Pow! Right between the eyes
Oh, how nature loves her little surprises
Wow! It all seems so logical now
It’s just one of her better disguises
Recent Posts
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Hawks at Jets 2nd Period Thread
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Hawks at Jets 1st Period Thread
Sometimes I can’t help the feeling that I’m
Living a life of illusion
And oh, why can’t we let it be
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Jet City Woman: Hawks at Jets Preview/Pregame Thread/Neti Pot Discussion
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FACEOFF: 7pm Central
TV/RADIO: CSN, WGN Radio 720
SO VERY, VERY COLD: Arctic Ice Hockey
WHERE YOU SHOULD WATCH: At The Piggery (Irving and Ashland) With Us
For the second time in a week, the Hawks will look to bounce back after an ugly loss, however bad you actually believe Tuesday’s loss to be. On Sunday, they returned from the skewering in Nashville to smother the Sharks. Needless to say, the Jets are not the Sharks. See what I did there?
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Hey Kids, Where Are You?
Organizational round-up Wednesday is what it’s become. Let’s get to it, starting in the juniors up in the hinterlands.
In the Q, Dillon Fournier was a -1 in two games for Rouyn-Noranda. He was also named to the QMJHL team for the Subway Series against Team Russia. For those who don’t know, the Subway Series is six games, two games each from an All-star team of each junior league, against Team Russia. It’s a sort of precursor for Canada to see who will compete for the World Junior roster. From what I’ve seen Fournier won’t be making Team Canada, but I suppose you never know. On the year Fournier is 7-10-17 and +16 in 22 games.
Also in the Q at Victoriaville, Brandon Whitney went 1-1 in two stars, but only gave up four goals total (two in each) on 73 shots. The numbers on the year are still unsightly, at 3.62 GAA and .896 SV%. But the poor kid is seeing over 40 shots per game, so he may be puck-shocked soon.
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Pigs in Zen: Hogs Split Another Weekend Set
The IceHogs had 2 more games this weekend; these were the first two games since the Hawks traded forward Jimmy Hayes and defenseman Dylan Olsen to the Florida Panthers organization on November 14th.
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Morning Links 11/20/13
Last night: Blackhawks
Hossa close: Trib
At least he’ll look the part: IGM
I’d rather Crow have the time off: SI
Adding some circus to the trip: TSN
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Some Will Die In Hot Pursuit: Hawks 1 – Avs 5
In a season where I’ve begged coach and players to look at the big picture and not react game to game, I’m going to try and take the same tack. Sure, some of us wanted this one a little more than we might for any other regular season game. That’s because A) it’s always satisfying to see a team getting too much hype get its market correction (and I saw nothing tonight that convinced me the Avs won’t, as weird as that sounds in a 5-1 dry heave) and B) because the Avs are a garbage organization that deserves that correction. But it didn’t happen, and I don’t want to kick things over games in November.
And that scoreline tells a story that I’m not sure the game follows. Credit to Colorado who were opportunistic and their goalie Drunky McPunchPunch was stellar (must be easy at home where it’s easier to imagine the puck as a woman’s face). Just because you present a team with most of its chances doesn’t mean they don’t have to convert them and the Avs did.
But the Hawks… well, it was there. Could have been so much different. If one very important player wasn’t huffing paint, it very well might have been. Let’s get to the bullets..
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Third Period Thread – Hawks at Avalanche
They don’t lose any sleep at night because Earl had to die.
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Second Period Thread – Hawks at Avalanche
It turns out he was a missing person that nobody missed at all.
