Understand Them: Wild 4, Blackhawks 2

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    I passed out on my couch last night. I was woken up at 2:30 in the morning by a 4 pound chihuahua licking my face. I thought I smelled something funny but was still in half-sleep mode. Once I gathered my bearings I realized there was a nice pile of diarrhea at the edge of the couch and the little dog couldn’t have been prouder of it.

    So if you’re wondering how Joel Quenneville feels this morning, just ask me and I can give you a pretty accurate description.

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  • Beard Of The Day – May 10th – Judd Apatow

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    Much like the Blackhawks when they quickly usurped a chair at the NHL’s big boy table a few years ago with “novel” concepts like speed and depth, Judd Apatow had done so in the comedy world a few years prior with dick and fart comedies with “heart”. And much like the Hawks, Apatow’s sustained run of success has left most outside observers just worn out and anxious for something different yet again.

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  • Hawks at Wild Game 4 Postgame Thread

    You know how these Friday night 8:30 starts go. Wrap will be in the morning when we’re all in slightly better condition.

  • Hawks at Wild Game 4 3rd Period Thread

    See your face every place that I walk in
    Hear your voice every time I am talking
    You will believe in me
    And I will never be ignored