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

    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

    Fireside Chat

    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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  • Morning Links 10/29/15

    Morning Links 10/29/15

    Divisional play finally: Blackhawks

    Rockford rotation: Trib

    Just a game after all: CST

    I mean obviously: Deadspin

    Torts is the guy: PD

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

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

    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.

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  • Morning Links 10/28/2015

    Morning Links 10/28/2015

    Overtime History:NBC

    Kero Up:Chicago Tribune

    Just Bad:FTW

    The Week ahead:BU

    Patience practiced and rewarded:Fox

    D-Day:NHL

  • Some Page 8s – Q’s Lottery and The Anaheim Inquisition

    Just sharing our past couple Page 8s from the gameday program. For those who don’t know, Page 8 is where we kind of let loose and do anything we think is funny.

    The Lottery by Joel Quenneville

    Lottery

    The Anaheim Inquisition

    Anaheim inquisition bw

  • High On The Hog: Kero Shines In Rockford

    High On The Hog: Kero Shines In Rockford

    The Rockford IceHogs, AHL affiliate of the Chicago Blackhawks, have struggled on the defensive end to start the 2015-16 season. Coach Ted Dent must have pushed the right buttons at practice prior to this past week’s action. The Hogs were stingier and have won three straight games because of it.

    Rockford bested Centrals Division foes Iowa, Chicago and Milwaukee in Week 3 of the AHL schedule. The IceHogs are 4-3, good enough for fourth place in the eight-team division standings.

    It was a big week for Rockford. As well as getting back above .500, the IceHogs made a move that should provide the veteran leadership a young team will need this season. It was also a big week for rookie center Tanner Kero.

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  • Morning Links 10/27/15

    Morning Links 10/27/15

    1-0: Blackhawks

    No goal: PHT

    Crawstink: CSN

    New guys killing it: CST

    Domi homecoming: PD

  • Just One Fix: Ducks 0 – Hawks 1

    Just One Fix: Ducks 0 – Hawks 1

    Boxscore

    Event Summary

    War On Ice

    Natural Stat Trick

    I’m actually tempted to apply our normal title policy to these silly overtimes, where we list the score as tied. But more on that later.

    Once again, the Hawks couldn’t find a goal during normal time, though unlike Saturday they were outplayed for most of the game instead of surviving an opening barrage and slowly turning the game their way. But they have a second straight shutout, and they can think Corey Crawford for it. By the way, Crow’s now gleaming .943 SV% is good for 4th in the league, as would his 1.57 GAA. Hopefully this time he can avoid any arguments with the H.O.B steps.

    Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. You could say a second straight shutout without Keith is highly encouraging (though this is the 5th time the Ducks have been shutout this season, so that accomplishment doesn’t get a bunch of gold stars). Or you could look at the Hawks only having put up one even-strength goal without Keith as something to worry. The answer is probably both.

    Let’s do the thing.

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  • Shake It Loose – Ducks vs Hawks Preview, Fruit Canning

     vs evil empire

    Game Time: 7:30PM Central
    TV/Radio: CSN, NHLN, Various Regional SportsNet Affiliates, WGN-AM 720
    Tragic Kingdom: Anaheim Calling

    On a certain level it’s probably wrong to point and laugh at the AnaCouver CaDucks’ moribund start considering the relentless amorality of the Hawks from top to bottom. And there’s no way the Ducks are actually as bad as a lot of they have looked and much of their struggles are percentage driven, and calling them out on it will likely result in a STATEMENT GAME where they perform well tonight because jinxes are totally real. On another level, fuck the Anaheim Ducks, because no one in their right mind in this fan base should give even a quarter of a shit about a game in late October.

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