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  • Draft Day Fallout

    Draft Day Fallout

    Well, Stage 1 of this week’s offseason circus is now in the books. What are we left with?

    The big news is obviously the trades of Dave Bolland and Michael Frolik for five picks. Bolland comes as no shock. He’d become to expensive for the role he had, and there are many options as replacements. Frolik was a bit of a surprise, just because it felt like he would have slotted perfectly into Viktor Stalberg’s role on the 3rd line. But again, a $2.2 million 4th liner is not a luxury you can afford for long. Frolik has been an underrated asset, sometimes criminally so, as he’s always driven possession no matter what role he was asked to play. And he’s been asked to play a lot of them in his time here.

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  • Morning Links 7/1/13

    Morning Links 7/1/13

    Thanks 36 & 67, not a bad way to go out though: ESPN Chicago

    Bicks will be back: Blackhawks

    Oh yeah and there was the whole draft thing going on: Trib

    Drafting Mr. Irrelevant is fun, the Hawks should do it every year: PD

    How Gillis still has a job is beyond me: PHT

    If you though Bickell got overpaid…: TSN

  • Hawks Trade Bolland To Toronto For Three Picks

    In news as shocking as finding out Mondays suck (for those of you with real jobs, at least), Dave Bolland found himself the center of a draft day trade to Toronto. The Hawks received the Leafs 2nd and 4th rounder this year and their 4th rounder next year, essentially recouping what they gave up for Johnny Oduya last year. The second round is where Stan might have done his best work, so getting that is a bonus (Saad, Clendening, Johns).

    Bolland gets a chance to play for something of his hometown team, as he’s an Ontario boy. Bolland can also slot in behind Kadri and Grabovski in his comfortable #3 center role, at least until round moron Randy Carlyle inexplicably boxes Grabovski up despite all his plus possession numbers.

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  • Draft Day Open Thread

    Could get a little wild, either with or without the Hawks. Will Bolland be shipped for picks? Someone else? Will the Hawks move up or down? We shall see. Discuss all the goings on here, and we’ll be posting stories as they happen, if they happen. Follow along on Twitter as well, @realfansprogram.

     

  • Saturday Open Thread

    We’ll be back to follow the draft tomorrow, but until then here’s a new thread to discuss goings on.

  • Parade & Rally Open Thread

    Parade & Rally Open Thread

    Watch it at CSNChicago.com.

    So bets on who’s the most drunk? Whose name gets mispronounced by a civic dignitary? Which player absolutely tanks his speech at the podium? The Kris Versteeg Ill Flowz Award?

  • Parade & Rally Open Thread

    Parade & Rally Open Thread

    Watch it at CSNChicago.com.

    So bets on who’s the most drunk? Whose name gets mispronounced by a civic dignitary? Which player absolutely tanks his speech at the podium? The Kris Versteeg Ill Flowz Award?

  • Metra Reading (6.28.13)

    Metra Reading (6.28.13)

    Please be careful: Chicago Tribune

    Enjoy it: Suntimes

    A helpful guide: Daily Herald

    I didn’t realize Tampa had 32.67 million lying around: TSN

    Clearly Kris Letang has Scott Boras as his agent: Sportsnet

    Meet your new coach for Sochi: USA TODAY

  • No Rest For The Wicked

    No Rest For The Wicked

    To the surprise of exactly no one with a functioning brain, it’s been announced today that Stan Bowman will use the Hawks’ two “Compliance Buyouts” on Steve Montador and Rusty Olesz.

    This will free up some much needed cap room, and these two players were the two obvious choices. But Bowman can’t and won’t stop there.

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  • Morning Links 6/27/13

    Morning Links 6/27/13

    My guess is they will claim 2.15 million attendees: Blackhawks

    In case you weren’t watching: Trib

    Hometown discount?: ESPN Chicago

    Next year starts now: SI

    Rask wasn’t the only one getting beat repeatedly late on Monday: Puck Daddy

    No side stepping the CBA: NY Post

    The story that won’t go away about the team the might: PHT