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  • I Wish I Was Special: Hawks 3 – Stars 2 (OT)

    I Wish I Was Special: Hawks 3 – Stars 2 (OT)

    The Hawks special teams save the day. I’ll now take a break while you try and shake the cobwebs from the embolism you’ll have had reading that.

    No….not yet…..

    Ready?….

    Ok, now we go. The Hawks weren’t great for the first half of the game, and what moments they did conjure were stopped, dropped, and rolled by an inspired Kari Lehtonen (no doubt motivated by McClure’s reminder in the preview that he usually steals one from the Hawks once per season. I’m contagious, apparently). And while they improved in the last 30 to claw back a two-goal deficit, it was their power play that got them there. Along with two important and pretty dominant kills. Isn’t that a welcome change?

    Our world famous bullets:

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  • Third Period Thread – Hawks at Stars

    Right wing, left wing, chicken wing.

  • Second Period Thread – Hawks at Stars

    Everyone wants a double feature, they want to be their own damn teacher.

  • First Period Thread – Hawks at Stars

    In the last second of life, they’re gonna show you how. How they run this show. Sure. Run it into the ground.

  • Alan Is A Cowboy Killer – Hawks at Stars Preview, Pregame Thread, Insurance Claim

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    Game Time: 7:30PM Central
    TV/Radio: CSN, WGN-AM 720
    Who Shot J.R.?: Defending Big D

    As is going to be the case with a single exception for the next two-plus weeks, the Hawks are once again striking out on that ol’ dusty trail, this time deep into the heart of Texas to take on Joe Niewendyk’s somewhat revamped Stars.

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  • Morning Links 1/24/13

    Morning Links 1/24/13

    Crow is done with 2 touch: PHT

    Konroyd looks at the importance of the PK: CSN

    Perhaps the long layoff helped?: ESPNChi

    48 games can be misleading: CtA

    Fuck this guy: SN

    Asshattery on parade: SI

    The Oilers are getting a new barn: TSN

  • Pigs In Zen: Bench-Clearing Brawls–A Common Occurrence For Rockford

    Pigs In Zen: Bench-Clearing Brawls–A Common Occurrence For Rockford

    The results on the scoreboard for week 15 of the AHL season for the Rockford IceHogs were overshadowed by a fight night on Saturday. And not just any fight night. This fight night was a full out, bench-clearing brawl, which is the second (and a half) bench-clearing brawl for the IceHogs in the last calendar year. (They had a bench-clearing brawl in Milwaukee on April 1, 2012 and on November 3, 2012, Andrew Shaw and Wade Brookbank left the bench to join an altercation against the Lake Erie Monsters).

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  • Morning Links 1/23/13

    Morning Links 1/23/13

    3-2: (Chicago Tribune) (Chicago Suntimes) (Daily Herald) (Cheer the Anthem) (Comcast)

    The AHL drops the hammer on the piggies: (The Third Man In)

    Europe was good for Bickell: (Chicago Tribune)

    Q..a changed man?? (FOX)

    I can’t imagine a return to hockey being much bigger: (SportsNet)

    Lokomotiv Yaroslavl clinches a playoff berth: (RSPORT)

    Uniform Porn: (Icethetics)

    This is really important: (The New York Times)

  • Hot Start In Old Town: Blackhawks 3 – Blues 2

    Toews-face… Already in mid-season form

     

    After two games on the road, both home openers for other teams, it was was finally time for the Blackhawks to have the chance to make the other team sit around as they go through awkward introductions. Once the game got started though – it was pretty apparent which team had played the night before and which had at least one day rest. The Blues, coming off a victory in Music City that required a skills competition, came out of the gate looking flat and the Blackhawks were swarming. Throughout the first, the Blackhawks had multiple chances that were some of the best we’ve seen so far. Unfortunately, either they hesitated a bit too long and lost the opportunity or they ended up on the stick of Bickell. Whatever it was, the shots simply didn’t go in until the Hawks found themselves on a 3-on-0 and even that required a nifty bit of passing between Sharp and Kane before Kane was able to put a nice move on Elliott for the Hawks first score of the game. It was some nifty work… but part of me thinks a 3-on-0 ought to have been a hell of a lot easier.

    From there – things took a bit of a different turn

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  • Blues v. Hawks 3rd Period Thread

    Come get me
    All you fuckers can’t touch me
    I’m a hooligan cryer, sire, sit don’t scatter,
    It don’t matter
    Give me one, two, three