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  • A Bit Like Prison: Hogs 4 – Wolves 2

    A Bit Like Prison: Hogs 4 – Wolves 2

    This is how we used to do it, right? Game at night, and then none of us can get it together for a wrap until the next morning? I’m just trying to get it down again in case I ever have to go back to doing this regularly.

    It was a strange feeling last night out at Rose-Mizon. Other than the few dedicated Wolves fans (some of whom are just a bit weird, I’m sorry. I get it if you’ve sworn off the Hawks for past indiscretions and the greater affordability and access of the Wolves. That’s fine. But to the point where you buy and wear a Canucks jersey? I mean, come on! You don’t have to be a Hawks fan to know how inherently wrong that is. I know you’re trying to thumb your nose at the establishment, but that’s just thumbing your nose at common sense and decency), there was a sense that everyone else would rather be somewhere else.

    The players want to be in the Big Time, most of the fans want to be at the UC, the press would have rather been covering the NHL, and we’re all just kind of here because we can’t be anywhere else.

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  • Morning Links 11/29

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Maybe there is a Ransom:(Kukla’s Korner)

    Maybe the Mediator can be a Lethal Weapon: (TSN)

    Is Fehr missing the message of The Patriot of Pro Sports Unions: (Sportsnet)

    Greg Jamison likes the Signs he got from the Glendale City Council: (CBC)

    Payback could be a bitch: (Toronto Sun)

    Apparently Mathieu Darche doesn’t stay at the Million Dollar Hotel: (Montreal Gazette)

  • What's This? An Actual Game Preview? You're Serious?: Hogs at Wolves

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    Puck Drop: 7:00 PM
    TV: CN100

    You’re fuckin’ eh right it is. I miss doing these, and game posts are what I do best. So I’m going to fucking do one today, and then there’ll be an actual wrap either tonight or in the morning. Hopefully, it’ll remind us why we’re all here in the first place. But then that just might make us angrier that we aren’t doing this regularly. But fuck it. I’m tired of coming up with shit that you don’t even want to really read anyway. And I’m going to swear even more!

    What could I possibly be writing about? Why, it’s the Rock River Swine visiting the O’Hare Annex Lupus (I have a fear of Wolves). That’s right, it’s the battle of….Northern Illinois? I guess Peoria is south enough to not be in that category, right? Let’s go with it.

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  • What’s This? An Actual Game Preview? You’re Serious?: Hogs at Wolves

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    Puck Drop: 7:00 PM
    TV: CN100

    You’re fuckin’ eh right it is. I miss doing these, and game posts are what I do best. So I’m going to fucking do one today, and then there’ll be an actual wrap either tonight or in the morning. Hopefully, it’ll remind us why we’re all here in the first place. But then that just might make us angrier that we aren’t doing this regularly. But fuck it. I’m tired of coming up with shit that you don’t even want to really read anyway. And I’m going to swear even more!

    What could I possibly be writing about? Why, it’s the Rock River Swine visiting the O’Hare Annex Lupus (I have a fear of Wolves). That’s right, it’s the battle of….Northern Illinois? I guess Peoria is south enough to not be in that category, right? Let’s go with it.

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  • Morning Links 11/28

    Morning Links 11/28

    Forgive me for laughing at a DUI but this one is Funny People: PD

    Maybe having Grown Ups in the room will help things Click: ESPN

    If you’re a Blackhawks ticket holder they continue to ask you to Just Go With It: BH

    Glendale City Council says That’s My Boy: PHT

    Kaner doesn’t exactly fit with these Airheads: Deadspin

  • I Don't Mind The Other Guys Dancing With My Girl

    I Don't Mind The Other Guys Dancing With My Girl

    Tuesdays have become our organizational endoscopy, so we have to do the other half and check out the kids in juniors and college.

    For a new wrinkle, let’s start in the college ranks and then make our way to the Great White North. And like I made the mistake of doing, we’ll start in the Northeast. Braden Birch was part of the Cornell team that clocked Michigan at MSG. Watched a lot of that game and he was a lot more noticeable than he was in NBCSN’s coverage of the tilt against Harvard.

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  • I Don’t Mind The Other Guys Dancing With My Girl

    I Don’t Mind The Other Guys Dancing With My Girl

    Tuesdays have become our organizational endoscopy, so we have to do the other half and check out the kids in juniors and college.

    For a new wrinkle, let’s start in the college ranks and then make our way to the Great White North. And like I made the mistake of doing, we’ll start in the Northeast. Braden Birch was part of the Cornell team that clocked Michigan at MSG. Watched a lot of that game and he was a lot more noticeable than he was in NBCSN’s coverage of the tilt against Harvard.

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  • Rock River Swine Weekly

    Rock River Swine Weekly

    I feel like talking about some actual hockey. How about you? Yeah, let’s do that.

    While you weren’t paying attention, or just bemoaning the current situation, the Winnebago County Bacon Bits have reeled off three wins in a row. They’re even over .500 if you can believe that. More to the point, despite what Tim Sassone hasn’t bothered to learn, they’re getting contributions from the forwards you want to see make those contributions.

    This little mini-streak started last Wednesday on the Rock River against Peoria.

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  • Morning Links 11/27

    Mission:Impossible: (TSN)

    For a Few Good Men this is their third lockout: (Sportsnet.CA)

    Some fans are Losing it on the players:(Reddit)

    Interview with the Vampire or Criminal: (Sportsnet)

    The new OHL fighting rules are Far and Away an improvement:(Backhand Shelf)

    Some Outsider hacked Guy Serota’s Twitter: (SN)

    A look at the Top Gun’s that retired after the last lockout: (Down Goes Brown)

     

  • I Hope It's Worth All The Noise

    I Hope It's Worth All The Noise

    Not only did that picture fit with the title, but this is the level of intelligence I think the leaders that be are at.

    Maybe it wasn’t the worst, but this was one of the worst weekends to go through as an NHL fan. Not only was the gaping hole where our Black Friday game impossible to ignore as I attempted to watch LSU-Arkansas or something just as non-sensical, but the amount of noise, bullshit, and downright stupidity ramped up even more in the past few days. Add to that the frustration we are feeling has piled up to the point where we are fighting with each other at a moment’s notice, and frankly I’m exasperated as to where to go from here.

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