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Morning Links 5/1/13

By Joe DeTolve May 1, 2013 1345 0

Full Recap: (AP)

Whew…(CTA)

Good, Bad and Ugly: (HockeeNight)

Holy Mother of God that was fun: (Chicago Tribune)

The good Ottawa boy is clutch: (Comcast Chicago)

Niklas Backstrom hurt: (PuckDaddy)

Harding played his ass off: (Minny Star Tribune)

Parise and Suter must lead for the Wild to succeed: (CBC)

Scum Jr. takes a 1-0 lead on the Kings: (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

Grinding out wins on the first night: (TSN)

As Crosby turns: (SPORTSNET AP)

People with more talent than me explain the history of the chalice:(Visual Capitalist)

Remember where we all come from: (SPORTSNET)

 

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Pleased To Meet Me – Game 1 Wild vs Hawks Preview, Pregame Thread, Boat Launch

By Matt McClure April 30, 2013 1204 0

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Game Time: 7:00PM Central
TV/Radio: CSN, NBCSN, CBC, WIND 560-AM
Somebody To Shove: Hockey Wilderness

And so it begins. Since Patrick Kane announced the Hawks’ presence to the defending champ Kings on a Saturday afternoon on January 19th, this is the date that Hawks fans have waited patiently for. It’s time for this collection on the ice to prove it’s not the first-round-out it has been the last two seasons, nor is it a hollow collection of records accumulated during an asterisk of a regular season.

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Out On The Tiles

By Sam Fels April 30, 2013 1296 0

Oh wait, we were only supposed to make Replacements and Husker Du references. Oh well.

Now that we’ve sized up the Wild on every level, it’s time we predict how we think it all plays out. I do this with the caveat that last year, I wrote, “I can’t see how so many people are picking Phoenix. I think the Hawks win, and I don’t think it’ll be that hard.” Whoops.

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Who’s Your John Druce?

By Sam Fels April 29, 2013 1336 0

It’s playoff tradition around these parts. For those who may be new to our little thing here, John Druce was a middling third liner for the Caps in the ’89-’90 season. But then the playoffs hit, and Druce from out of nowhere came up with 14 goals in 15 playoff games after scoring only 8 in 45 regular season games.

So who do you think is going to emerge from the dark and be the talk of the town?

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Who's Your John Druce?

By sgadmin April 29, 2013 1401 0

It’s playoff tradition around these parts. For those who may be new to our little thing here, John Druce was a middling third liner for the Caps in the ’89-’90 season. But then the playoffs hit, and Druce from out of nowhere came up with 14 goals in 15 playoff games after scoring only 8 in 45 regular season games.

So who do you think is going to emerge from the dark and be the talk of the town?

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Trying To Find A Balance – Previewing the Wild’s Special Teams

By Matt McClure April 29, 2013 1457 0

Up next under the microscope are the Wild’s power play and penalty kill. If it seems like we’ve kind of shat all over the the Wild lineup to this point, well….that’s probably true. But for all the lack of depth that the roster possesses, they actually have two fairly competent special teams units all things considered.

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Trying To Find A Balance – Previewing the Wild's Special Teams

By sgadmin April 29, 2013 1207 0

Up next under the microscope are the Wild’s power play and penalty kill. If it seems like we’ve kind of shat all over the the Wild lineup to this point, well….that’s probably true. But for all the lack of depth that the roster possesses, they actually have two fairly competent special teams units all things considered.

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Get Fabulous Like Us: We Have A Store!

By Sam Fels April 29, 2013 1185 0

You may have noticed it over the weekend. You may be noticing it now. But look at that menu bar there. The black one. See that tab all the way to the right, next to the search bar? Yep, it’s true, we have an online store!

We’re doing a presale for some basic items now, just in time for the playoffs! We’ll be adding more and more designs as we go along, but get in now and get decked out in our logo. Hey, there’s going to be a lot of bandwagoners over the next couple months (hopefully), so why not stand out from the crowd and show you’re in the know by wearing our shit? Exactly!

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Someone Take The Wheel – The Minnehaha Defense And Goalies

By Sam Fels April 29, 2013 1492 0

We’ll move toward the back for the Wild, and this is where the major cracks for them begin to show. The Wild’s blue line corps is kind of like a muffin. Scrape off the tasty top, and you’re left with a flavorless hunk of not much with the rest that you’d really rather just chuck in the trash. At least that’s what I’m told. I don’t eat muffins.

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Boatless Booze Cruise – Hawks at Blues Preview, Pregame Thread, Tai Bo

By Matt McClure April 27, 2013 1306 0

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Game Time: 7:00PM Central
TV/Radio: WGN, 97.9 The Loop
Glorified Trailer Park: St. Louis Game Time

Thus ends the 48 game prelude to the portion of the hockey season that truly matters. And there are fewer ways more satisfying that how the Hawks are doing so today, by sauntering down I-55 with a troop of kids to take on the Blues in a game that means nothing to the Hawks, and quite a bit to the Blues.