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  • Today’s Empires, Tomorrow’s Ashes – Hawks at Jets Preview, Vow Renewal Ceremony

    evil empire at benny the jet

    Game Time: 7:00PM Central
    TV/Radio: CSN, WGN-AM 720
    Sons Of Flin Flon: Arctic Ice Hockey

    Regardless of how long Duncan Keith is suspended for this afternoon- and he will be suspended for at least the remainder of the regular season- the Blackhawks are still in a position wherein they’re for all intents and purposes locked into their playoff spot barring losing the remaining five games or getting a tremendous amount of help from the opponents of the Stars and Blues. And while the former can’t be ruled out, the latter is still an incredibly low probability, as the schedule makers certainly did the Hawks plenty of favors by putting batting practice like the long out-of-it Jets on the schedule for the home stretch.

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  • Reasons For Optimism… No, I’m Serious. Don’t Look At Me That Way

    Reasons For Optimism… No, I’m Serious. Don’t Look At Me That Way

    You might say things look a little dark in Hawkdom these days. You might say they look darker than a black steer’s tookus on a moonless prairie night. Their most important skater is facing a suspension that has a chance of seeping into the playoffs. They don’t know when their goalie who is most responsible for their record this year is going to be able to return. Their other MVP isn’t scoring at near the rate he has before as teams have focused on that line and the top one hasn’t been able to bail him out. We’ve been over the defense.

    But all is not lost, my friends. There are reasons that the Hawks could yet have a long spring. I’m totally serious. Let’s go through them. Caveat: None of these mean shit if either or both of Keith and Crawford miss significant playoff time. Then they’re totally boned. Sorry.

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  • Morning Links 3.31.2016

    and they will..Daily Herald

    and she should be:PD

    and this should be a comic:NP

    and these could help tell us how long:FSN

    Good Work as always Mr.Baffoe:CBS

     

  • What A Way To Run A Railroad

    What A Way To Run A Railroad

    Another banner day in great Hawkdom and hockey in general. It’s gone beyond comedic to the surreal at this point. A listless, 5th straight loss to the decidedly in-the-middle Wild, the Hawks most important player looking at some sort of suspension, an organization continuing to act in a most callous, cowardly fashion, and a league that if it were any more balloon-handed would be able to carry the dude’s house from UP to Jupiter and back. Let’s see if we can’t get through it all without opening wounds on our collective faces.

    -Let’s start with Duncan Keith. While his elbow on Shooty Twin from 2012 and his high-stick can’t actually be considered in whatever discipline is coming his way, past displays of behavior can, which essentially is the same fucking thing. I suppose the technicalities would come up in any sort of appeal, which I’m fairly sure is going to come up.

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  • Morning Links 3/30/16

    Morning Links 3/30/16

    4-1

    It’s in his head

    Stupid and dangerous

    Crisis mode?

    Most disappointing part of yesterday

    Help Matt out, he was in Minot for a short stretch, good kid

  • A Floater Left With Pleasure In The Executive Washroom – Wild 4, Hawks 1

    A Floater Left With Pleasure In The Executive Washroom – Wild 4, Hawks 1

    Box Score
    Event Summary
    War on Ice

    It is a very real possibility that the Hawks are going to go the final two months of the season without a win against a Western Conference playoff team, pending the outcome of next Thursday’s home tilt with the Blues, when the outcome could be moot anyway. And yet it’s high treason when it is suggested that this team might not be built for two months straight of Western Conference opponents. Kiss a sick monkey’s wet ass.

    Time to pass the fuck-you’s around.

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  • Holy Fiver: Hawks at Wild Preview/Long Jump

    Hawk Wrestler vs. EW_Ygritte_promo_shoot_a

    PUCK DROP: 7pm 

    TV/RADIO: CSN, WGN

    OUT BEYOND THE WALL: Hockey Wilderness

    Wild Stats

    Wild War On Ice

    It only seems like the 12th time the Hawks and Wild have played this year. But going back over the last four seasons, this will be the 34th time the two have met including playoffs. So yeah, it can seem like a bit of a slog by this point. This is also the first chance for the Wild to sweep the season series from the Hawks, and I honestly can’t remember the Hawks losing to any team five times without reply since Quenneville took over. Which is kind of hard to believe but then it’s hard to be a team like the Hawks this much.

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  • Searching For A Former Clarity

    Searching For A Former Clarity

    There has been much wailing and gnashing of teeth regarding the Hawks’ possession troubles this season, specifically as it relates to the deployment of their defensemen. But maybe, just maybe, there might be a path by which they can solve this thing once the playoffs roll around, and it will once again have to be on the back of their instantaneous Hall of Fame defenseman.

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  • High On The Hog: Limping To The Playoffs

    High On The Hog: Limping To The Playoffs

    The Rockford IceHogs are limping into the AHL playoffs. There’s no kind way to say this. The Blackhawks AHL affiliate is putting the finishing touches on its second consecutive sub-.500 month of play, having dropped a pair of games in Lake Erie last week.

    The Hogs have slid from the top of the Central Division and are battling to remain in front of the Monsters for fourth place in the division standings. The club also has the task of dealing with the negative PR that comes from the legal situation in which Garret Ross currently finds himself.

    Taking the organization at its word, Rockford brass discovered this story the way the rest of us did; on the internet last weekend. It is, then, purely coincidental that the fortunes of the IceHogs have slipped dramatically in the past two months.

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  • Ds Equal Degrees: Hawks 3 – Canucks 2

    Ds Equal Degrees: Hawks 3 – Canucks 2

    Boxscore

    Event Summary

    War On Ice

    At this time of year, and with the way things had been going, points are pretty much all that matters. You can worry about the style points later. Which is good, because the last two wouldn’t really have any outside of the 4th line and Scott Darling. The Hawks clinched a playoff spot, not that that was in doubt, and can at least claim a mini-winning streak. They did what they had to, even if it was by the skin of their teeth, Dave Mustaine.

    On the other side, needing you goalie to bail you out against the dreck of the Pacific Division isn’t going to cause anyone to write songs. The Hawks gave up 15 shots in the 3rd period to a team with four forwards (maybe) and two defensemen that you’d call NHL quality. I think the past two games are more the Hawks struggling to find interest more than anything structural, as past games against better teams probably have been. But whatever changes they have in store we’re not going to see for another two weeks, so let us deal with what is.

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