Faxes from Uncle Dale

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  • Hawks at Preds 1st Period Thread

    Let’s have Christ our President
    Let us have him for our king
    Cast your vote for the Carpenter
    That they call the Nazarene

  • Say Something Nasty: Hawks at Predators Preview/Pregame Thread/Mosh Pit

    Hawk Wrestler vs. Nashville_Pussy_4

    FACEOFF: 7pm

    TV/RADIO: CSN, WGN Radio 720

    GIMME, GIMME, GIMME THE HONKEY TONK BLUES: The incomparable On The Forecheck

    There’s only one storyline for the Hawks tonight, and obviously it’s KRS-23 suiting up in his first game back with the Hawks. If there was any danger of the Hawks either not taking this one fully seriously or getting caught looking ahead to the Sharks tomorrow night, there should be an extra jump in everyone’s step with Versteeg joining the ranks. As you know by now, Steeger will skate on the 3rd line with Bryan Bickell and Andrew Shaw. The combination of Chicken Hawk and VerStud might give the Hawks the yappiest line they’ve iced in… forever?

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  • KRS-23

    KRS-23

    In baseball, sometimes basketball, it’s considered a show of confidence from your GM when he goes out and makes a trade early in the season after a healthy start. It’s not desperate thanks to the winning record, and it’s not scrambling at the deadline to get anything at all. It’s a show of faith that he thinks it’s not a mirage and you have genuine title aspirations, that even though there’s all the time in the world to adjust the roster, he’s making this move now because it’s there to be made.

    I’m not sure it’s always felt like that in hockey, and Stan doesn’t need to prove to anybody that he has confidence in this team. And the whole heapin’ helpin’ of nostalgia on the Kris Versteeg trade last night makes it hard to keep in context. Steeger had a place in all our hearts as a member of the team that washed away a lifetime of misery. When players as well liked as Steeger are traded away you always hope that they may come back but you know in your heart they never will. So on the rare occasion when they do, you can’t help but be overwhelmed with surprise and glee.

    But let’s try and remove the emotion out of it and see what the Hawks got and gave up.

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  • Morning Links 11/15/13

    Morning Links 11/15/13

    Boxscore: Blackhawks

    Advanced Metrics: Extra Skater

    Local Rap musician returns: Comcast 

    Stan Bowman is not Dave Nonis: TSN

    A Sault boy back home in Buffalo: Toronto Sun

    This is important because it involves a Maple Leaf: PuckDaddy

    Not surprising considering how he Values Colton Orr: Globe and Mail

    Brownie Points to who says it first: NHL

  • Everything Old Is New Again: Blackhawks 4 – Coyotes 4 (Hawks Win Cup Stacking)

    Everything Old Is New Again: Blackhawks 4 – Coyotes 4 (Hawks Win Cup Stacking)

    For the first six minutes of this game, you couldn’t have asked for pretty much anything more from the Hawks. They controlled the play, every shift seemed to be rolling and the puck was planted in the Yotes’ zone… oh, and they were up two goals.

    Then things went off the rails a bit. It started with a deflection off a Hawk that snuck past Corey. Then on a power play, a shot from the point bounced hard off the board and found it’s way to Shane Doan’s stick who snuck an unreal wrister to the far top corner. The Hawks would play pretty much the rest of the period on the kill thanks to Bollig and took the game into the second tied.

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  • Coyotes at Hawks 3rd Period Thread

    Then a soldier,
    Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard,
    Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,
    Seeking the bubble reputation
    Even in the cannon’s mouth. And then the justice,
    In fair round belly with good capon lin’d,
    With eyes severe, and beard of formal cut,
    Full of wise saws and modern instances;
    And so he plays his part.

  • Coyotes at Hawks 2nd Period Thread

    At first the infant,
    Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms.
    And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel,
    And shining morning face, creeping like snail
    Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
    Sighing like furnace, with a woful ballad
    Made to his mistress’ eyebrow.

  • Coyotes at Hawks 1st Period Thread

    All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players:
    They have their exits and their entrances;
    And one man in his time plays many parts,
    His acts being seven ages.

  • Morning Ralph: Coyotes at Hawks Preview/Pregame Thread/Waffle Breakfast

    spacecoyote vs. Hawk Wrestler

    FACEOFF: 7pm Central

    TV/RADIO: CSN, WGN 720

    NO REGRETS…: Five For Howling

    Although Ralph was technically “Ralph Wolf,” he sure looked a lot like Wile E. Coyote. Anyway…

    It doesn’t exactly feel like it, but tonight sees two of the NHL’s top five teams squaring off. That’s right. But the Coyotes don’t really generate that type of buzz, do they? There’s no feature on NHL.com about this one, or televised on NHL Network or something of a feed on Twitter about neutrals looking forward to watching two hockey powers go toe-to-toe. Maybe that will all be saved for Sunday’s tilt against the Sharks.

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  • Morning Links 11/14/13

    Morning Links 11/14/13

    Tonight: Blackhawks

    Rosi ok, Morin back in: Trib

    Gary Gaetti is still hurt: ESPN Chicago

    Hjalmersson finding some O: CSN Chicago

    Giving the worst team is supposed to create parity, not parody: PHT

    Shake up in Tatonka: SI