Gangsta Raps:(Cheer The Anthem)(Blackhawk Up)(Hockee Night)
Beat Raps:(NHL)(Tribune)(Herald)(Comcast)(AP)(Minny ST)(ESPN)(FOX 32)
Weather was never an issue: (Bob Verdi)
Bicks stepping up:(ESPN)
Just give Joel Quenneville the Jack Adams already: (Puck Daddy)
Ouch: (Backhand Shelf)
30 Thoughts: (CBC)
Could a bigger ice surface, make the game safer? Globe and Mail
Stop me if you heard this before: The Blackhawks and Red Wings played a Sunday matinee at Joe Louis Arena that ended in a shootout.
In the last four seasons, it seems like the two teams have engaged in roughly 33 games that followed the script from today. One team controls the tempo, then the other team. By the end of regulation, one of the teams scores a late goal to send the game to overtime and in the overtime, both teams have opportunities for the winner.
In other words, today’s game was no different than any of the previous years between the Hawks and Wings. Except for that whole winning streak the Hawks have going. So let’s get to it.
3-2: (Chicago Tribune) (Chicago Suntimes) (Daily Herald) (Cheer the Anthem) (Comcast)
The AHL drops the hammer on the piggies: (The Third Man In)
Europe was good for Bickell: (Chicago Tribune)
Q..a changed man?? (FOX)
I can’t imagine a return to hockey being much bigger: (SportsNet)
Lokomotiv Yaroslavl clinches a playoff berth: (RSPORT)
Uniform Porn: (Icethetics)
This is really important: (The New York Times)
Moving right along down the depth chart we now come to perhaps the most stable unit of the post 2010 era, Dave Bolland’s third line. While Bolland has never truly become the force of nature that his numbers in junior or his paycheck would have suggested, that he has become one of the premier checking forwards in the NHL is still a victory in and of itself.However, the line he’s been a fixture on is not without its flaws, Bolland included, and it will need to find consistency in short order for this abbreviated season to be a successful one for the Hawks.
Moving right along down the depth chart we now come to perhaps the most stable unit of the post 2010 era, Dave Bolland’s third line. While Bolland has never truly become the force of nature that his numbers in junior or his paycheck would have suggested, that he has become one of the premier checking forwards in the NHL is still a victory in and of itself.However, the line he’s been a fixture on is not without its flaws, Bolland included, and it will need to find consistency in short order for this abbreviated season to be a successful one for the Hawks.
