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Once More Unto The Breach – The Committed Indian's Season Preview: The 4th Line

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Moving back into our Hawks’ centric season preview, we go to Dennis Kiley who asked what the 4th line will look like this time around.

For most teams this isn’t that important a question. But it is for the Hawks for a couple reasons. One, it’s likely that the Hawks will once again use their 4th line differently than most if not all teams. Second, not all teams are staring down the Kings again and their total depth, which may have been the difference between winning and losing last year and could be again this one (not to mention the Blues, Sharks, and Ducks are going to be pretty deep at forward themselves).

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Once More Unto The Breach – The Committed Indian’s Season Preview: Rules Changes and No HBO

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Depart a little from your questions to day and Hawks specific stuff, and go over some rules changes were going to see this season, and some of them might have more effect than you think.

The one I think might go a little under the radar here is that no longer will faceoffs move out of the offensive zone after a shot ends up in the crowd. Even if the shot is fired off the glass and into the crowd, or off the post, or even deflected by a teammate, the ensuing draw is going to stay in the attacking zone.

This will result in more offensive zone draws, which you’d think in theory would lead to more goals. I don’t know that it will. But I do think it’ll make some difference that a defensive team is basically not going to get a “free out” any more, and to exit their zone they’re going to have to get it out themselves. Watch this one closely.

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Once More Unto The Breach – The Committed Indian's Season Preview: Rules Changes and No HBO

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Depart a little from your questions to day and Hawks specific stuff, and go over some rules changes were going to see this season, and some of them might have more effect than you think.

The one I think might go a little under the radar here is that no longer will faceoffs move out of the offensive zone after a shot ends up in the crowd. Even if the shot is fired off the glass and into the crowd, or off the post, or even deflected by a teammate, the ensuing draw is going to stay in the attacking zone.

This will result in more offensive zone draws, which you’d think in theory would lead to more goals. I don’t know that it will. But I do think it’ll make some difference that a defensive team is basically not going to get a “free out” any more, and to exit their zone they’re going to have to get it out themselves. Watch this one closely.

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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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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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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.