So that’s over: (TSN)
Iggy: A Morality Play: (Cheer The Anthem)
Defense creating offense: (CSN)
Except when they miss assignments: (Backhand Shelf)
Adding Iggy wasn’t the most pressing concern: (Daily Herald)
Sorry Phoenix: (PuckDaddy)
Recent Posts
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Angry At Numbers
That time again, let’s geek out a bit.
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This is something we’ve harped on all year, but it’s worth revisiting because it’s so ridiculous. This is Patrick Kane’s CORSI/60. Both his normal linemates at the moment, Jimmy Hayes and Dave Bolland, are below -10. Sharp’s around where Kane is. So even though that line wasn’t good in terms of possession when Sharp was around, it was better than it is now. And yet Kane is in the top five in scoring in the NHL.
How? Well, Kane is shooting 8 points above his career average in shooting percentage, so that helps. But it’s not just goals for Kane, obviously, as he he would be on pace for a career high in assists too. Basically, Kane is getting hits while down 0-2 in the count pretty much every at bat. He doesn’t get a lot of looks in the o-zone as you’d like, and yet he’s making something happen in almost all of them. Kane starts 54% of his shifts in the offensive zone. Only 48% finish there. What if that were higher? Well, Sidney Crosby wouldn’t be running away with the Hart race, I think.
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Pigs In Zen: Almost Perfect Road Trip Leaves Hogs In A Four Way Tie
Week 24 of the AHL’s schedule had Rockford playing back-to-back games against the Abbotsford Heat in British Columbia. These two teams are a part of the AHL’s insane fight for the final playoff spot in the Western Conference, and that fight got even crazier once the weekend was over.
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Morning Links 3/27/13
Ray makes it 12: ESPNChi
Iggy already helping his new team?: DH
Unless he is headed to Boston?: PHT
Why you’re dumb if you don’t want Iggy: SCH
Family first: PD
Watching the Hawks and USMNT wasn’t the only hockey/soccer combo yesterday: TSN
This is getting worse than the middle of the 7th inning at Wrigley: CSN (autoplay)
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Clockers: Flames 0 – Hawks 2
When this season-in-a-can started, we heard a lot of who the one plus of it was that every game would mean something, and the players were looking forward to the intensity of each and every game.
Yeah, about that….
This one had the feel of a mid-January or February trudge in a normal season. After the Holiday excitement, with the playoffs too far away, you know how it goes. Just a run of the mill regular season game that both teams looked like the best reason they were there was because they had to be. After all was said and done, the Hawks ended up with a 2-0 win not akin to when your boss comes in and says you did a good job on a project you have no recollection of working on. At least I assume that happens. I wouldn’t know, I’ve never worked in an office.
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Second Period Thread – Flames vs Hawks
I am the passenger, I stay under glass. I look through my window so bright, I see the stars come out tonight. I see the bright and hollow sky over the city’s ripped backsides, and everything looks good tonight.
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For All The Cows – Flames vs Hawks Preview, Pregame Thread, Sales Pitch
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Game Time: 7:30PM Central
TV/Radio: CSN, WGN-AM 720
Cover It With Gas And Set It On Fire: Flames NationWith no time to linger on last night’s see-saw affair with the defending champion and still-terrifying L.A. Kings, the Hawks welcome the dysfunctional Calgary Flames to the West Side for the first time this season. And by all accounts, they’re hoping one of them enjoys the view enough to stay.
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Morning Links 3/26/13
Beat Raps:(NHL.COM)(COMCAST_AUTOPLAY)(Chi Trib)(Daily Herald)(ESPN CHI)(LATimes_AP)(FOX 32 WFLD)
Gangsta Raps:(HockeeNight)
Unbelievable Experience:(Daily Herald)
Verdi on Maggie: (Blackhawks.Com)
30 Thoughts:(CBC)
Wow, Just Wow: (PuckDaddy)
Intangibles will cost you: (Backhand Shelf)
Hockey Scariest Man: (ESPN)
More NHL 94 Fun:(PUCKDADDY)