Party Dave and Rayzor are out: Chicago Tribune
Saad is a Calder Finalist: Comcast Chicago
How will the Hawks respond? Daily Herald
This awesomeness is official: NHL
Top line struggles: Comcast Chicago (auto)
I cant help but see a point: CBSSPORTS
Recent Posts
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Blushes All Around
This didn’t quite feel like a “Grind My Gears, ” so much as a more general musing. I guess these are things I think I think.
-I find it hilarious that in a week where most everyone was lampooning Hawk Harrelson for his “TWTW” southern-fried bullshit, some people still think it’s perfectly acceptable to then turn around and say a team lost a hockey game due to effort and want. And without any sense of how paradoxical that may be. But then again, it gives me material.
Granted, hockey unlike baseball is a game that can be changed by a team trying harder and pressing, in either direction. You can’t grunt and grimace and sweat your way through an at-bat (unless you’re Kevin Youklis), but you can through a shift and make a difference. So I’ll admit that.
But that’s not really what yesterday boiled down to.
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Beard Of The Day – May 6 – Marc Maron
With the way the NHL has made an ass of itself pretty much across the board since about 5:00PM yesterday, a little caustic humor seems to be in order. And it is with that Marc Maron is presented this Monday morning.
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Morning Links 5/6/13
Fish wraps: Trib Bright One Herald Star-Trib
Elsewhere: PIT/NYI MON/OTT VAN/SJS
Hawks didn’t think it’d be easy: PHT
Blaming Crow is for the birds: ESPN Chicago
Backy might not be backy anytime soon: CSN
Fire! Passion! Effort! Whatever!: Puck Daddy
Abdelkader gets 2: SI
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Dose of Thunder – Wild 3, Hawks 2 (OT) – Hawks Lead Series 2-1
With the series now shifting setting to the Twin Cities, the Wild were essentially facing a must-win situation, and decided to change things up a bit from their neutral zone bomb shelter strategy that yielded no results on West Madison.
Even with the Hawks drawing the first marker on a beautiful feed from Patrick Kane to Johnny Oduya right after a Hawks kill, the Wild pressed on. Coach Mike Yeo made no secret about wanting to ratchet up the physicality and make life unpleasant for Hawk defenders, and did just that, sending wave of cannonballing forwards into the Hawk zone.
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Hawks at Wild 3rd Period Thread
Here he comes, he’s all dressed in black
PR shoes and a big straw hat
He’s never early, he’s always late
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Hawks at Wild 2nd Period Thread
Hey white boy, what you doin’ uptown
Hey white boy, you chasin’ my women around
Pardon me sir, it’s furthest from my mind
I’m just waitin’ for a dear-dear friend of mine -
Hawks at Wild 1st Period Thread
Got 26 dollars in my hand
Up to Lexington 125
feelin’ sick and dirty
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A Hustle Here A Hustle There: Hawks at Wild Game 3 Preview/Pregame Thread/Tarot Card Reading
FACEOFF: 2pm Central
TV/RADIO: NBC/WIND-560am
THOUGHT THEY WERE JAMES DEAN FOR A DAY: Hockey Wilderness
WHERE WE’LL BE, AND YOU SHOULD BE: Sheffield’s in Lakeview
A lot of people have asked or wondered aloud whether Game 1 was Minnesota’s best punch and if they’re now out of answers. I’ve always thought that we’ll see Minnehaha’s best punch today. This is the first playoff game at Excel Energy Center since well before this blog existed, and you know that crowd is going to baying for blood from the word go (assuming they can get out from the snow).
With that in mind, the more conservative approach we’ve seen from the Wild in this series, at least to start games, is probably not going to be in evidence in the opening frame this time. Expect the Wild to come out flying, getting the puck behind the Hawks defense and then trying to sacrifice those same d-men to Mayan gods against the end boards. It’s almost certainly going to be frantic and pressured. Cal Clutterbuck might spontaneously combust.
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Beard Of The Day – May 5 – Maurice Sendak
There are few, if any, more decorated or revered children’s authors in recent vintage than the venerable Maurice Sendak. But aside from his actual work in print, Sendak had a lengthy career in producing performances on stage, in film, and on television for children as well.
