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  • Hawks at Jackets 3rd Period Thread

    Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between
    The effect and it! Come to my woman’s breasts,
    And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers,

  • Hawks at Jackets 2nd Period Thread

    Of direst cruelty! make thick my blood;
    Stop up the access and passage to remorse,
    That no compunctious visitings of nature

  • Hawks at Jackets 1st Period Thread

    The raven himself is hoarse

    That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan
    Under my battlements. Come, you spirits
    That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,
    And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full

  • Hang On Sloopy: Hawks at Jackets Preview/Pregame Thread/Burnination

    AltLogo vs. Chief_Blue_Meanie

    PUCK DROP: 6pm Central

    TV/RADIO: CSN, WGN Radio

    WE MEANIES ONLY TAKE NO FOR AN ANSWER: Jackets Cannon

    The Hawks continue this exercise in perspective tonight in Ohio, facing a pretty spiky Blue Jackets team that is scrapping for either a wild-card spot or even taking the last automatic one in the Metrosexual. They also played last night and did their cause a world of good by shutting out the Flyers in Philadelphia.

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  • Morning Links 4/4/14

    Morning Links 4/4/14

    Fantastic: HockeeNight

    Yup:SCH

    Call it whatever you want: Chicago Tribune

    Clutch in the shootout: SunTimes

    A new look: TSN

  • Whatever: Wild 2 – Hawks 2 (Hawks win Cowboys And Indians)

    Whatever: Wild 2 – Hawks 2 (Hawks win Cowboys And Indians)

    Box Score

    Event Summary

    Extra Skater

    Well they won’t box up the video of this one and send it off to Toronto for safe keeping. This one looked every bit like two teams missing some key players who really don’t have much on the line just getting through the schedule. But I suppose when you’re missing two of the five best players in the league and then are stripped of one of your top four, you’ll take the points however they get there. So it goes.

    And in reality, I liked the Hawks’ structure tonight for the most part. They were hitting the line with five, they were coming all the way back to be available, and when they do that they really keep the other team from getting sustained pressure. The Wild had their moments, but I don’t feel like Crawford ever had to be a poltergeist to keep the puck out of the net. Sure, he still looked behind him twice but those were results of some fluky bounces and deflections.

    Of course, a deviation from that structure is what caused the tying goal, but we’ll get to that.

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  • Third Period Thread – Wild vs Hawks

    I asked for nothing and I got it in spades. Worked for a living and I earned a cage. They say I look old for my age. This American me.

  • Second Period Thread – Wild vs Hawks

    Tradition tells use home own, but the time card’s saying no go. Now the suits are talking foreclose from sea to shining sea.

  • First Period Thread – Wild vs Hawks

    Yeah I’m stealing cigarettes, selling them off to friends for rent. Plus a pay check and still in debt? I’m asking how could it be?

  • The Ledge – Wild vs Hawks Preview, Pregame Thread, Attitude Adjustment

    wildthings vs oldschool

    Game Time: 7:00PM
    TV/Radio: CSN, NBCSN, TSN2, WGN-AM 720
    Somebody To Shove: Hockey Wilderness

    After an excruciating and seemingly interminable three days off filled with speculation and meatballery, the Blackhawks at long last get back to actually playing games that matter in the standings, rather than those more concerned with second guessing and dick measuring. They’ll do so against the visiting Wild, who have for the most part owned the Hawks this year, and are looking to get closer to clinching their second straight playoff berth.

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