Faxes from Uncle Dale

Category: Everything Else

  • Hawks at Kings 1st Period Thread

    It’s so relieving
    To know that you’re leaving as soon as you get paid
    It’s so relaxing
    To hear that you’re asking wherever you get your way

  • My Kingdom For A Goal: Hawks at Kings Preview/Pregame Thread/Coffee House Open Mic

    Hawk Wrestler vs. King Jerry Lawler

    FACEOFF: 9:30 PM Central
    TV/RADIO:     WGN for both
    VOICE OF THE THRONE:     The Royal Half, Jewels From The Crown

    The last time the Hawks skated on Staples Center ice, Marian Hossa was burying a one-timer off a Michal Handzus pass after the Kings’ 74th moronic change of that series and the Hawks saw out the rest of the frame to take a stranglehold of the Conference Final. That game saw Duncan Keith suspended for Paul Bunyan-ing Jeff Carter’s face, and saw Johnny Oduya play the game of his life. What we wouldn’t give for Oduya to find anything close to resembling that sort of form.

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  • Morning Links 2/3/14

    Morning Links 2/3/14

    The replacement killers: ESPN CHI

    You wouldn’t like me when I’m angry : CSN

    60 minute men: DH

    Captain America: SI

    Silly gets sillier: PD

     

  • Groundhog Day: Hawks 1 – Sharks 1 (Sharks Win Odds N Evens)

    There weren’t any pictures, so maybe that game didn’t happen?

    Box Score

    Event Summary

    Extra Skater

    Sharks-Hawks games are usually one the neutral enjoys most. Two teams that play fast and skilled with stars galore. I don’t think last night is going to fit into that category.

    Sure, it was close and at times tense. But both teams were sloppy for most of the game. At times it felt like both teams were afraid to make a mistake. Others they were both playing so frantically and their passing was substandard that it basically looked like a game of hurling in the neutral zone. I suppose that’s what you get when both teams haven’t been playing all that well recently. At least not consistently well recently. What you get is a game that always looked likely to end tied and from there it’s a coin flip.

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  • Blackhawks At Sharks – Third Period Thread

    I’m in love with a girl in my comic shop
    She’s a girl who likes comics
    She probably gets that a lot

  • Blackhawks At Sharks – Second Period Thread

    Now I’ve been working since I was 10
    But the money’s always gone by the weekend.
    Delivering post to serving beer
    I’ve never had much of a career.

  • Blackhawks At Sharks – First Period Thread

    Life is especially hard
    When no one trusts you with a credit card.
    I love the taste of cereal.
    I have it for almost every meal.

  • Looking For The Heart Of Saturday Night: Blackhawks At Sharks – Preview/Pre-Game Thread/All Ages Matinee

    AltLogo_medium @   sharkticons

    Game Time: 9:30PM CDT
    TV/Radio: NHLN, CSN/WGN720
    Here’s To Swimmin With Bow-Legged Women: Fear The Fin, Battle of California

    While the second period in Wednesday’s game against the Canucks was nice, it’s still not clear that the Hawks are completely out of their funk. It was a better game than we’ve seen the past few weeks but it wasn’t all the way there.. take the two goal deficit they had to climb back from. They had a wonky first but were able to calm down enough to make a return to the game we expect them to play.

    In the past few years, a game against the Sharks is a meeting of two of the NHL’s better teams. That’s true this time around only this time we’re seeing two teams that are solidly in the playoff picture but neither team is firing on all cylinders recently.

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  • The Road Ahead

    I was bored, and while we wait to see if all the Hawks make it out of Vegas alive before heading to San Jose today, I thought it would be a good idea to see how the schedules shake out for the Hawks and Blues who will duke it out for the Central. Also for the Ducks, as all three teams will dance for the #1 seed in the West. It’s uncertain as to whether these things actually matter. After all, the #1 seed could end up in a very annoying and punchy series with the Canucks that should be a pretty easy victory but could take a toll, whereas the #2 could end up with a much easier (travel-wise and other) Minnesota date, whatever the Hawks record against the Wild may be. Of course, once the Coyotes overtake the Canucks and Vancouver slips out of the playoffs and OH MY GOD THAT COULD TOTALLY HAPPEN AND I’LL DIE LAUGHING AND THEY MIGHT SINK INTO THE PACIFIC AND I HAVE TO STOP NOW I’M GOING INTO SHOCK…

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  • Morning Links 1/31/14

    Morning Links 1/31/14

    Oh Really? CSN Autoplay

    I’m thinking 88 might get an “A” today: USAHOCKEY

    Five years in Denver: TSN

    This would be insane: ESPN

    Diving into the crazyness that was Ben Scrivens 59 save night: Extra Skater