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  • 1000 Hurts – Hawks 4, Sens 4 (Hawks Win Ants In The Pants)

    1000 Hurts – Hawks 4, Sens 4 (Hawks Win Ants In The Pants)

    Box Score
    Event Summary
    War on Ice

    While certainly the most sloppy game the Hawks have played so far this year, it was far and away the most eventful, with four blown leads before things needed to be settled individually. That’s how fickle and weird regular season hockey can be. Contrasting directly against Tuesday night’s near-impeccable performance against the challenging Ducks and walking away with nothing, the Hawks came right back around tonight and sloppily got out of Ottawa with two points. But that, so the saying goes, is why they play 82 of these goddamn things.

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  • Morning Links 10/30/14

    Morning Links 10/30/14

    Just keep swimming: LGH

    Get Well Mr. Hockey: SI

    Don’t tell SunTimes readers: ESPN

    But does it ? TSN 

    Probably Not: GnM

    Perfect:PD

  • Someone's Gonna Pay: Ducks 1 – Hawks 0

    Someone's Gonna Pay: Ducks 1 – Hawks 0

    Box Score

    Event Summary

    War On Ice

    It seems like a recurring dream, where the Hawks fling rubber like monkey feces at an opposing goalie for 60 straight minutes, and yet can’t seem to make any twine ripple. Yet this one feels like the first time a goalie really had to channel Houdini to get out of some of the jams the Hawks put him in, as John Gibson was excellent. Throw in a couple posts rang as well, and you get yet another frustrating night. Still, there’s hardly much to complain about, as the Hawks were just a shade better than the Ducks everywhere but in goal (and they weren’t much worse there either).

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  • Someone’s Gonna Pay: Ducks 1 – Hawks 0

    Someone’s Gonna Pay: Ducks 1 – Hawks 0

    Box Score

    Event Summary

    War On Ice

    It seems like a recurring dream, where the Hawks fling rubber like monkey feces at an opposing goalie for 60 straight minutes, and yet can’t seem to make any twine ripple. Yet this one feels like the first time a goalie really had to channel Houdini to get out of some of the jams the Hawks put him in, as John Gibson was excellent. Throw in a couple posts rang as well, and you get yet another frustrating night. Still, there’s hardly much to complain about, as the Hawks were just a shade better than the Ducks everywhere but in goal (and they weren’t much worse there either).

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  • Orange Rhyming Dictionary – Ducks vs Hawks Preview, Pregame Thread, Killion's Birthday Party

    Count_duckula_titles vs oldschool

    Game Time: 7:30PM Central
    TV/Radio: CSN, WGN-AM 720
    Fowl Beasts: Anaheim Calling, Battle of California

    Tonight will mark the only time during the regular season that the Anaheim Ducks will visit West Madison, and thank the hockey gods for that, because their new road white uniforms are sinfully ugly. It’s fitting that they’re in town so close to Halloween wearing such terrifying costumes, and in the traditional colors of the holiday no less.

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  • Orange Rhyming Dictionary – Ducks vs Hawks Preview, Pregame Thread, Killion’s Birthday Party

    Count_duckula_titles vs oldschool

    Game Time: 7:30PM Central
    TV/Radio: CSN, WGN-AM 720
    Fowl Beasts: Anaheim Calling, Battle of California

    Tonight will mark the only time during the regular season that the Anaheim Ducks will visit West Madison, and thank the hockey gods for that, because their new road white uniforms are sinfully ugly. It’s fitting that they’re in town so close to Halloween wearing such terrifying costumes, and in the traditional colors of the holiday no less.

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  • Morning Links 10/28/14

    Morning Links 10/28/14

    Now or Never: LGH

    Beat it Olli: PD

    I enjoy most of this: ESPN

    Cue the meatball from Ajax bitching about Ticket prices: FS

    That’s it? CBC

    Ummmm. TS

  • I'm Looking Right At You, Big Daddy

    I'm Looking Right At You, Big Daddy

    This is kind of an extension of Wednesday’s Angry At Numbers, but looking more specifically at Patrick Kane. We’ve spent a lot of time on this blog analyzing Kane’s linemates and production, which seems weird. It seems weird because no one would argue that Kane isn’t one of the top 10 players in the league, so why should it matter so much who he is playing with? In one sense, you feel like it shouldn’t. But in another, it does. Kane’s such a unique talent with such a unique style, he’s not as user friendly as say Toews or Hossa is (and there’s been plenty of talk about who Hossa should play with too).

    So I thought I’d go back through and look at Kane’s most productive seasons and see who they were spent with, and maybe we’ll have a better idea of what should be happening now.

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  • I’m Looking Right At You, Big Daddy

    I’m Looking Right At You, Big Daddy

    This is kind of an extension of Wednesday’s Angry At Numbers, but looking more specifically at Patrick Kane. We’ve spent a lot of time on this blog analyzing Kane’s linemates and production, which seems weird. It seems weird because no one would argue that Kane isn’t one of the top 10 players in the league, so why should it matter so much who he is playing with? In one sense, you feel like it shouldn’t. But in another, it does. Kane’s such a unique talent with such a unique style, he’s not as user friendly as say Toews or Hossa is (and there’s been plenty of talk about who Hossa should play with too).

    So I thought I’d go back through and look at Kane’s most productive seasons and see who they were spent with, and maybe we’ll have a better idea of what should be happening now.

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  • Morning Links 10/24/14

    Morning Links 10/24/14

    Cowboy Hat: TSN

    Mad: CTA

    …and a bitch slap from James Neal: LGH

    We travel well to cool ass places: PD

    New Life: ESPN

    All these songs suck including #1 SI