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  • Counter Punch – Blues 3, Hawks 2

    Counter Punch – Blues 3, Hawks 2

    So much for any kind of streak to start this season. Rather than wait a month and a half until after the season starts, the Hawks walk away without a point for the first time after only 3 games this season, and on their first trip out of the United Center.

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  • Hawks at Blues 3rd Period Thread

    Standing on the corner watching the ladies pass by
    Imagining me behind your eyes
    And what did I see?
    I saw hips, I saw thighs
    I saw secret positions that we never try

  • Hawks at Blues 2nd Period Thread

    I can’t believe you had a life before me
    I can’t believe they let you run around free
    Just putting your body wherever it seemed like a good idea
    What a good idea

  • Hawks at Blues 1st Period Thread

    He’s got a million dollar car
    He’s got a thirty-seven year old guitar
    He’s got a family who deals heroin
    You’re on the edge of your chair
    And you feel it
    He’s looking at you, he’s laughing at you
    It’s happening

  • It's All Happening: Hawks at Scum Jr. Preview/Pregame Thread/Queen's Jubilee

    Hawk Wrestler vs. old_school_blue_l

    PUCK DROP: 7pm Central
    TV/RADIO: NBCSN, 720 WGN-AM
    WASTED AND CAN’T FIND THEIR WAY HOME: St. Louis Gametime

    It’s all going down in downtown St. Louis tonight (and I don’t mean that in the usual sense, the residents doing so for meth). Within a mile of each other, the Blues will take on the Hawks and the Cardinals will be engaging in a Game 5 decider against the People’s Champ Pirates. Where are all the trailers and carriages going to fit?

    I’ll leave the baseball for other people (THIS IS YOUR TIME, CUTCH!!!) and just deal with the hockey. While I find it’s generally better to slowly wade into the hockey season in October and not really amp up the energy and emotion until there’s snow on the ground, there’s always one or two games that remind you of the coming storm. Tonight would obviously be one of those.

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  • It’s All Happening: Hawks at Scum Jr. Preview/Pregame Thread/Queen’s Jubilee

    Hawk Wrestler vs. old_school_blue_l

    PUCK DROP: 7pm Central
    TV/RADIO: NBCSN, 720 WGN-AM
    WASTED AND CAN’T FIND THEIR WAY HOME: St. Louis Gametime

    It’s all going down in downtown St. Louis tonight (and I don’t mean that in the usual sense, the residents doing so for meth). Within a mile of each other, the Blues will take on the Hawks and the Cardinals will be engaging in a Game 5 decider against the People’s Champ Pirates. Where are all the trailers and carriages going to fit?

    I’ll leave the baseball for other people (THIS IS YOUR TIME, CUTCH!!!) and just deal with the hockey. While I find it’s generally better to slowly wade into the hockey season in October and not really amp up the energy and emotion until there’s snow on the ground, there’s always one or two games that remind you of the coming storm. Tonight would obviously be one of those.

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  • Pigs in Zen: Hogs Split Opening Weekend

    Pigs in Zen: Hogs Split Opening Weekend

    The puck finally dropped on the IceHogs’ 2013-14 season this weekend. The boys from RockVegas started off the season with a road trip down to Texas for tilts against the San Antonio Rampage and the Texas Stars.

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  • Morning Links 10/9/13

    Morning Links 10/9/13

    Call it what you want to call it: ESPN Chi

    Yeah, I’m sure the STL area hotels/eateries love this: CSN

    Brookbank gets the nod: DH

    Dirty: PHT

    This article should be title “How Does Gillis Still Have a Job?”: PD

    The Republican Shutdown: SI

    Yeah good luck with that: TSN

  • Angry At Numbers

    Angry At Numbers

    Even though any statistician worth his or her salt would say that two games and an overtime frame is hardly enough of a SAMPLE SIZE to glean anything meaningful from, there still are some interesting nuggets to be found.

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  • Morning Links 10/08/13

    Morning Links 10/08/13

    Except the WIld have more talent: SunTimes

    Now for that Penalty Kill: Comcast

    I would assume not, since well you know: Daily Herald

    This makes things a bit interesting: ESPN

    The definition of the phrase “Fall Guy”Philadelphia Examiner