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High On The Hog: Getting Physical

By Jon Fromi November 29, 2021

The Rockford IceHogs entered this weekend with three games in three days on the schedule. The piglets picked up three standings points, splitting two games with a physical Milwaukee Admirals squad and dropping a shootout in Rosemont. The IceHogs didn’t fare as well in terms of health. It’s possible that Rockford will be on a […]

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High On The Hog: A Split To Start The Season

By Jon Fromi October 18, 2021

The Rockford IceHogs faced a stiff challenge to open the 2021-22 season. The Blackhawks AHL franchise had a pair of tough road opponents on tap over the weekend in Grand Rapids and Chicago. I thought a split of the first two games would be just fine in my book. Well…the piglets got that split. Rockford […]

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High On The Hog: 2021-22 Season Preview…The Forwards

By Jon Fromi October 11, 2021

Last season, the Chicago Blackhawks allowed their AHL affiliate, the Rockford IceHogs, to be severly undermanned in terms of depth. Nowhere was this more evident than at forward, where the organization went with a few NHL prospects and a slew of AHL signings. How do things look entering the 2021-22 season? Right now, I’d say […]

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The Time to Hesitate is Through – Blackhawks/Predators Games 46, 47 and 48 Preview

By Summer Corson April 19, 2021

Records: Predators 24-21-1 (49) Hawks 21-19-5 (47) Puck Drops: 7:00PM (4/19, 4/23), 6:00PM (4/21) TV/Radio: NBC Sports Chicago (4/19), NBCSN (4/21), NBC Sports Chicago+ (4/23), WGN-AM 720 Kings of Leon Fans, but Unironically: On the Forecheck vs. It all comes down to this. All the garbage (and not-so-garbage) games we’ve watched all season long have […]

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Quarterfinals Game #4 – Keep On Sniffin’ ‘Til Yer Brain Goes Pop – Knights 1, Hawks 2

By John Pullega August 16, 2020

Box Score Natural Stat Trick Or 3 to 1, whatever. What a perfect microcosm of what you could only loosely call any of the Hawks’s success this year. The team gets its doors blown entirely off the hinges, only to win on the back of their rafter-worthy best goaltender in team history. We are all […]

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Overthinking, Overanalyzing Separates the Body From the Mind—Hawks vs. Oilers Preview—Forwards

By John Pullega July 27, 2020

The 2020 play-ins and playoffs will more closely resemble preseason hockey than any sort of competitive matchup between in-rhythm teams at the peak of their production. In these situations, raw talent typically beats systems. Given the alleged system that Jeremy Colliton runs—which often includes such scenes as “Connor Murphy chasing at his own blue line” […]

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Atop The Sugar Pile – 3/9: DEEEAAATHHHHHH

By Sam Fels March 9, 2020

It all came crashing down on the Hawks this weekend, so who did what as yet another season is meaningless before St. Patrick’s Day, if it ever meant anything at all. The Dizzying Highs Corey Crawford – It feels like the Hawks are heading toward some sort of Bay Of Pigs with their veteran players, with […]

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Boqvist, Nylander, Colliton, And Other Thoughts On A Dreary Day

By Sam Fels January 10, 2020 0

Not much more to discuss after last night’s loss, as Rose summed it up pretty well. So we’ll clean through what we can. -The Hawks will run to the stronghold of the excuse of injuries, and that has some validity. Without Saad and Strome, this team is missing two of a top six that never […]

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Game #44 – That Silent Sense of Content That Everyone Gets Just Disappears Soon as the Sun Sets – Flames 2, Hawks 1

By John Pullega January 7, 2020 0

Box Score Natural Stat Trick What a perfect microcosm of the 2019–20 Blackhawks. An early lead generated by (what better be) the New Core followed by 40 minutes of pants shitting, entirely avoidable penalties, and a flat refusal to shoot the puck while trailing. We’d love to know if this is an example of what […]

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Game #36 – You’ll Wear a Dress, Baby I’ll Wear a Tie, We’ll Laugh at That Ol’ Bloodshot Moon in That Burgundy Sky – Hawks 4, Jets 1

By John Pullega December 19, 2019 0

Box Score Natural Stat Trick Sometimes, all you need are a couple of individually brilliant performances. The Hawks had all the consistency and cleanliness of a Taco Bell–hosted afterparty toilet bowl, but came away with a decently dominant victory. Let’s wrap it. – Patrick Kane gave as many fucks as he could tonight. When that […]