Hopped off the plane at LAX with a dream and my cardigan.
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Game Time: 9:00PM Central
TV/Radio: CSN, NHLN (US), WGN-AM 720
Please No More California Songs: Anaheim Calling, Battle of California
Anyone who thought that tonight’s matchup between the Hawks and Ducks would be touted as a Western Conference final preview, let alone one between the two teams with the collective best records ever after 25 games is a damned dirty liar. That includes you, Bob Murray, put your stupid hand down.
The IceHogs continued their playoff push in week 23 of the AHL schedule as they faced Midwest Division teams for three consecutive nights over the weekend. They started and ended the weekend with the Chicago Wolves and a contest against the Peoria Rivermen was in the middle of that.
The IceHogs continued their playoff push in week 23 of the AHL schedule as they faced Midwest Division teams for three consecutive nights over the weekend. They started and ended the weekend with the Chicago Wolves and a contest against the Peoria Rivermen was in the middle of that.
Hawks/Ducks preview: Blackhawks
Speaking of the water fowl: Puck Prospectus
Deal or No Deal at the GM meetings: NHL
JR on the art of the kerfuffle: PHT
The musings of a zebra: TSN
New deals under the new deal: Sportsnet
This happened: Puck Daddy
Beat Raps: (Chicago Tribune)(Daily Herald)(FOX 32)(CSN AP WARNING)(ESPN)
Gangsta Raps: (Cheer the Anthem)(HockeeNight)(BlackhawkUP)
Hossa’s UBI is “NOT BAD”: (ESPN)
Kruger is settling in: (Chicago Tribune)
Cory Perry is a rich man: (PuckDaddy)
30 Thoughts: (CBC)
The easy storyline to this one tonight is that the Hawks were pissed off about having their streak to end all streaks snapped at this place and wanted to make up for it. That’s lazy. To me, all we saw tonight was the road team simply outclassing the home team, and doing what it does to a defensive unit that is in now way equipped to handle them. Oh, and apparently someone decided to remind Jonathan Toews that Erik Johnson was drafted ahead of him, and he proceeded to make EJ’s mom embarrassed she gave birth to such a clod. Jordan Staal better thank his lucky stars that Toews won’t get to him next year, I guess.
And in the end, it runs out a routine victory. While it’s over the last place team in the conference, you can’t help but be utterly delighted by the effort, the movement, and the creativity at times. It’s a comparison I’ve drawn before, but there were moments where the Hawks were so far ahead and away from the Avs tonight it looked like USSR ’78 out there. Or what I assume that would have looked like. Just cycles, passes, and chances created that Colorado was helpless to do anything about.
Good times gone, it sucks to say good bye to friends. He’s gone,will I ever see him again?
It’s time to leave and it came so quick it hurts. Went to his house, bummed me a smoke for the last time. Then he ran off to Boulder, Colorado. I wave goodbye, and think of good times.
Cary and me, best friends since we were fifteen. Discovered weed and girls and drivin cars together. Always wondered what the future would bring, and we promised we’d always be brothers forever.
