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Tag: Chicago Blackhawks

  • The Path Is Clear, Now You Must Walk It

    Yeah, I know. The light out of the darkness is looking awfully faint, if it can be seen at all. There’s an overwhelming urge to start declaring who takes the fall, who doesn’t, what changes need to be made going forward, what went wrong, all that.

    But really, this is not over. Maybe it feels like that to you, but the margins of this 3-1 deficit just aren’t all that large. To overturn it, a massive transformation doesn’t have to be engineered. In fact, a lot of the Hawks are doing already is all that needs to be done. It just can’t be interrupted.

    Last night, aren’t we essentially talking about the difference in Leddy and Kindl taking the exact same shot from the same place, both hitting the inside of the post, one going in and one going out? That’s pretty much what separated teams last night.

    You can’t win all three games tomorrow night. You can only win the one. So how do the Hawks go about doing that?

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  • Morning Links 5/21/13

    Morning Links 5/21/13

    Bitch-Slapped: TSN

    Living on a prayer:Cheer The Anthem

    Not what they wanted to do: Chicago Tribune

    Cloudy:The Third Man In

    A Zone of Danger:HockeeNight

    Frustration:WFLD Fox 32

    Motor City Mayhem: Globe and Mail

    Robbed! PuckDaddy

    Game 3 is a must win:Daily Herald

    If you can help out, please do:RedCross

     

     

  • Morning Links 5/20/13

    Morning Links 5/20/13

    Rattlehead is playing in Game 3: Chicago Tribune

    Dream a little dream: Daily Herald

    Time to get excited: Comcast Autoplay

    Pace: Blackhawk Up

    Prove it: ESPN

    Convergence? NHL

  • Scum At Blackhawks – Game 2 – Third Period Thread

    The way they pull you over it’s suspicious
    Yeah, for something that just ain’t your fault
    If you complain they’re gonna get vicious
    Kick in your teeth and charge you with assault

  • Scum At Blackhawks – Game 2 – Second Period Thread

    I learned to say the pledge of allegiance
    Before they beat me bloody down at the station
    They haven’t got a word of me since
    I got a billion years probation

  • Scum At Blackhawks – Game 2 – First Period Thread

    They told you in school about freedom
    But when you try to be free, they never let you
    They said, “It’s easy, nothing to it”
    And now the army’s out to get you

  • Kick Out The Jams: Scum At Hawks – Game 2 – Preview/Pre-Game Thread/Flea Market

    Mordor vs Minas_Tirith

    Game Time: 12:00PM Central
    TV/Radio: CBC, NBC/ The Loop 97.9FM
    It’s So Cold In The D: Winging it in Motown, Abel to Yzerman

    After a pretty much textbook victory on Wednesday, the Blackhawks are simply going to look to do it all over again this afternoon. It makes writing these previews pretty difficult when all you have to say is… 60 more minutes of that again, please.

    Both teams used the first period of Game 1 to get re-acquainted with each other and headed to the first intermission with an even score. While the score remained even in the second, the feel of the game was vastly different. The Hawks were clearly outplaying Scum. The three goals in the third period just seemed like they were a given.

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  • Morning Links 5/17/13

    Morning Links 5/17/13

    100% Inaccurate: Chicago Tribune

    Luck be a Lady Byng: TSN

    Kruger sees room for improvement: Chicago Tribune

    Sharp is slaying all-comers: Daily Herald

    Legit or Bad officiating: PuckDaddy

    Detroit will stay Datsyukian: Sportsnet.CA

    68 might be done: Backhand Shelf

  • Pushing Forward Back – Looking At Jonathan Toews’s Selke Candidacy

    Pushing Forward Back – Looking At Jonathan Toews’s Selke Candidacy

    Let’s take a break from analyzing the Hawks bear-mauling of Scum last night — though it is fun to revel in — and focus on some other news that broke this week. As you know by now, Toews is one of three finalists for the Selke Award, given to the best defensive forward (and actually, center, but more on that in a bit). The others are the excellent Patrice Bergeron and the finalist-until-three-days-after-he’s-dead, Pavel Datsyuk. This has been coming for years, as we were trumpeting him for the award as early as the ’08-’09 season.

    This is such an odd award, much like the Norris has become or the Gold Glove award in baseball has been (which is why Darwin Barney’s win last year was really a surprise). Because the true defensive centers really get no attention. Jay McClement is one who does excellent work, but he doesn’t score a lot so there’s almost no chance he’ll be considered. Gregory Campbell is another. You get the idea. So in order to win a defensive award, you really do have to score to get noticed.

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  • Pushing Forward Back – Looking At Jonathan Toews's Selke Candidacy

    Pushing Forward Back – Looking At Jonathan Toews's Selke Candidacy

    Let’s take a break from analyzing the Hawks bear-mauling of Scum last night — though it is fun to revel in — and focus on some other news that broke this week. As you know by now, Toews is one of three finalists for the Selke Award, given to the best defensive forward (and actually, center, but more on that in a bit). The others are the excellent Patrice Bergeron and the finalist-until-three-days-after-he’s-dead, Pavel Datsyuk. This has been coming for years, as we were trumpeting him for the award as early as the ’08-’09 season.

    This is such an odd award, much like the Norris has become or the Gold Glove award in baseball has been (which is why Darwin Barney’s win last year was really a surprise). Because the true defensive centers really get no attention. Jay McClement is one who does excellent work, but he doesn’t score a lot so there’s almost no chance he’ll be considered. Gregory Campbell is another. You get the idea. So in order to win a defensive award, you really do have to score to get noticed.

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