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Tag: Blackhawks

  • Morning Links 8/23/13

    Teuvo signs: Blackhawks.Com

    There will be no Alumni outdoor game at Chavez Ravine: Puck Daddy

    The greatest player ever born in Texas has a a new job: TSN

    For the sake of his public persona, he should probably clarify:Sporting News

     

  • Hawks Sign Teuvo Teravainen To Entry Level Deal

    Hawks Sign Teuvo Teravainen To Entry Level Deal

    We’ll have more thoughts on this tomorrow, but feel free to discuss your Teuvo excitement and share grainy footage of Jokerit highlights complete with shouting Finnish announcers here for the time being.

  • Eye Of The Beholder

    Eye Of The Beholder

    This off season, there have been numerous teams debuting new threads. So far, the Hurricanes, Stars, and Sharks have shown what they’ll be wearing this upcoming season, with the Wild still yet to reveal their new road whites, and the Sabres bringing to the fore a new alternate third jersey. This also doesn’t even take into account the rash of one-time use sweaters that’s bound to happen for all of the outdoor games, some of which we’ve already seen.

    There are so many new threads to be seen that even the Worldwide Leader felt it necessary to chime in with their all-important RANKINGS wherein the Hawks are completely erroneously left near the bottom of the top-10. And while it’s just one person’s opinion, to have it outside of the Top 6 (where honestly any of the Original Six could be used interchangably and any such ranking should have two seperate categories, such is the disparity between the flagship franchises and the rest of the league), we here at CI Headquarters have a few handy rules of thumb that work across the board, no matter the team.

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  • Morning Links 8/21/13

    The most hated players in the Central Division: Blackhawk Up

    Maybe he will get a victory tour like Mariano Rivera: NESN

    Ducks lose Souray for 4-6 months: CBSSPORTS

    Kadri is distracted just like most of his career in Toronto: TSN

    Patrick Burke steps down as head of YCP: Sportsnet

    Personally nothing beats the original: Puckdaddy

  • Ticket Time

    Ticket Time

    While I wasn’t paying attention, Hawks single tickets went on sale today. And it allows us to make fun of something that might not even be going on, which is fans complaining that they’re being priced out by what the Hawks are charging. Most people get it, though from my post outside Gate 3 during the season, I hear this a lot more than we do at the blog and on our twitter.

    Hey, we’d all like to go to as many games as possible, and even finding tickets for that is hard, much less being able to afford them. But I think we’re all familiar with the idea of supply and demand. And after years and years of listening to people bitch that Cubs tickets cost this much and they win this much less, it’s hard to argue with the bang for your buck you get out of the money spent on Hawks tickets.

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  • Morning Links 8/19/13

    SLOW NEWS DAY!!

    All around the world: CBC

    All I can say is good for Dustin Johnson: ESPN

    Because signing a franchise goalie is too hard: PuckDaddy

    Can a lower budget help: Backhand Shelf

  • Morning Links 8/15/13

    Everyone is happy in Slovakia: CSN

    Captain talking about how awesome The Hawks are: TSN Autoplay

    All about the new playoff format from Ryan Lambert: Backhand Shelf

    That didn’t take long: Globe and Mail

    One guy that didn’t give up his ring to the Don of Boston Mob: Montreal Gazette

  • Morning Links 8.9.13

    The thing the Red Wings did in the late 90s: Hawks

    The 10 best “Free” RFA’s: Backhand Shelf

    Yes it did: TSN

    The NHL will literally go only weeks without owning a franchise: SportsNet

    Apparently six outdoor games makes up for a lockout: Globe and Mail

     

  • Kaner

    Kaner

    As was posted in our Morning Links, and then got linked to by Puck Daddy, Kaner’s retrospective on CSN last night drew some attention for showing a little bit of an emotional side regarding the support of his family and teammates and organization after that….whathaveya last spring in Madison.

    I think it’s a pretty safe assumption that we’ve written about Kaner more than any other player on this blog in the 5+ years we’ve been doing it (this does not include all the sonnets McClure writes about Sharp on his own and quite possibly in his sleep). Kaner’s never far from the forefront a story’s headline when he’s not actually it himself. On the ice and a lot of times off it, it seems you just can’t keep your eyes off of him.

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  • Morning Links 8/1/13

    Feels Bigger: SunTimes

    Kaner Retrospective: Comcast Chicago

    Bickell is happy: ESPN Chicago

    KHL Gangsterism: Hockey Writers