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  • Fearful Symmetry – Kings vs Hawks Preview, Pregame Thread, Empty Resolutions

    centerpiece-king vs oldschool

    Game Time: 7:00PM Central
    TV/Radio: CSN, NBCSN, TSN2, WGN-AM 720
    Deeez Nuuuts: The Royal Half, Jewels From The Crown, Battle of California

    It’s fitting that the Hawks should close out the calendar year of 2013 against whom they began it on January 19th, when they made a defiant statement shortly after the Kings’ overdue banner ceremony. Since then, the Hawks ripped through the Kings in the Western Conference Final on their way to a banner ceremony of their own. And though the teams tend to take considerably different routes during the regular season, it seems as though they’re once again on a collision course to meet in the spring. But they’ll need to resolve matters on a frigid Chicago night first.

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  • Morning Links 12/30/13

    Morning Links 12/30/13

    Saad alright with change: Chicago Tribune

    Leddy charging: SunTimes

    Midway point: ESPN

    Sharp getting notice: Suntimes

    New CTA podcast: Cheer The Anthem

     

  • Heavy Weather: Hawks 5 – Blues 5 (Blues win Tiddlywinks)

    Heavy Weather: Hawks 5 – Blues 5 (Blues win Tiddlywinks)

    Box Score

    Event Summary

    Extra Skater

    Well, that should keep the “Goalie Controversy!” Tea-Partiers at bay at least until Crawford can cough up another game.

    If you’ve come here for me to make you feel better, I’m going to fail you. Up two goals twice on a team that’s got a pretty heavy injury list… you have to have that. Pretty simple. You see it out in the 3rd period, you smother it away. That is if you’re the true powerhouse that you are. Yeah, I know. Second game in two nights. Not like you had to work all that hard on Friday. You gotta have it. You don’t give away one point, much less two.

    And the warts that we’ve been trying to point out were there for all to see. That doesn’t mean they won’t correct themselves over the next 41. It doesn’t mean they might not matter over the next 41. But when the spring comes, a series against this Blues team or a healthier Kings team than last spring or the Ducks is going to come down to a few little things. And there are little things the Hawks need to sort out. In no particular order…

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  • Hawks at Blues 3rd Period

    You can tell I’m a lyrical prophet from the words spoken and broken up
    In these books and scrolls that I unfold
    The knowledge I use does make me bold
    The intelligence in my system

  • Hawks at Blues 2nd Period Thread

    Cause I’m sweet, neat, I don’t romp or skinteet
    Lyrics I lick with my tongue
    And rhymes I nymn with my teeth
    This lyrical prophet you can’t stop this from the West Indies

  • Hawks at Blues 1st Period Thread

    Ring the alarm, I don’t wanna stay calm cause
    I’m about to rip this Psalm
    When the mic is gripped my lyrics do split up like
    Bombs from Vietnam

  • Gonna Raise Hell: Blackhawks At Blues – Preview/Pre-Game Thread/Sock Hop

     oldschool  @  bluestrumpet_jersey

    Game Time: 7:00PM Central
    TV/Radio: WGN/WGN-AM 720
    Don’t Go There, Tis A Silly Place: St. Louis Game Time

    Although the Hawks have dropped both games against the Blues this year, the games have actually been pretty even affairs. The first was a loss in a last minute collapse and about a week later it took a shootout to determine a winner. Either one could likely have gone either way, a bad pinch from #7 or one extra deke determined who got 4 points. Now the Hawks return to St. Louis for the first time since early October in the middle leg of an intense three game swing for themselves.

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  • Night Of The Living Dead: Avs 2 – Hawks Touchdown And PAT

    Night Of The Living Dead: Avs 2 – Hawks Touchdown And PAT

    I don’t know that you learn anything from a night like this. When the opponent clearly is still stowed away neatly in the overhead against the Hawks, it’s going to be over in a hurry unless the Hawks are also a couple tacos short of a combo plate. Sadly for the Avs, the Hawks most certainly were not.

    This game was probably over when it was scheduled and the Avs weren’t allowed to travel until this morning. While I wrote into tonight’s Indian how I thought the union’s call for a three-day Christmas break was harming the league (no exposure at a time when everyone’s sitting around begging for a distraction from their family), I understand wanting Christmas Eve and Christmas day at home with loved ones. I would have thought extending it to Boxing Day would save everyone the hassle of traveling on Christmas night. But to extend a travel ban through the next day? You’re essentially sentencing more than a few teams to be up against it, and Colorado was one of them. I don’t think it’s asking too much for teams to be allowed to fly into town the night of the 26th. It would give them more of a fighting chance.

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  • Avs at Hawks 3rd Period Thread

    Yeah, I’m working, making money, I’m just starting to build a name.
    I can feel it, around the corner, I could make it any day.
    Mother mother can you hear me, sure I’m sober, sure I’m sane.
    Life is perfect, never better, still your daughter, still the same.

  • Avs at Hawks 2nd Period Thread

    I’m hungry,
    I’m dirty,
    I’m losing my mind…
    Everything’s fine!