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How To Skin A Cat: Blackhawks 3 – Wild 0

By Matthew Killion 1193 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. 

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

By Sam Fels 1336 0

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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Blushes All Around

By Sam Fels 1218 0

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.