Faxes from Uncle Dale

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  • I’ve Always Been Crazy But It’s Kept Me From Going Insane: Hawks 4 – Preds 3 (2OT)

    I’ve Always Been Crazy But It’s Kept Me From Going Insane: Hawks 4 – Preds 3 (2OT)

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    Oh right, the Hawks don’t know how to ease themselves into the playoffs in the shallow end, as this marks the 4th straight year the Hawks have gone to OT in R1G1, and the second straight year it’s been a mult-OT game. Why do things easy? Isn’t this more fun?

    Rarely will you see a playoff game swing from one side to the other so violently so quickly. The Preds, at least about halfway through the 1st, took this one over and put up three. The Hawks tightened everything up in the 2nd and were all over Nashville in the 2nd. The Preds were slightly better in the 3rd and first OT, and the Hawks waited them out.

    Of course, after we said this was two disciplined teams with anemic power plays, this turned out to be a game of indiscipline and special teams, which the Hawks actually won. Perhaps the excitement gets to the players too. And the ice didn’t help, but the Hawks should be used to that.

    Still, you can’t be blowing three-goal leads at home, can you? Let’s try and clean this one up, if we can.

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  • Morning Links 4/13/15

    and here’s your wrinkle:CSN

    Banners don’t suck: NBC

    I for one would like the same result: FSN

    How about just win and collect your playoff revenue: TT

    Jamie Benn wins the Art Ross with 8.5 seconds left: PD

    Let the Babcock rumors commence:SN

    But wasn’t it the plan?TSN

  • Morning Links 4.10.15

    Morning Links 4.10.15

    Coasting to Colorado:HN

    Don’t Caaaare:LGH

    They will raise this banner…Next to the one from EA Sports:CSN

    It could be worse:LAT

    Flying:CBC

  • Clowns To The Left, Jokers To The Right: Hawks at Blues Preview/Pregame Thread/Vanity Bonfire

    Hawk Wrestler vs. old_school_blue_l

    FACEOFF: 7pm Central

    TV/RADIO: CSN Locally, NBCSN not locall, WGN Radio 720

    WRETCHED HIVE OF SCUM AND VILLAINY: St. Louis Gametime

    WHERE WE’LL BE FOR IT: A.J. Hudson’s (Ashland and Grace here in the city)

    Well, you tell me what we’re going to see tonight. It’s hard to imagine that the Hawks would just lie down for a game against the Blues. But then again it was hard to imagine them waving their hand at the thought of overcoming the Wild at home last out in the 3rd when a single point would at least lock them into 3rd. The Hawks aren’t out of danger of falling into the wild card slots, though it’s not clear if that matter or if they care about it. And I don’t know either.

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  • Most Peculiar Momma: Wild 2 – Hawks 1

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    I can’t remember when I’ve walked out of the UC more confused. Usually I’m feeling good, dejected, or indifferent. But I don’t know what to make of tonight.

    I’m cheating again. Usually I’d quickly sum up the game, then go to the bullets of what you might not have seen. But just like I did the last time I wrote a wrap, this one feels like a prose. So follow me after the jump, and we’ll go through it together.

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  • Morning Links 4.3.15

    Seven Years: HN

    First Goal:ESPN

    Powered:LGH

    This should be interesting: CSN

    Into the sunset:SN

     

  • Morning Links 4.1.2015

    He misses his buddy:ST

    Its the only way:CSN

    Normally I would make fun of this but I know one & love one named Bort:CB

    IIHF rules afoot (Gruesome) PD

    1.8 % chance:Grantland

  • You Have Selected Regicide: Kings at Hawks Preview/Pregame Thread/Stuffed Animal Shopping

    King Jerry Lawler vs. Hawk Wrestler

    FACEOFF: 7:30pm Central

    TV/RADIO: CSN, NBCSN elsewhere, Sportsnet Up there, WGN 720

    IF YOU KNOW THE NAME OF THE KING OR QUEEN BEING MURDERED: The Royal Half

    Guess we’ll find out pretty quickly if last night was some sort of watershed point late in the season or a blip in an otherwise uninterrupted downward trajectory, Rents. The L.A. Kings saunter on in to the UC tonight, for their first and only visit this season and first since things went a tad pear-shaped last June 1st.

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  • Morning Links 3.30.15

    Morning Links 3.30.15

    This stat you can quantify:CSN

    Awesome:LGH

    Hawks 4..Thrashers 3:HN

    The Prodigy:TSN

    Even worn incorrectly? ESPN

  • And Gettin' Toasted. Nicely Toasted: Jackets 5 – Hawks 2

    And Gettin' Toasted. Nicely Toasted: Jackets 5 – Hawks 2

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    I’ll give you the normal intro to a wrap here, but it won’t be the normal wrap. And before I go any farther, I know there are some who think I’m always negative for the sake of it. That’s fine, I like to think I’m just realistic. And what I’m about to write I’ve only done so once in the seven years we’ve been doing this. It was also after a late-season loss at home to a Jackets team the Hawks had no business losing to. And they laughed that off and the prospect that they could miss the playoffs, except for Brian Campbell, until they did actually miss the playoffs in 2011 and had a Minnesota Wild team save them at the last possible moment. So don’t think I take it lightly.

    The 2014-2015 Chicago Blackhawks are finished.

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