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  • Last Night's Page 8 – Stan's All Lost In The Trade Market

  • Last Night’s Page 8 – Stan’s All Lost In The Trade Market

  • Daddy's In The Doldrums: Ducks 2 – Hawks 1

    Daddy's In The Doldrums: Ducks 2 – Hawks 1

    After seeing it in person tonight, I’m more convinced than I was before that the Hawks are going through nothing more than a midseason malaise, combined with some injuries to key players. While the Hawks can pay lip service to saying that they thought this was an important game because they hadn’t beaten the Ducks, upon evidence on the ice I’m not buying it.

    Tonight, it wasn’t so much anything the Ducks did. The Hawks for the first 40 were missing passes by feet instead of inches, they were bobbling whatever passes did actually land on tape, and just generally looked like they’d been at The Houndstooth a little too late last night. It seemed like the Ducks were even more conservative in this one than they had been in the previous two games. Usually, it was only one Duck forward in on the forecheck, which the the Hawks made harder than they had to too often.

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  • Daddy’s In The Doldrums: Ducks 2 – Hawks 1

    Daddy’s In The Doldrums: Ducks 2 – Hawks 1

    After seeing it in person tonight, I’m more convinced than I was before that the Hawks are going through nothing more than a midseason malaise, combined with some injuries to key players. While the Hawks can pay lip service to saying that they thought this was an important game because they hadn’t beaten the Ducks, upon evidence on the ice I’m not buying it.

    Tonight, it wasn’t so much anything the Ducks did. The Hawks for the first 40 were missing passes by feet instead of inches, they were bobbling whatever passes did actually land on tape, and just generally looked like they’d been at The Houndstooth a little too late last night. It seemed like the Ducks were even more conservative in this one than they had been in the previous two games. Usually, it was only one Duck forward in on the forecheck, which the the Hawks made harder than they had to too often.

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  • Third Period Thread – Ducks vs Hawks

    You wave your torch into my eyes; Flamethrower loves her burning mind

  • Second Period Thread – Ducks vs Hawks

    You doused my soul with gasoline; You flicked a match into my brain

  • First Period Thread – Ducks vs Hawks

    I ripped your heart out from your chest; Replaced it with a grenade blast

  • One More Time – Ducks vs Hawks Preview, Pregame Thread, Russian Bath House

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    Game Time: 7:30PM Central
    TV/Radio: CSN, NHLN (US), WGN-AM 720
    Dawn of the Dead: Anaheim Calling, Battle of California

    Since the last time these two teams met, both teams have managed to go a combined 1-5 with Anaheim carrying a four game losing streak into the United Center. The Ducks lost both back-to-back sets with the Red Wings and Sharks, respectively, looking pretty awful in the process. (more…)

  • Morning Links 3/29/13

    Morning Links 3/29/13

    Q riding the hot hand: ESPN Chicago

    Watch Q make sure no one is hungover: Blackhawks (starts at 10:30 CST)

    Hawks looking to get revenge: CSN (auto play)

    Are you sure that wasn’t a shot total for those 2 teams? PHT

    So you traded a future HoFer for the Pens 10th and 12th ranked ‘specs: HF

    Penis: PD

  • So That Happened

    On Sunday, when the news first broke that Jarome Iginla was definitely, for the first time and a good year or two after he probably should have been, on the block and the Hawks were on a shortlist, I think a lot of us got a bit carried away. I know I did. It seemed like the Hawks had a real shot at making a big splash, which they haven’t been able to do in a few years due to cap constraints or not having the assets to pull it off.

    In the end, we all knew that Iginla was a much wonkier fit here than he was in Pittsburgh or Boston. Those teams have openings on the right wing in the top six. Here, either Kane or Iggy would have had to shift to the left side (though I think it would have worked fine for Iginla, as he’s a right handed shot which would have made him more open to shooting opportunities that Kane or Toews would have fed him by the bathtub-full). Sharp would have had to move to center, and we all know that will never, ever happen (not until the playoffs, which it has the past three seasons). The Hawks are more interested in a center.

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