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  • Bright Light Fright: The Boston Bruins Blue Line

    Bright Light Fright: The Boston Bruins Blue Line

    Thar be monsters here.

    While we highlighted the Kings unpleasant nature on defense, the Bruins bring that and more. This is a group of men who look like they belong in a bar brawl somewhere and try to turn their zone into one. But they also come with some of the warts that the Kings had as well, just not as large.

    There’s no point in going any further without talking about the 6-9-sized problem on the top pairing, and that’s Zdeno Chara. This could be the biggest difference (ha ha) between what the Hawks just saw and what they’re about to see. While the Kings’ #1 d-man Drew Doughty is a great player, he can be erratic and wild and reckless at times. The Hawks got to take advantage of that. They will get no such breaks with Chara on the ice.

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  • You're Living All Over Me – Previewing The Bruins Forwards

    You're Living All Over Me – Previewing The Bruins Forwards

    After dispatching the defending champion Kings on Saturday, the Hawks’ attention now turns east, where they will now take on the other most recent champion in the Boston Bruins in the Stanley Cup Final.

    There were many concerns about the Kings’ size and forechecking ability against the Hawk defensive corps, but those now seem quite trivial when looking at the team that perfected what the Kings did the year before, and are replicating it this post season with even more offensive flair. The Bruins forwards are large, angry, fast, and unlike the Kings, can finish and have been doing so with ease and frequency.

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  • You’re Living All Over Me – Previewing The Bruins Forwards

    You’re Living All Over Me – Previewing The Bruins Forwards

    After dispatching the defending champion Kings on Saturday, the Hawks’ attention now turns east, where they will now take on the other most recent champion in the Boston Bruins in the Stanley Cup Final.

    There were many concerns about the Kings’ size and forechecking ability against the Hawk defensive corps, but those now seem quite trivial when looking at the team that perfected what the Kings did the year before, and are replicating it this post season with even more offensive flair. The Bruins forwards are large, angry, fast, and unlike the Kings, can finish and have been doing so with ease and frequency.

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  • Beard Of The Day – June 10 – Blake Schwarzenbach

    Blake Schwarzenbach

    A summer Saturday full of screaming deep into the Chicago night after nearly 100 minutes of hockey more than likely left everyone a little bit leather-lunged on this Monday morning. And in the realm of punk rock, there is may have been no one ever raspier than Blake Schwarzenbach and his occasional beard.

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  • Morning Links 6/10/13

    Morning Links 6/10/13

    Four more wins for a fifth big banner: TSN

    Hollywood Ending: Cheer the Anthem

    Overcoming the odds: Globe and Mail

    The Stage is set: CSN Chicago

    6-8-13 will become a date in Chicago Sports Lore: Mr. Verdi

    Vets know that there is nothing accomplished yet: Daily Herald

  • Beard Of The Day – June 9th – Juan Ponce De Leon

    Juan_Ponce_de_LeonYou didn’t think we’d forget to make a beard post today, did you?

    The drama and stress from last night’s game probably took several years off my life. And if the game didn’t, the whiskey afterwards certainly did. How could we combat that and the stress that will certainly come when the Hawks take on the Bruins in the first Original 6 Finals since 1979.

    Well the Fountain of Youth would certainly help. And if there’s one person who knows all about the Fountain, it’s Jaromir Jagr… but he’s not going to help us so we’ll have to go with Juan here instead.

    In actuality, Ponce De Leon was most likely never actually looking for the Fountain of Youth. Most people didn’t associate him with that story until after his death, perhaps to discredit him and make him look foolish. He was likely just after gold but instead found himself getting an arrow in the thigh.

    And, I learned today that Ponce De Leon was actually on board Christopher Columbus’ second voyage to the Americas as a “gentleman volunteer”.

     

  • Anything Goes Tonight: Kings 3 – Hawks 4 2OT (Hawks win series 4-1)

    Anything Goes Tonight: Kings 3 – Hawks 4 2OT (Hawks win series 4-1)

    Or last night. Depends on your definition. Whatever.

    There are many things to complain about tonight, but in the end it comes down to, “Survive and advance.” After the first 20 minutes, the Hawks were the second best team on the ice. They probably stole this one. But it doesn’t matter. You get where you can, and the Hawks did so. The historians won’t note that the Kings were the better team tonight. And that’s all that matters.

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  • Kings At Hawks – Game 5 – Third Period Thread

    Fear of death is so close
    Crimes on our heads
    Are we ignorant, blind?
    Afraid to swallow our pride

  • Kings At Hawks – Game 5 – Second Period Thread

    The people are battlefields
    East and West
    The lines are drawn
    How are you to live?

  • Kings At Hawks – Game 5 – First Period Thread

    Has it been 40 years?
    Still a hostage
    New kind of fascist
    There in West Germany