Could the Hawks not finish 1st in the West? (Daily Herald)
88 has become The Total Package: (Suntimes)
Time to take advantage: (Comcast)
The game fit the billing: (Blackhawks.Com)
Thoughts and Strategies: (Fox 32 WFLD)
Players feel safer: (Winnipeg Free Press)
So James Neal is the Chad Bradford of the NHL: (Globe and Mail)
5 Questions: (CBC)
D-Bag worlds collide: (PuckDaddy)
Marty scored….Again: (New York Times)
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Game Time: 9:00PM Central
TV/Radio: CSN, NHLN (US), WGN-AM 720
Please No More California Songs: Anaheim Calling, Battle of California
Anyone who thought that tonight’s matchup between the Hawks and Ducks would be touted as a Western Conference final preview, let alone one between the two teams with the collective best records ever after 25 games is a damned dirty liar. That includes you, Bob Murray, put your stupid hand down.
Hawks/Ducks preview: Blackhawks
Speaking of the water fowl: Puck Prospectus
Deal or No Deal at the GM meetings: NHL
JR on the art of the kerfuffle: PHT
The musings of a zebra: TSN
New deals under the new deal: Sportsnet
This happened: Puck Daddy
Beat Raps: (Chicago Tribune)(Daily Herald)(FOX 32)(CSN AP WARNING)(ESPN)
Gangsta Raps: (Cheer the Anthem)(HockeeNight)(BlackhawkUP)
Hossa’s UBI is “NOT BAD”: (ESPN)
Kruger is settling in: (Chicago Tribune)
Cory Perry is a rich man: (PuckDaddy)
30 Thoughts: (CBC)
The easy storyline to this one tonight is that the Hawks were pissed off about having their streak to end all streaks snapped at this place and wanted to make up for it. That’s lazy. To me, all we saw tonight was the road team simply outclassing the home team, and doing what it does to a defensive unit that is in now way equipped to handle them. Oh, and apparently someone decided to remind Jonathan Toews that Erik Johnson was drafted ahead of him, and he proceeded to make EJ’s mom embarrassed she gave birth to such a clod. Jordan Staal better thank his lucky stars that Toews won’t get to him next year, I guess.
And in the end, it runs out a routine victory. While it’s over the last place team in the conference, you can’t help but be utterly delighted by the effort, the movement, and the creativity at times. It’s a comparison I’ve drawn before, but there were moments where the Hawks were so far ahead and away from the Avs tonight it looked like USSR ’78 out there. Or what I assume that would have looked like. Just cycles, passes, and chances created that Colorado was helpless to do anything about.
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Game Time: 8:00PM Central
TV/Radio: CSN+, WGN-AM 720
Rocky Mountain Way: Mile High Hockey, JibbleScribbits
Just nine short days after finally putting an end to the Hawks’ history season-starting streak in emphatic fashion, the Hawks return to the scene of the crime in Denver tonight to take on a somehow worse-off Avalanche team that now finds itself in the Western Conference basement.
If you’ll allow me to sidetrack for a moment (if that can be used as a verb). With Opening Day two weeks away, today I’d like to announce a new venture I’m undertaking. It’s called “The Ivy Drip”, and it’s my new Cubs Digital Weekly.
I know you Sox fans out there, or you baseball agnostics, are rolling your eyes. That’s totally fair. I usually mourn my Cubs fandom as much as a cherish it. I’m told that’s what it’s like to be Catholic. But anyway, for those that are still reading, let me go on.
If you’ll allow me to sidetrack for a moment (if that can be used as a verb). With Opening Day two weeks away, today I’d like to announce a new venture I’m undertaking. It’s called “The Ivy Drip”, and it’s my new Cubs Digital Weekly.
I know you Sox fans out there, or you baseball agnostics, are rolling your eyes. That’s totally fair. I usually mourn my Cubs fandom as much as a cherish it. I’m told that’s what it’s like to be Catholic. But anyway, for those that are still reading, let me go on.
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FACEOFF: 7pm Central
TV/RADIO: CSN, WGN Radio 720
BALLAD OF CHARLES WHITMAN: Defending Big D
I didn’t realize that the Hawks had only won two games in regulation in the past three weeks. That needs changing. Isn’t it a wonderful world when you can actually ask for a change in how you win?
Tonight’s game in Columbus is a textbook example of why it’s perfectly acceptable to have ties in the NHL. Both teams had stretches of carrying the play, and both looked sloppy at times and were bailed out by timely goaltending, that is until the sideshow used to decide the contest.
