Faxes from Uncle Dale

Tag: Chicago Blackhawks

  • Putting The "Ill" In "Ila-Delph": Flyers 0 – Hawks 4

    Putting The "Ill" In "Ila-Delph": Flyers 0 – Hawks 4

    Box Score

    Event Summary

    War-On-Ice

    For the second straight year, the Philadelphia Flyers rolled into the United Center, laid down on their back for a belly rub, urinated a little on the floor, and quickly beat it back to the bus. This was a slight improvement, they didn’t give up seven this time.

    It was no surprise that the Hawks, wanting to avoid the prolonged whiskey dick (redundant?) that the previous two games turned into, came out flying even faster and more frantically in this one hoping to put it away early. That’s exactly what they did. All it took was a brilliant rush from the third line, a power play, and then another rush from the third line, and this one was half in the bag. In a good way, not in the way we usually use that phrase. Or like Killion is now.

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  • Putting The “Ill” In “Ila-Delph”: Flyers 0 – Hawks 4

    Putting The “Ill” In “Ila-Delph”: Flyers 0 – Hawks 4

    Box Score

    Event Summary

    War-On-Ice

    For the second straight year, the Philadelphia Flyers rolled into the United Center, laid down on their back for a belly rub, urinated a little on the floor, and quickly beat it back to the bus. This was a slight improvement, they didn’t give up seven this time.

    It was no surprise that the Hawks, wanting to avoid the prolonged whiskey dick (redundant?) that the previous two games turned into, came out flying even faster and more frantically in this one hoping to put it away early. That’s exactly what they did. All it took was a brilliant rush from the third line, a power play, and then another rush from the third line, and this one was half in the bag. In a good way, not in the way we usually use that phrase. Or like Killion is now.

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  • Morning Links 10/20/14

    Morning Links 10/20/14

    Clean and fresh feeling? HN

    Got away with it: CTA

    So Money: LGH

    This is old news: CSN AP

    Right because 8 inch steel polls are safer: SN

  • With Teeth: Predators v. Blackhawks Preview, Pregame Thread, Dog Grooming

    Leary vs. oldschool

    FACEOFF: 7:30pm

    TV/RADIO: WGN for both

    NOT STUCK IN MEMPHIS: On The Forecheck

    For the second straight game, the Hawks will get to host a team that played on the road the night before. Perhaps it’s a bid by the NHL to make it up to the Hawks for making them play 31 back-to-backs per year or whatever it was in previous years. Perhaps it’s just luck of the draw. Either way, the Hawks get their first look at a Nashville team that actually could be… dare I say it… entertaining? Nah, couldn’t be, could it?

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  • A Peek At Peaks, But No Perfect Pachydermus Percussion Pitch

    A Peek At Peaks, But No Perfect Pachydermus Percussion Pitch

    So I’ll come clean with you all. Some of my sense of urgency and frustration with the Hawks roster management and such stems from this deep fear I have that I haven’t really talked about. It’s creeping around there though, as ridiculous as it seems on the surface. And it’s this fear that the center of which this team is built around, Patrick Kane and Jonathan Toews, are closer to the end of their peaks than they are to the beginning.

    I know, it sounds preposterous. But a lot of studies, including this one, show that a forward’s scoring peak hits around age 25. Well, Kane is 25 and Toews is now past that mark.

    However, when I was poking around about this stuff yesterday waiting for printing to finish, I was leveled out by the fact that the Hawks have two other forwards who have stayed above this slide.

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  • Most Peculiar Mama: Flames 2 – Hawks 1 (OT)

    Most Peculiar Mama: Flames 2 – Hawks 1 (OT)

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    Event Summary

    War On Ice

    Well, that was strange. Seems like the Hawks have this game once or twice a year, where they put up a pornagraphic number of shots but don’t break through, give up a sucker punch, scramble to tie it, and then lose in OT or a shootout (or sometimes they don’t even tie it) I guess it’s good they got this one out of the way early?

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  • Morning Links 10/14/14

    Morning Links 10/14/14

    So much for that LTIR: LGH

    Probably in front of the 17th pick of the 2009: CSN AP

    Notes from Rock Vegas: TMI

    Farewell Brave Lion: HockeeNight

    The Pee-Wee team in Garden River is insulted: TSN

    This is what happens when you build a rink in the Everglades: CBS

    and I don’t present a problem to an unlimited lobster dinner: SN AP

     

  • Morning Links 10/10/14

    Morning Links 10/10/14

    Rapid Overreaction: NHL

    Damn Real: HockeeNight

    Crow: LGH

    Kaner: CST

    If the shoe fits: Chicago Tribune

    Comcast is allowed to get away with it: SN

    Yes it is: ESPN

  • Overture, Cut The Lights: Hawks at Stars Preview/Pregame Thread/Swingin’ Party Down The Line

    AltLogo_mediumvs. Bowie Starman

    FACEOFF: 7:30 PM Central

    TV/RADIO: CSN, WGN Radio 720

    YEE HAW!: Defending Big D

    Here we go. The curtain raiser on the sometimes confusing, sometimes frustrating, sometimes slog, 82-game story of the 2014-2015 season. And while the Hawks certainly have some new parts to show and some questions to answer, the excitement will mostly be contained on the other side of the ice.

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  • Overture, Cut The Lights: Hawks at Stars Preview/Pregame Thread/Swingin' Party Down The Line

    AltLogo_mediumvs. Bowie Starman

    FACEOFF: 7:30 PM Central

    TV/RADIO: CSN, WGN Radio 720

    YEE HAW!: Defending Big D

    Here we go. The curtain raiser on the sometimes confusing, sometimes frustrating, sometimes slog, 82-game story of the 2014-2015 season. And while the Hawks certainly have some new parts to show and some questions to answer, the excitement will mostly be contained on the other side of the ice.

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