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  • And Here Come The Pretzels: Blackhawks 5 – Devils 3

    And Here Come The Pretzels: Blackhawks 5 – Devils 3

    Box Score
    Event Summary
    Extra Skater

    This kind of explosion in the third period is exactly what makes this team so much damn fun to watch. While there were chances on both sides of the ice in the first, it remained a pretty even and quiet game. There were shifts where both teams threatened but neither goalie or defense was going to give anything up. So after the first remained scoreless with relatively few shots and the second period ended tied at one it seemed like it could end up being a “next goal wins” scenario. Then the third started and the goals flooded in 3 of them in about 4 minutes. It was a blink and you’ll miss it scene. When the Hawks can smell blood in the water, they can usually capitalize. It’s just where they left off last year when they scored those two goals in 17 seconds. It doesn’t happen every game (like most games against the Blues this year unfortunately) but the Hawks can make good teams look very silly and they can make mediocre teams look worse. While the Devils were able to claw their way back into this one. After Hossa’s wrister you could easily have put it in the books.

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  • Hawks 5, Devils 3 – Post Game Thread

    Killion should be by in a little while to provide a real wrap, but discuss Patrick Sharp being handsome as hell here for now.

  • Third Period Thread – Hawks at Devils

    There’s a dirty wind blowing, there’s a storm front coming in, There’s an S.O.S. on the seas tonight. Steady now, steady now. soldier hold fast now. It’s heads or tails on heart attacks and broken dreams tonight.

  • Second Period Thread – Hawks at Devils

    We used to drive all night, all over town. We’d go Waltzing Matilda when Matilda came around.

  • First Period Thread – Hawks at Devils

    I’m broke and I’m hungry, I’m hard up and I’m lonely, I been dancing on this killing floor for years. And of the few things I am certain, I’m the captain of my burden. I’m sorry doll, I could never stop the rain.

  • Bridge and Tunnel – Hawks at Devils, Preview, Pregame Thread, Snowpocalypse

    oldschool at obedience

    Game Time: 6:00PM Central
    TV/Radio: CSN, WGN-AM 720
    The Easter Bunny at Menlo Park Is More Convincing: In Lou We Trust

    In what is already their 846th back to back of barely half a season, the Hawks will traverse the Five Boroughs and head right across both rivers to Newark to meet the Devils. The blizzard conditions that are now news because it’s hitting New York despite the fact that it just dumped over a foot of snow here three days ago in the part of the country that doesn’t count will almost assuredly be blamed for what will be a low turnout, as has been the case since the Devils moved to The Rock. And based on the type of game the Devils play, they can’t really be blamed.

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  • Morning Links 1/3/14

    Morning Links 1/3/14

    The Crow: HockeeNight

    Spoiled Return: Chicago Tribune

    One Sochi snub raises his middle finger at David Poile: Sportsnet.Ca

    Comeback Stalled: Comcast Chicago

    US ousted from WJC: CBC

     

  • Must've Needed More Gatorade: Hawks 2 – Islanders 3 (OT)

    Must've Needed More Gatorade: Hawks 2 – Islanders 3 (OT)

    Extra Skater

    Box Score

    Event Summary

    Guess the NYE hangover hadn’t quite cleared.

    The Hawks were pretty much where they needed to be in the first, smothering most Islander threats and outshooting them 12-5. Sure, a silly pass from Johnny Oduya to a covered Bryan Bickell at the red line and Bickell being forced into a turnover while Bangkok Dangerous marched off into the sea of green let Casey Cizikas in to give Long Island the lead. But the Hawks could feel good about how they played.

    But for the last 40, the Hawks were all over and left far too much space for an Isles squad that isn’t bereft of weapons. The two goals they gave up from there came to the top line, which is exactly what you can’t do against this team. Sure, they fought back to tie it but were always asking for trouble in just being all over in their own zone. Not shocking the game ended when Patrick Sharp came too far over to deal with John Tavares, and left US-snub All-Star Kyle Okposo to rifle one home. That’s how the Hawks had been in their zone all night.

    To the notes:

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  • Must’ve Needed More Gatorade: Hawks 2 – Islanders 3 (OT)

    Must’ve Needed More Gatorade: Hawks 2 – Islanders 3 (OT)

    Extra Skater

    Box Score

    Event Summary

    Guess the NYE hangover hadn’t quite cleared.

    The Hawks were pretty much where they needed to be in the first, smothering most Islander threats and outshooting them 12-5. Sure, a silly pass from Johnny Oduya to a covered Bryan Bickell at the red line and Bickell being forced into a turnover while Bangkok Dangerous marched off into the sea of green let Casey Cizikas in to give Long Island the lead. But the Hawks could feel good about how they played.

    But for the last 40, the Hawks were all over and left far too much space for an Isles squad that isn’t bereft of weapons. The two goals they gave up from there came to the top line, which is exactly what you can’t do against this team. Sure, they fought back to tie it but were always asking for trouble in just being all over in their own zone. Not shocking the game ended when Patrick Sharp came too far over to deal with John Tavares, and left US-snub All-Star Kyle Okposo to rifle one home. That’s how the Hawks had been in their zone all night.

    To the notes:

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  • Hawks at Islanders 3rd Period Thread

    The line I shoot will never miss
    When I make love to a woman,
    She can’t resist
    I think I go down,
    To old Kansas Stew
    I’m gonna bring back my second cousin,
    That little Johnny Cocheroo