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  • Pigs In Zen: It's A Process

    Pigs In Zen: It's A Process

    The IceHogs carried momentum with them throughout the end of week 18 after a big shootout win earlier in the week against the Texas Stars on February 5th. Two more games were on tap for the boys from RockVegas as they wrapped up their four game road trip and returned to the BMO Harris Bank Center.

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  • Pigs In Zen: It’s A Process

    Pigs In Zen: It’s A Process

    The IceHogs carried momentum with them throughout the end of week 18 after a big shootout win earlier in the week against the Texas Stars on February 5th. Two more games were on tap for the boys from RockVegas as they wrapped up their four game road trip and returned to the BMO Harris Bank Center.

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  • They've Got Prospects, They're Bonafide. What're You?

    They've Got Prospects, They're Bonafide. What're You?

    Time for our weekly jaunt around the world to see what the Hawks system is looking like.

    You know, let’s go in reverse this time. We’ll start in Europe. Teuvo Teravainen didn’t scratch in two games for Jokerit. He’s at 12-13-25 in 33 games.

    I can’t seem to figure out where Maxim Shalunov is these days, so I’m just going to not care until he does or doesn’t make it to Rockford next year.

    Joe Gleason and Nick Mattson were a combined +5, and Mattson had a goal and an assist in one of the two games for North Dakota against UNO.

    Paul Phillips was a -3 in two games for Denver

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  • They’ve Got Prospects, They’re Bonafide. What’re You?

    They’ve Got Prospects, They’re Bonafide. What’re You?

    Time for our weekly jaunt around the world to see what the Hawks system is looking like.

    You know, let’s go in reverse this time. We’ll start in Europe. Teuvo Teravainen didn’t scratch in two games for Jokerit. He’s at 12-13-25 in 33 games.

    I can’t seem to figure out where Maxim Shalunov is these days, so I’m just going to not care until he does or doesn’t make it to Rockford next year.

    Joe Gleason and Nick Mattson were a combined +5, and Mattson had a goal and an assist in one of the two games for North Dakota against UNO.

    Paul Phillips was a -3 in two games for Denver

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  • Morning Links 2/13/13

    Morning Links 2/13/13

    Fish wrap recaps: Trib CST DH OCR

    Interweb recaps: CTA HN BU AC

    Shooter’s becoming the spotter: CSN (auto play)

    Car Bomb is close to blowing up the lines: ESPNChi

    The Jackets may have realized losing is bad: BJX

    Boston pulls a point out of their ass: PD

    Jagr is now 10th all-time: PHT

     

  • That's The Way That One Went: Ducks 2 – Hawks 2 (Ducks win fart-lighting contest)

    That's The Way That One Went: Ducks 2 – Hawks 2 (Ducks win fart-lighting contest)

    Sometimes, you tie.

    This is my point with shootouts. Tonight was probably as even as you get, with both teams carrying some play and each benefiting for being harmed by a couple bounces here and there. But because we have to flip a coin to see who wins, the Hawks don’t get as many points as the Ducks. That’s how that goes.

    The big point will be the Hawks power play, and that’s a valid one. Aside from Leddy’s goal, the Hawks barely threatened on the rest. And the gremlins from last year are creeping into it. Right now, it has about as much movement as a goth dance party, and that has to stop. It also wouldn’t hurt to try and create off the rush more than it is. Just because it’s a power play doesn’t mean you have to set up a system if something else is there.

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  • That’s The Way That One Went: Ducks 2 – Hawks 2 (Ducks win fart-lighting contest)

    That’s The Way That One Went: Ducks 2 – Hawks 2 (Ducks win fart-lighting contest)

    Sometimes, you tie.

    This is my point with shootouts. Tonight was probably as even as you get, with both teams carrying some play and each benefiting for being harmed by a couple bounces here and there. But because we have to flip a coin to see who wins, the Hawks don’t get as many points as the Ducks. That’s how that goes.

    The big point will be the Hawks power play, and that’s a valid one. Aside from Leddy’s goal, the Hawks barely threatened on the rest. And the gremlins from last year are creeping into it. Right now, it has about as much movement as a goth dance party, and that has to stop. It also wouldn’t hurt to try and create off the rush more than it is. Just because it’s a power play doesn’t mean you have to set up a system if something else is there.

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  • Second Period Thread – Hawks vs Ducks

    I feel sorry for the Earth’s population, ’cause so few live in the U.S.A. At least the foreigners can copy our morality. They can visit but they cannot stay.

  • First Period Thread – Hawks vs Ducks

    I don’t need to be a global citizen, ’cause I’m blessed by nationality. I’m member of a growing populace, we enforce our popularity.