5-1: Tribune
Fuel to burn: Cheer the Anthem
Gamesheet: NHL
Advanced Metrics: Extra Skater
This is probably going to be important: TSN
No more NHL coming up after Sportscentre:PuckDaddy
We still fear games against the Oilers after the trauma of the ’11-’12 season, especially the carnival ride of the games at Rexall Place that season, but it hasn’t really been the case the past two season. Oh sure, the Oil got one last year at the UC in a total clown college of a game. But other than that they’ve been batting practice fastballs for the Hawks. And you know pretty much whether it will be or not by the 1st period. As soon as Jonathan Toews arrogantly deposited his shorty in the 1st, you knew how tonight would go.
Let’s not wait around.
Gamesheet from Saturday: NHL
Advanced Metrics from Saturday: ExtraSkater
Nine Seconds: Hockeenight
Circus Observations: CSN
Hossa home: ESPN
Detroit Swimmers: PuckDaddy
Circus Trip: Hockee Night
Raanta ready to help out: Chicago Suntimes
Salary Cap Superman: Second City Hockey
John McDonough everyone: Blackhawks. Com
Kane better behave in Sochi: CSN
The outdoor czar: Puckdaddy
How the hell is this quantified! TSN
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FACEOFF: 7pm
TV/RADIO: CSN, WGN Radio 720
GIMME, GIMME, GIMME THE HONKEY TONK BLUES: The incomparable On The Forecheck
There’s only one storyline for the Hawks tonight, and obviously it’s KRS-23 suiting up in his first game back with the Hawks. If there was any danger of the Hawks either not taking this one fully seriously or getting caught looking ahead to the Sharks tomorrow night, there should be an extra jump in everyone’s step with Versteeg joining the ranks. As you know by now, Steeger will skate on the 3rd line with Bryan Bickell and Andrew Shaw. The combination of Chicken Hawk and VerStud might give the Hawks the yappiest line they’ve iced in… forever?
Boxscore: Blackhawks
Advanced Metrics: Extra Skater
Local Rap musician returns: Comcast
Stan Bowman is not Dave Nonis: TSN
A Sault boy back home in Buffalo: Toronto Sun
This is important because it involves a Maple Leaf: PuckDaddy
Not surprising considering how he Values Colton Orr: Globe and Mail
Brownie Points to who says it first: NHL
For the first six minutes of this game, you couldn’t have asked for pretty much anything more from the Hawks. They controlled the play, every shift seemed to be rolling and the puck was planted in the Yotes’ zone… oh, and they were up two goals.
Then things went off the rails a bit. It started with a deflection off a Hawk that snuck past Corey. Then on a power play, a shot from the point bounced hard off the board and found it’s way to Shane Doan’s stick who snuck an unreal wrister to the far top corner. The Hawks would play pretty much the rest of the period on the kill thanks to Bollig and took the game into the second tied.
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FACEOFF: 7pm Central
TV/RADIO: CSN, WGN 720
NO REGRETS…: Five For Howling
Although Ralph was technically “Ralph Wolf,” he sure looked a lot like Wile E. Coyote. Anyway…
It doesn’t exactly feel like it, but tonight sees two of the NHL’s top five teams squaring off. That’s right. But the Coyotes don’t really generate that type of buzz, do they? There’s no feature on NHL.com about this one, or televised on NHL Network or something of a feed on Twitter about neutrals looking forward to watching two hockey powers go toe-to-toe. Maybe that will all be saved for Sunday’s tilt against the Sharks.
Shaw is happy Chicago Tribune
Getting ready for the November tradition: Comcast (Autoplay)
Ten minute OT? TSN
For every “I’d fight him in barn” statement, Burke says stuff like this: NHL
