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  • Hawks at Oilers 1st Period Thread

    I bet you fall in bed too easily
    With the beautiful girls who are shyly brave
    And you sell yourself as a man to save
    But all the money in the world is not enough

  • It's Like Looking In A Mirror, Only Not: Hawks at Oilers Preview/Pregame Thread/Eyebrow Threading

    Hawk Wrestler vs. Daniel-Plainview1

    FACEOFF: 8:30pm CENTRAL

    TV/RADIO: CSN, WGN Radio 720

    THERE WAS A TIME: mc79hockey, The Copper And Blue, The Boys On The Bus

    I guess when the Oilers brass are drawing up this reconstruction plan that the Oil have been in for as long as you’d get sentenced for assaulting a cop, they look at the Hawks and try and convince themselves that’s what they’re trying to create. After all, back in the spring of 2008 it looked like the two teams were in the same place.

    Except the Hawks bothered to draft and develop actual defensemen and their forwards maxed out. Details, details.

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  • It’s Like Looking In A Mirror, Only Not: Hawks at Oilers Preview/Pregame Thread/Eyebrow Threading

    Hawk Wrestler vs. Daniel-Plainview1

    FACEOFF: 8:30pm CENTRAL

    TV/RADIO: CSN, WGN Radio 720

    THERE WAS A TIME: mc79hockey, The Copper And Blue, The Boys On The Bus

    I guess when the Oilers brass are drawing up this reconstruction plan that the Oil have been in for as long as you’d get sentenced for assaulting a cop, they look at the Hawks and try and convince themselves that’s what they’re trying to create. After all, back in the spring of 2008 it looked like the two teams were in the same place.

    Except the Hawks bothered to draft and develop actual defensemen and their forwards maxed out. Details, details.

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  • Pigs In Zen: So Close, Yet So Far

    Pigs In Zen: So Close, Yet So Far

    This was it. Week 28 in the AHL schedule. The IceHogs had 2 games left in their schedule and they needed all 4 points to keep their playoff hopes alive. They weren’t in complete control of their own destiny though—they needed the Milwaukee Admirals to lose just one, measly game in order for Rockford to make their first playoff appearance since 2009-10. Only half of the plan worked.

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  • Morning Links 4/24/13

    Sorry these are late, end of the season banquet last night followed by the staff hitting a bar.  Did you know gambling is legal pretty much everywhere in N. Dakota?  There’s a blackjack table in every bar… for a degenerate like me that’s dangerous.

    Why are these games always harder than they should be? Blackhawks

    Rooks that rock: ESPN

    Its like they don’t want Chicago to like them: CSN Chicago

    Ummmm: PHT

    Way to go boys, way to go: PD

  • Morning Links 4/23/13

    Morning Links 4/23/13

    Worst game of the year: Comcast Chicago, Chicago Tribune,FOX 32

    Yes…That’ll happen: Cheer the Anthem

    So Duncan Keith is a jerk but probably not a sexist: Suntimes , PuckDaddy

    Growing up before our eyes:Blackhawks

    Hawks top final power rankings: ESPN

    So this is absolutely terrible:PuckDaddy

    This is absolutely weird:Globe and Mail

    Keenan will not coach in a town that I can’t pronounce:Sportsnet

    This is about why the Leafs have sucked, but there is awesome pic of Belfour:Toronto Sun

  • FART: Hawks 1 – Canucks 3

    This was the wrap I didn’t want to write but kind of suspected I would. There was this feeling that the Hawks just wouldn’t be up for this one and that the Nucks might because it was at home and dick-measuring contests are always their thing. So I’m going to do what I think Fifth Feather would do and point to history.

    March 2009, the Hawks and Canucks engage in what at the time was a very important game. At the time, it felt like they were grappling for the 4th seed (the Flames would go on to collapse and surrender the division to Vancouver and drop to 5th). And the Canucks walked all over the Hawks at the UC that night, and was famous for Burrows’s hair-pulling antics. The whole thing that year ended with a Patrick Kane hat trick and Luongo in tears.

    I think it was February 2010, and was our first ever official roadwatch at Whirlaway. The Canucks put up 7 on the Hawks that night. That May ended with Byfuglien laughing at the entire Rogers Arena crowd. In fact, it was GM Place then.

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  • Third Period Thread – Hawks at Canucks

    You can’t take my will away, my dreams will never say die.

  • Second Period Thread – Hawks at Canucks

    Forget your thoughts, forget your will. Tell that voice inside to just keep still.

  • First Period Thread – Hawks at Canucks

    Follow me, I’ll take you there. You needn’t think, you needn’t care.