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  • Third Period Thread – Hawks at Flames

    I wish I could remember what I’m trying to forget.

  • Second Period Thread – Flames at Hawks

    Spoken outside in outside voices. Struck silent into shuddering and cold ground padded noises.

  • First Period Thread – Flames at Hawks

    No more smiles and no more outrage. Apathy pervasive, emotions narcoleptic.

  • Outtasite (Outta Mind) – Flames at Hawks Preview, Pregame Thread, Pest Fumigation

    The Flame vs AltLogo

    Game Time: 7:30PM Central
    TV/Radio: CSN (Local), NBCSN (US), TSN (Anglo), RDS2 (Franco), WIND-AM 560
    Obey The Cowgod: Flames Nation

    Tonight will be one of the more unique experiences on West Madison in recent vintage. Aside from the game having literally zero meaning between the long-since eliminated Flames and the home-ice holding Hawks, the game will also like be the final display of one of the marquee-named, if not great goalies of the last decade.

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  • Morning Links 4/26/13

    Morning Links 4/26/13

    huh?

    TM says time for a rest: CSN Chicago

    The West picture: PD

    The East picture: PHT

    How we got those pictures: SI

    Sid can practice again: ESPN

    All you could ever want to know about Corsi: TSN

    Exsqueeze me? Baking powder: BTN

  • Morning Links 4/25/13

    Morning Links 4/25/13

    Banners don’t suck: (Cheer the anthem) (WFLD 32)

    But the only one that counts is the one with the big chalice on it: (CSN CHI AUTOPLAY)

    Now the real test starts: (NHL)

    Duncan Keith respects everyone: (AutoPlay Chicago Tribune)

    Sassone sticks up for #2 and journalism: (Daily Herald)

    Suddenly Ottawa’s blue line got a lot faster: (TSN)

    The next captain of Team USA is suspended two games: (PuckDaddy)

  • All The Presidents' Men: Hawks 4 – Oilers 1

    Well, it wasn’t exactly as locked in and authoritative as it could have been. But it didn’t have to be, and they certainly aroused more passion tonight than they did Monday. Against the Oilers, it barely takes a whisper of a care to win, and the Hawks managed that… at least after the first 10 minutes where this looked like a kindergarten class that got into the Jolt Cola. Yes, Jolt Cola. I know some of you drank it once upon a time.

    The one big difference was the Hawks were far more engaged tonight in front of their own net than they were on Monday. The rest of the ice? Eh, comme ci comme ca. But in front of both goalies, they were determined to tie up sticks and knock over bodies. Hence, the Oil never really sniffed much.

    Let’s get the bullets out of the way then so we can all move on to Friday:

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  • All The Presidents’ Men: Hawks 4 – Oilers 1

    Well, it wasn’t exactly as locked in and authoritative as it could have been. But it didn’t have to be, and they certainly aroused more passion tonight than they did Monday. Against the Oilers, it barely takes a whisper of a care to win, and the Hawks managed that… at least after the first 10 minutes where this looked like a kindergarten class that got into the Jolt Cola. Yes, Jolt Cola. I know some of you drank it once upon a time.

    The one big difference was the Hawks were far more engaged tonight in front of their own net than they were on Monday. The rest of the ice? Eh, comme ci comme ca. But in front of both goalies, they were determined to tie up sticks and knock over bodies. Hence, the Oil never really sniffed much.

    Let’s get the bullets out of the way then so we can all move on to Friday:

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  • Hawks at Oilers 3rd Period Thread

    It’s cold
    And rough

    And I kept standing six-feet-one
    Instead of five-feet-two
    And I loved my life
    And I hated you

  • Hawks at Oilers 2nd Period Thread

    I bet you’ve long since passed understanding
    What it takes to be satisfied
    You’re like a vine that keeps climbing higher
    But all the money in the world is not enough
    And all the bridges blown away keep floating