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  • Checking In With The Kids

    Checking In With The Kids

    I guess it’s a regular thing now. I mean, we’ve got nothing else to talk about. So let’s get to what we can.

    It’s even more infuriating that there’s no NHL with the first update. Because normally I would see what Phillip Danault is doing in the QMJHL and I would picture him on the ice down the road with what I was seeing on the UC sheet. But I don’t have that picture, and I can’t see Danault doing any of this without some weird internet feed, and I just want to kick a cat. Because he’s didn’t stop crushing skulls this weekend.

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  • 10/9 Morning Links

    10/9 Morning Links

    PHT brings you the latest from Harry and Lloyd: (Daly) (Fehr)

    The Blackhawks, who are still working out, have enlisted help: (CSN) (autoplay)

    Power rankings are stupid, if you don’t think so tell me how they can change week to week during a lockout: (ESPN)

    This is why I don’t want the Blackhawks going overseas: (PD)

    Icehogs getting help from locked out Blackhawks: (Icehogs.com)

    Mac the knife? Carruth’s demotion means someone getting cut: (BTN)

    Kaner is the best winger under age 25? Oh yeah and that Toews guy isn’t bad either: (ESPN Insider)

  • Lockout Insurance – Chicago Wolves

    Lockout Insurance – Chicago Wolves

    Now that we’re in what should have been opening week, we can’t try and find other things to fill what we crave. We have to face up to the fact that only hockey will do, and we can’t force-feed ourselves something as a substitute. Maybe some of you will only accept NHL-level. That’s understandable. I’m pretty much in that camp too. But some of you need live hockey. And luckily, in Chicago you’re relatively close (debatable) to the next best thing next to the NHL, the AHL. Today, we’ll look at the closer of the two options. The Chicago Wolves, aka mini-Canucks.

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  • In Davy Jones's Locker

    In Davy Jones's Locker

    I think that picture perfectly sums up where we are now and what we’re all feeling. Confusion in a desolate place that we have no control of getting out of ourselves. We only need an army of crabs to guide us to the sea. Maybe we should start with Patrick Kane’s.

    There are just some thoughts rattling around my head as we come up to the actual date that will mark the first time we really should have been at the UC and discussing other things. They’re all kind of infuriating.

    -It’s been mentioned before, but the staring contest part of this is by far the most deplorable aspect of this. I know, negotiating tactics and all that. But this inhabits a different stratosphere than say, a bunch of machinists striking against the airlines or something. “Well we put our proposal out and now we’re waiting for their proposal but they said that they made their proposal and now they want our next proposal but we didn’t think it was a proposal and ours was  a proposal and they’re bad men and stupid heads and we just need a proposal.”

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  • In Davy Jones’s Locker

    In Davy Jones’s Locker

    I think that picture perfectly sums up where we are now and what we’re all feeling. Confusion in a desolate place that we have no control of getting out of ourselves. We only need an army of crabs to guide us to the sea. Maybe we should start with Patrick Kane’s.

    There are just some thoughts rattling around my head as we come up to the actual date that will mark the first time we really should have been at the UC and discussing other things. They’re all kind of infuriating.

    -It’s been mentioned before, but the staring contest part of this is by far the most deplorable aspect of this. I know, negotiating tactics and all that. But this inhabits a different stratosphere than say, a bunch of machinists striking against the airlines or something. “Well we put our proposal out and now we’re waiting for their proposal but they said that they made their proposal and now they want our next proposal but we didn’t think it was a proposal and ours was  a proposal and they’re bad men and stupid heads and we just need a proposal.”

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  • 10/8 Morning Links

    Week 3: (BU)

    Talks to resume on Wednesday: (SN)

    Some Players may not leave Mother Russia:(TSN)

    Gary Bettman has a brain: (GnM)

    The Blues part ways with John Davidson: (CBC)

    The WHA turns 40 this week: (TSUN)

    A Simpler Time: (Reddit)

    Evander Kane got fat: (PHT)

     

     

     

     

     

  • The Committed Idonije – Bears vs. Jaguars is now out!

    The Committed Idonije – Bears vs. Jaguars is now out!

    It’s got jokes about Ron Karkovice and Top Cat. We can’t do no more! Just hit the button on the top right to get yours!

  • Lockout Insurance – The MLB Playoffs

    Lockout Insurance – The MLB Playoffs

    Even though it’s an abnormal October in that we should be getting ready for the start of the season in just over a week, it’s business as usual as October won’t see any playoff baseball in the 606. That’ll be the fourth straight year that has occurred, after seeing at least one team pop its head in for a look five out of seven seasons. For Chicago, that’s an avalanche of postseason play. But with no hockey, you’ve got to fill the time somehow.

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  • Your Weekend Drinking Guide

    Your Weekend Drinking Guide

    With the lockout now canceling regular season games, we’re all going to need a way to cope. And what better way to cope with anything than alcohol, right? Of course!

    So while we’re all waiting to hear if the owners and the union can ever each an agreement on whether it should be Jimmy Johns or Hannah’s Bretzel that caters their meeting, we’ll be bringing you a weekend drinking guide to help you get through your days where you feel like punching a wall. Sometimes it may be a bar, sometimes a brewery, or maybe just whichever particular beer we’re digging this week. Join us, won’t you? Alcoholics, like misery, love company. (more…)

  • 10/5 Morning Links

    10/5 Morning Links

    We’re a little over 8 hours from the weekend, so that’s nice.

    2 weeks gone but maybe not forgotten: (PD)

    Donald’s $0.02: (PHT)

    Outtakes from the NHLPA apology/sympathy video: (DGB)

    The baby Hawks prevail in a pretend game: (icehogs.com)

    Myers talks to Mayers and  Brouwer about the idea of the FauxHawks: (CSN)

    Philip Danault had a night, but it wasn’t enough: (BTN)

    Because owning the Janesville Jets isn’t free? (PHT)

    Two Flyers live up to their team’s name: (philly.com)