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You Can’t Imagine How Much Fun We’re Having – Hawks at Wild Preview, Mail Merge

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evil empire at wildthings

Game Time: 7:00PM Central
TV/Radio: CSN, WGN-AM 720
Commit This To Memory: Hockey Wilderness

Before beginning the preview in earnest, first a public service announcement for Halloween weekend.

Under no circumstance is going out in black face acceptable. Yes, it’s 2015 and it’s fucking preposterous that these statements have to be made, but such is the state of affairs. And it’s a particularly gross trend among hockey players. It is your responsibility as a human being to tell anyone even thinking of doing this that it’s a bad, at best colossally ignorant idea. Do not be like these assholes.

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MTS Syndrome: Hawks at Jets Preview/Pregame Thread/Bada Bing Meeting

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250px-Ozymandias vs. Kenny Smith

PUCK DROP: 7pm

TV/RADIO: CSN, WGN

EVANDER KANE FAN CLUB: Arctic Ice Hockey

Jets Stats

Jets War On Ice

The Hawks will take their Keithers-less act on the road for the first time tonight, and they’ll face a Jets team that was a major headache for them last year (though not at MTS Centre). Winnipeg won all three games at the United Center last year, and a couple of them pretty handily. This will be a major test for the Hawks’ reshaped blue line, and they very well could need Corey Crawford to bail them out again as he did Monday.

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Fireside Chat

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Welcome to another edition.

I always try and imagine what that creep Lovitz is saying in this picture. It’s different every time I look at it. Anyways, I wanted to touch on something that’s been sort of bandied about since Marko Dano’s demotion and how he didn’t understand the Hawks “system.” Let me put this out there as a misnomer right away.

Hockey is not football.

As much as Pierre MacGuire wants to slowly tickle himself over Dan Byslma’s forechecking strategy, there isn’t a 500 page playbook that guys are expected to memorize at the onset of training camp and are guarded as though they contain a nuclear launch code.  Hockey is more like basketball in the sense that everyone knows what their opponent is going to do. There are no secret forecheck or neutral zone traps that teams are stunned to see at the outset of a game.

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From Face To Heel And Back Again, And Other Roster Notes

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You’re going to have to get used to the upped quota of wrestling references, given my recent return to fandom.

I was inspired to write this after reading Mark Lazerus’s story on Michal Rozsival yesterday. It’s a pretty good read, and getting the perspective of what it’s like to break your ankle that gruesomely certainly makes it more vivid, at least to someone like me who hasn’t broken a bone (DATS CUZ YER NOT CHICAGO TOUGH, FELS-STINE!). And it got me to think about the arc of Rozsival’s stay here in Chicago, and how much of that should really play in to whether he should still be on this team or not.