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  • First Period Thread – Game 5 – Bruins vs Hawks

    The face of another day, searching of the voice of a better way. They say that it’s a bad time of year to be up in arms, so we’re pushing on ’cause we know in our hearts it’s the only way to stay afloat with the sharks at bay. Avoid being a casualty of the circumstances, and second chances are shredded day by day

  • Tension In The Ranks – Game 5 – Bruins vs Hawks Preview, Pregame Thread, Economics Lecture

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    Game Time: 7:00PM Central
    TV/Radio: NBC, CBC (Anglo), RDS (Franco), WGN-AM 720
    Subbacultcha: Cup of Chowder, Days of Y’Orr

    For all of the mewling on both sides about the various issues surrounding both the Bruins and Blackhawks, today the series finds itself pretty much exactly where everyone thought it would be. And with the series being tied 2-2 after the Hawks regained home-ice advantage on Wednesday, tonight’s game 5 is critical in taking a grip on the series.

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  • Beard Of The Day – June 22nd – Pete Townshend

    Pete_Townshend_in_HamburgNone of us are going to need any help getting jacked for tonight’s game. The mixture of nerves, excitement, queasiness and pure adrenaline is what chewing on an adrenal gland is like (…I imagine). So if we were musicians here on this site, and we’re not, there would only be one way to play the guitar. And that would be the full on windmill style popularized by one of the greatest talents in Rock & Roll, Pete Townshend.

    I’m not going to waste your time getting into why Townshend is great. If you’re already not a huge fan of The Who than you’re either beyond our hope or you’re probably around 12 years old and haven’t started listening to real music yet. And if you are 12, you probably shouldn’t be reading this site without your parents permission. Go watch some cartoons kid. Actually, Fels is probably watching cartoons right now anyway, so I guess those aren’t just for kids.

    The Hawks lit up Rask and made Chara look like a chump in the last game. We’re going to hope that’s the case from here on out… So Boston, can you see the real me?

     

     

  • Beard Of The Day – June 21 – Robert Downey, Jr.

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    On the first day of summer, especially with it coming on a Friday, it only seems appropriate that our selection today be the current reigning king of the summer blockbuster, Robert Downey, Jr. And though his facial hair is as versatile as the actor himself, it is today that we recognize the efforts of RDJ and his beard.

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  • Morning Links 6/21/13

    Best of 3: ESPN

    Crow’s glove catching hell: SI

    Get the Led out: ESPN Chicago

    Seabs steps up: Puck Daddy

    Starting issues: PHT

    This almost makes me hope Boston wins… almost: CSN Chicago

    Boston wasn’t all bad on Wednesday: ESPN Boston

    B’s last chance: Sportsnet

  • Something Flips The Switch And I Collpase Inside

    Just cleaning up some stuff from last night, whatever that was. Or maybe trying to sort out why I’m not dead yet. I should be. Maybe that’s waiting for the conclusion of this madness.

    I’ve said all along this series that I will no longer doubt this team. That every time I felt the axe about to fall I would no longer accept that it was coming down upon them. Of course, I can’t actually follow my words, because after the Looney Tunes marathon of last night I once again felt the cold chill and was ready to embrace it. No way could they find the reserve to conjure up one more goal in OT with a ravenous Bruins team looking sure to score on the first clean look they got. And yet the Hawks just seem to have this We’re-Not-Fucking-Losing gear that they can bring out when they absolutely have to have it. While I hate comparisons to the 2010 team, and will even if they end up accomplishing the same thing, I will say this version’s balls are bigger because they don’t have as much talent to simply break teams over time. But no one’s told them that, and no one should.

    I’ll learn too late. And that will probably be just fine with everyone if it keeps going the way it has when I lose the faith.

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  • Beard Of The Day – June 20 – General Zod

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    Boy, that was some kind of pass by the Hawks’ Calder Trophy nominee to set up Michal Handzus’ shorthanded goal last night, wasn’t it?

  • Morning Links 6.20.13

    Morning Links 6.20.13

    2: Chicago Tribune

    Break Point: Cheer the Anthem

    Barnburner: HockeeNight

    Needed: Daily Herald

    Fire Wagon Hockey: TSN

    Patrice Bergeron is good and lucky: PuckDaddy

    Real rule changes approved: Globe and Mail

  • The Beginning and The End: Blackhawks 6, Bruins 5 (OT); Series tied 2-2

    The Beginning and The End: Blackhawks 6, Bruins 5 (OT); Series tied 2-2

    Was it Al Michaels that recently described watching a hockey game like dying a thousand deaths? I think it was. Either way, I would probably describe watching this game as feeling like William Wallace as the English unstrung his intestines and lit them on fire as he watched while tied to an iron maiden.

    Let’s not waste anymore time.  To the bullets.

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  • Hawks at Bruins Game 4 3rd Period Thread

    Don’t know why I let you leave me
    Honey I don’t know
    See its hard to see lovin’ comin baby
    But I have a way to see it go