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  • What I'm Playing: The Last of Us

    What I'm Playing: The Last of Us

    Quick note: As the summer winds on, I will be making updates as to what video game is in my PS3. My hope is this for to become a regular topic for me this summer. I rarely play sports games so there’s a good chance this will all be action/adventure games. (“AAAAAAHHHHH! TALK MORE SPORTZZZZZ!!!”) If you aren’t interested in this sort of thing, then you can go back to arguing about line arrangements that are going to be shifted after the third preseason game anyways. I’ll try to keep any spoilers to a minimum.

    If you’re like 3.4 million other people, you’ve have entered a world unlike any other in “The Last of Us,” a Playstation 3 exclusive that involves a post-apocalyptic journey across what was once the United States of America. Generally when I beat a game that I find engrossing, it takes a couple days for me to decompress back into reality and remember it’s not normal to go around sneaking up on people and snapping necks. Games like Red Dead Redemption, the Batman Arkham series and the Unchartered series come to mind.

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  • What I’m Playing: The Last of Us

    What I’m Playing: The Last of Us

    Quick note: As the summer winds on, I will be making updates as to what video game is in my PS3. My hope is this for to become a regular topic for me this summer. I rarely play sports games so there’s a good chance this will all be action/adventure games. (“AAAAAAHHHHH! TALK MORE SPORTZZZZZ!!!”) If you aren’t interested in this sort of thing, then you can go back to arguing about line arrangements that are going to be shifted after the third preseason game anyways. I’ll try to keep any spoilers to a minimum.

    If you’re like 3.4 million other people, you’ve have entered a world unlike any other in “The Last of Us,” a Playstation 3 exclusive that involves a post-apocalyptic journey across what was once the United States of America. Generally when I beat a game that I find engrossing, it takes a couple days for me to decompress back into reality and remember it’s not normal to go around sneaking up on people and snapping necks. Games like Red Dead Redemption, the Batman Arkham series and the Unchartered series come to mind.

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  • Morning Links 7/15/13

    Morning Links 7/15/13

    Kruger 2 years 1.325m: TSN

    Which means the Hawks cap situation looks like this: CG

    Stan and Q getting a jump on next summer: ESPN Chi

    In depth look at the newest picks: HF

    Game 7 replay saving you from watching a bloated ass bag yell “back” 697 times a second followed by “he hit that all the way to Poughkeepsie/Hoboken/Etc.”: CSN (auto play)

    Goalies are getting paid, is Corey next?: PD

    This seems like a bit of an overreaction: Sporting News

  • Camping with the Kids:  Day 5 of Prospect Camp

    Camping with the Kids: Day 5 of Prospect Camp

    The puck dropped for the final time on Blackhawks Prospect Camp at 10:00 this morning for the final scrimmage of the week. With one last chance to show hockey ops and fans what they could do this week, the prospects put on a great show.

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  • Friday Musical Interlude: "Dust" by Screaming Trees

    Friday Musical Interlude: "Dust" by Screaming Trees

    It’s a summer Friday, which probably means you’re already headed out of the office, and mentally you’ve already checked out long ago. And we’re about to enter the hockey doldrums, just as soon as Kruger’s contract is signed basically. But we really all could use a break, so before we break for the weekend let’s have a little fun, shall we?

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  • Friday Musical Interlude: “Dust” by Screaming Trees

    Friday Musical Interlude: “Dust” by Screaming Trees

    It’s a summer Friday, which probably means you’re already headed out of the office, and mentally you’ve already checked out long ago. And we’re about to enter the hockey doldrums, just as soon as Kruger’s contract is signed basically. But we really all could use a break, so before we break for the weekend let’s have a little fun, shall we?

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  • Morning Links 7.12.13

    Morning Links 7.12.13

    Kruger deal close: Comcast Chicago

    Healthy Debate: Blackhawk UP

    First Round Q&A: Blackhawks.Com

    Game Changer: PuckDaddy

    People are not happy: SportsNet

    Salary Arbitration can hurt: Backhand Shelf

  • Camping with the Kids:  Day 4 of Prospect Camp

    Camping with the Kids: Day 4 of Prospect Camp

    Thursday at Blackhawks Prospect Camp brought the second scrimmage of the week. The White Team was looking to even up the “series” since the Red Team took the 5-4 victory in Wednesday’s scrimmage.

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  • Fleeing The Herd and Other Thursday Notes

    Well, that turned into a bit of a crazy day from nowhere, huh? As you probably know by now, Ilya Kovalchuk has “retired” from the NHL to go back to Russia, where no one really doubts he’ll sign with St. Petersburg again and for more salary than he was getting from New Jersey. That’s why all this “Oh what a man he walked away from $77 million for his family and I think I’m getting moist…” hokum is just deliriously funny. And yes, that is the first time I have ever used the word “hokum.”

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  • Morning Links 7/11/13

    For much less annoying pics of the Cup: CBS

    John Hayden mic’ed up at camp: BHTV

    Kruger and Stan still talking: ESPN Chicago

    21 file for arb: PHT

    This will make a bad 1:06 hurt less: TSN

    The Blues made a trade: PD