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  • Old Main Drag: Senators At Hawks – Preview/Pregame Thread/Goal Line Stand

    170px-Senate_Canda @ oldschool

    Game Time: 6:00 Central
    TV/Radio: NHL-N, WGN/WGN 720
    Whole Mess of Whippersnappers: Silver Seven Sens

    After dropping two one goal games in a row, the Hawks face another team that’s off to a surprising little start. The Sens lost their first game before rattling off 4 wins in a row before losing last night in OT. That’s a damn good start for a team that’s not expected to do very much this season. They’ve had their previous captain and most beloved player in franchise history head south before last season. The guy next in line, Jason Spezza, was moved down to Dallas. Ales Hemsky, a pick up from the Oilers at the deadline, also went down to the Lone Star State. Also gone, Joe Corvo – who seems allergic to playing on a team for consecutive years these days and Matt Kassian who went back to the Wild.

    But fear not because the Senators did add plenty to compliment their young team by adding David Legwand. So that’s… something.

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  • I’m Not The Only One: Blues 3, Blackhawks 2

    I’m Not The Only One: Blues 3, Blackhawks 2

    Box Score

    Event Summary

    War on Ice

    Stop me if you heard this one before. The Blackhawks go in to St. Louis for an early season matchup against the Blues, lose a frustrating game, walk out with 0 points, it gets projected for how things will shape out in the playoffs and then no one remembers what happened a week later.

    Oh that’s right. This has been an ongoing tradition since Barrett Jackman slowly slid out of a goat’s birth canal.

    Whatever. On to the rest.

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  • I'm Not The Only One: Blues 3, Blackhawks 2

    I'm Not The Only One: Blues 3, Blackhawks 2

    Box Score

    Event Summary

    War on Ice

    Stop me if you heard this one before. The Blackhawks go in to St. Louis for an early season matchup against the Blues, lose a frustrating game, walk out with 0 points, it gets projected for how things will shape out in the playoffs and then no one remembers what happened a week later.

    Oh that’s right. This has been an ongoing tradition since Barrett Jackman slowly slid out of a goat’s birth canal.

    Whatever. On to the rest.

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  • Hawks at Blues Gamethread

  • No Touching: Hawks at Blues Preview/Pregame Thread/Rain Dance

    Hawk Wrestler vs. old_school_blue_l

    FACEOFF: 7pm

    TV/RADIO: WGN for both

    MAKE SURE YOU’VE HAD YOUR SHOTS: St. Louis Gametime

    You can’t avoid it forever. Eventually you have to go visit the outdoor prison that is St. Louis and play the hockey team comprised out of whatever they scraped out of the drains that resides there. It’s hardly enjoyable usually, and you’ll just want it to be over, but the NHL schedule-makers make you do it anyway.

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  • I’m Looking Right At You, Big Daddy

    I’m Looking Right At You, Big Daddy

    This is kind of an extension of Wednesday’s Angry At Numbers, but looking more specifically at Patrick Kane. We’ve spent a lot of time on this blog analyzing Kane’s linemates and production, which seems weird. It seems weird because no one would argue that Kane isn’t one of the top 10 players in the league, so why should it matter so much who he is playing with? In one sense, you feel like it shouldn’t. But in another, it does. Kane’s such a unique talent with such a unique style, he’s not as user friendly as say Toews or Hossa is (and there’s been plenty of talk about who Hossa should play with too).

    So I thought I’d go back through and look at Kane’s most productive seasons and see who they were spent with, and maybe we’ll have a better idea of what should be happening now.

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  • I'm Looking Right At You, Big Daddy

    I'm Looking Right At You, Big Daddy

    This is kind of an extension of Wednesday’s Angry At Numbers, but looking more specifically at Patrick Kane. We’ve spent a lot of time on this blog analyzing Kane’s linemates and production, which seems weird. It seems weird because no one would argue that Kane isn’t one of the top 10 players in the league, so why should it matter so much who he is playing with? In one sense, you feel like it shouldn’t. But in another, it does. Kane’s such a unique talent with such a unique style, he’s not as user friendly as say Toews or Hossa is (and there’s been plenty of talk about who Hossa should play with too).

    So I thought I’d go back through and look at Kane’s most productive seasons and see who they were spent with, and maybe we’ll have a better idea of what should be happening now.

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  • Morning Links 10/24/14

    Morning Links 10/24/14

    Cowboy Hat: TSN

    Mad: CTA

    …and a bitch slap from James Neal: LGH

    We travel well to cool ass places: PD

    New Life: ESPN

    All these songs suck including #1 SI

  • Dead Voices: James Neal 3 – Blackhawks 2

    Dead Voices: James Neal 3 – Blackhawks 2

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    War On Ice

    Can I share with you all my new biggest fear? It’s not about the reinstatement of prohibition or the new Avengers movie being as bad as Dark Knight Rises. It’s that we may be witnessing the birth of the Predators becoming just as obnoxious and awful as St. Lewis is now. I don’t mean that they’ll become as terrible, ignorant, ugly and racist as Cardinals fans. But I mean that with Laviolette running the program, we’ve already seen them adjust to an uptempo and aggressive style. With James Neal and Mike Ribeiro, they’ve got more than enough assholery. And to back it all up. They’ve got plenty of skill too. We’ve mentioned it before but the Preds have guys that can flat out play and some that are only just now going to be reaching their full potential. And no matter what, I think there’s always going to be enough leftover Trotz in this team that they’re not going to go flying off the handle and shoot themselves in the foot the way the Blues can. It’s almost Halloween.. this is the time to talk about what scares you, right?

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  • Game Thread – Hawks at Preds