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  • First Period Thread – Hurricanes vs Hawks

    The ease of your pose, the grace of your silhouette, the way that your shoulders meet your slender neck. Where would we be without all the distance? You know I’m already just a skeleton, I don’t have the heart to match the one pricked into your finger. All things made to be destroyed, all moments meant to pass.

  • Make Do And Mend – Hurricanes vs Hawks Preview, Pregame Thread, Beatlemania

    Bob Dylan-Hurricane vs oldschool

    Game Time: 7:00PM
    TV/Radio: CSN, WGN-AM 720
    Raise Up: Canes Country

    We now interrupt special coverage of Teuvo Day In America to bring you our regularly scheduled preview for tonight’s game between the Carolina Hurricanes and the Chicago Blackhawks.

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  • Morning Links 3/21/14

    Morning Links 3/21/14

    Time to step up: CSN

    New Blood: Chicago Tribune

    Not a new concept to us around these parts: The Score

    As the kids say”Filthy” CBC

    So this happened: Puckdaddy

     

  • Sprint Time And Other Notes

    Sprint Time And Other Notes

    A couple things to cover today, so let’s get to it.

    -The Hawks took back second place last night, as the Avs decided to give Semyon Varlamov a week off and threw J.S. Giguere and Reto Berra out there with a straight face. Which completely exposed just how bad their blue line is as both the Habs and Jets lit them up.

    As we know, the Hawks won’t get the tie-breaker due to significantly less regulation wins than the Avs. But the schedule ahead for Colorado is not exactly a popsicle (first of all, it’s Fudge-cical).

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  • Morning Links 3/20/14

    Morning Links 3/20/14

    Still there when they need it: Blackhawks

    Secondary scorers better figure it out: ESPN Chi

    700: CSN (autoPlay)

    1,000: Trib

    I feel like quality of team you watch was overlooked: SBN

     

  • Still In The Bag: Blues 0 – Hawks 4

    Still In The Bag: Blues 0 – Hawks 4

    Box Score

    Event Summary

    Extra Skater

    On this blog recently, we’ve spent a lot of time debating whether the Hawks are either bored or tired (the answer is probably both, but what fun is that to settle for?) We’ve seen the holes in the game, the dead-ass performances, the spikes of dominance, and wondered what it all meant for when it really counts.

    Based on tonight’s and other recent “big” games, I suppose I’m starting to lean towards bored. And it’s not in the glow of this performance only, though the Hawks did completely muzzle the team with the most points in the league. On other occasions where the bright lights are on and the opponent has the Hawks complete attention, we’ve seen it. Detroit was one victim. The Ducks in Anaheim another. Boston’s trip to Chicago saw the Hawks play extremely well and take a shootout. There are a couple others I haven’t mentioned.

    Maybe it’s both in that the Hawks can do it when they really want to but can’t bring it every game due to fading legs when they don’t particularly. I guess we won’t know until the season’s over, as you can bet Joel Quenneville is going to demand they snap into gear full-time heading into the postseason.

    But for one night, the Hawks brought the game we’ve come to love. It could have been any of the league’s premier teamed that was swallowed whole by the Hawks’ complete game and I’d feel as good (well, maybe not all the way). It’s still there when they need it. Let’s be happy with that.

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  • Blues At Blackhawks – Third Period Thread

    We are all bigots
    So full of hatred
    We release our poisons… like styrofoam

  • Blues At Blackhawks – Second Period Thread

    There are no more cultures left to slide
    There are no more people to be tried
    We’re in our minds, five billion pieces so defined
    Read it in a book, it was underlined.

  • Blues At Blackhawks – First Period Thread

    There are no more races to be run
    There are no number left to be won
    Everybody’s down
    We pulled each other down.

  • Storm of Swords: Blues At Blackhawks – Preview/Pre-Game Thread/Equinox

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    Game Time: 7:00PM Central
    TV/Radio: NBCSN/WGN720
    Moo: St. Louis Game Time

    Last night’s game was the kind that makes me want to pull my hair out. The game was intense in all the wrong ways. The Flyers aren’t a better team than the Hawks but they were able to pull Chicago down to their level. The Hawks allowed them to dictate the pace and feel for the game. The Hawks do their best when they’re shoving their game down the other teams’ throat, not when they’re running around like lunatics on bath salts. Two fights in a game isn’t unheard of, even as fighting loses favor, but the Hawks had only 9 fighting majors for the season total. Two in a game shows how much they were out of it last night.

    So how do the Hawks now respond when they have to face a team that has notoriously tried to bring the Hawks down a level and away from their game? Count me as someone who is not terribly optimistic.

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