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Five Man Acoustical Jam: Hawks at TB Diddler's Preview/Pregame Thread/Guitar Tuning

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Hawk Wrestler vs. still-of-david-bowie-in-the-prestige-(2006)-large-picture

FACEOFF: 6:30pm

TV/RADIO: CSN round here, NHLN-US not round here, WGN Radio 720

FLASH BEFORE MY EYES: Raw Charge

If the Hawks got to find their defensive feet, and overall game without Patrick Kane, against an offensive soft underbelly ready for tickling against the Panthers, they will swing wildly to the other end of the spectrum tonight. It’s also the second of a back-to-back and while in previous years the Hawks have excelled in this situation, this year they’ve been stunningly mediocre.

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Five Man Acoustical Jam: Hawks at TB Diddler’s Preview/Pregame Thread/Guitar Tuning

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Hawk Wrestler vs. still-of-david-bowie-in-the-prestige-(2006)-large-picture

FACEOFF: 6:30pm

TV/RADIO: CSN round here, NHLN-US not round here, WGN Radio 720

FLASH BEFORE MY EYES: Raw Charge

If the Hawks got to find their defensive feet, and overall game without Patrick Kane, against an offensive soft underbelly ready for tickling against the Panthers, they will swing wildly to the other end of the spectrum tonight. It’s also the second of a back-to-back and while in previous years the Hawks have excelled in this situation, this year they’ve been stunningly mediocre.

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Paging Admiral Ackbar: Avs at Hawks Preview/Pregame Thread/Beach Bonfire

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Yeti.MonstersInc vs. Hawk Wrestler

FACEOFF: 7:30pm Central

TV/RADIO: CSN, WGN Radio 720, Sportsnet in Canada

YOU’RE CAUSING MORE AVALANCHES: Mile High Hockey

You’d think at just about this time of year, there wouldn’t be things such as “trap” games. Either the Hawks are totally focused on the task at hand, or they’re running out the clock until April and every game is nothing more than a nuisance. I don’t think they’re there yet, but this one kind of fits in the pocket. They’re coming off big games against Eastern contenders Pittsburgh and Detroit. The Bruins arrive on Sunday afternoon, and while they’re struggling that would still have an extra spice. So the last-placed team in the division wouldn’t exactly angry up the blood like the others. You would hope previous struggles against the Avs, like January’s shutout loss, would have the blinders on for the Hawks. We’ll just have to see.

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The Empire Strikes Back: Wings at Hawks Preview/Pregame Thread/Tauntaun Training

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galactic_empire_emblem vs. rebel-small

FACEOFF: 6:30pm Central (The Wings bitched so much about their starting times they’re even changing ours now)

TV/RADIO: NBCSN, WGN Radio 720

CRACK HOUSE DAILY: Winging It In Motown

Now that these only happen twice a year, and once in each city, they’ve become some sort of weird family reunion. They’re certainly an event, a chance to remember how much bile you had for the other side and how quickly it went away once Seabrook’s OT winner dented twine and the Wings were packed off to the East. Though it probably won’t take much more than one Wings fan in your section who won’t shut up to angry up the blood again.

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No Longer A Finishing Move?

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I always try and keep in mind how it might sound to fans of other teams when you start complaining about the Hawks’ problems. Like, for instance, this current mini-drama where the Hawks have a four-time 30-goal scorer currently on their third line and what it might mean. Most teams would probably love to have that problem.

But the Hawks’ expectations and their goals, (or their, y’know, ONE GOAL that they keep waving in my face like a frat boy’s wang) are higher than most, so these kinds of things bother us.

Patrick Sharp moved to accommodate the return of Kris Versteeg. What was odd about it was just how quickly that came about. It was about the 2nd period of Versteeg’s first game back against Vancouver. This after missing a month and clearly rusty. But Q was in such a hurry to reunited The Conjuring (Versteeg-Richards-Kane) that he barely waited 20 minutes. And it’s not like Sharp was pulling that line down.