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  • How To Skin A Cat: Blackhawks 3 – Wild 0

    How To Skin A Cat: Blackhawks 3 – Wild 0

    I’m not sure if it was just me being in a shitty mood combined with a lot of annoyance at my local bar (Seriously, how do you fuck up the chant “Let’s Go Blackhawks”? And don’t you know the only acceptable chant is “Let’s Go Hawks”? AND WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU CHANTING AT A TV?!?!) But was that perhaps the most boring playoff game you’ve seen form the Blackhawks in the past few years?

    The Hawks weathered the early storm as the Wild came out with just about everything they could muster at this point. There was a lot of action in the Hawks end but not a lot of results. The Hawks grabbed the early lead off a pretty insane steal from Marian Hossa and a feed to Handzus. Zeus fired a shot on net that I guess hit Patrick Sharp on the way in. This was the only thing significant Handzus would do this game except for continuing to get murdered at the dot.  (more…)

  • Hawks at Wild Game 4 3rd Period Thread

    And now you find as time goes by
    You’re left with nothing
    Meaning much
    The meaning I will have to try
    To take your mind to places

  • Hawks at Wild Game 4 2nd Period Thread

    Sometimes I’ve got to tell you
    Is it this time I’ll tell you
    We’ve got to go to places
    Somewhere I don’t mind it’s special

  • Hawks at Wild Game 4 1st Period Thread

    Another time time after time
    You make me feel so helpless I
    I never tried to change your mind
    I keep it to myself

  • Explode And Make Up: Hawks at Wild Game 4 Preview/Pregame Thread/Mud Ritual

    Hawk Wrestler  vs.  Zakk-Wylde-by-Ivan-Chopik

    FACEOFF: 8:30pm Central
    TV/RADIO:     CSN, NBCSN, CBC for you hosers, WIND 560am
    HOLLYWOOD DREAM TEENS, YESTERDAY’S TRASH QUEENS:     Hockey Wilderness

    Tonight for the first time we get to see how the Hawks bounce back from a loss in the playoffs. Whether it was tactics or effort or discipline, the Hawks get a chance to correct it tonight and for all intents and purposes end this series. Because it’s highly likely that if the Hawks take a 3-1 lead back to Fort Kickass on Madison on Thursday, that will be that.

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  • Beard Of The Day – May 7 – J. Mascis

    j. mascis

    With tonight’s game being the first truly serious affair for the Hawks thus far in their series with the Wild, it seems only fitting that some serious riffery accompany it, which is why Dinosaur Jr.’s salt-and-pepper bearded J. Mascis gets the call.
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  • Morning Links 5/07/13

    Morning Links 5/07/13

    Party Dave and Rayzor are out: Chicago Tribune

    Saad is a Calder Finalist: Comcast Chicago

    How will the Hawks respond? Daily Herald

    This awesomeness is official: NHL

    Top line struggles: Comcast Chicago (auto)

    I cant help but see a point: CBSSPORTS

  • Blushes All Around

    This didn’t quite feel like a “Grind My Gears, ” so much as a more general musing. I guess these are things I think I think.

    -I find it hilarious that in a week where most everyone was lampooning Hawk Harrelson for his “TWTW” southern-fried bullshit, some people still think it’s perfectly acceptable to then turn around and say a team lost a hockey game due to effort and want. And without any sense of how paradoxical that may be. But then again, it gives me material.

    Granted, hockey unlike baseball is a game that can be changed by a team trying harder and pressing, in either direction. You can’t grunt and grimace and sweat your way through an at-bat (unless you’re Kevin Youklis), but you can through a shift and make a difference. So I’ll admit that.

    But that’s not really what yesterday boiled down to.

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  • Beard Of The Day – May 6 – Marc Maron

    marc maron

    With the way the NHL has made an ass of itself pretty much across the board since about 5:00PM yesterday, a little caustic humor seems to be in order. And it is with that Marc Maron is presented this Monday morning.

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  • Morning Links 5/6/13

    Morning Links 5/6/13

    Fish wraps: Trib Bright One Herald Star-Trib

    Elsewhere: PIT/NYI MON/OTT VAN/SJS

    Hawks didn’t think it’d be easy: PHT

    Blaming Crow is for the birds: ESPN Chicago

    Backy might not be backy anytime soon: CSN

    Fire! Passion! Effort! Whatever!: Puck Daddy

    Abdelkader gets 2: SI