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I Am An Elastic Firecracker – Hawks at Stars Games 27 & 28 Preview

By Matt McClure March 9, 2021

vs Game Times: 7:30 PM TV/Radio: NBCSN (3/9), SportsNet (3/9), NBC Sports Chicago, WGN-AM 720 Dammit Pantera, This Beer Is Warm: Defending Big D   As hard as it is to believe, this series in Dallas will mark the halfway point of this abbreviated campaign for the Hawks, as it’s both zipped right by and felt interminable […]

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Swing State – Hawks at Blue Jackets Games 20 & 21 Preview

By Matt McClure February 23, 2021

at Game Times: 6:00PM (2/23, 2/25) TV/Radio: NBC Sports Chicago, WGN-AM 720 The Horseshoe: The Cannon As this abbreviated intra-divisional schedule lumbers towards its halfway point, the repetitive nature its structure is now starting to take its icy grip on things, even as Chicago itself finally thaws out only slightly, with the Hawks now playing their third […]

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Quarterfinals Game #5 – Small Change Got Rained on With His Own .38 – Hawks 3, Knights 4 – Knights Win Series 4–1

By John Pullega August 19, 2020

Box Score Natural Stat Trick They got farther than they should have. Some of the kids showed flashes of brilliance. Others looked everything from odious to unusable. We got a couple more classic games from one of our favorite guys. And all the while a coach. My oh my, a coach. – Jeremy Colliton is […]

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Play-In Game #4 – Ooh La La Ah Oui Oui – Hawks 3, Oilers 2 – Hawks Win Series 3–1

By John Pullega August 7, 2020

Box Score Natural Stat Trick We are all vile disgusting creatures who do not, have never, and will never deserve Corey Crawford. — Matt McClure (@Matt_McClure_) August 8, 2020 – Just put his fucking number in the goddamn rafters already I don’t fucking care. As predicted, the series went through Crow. He stopped 43 of […]

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Game #68 – GOD DAMN It Are You F*CKIN With Me? – Hawks 1, Wings 2

By John Pullega March 6, 2020

Box Score Natural Stat Trick Absolutely fucking terrible. Until the last 10 minutes of this game, the Hawks were out-possessed and outclassed by the worst NHL team of the 21st century in the middle of a run that they’re calling a playoff push. A completely botched circumcision of an effort. – The big story of […]

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Atop the Sugar Pile: Go West, Young Man

By Rose Rankin February 10, 2020 0

As the Hawks venture into the western reaches of Canada, let’s look at who’s hot and who’s not: The Dizzying Highs Brandon Saad. Playing on a line with Patrick Kane will always help your scoring no matter who you are, but there’s no reason to nitpick. Saad has been putting the puck in the net […]

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Game #53 – Sometimes It Snows in April. Sometimes I Feel So Bad – Hawks 2, Wild 2 (Wild Win Anime-Drawing Contest)

By John Pullega February 4, 2020 0

Box Score Natural Stat Trick Since Prince’s untimely death, there hasn’t been a redeeming quality to speak of regarding Minnesota. And for the first 50 minutes tonight, all was as it has ever been since then. But a flutter puck and bad-angle goal later, the Hawks were on the brink of being one point back […]

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Angry At Numbers – Penalty Kill Edition

By Sam Fels January 16, 2020 0

Whenever the job-reaper comes for Jeremy Colliton, be it the middle of the season, in the summer, or never, he’s going to try and mount some defense if only to make himself more attractive for another job down the road. He doesn’t want to be Trent Yawney, y’know? And the first thing, maybe the only […]

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Game #46: Ducks 2, Hawks 4 – And I’ll Be Satisfied Not To Read In Between The Lines

By Rose Rankin January 11, 2020 0

They’re not bad because they’re inconsistent, they’re inconsistent because…well, tonight I won’t bother to finish that sentence. The Hawks beat a crappy team, as they should, so let’s take what we can get, right? To the bullets… Box Score Natural Stat Trick –Early on, it felt like things were going to go off the rails […]

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Game #42 – I Told Ya I Was Trouble. You Know That I’m No Good – Hawks 5, Canucks 7

By John Pullega January 3, 2020 0

Box Score Natural Stat Trick For a brief moment, it looked like the Hawks would rise to the occasion. They roared back from a deficit to take a two-goal lead over a team within sniffing distance of them for a playoff spot, then proceeded to cower and hope that their porous defense—which at no point […]