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Tag: Alexander Ovechkin

  • Game #22 – Hawks vs. Capitals Preview – Bottled In Cork

    Game #22 – Hawks vs. Capitals Preview – Bottled In Cork

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    Game Time: 6:00PM CST
    TV/Radio: NBCSN, NBC Sports Chicago, WGN-AM 720
    What A Bunch Of Clowns: Japer’s Rink, Russian Machine Never Breaks

    Though the Circus Trip is now a thing of the past, the Black Wednesday/Black Friday two-fer for the Hawks still remains, and the past to years things have been set out east rather than in California. And the earlier start time is probably better for all involved on one of the biggest drinking nights of the calendar year, but given the state of things with the Hawks, that probably won’t stop anyone reading this from getting after it and ending up at White Castle/Burrito House/Bacci’s Pizza by 9:30, not that anyone here would know anything about that.

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  • Death Of The Narrative

    Death Of The Narrative

    At the risk of putting the Fels Motherfuck on the Capitals, it’s a fairly safe bet that Alex Ovechkin will be hoisting The Chalice if not tonight, by Monday. Only the Maple Leafs of 76 years ago have overcome a 3-1 deficit in the Cup Final, and that was a 3-0 comeback back when friend of the program Forklift was just finishing his doctoral thesis. And should that likelihood play out, a couple of different storylines should finally fall by the wayside.

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  • Morning Links 1/2/15

    Morning Links 1/2/15

    Dangerous: Daily Herald

    Him and Ladd are the ones from 2010 I wish were here: SunTimes

    Impossible because its January: USA Today

    For a bit: ESPN

    Captain Pissed Off: LGH

    Classy: CSN

  • Morning Links 10/10

    Morning Links 10/10

    Always cite your sources before you get the hammer of the gods brought down on you by the hockey starved interwebs:(Twitter)

    Apparently the AHL is fine, but the I-90 shuffle is better (Autoplay) (CSN)

    Hockey is back with lots of ads and Russians on some fly-by-night tv station:(RT)

    Can’t hold down a grinder:(GnM)

    Hatred Growing: (SN)

    Probably at the time the most hated team in Chicago:(TSUN)