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Morning Links 12/4

By Ken Oda 1272 0

Maybe I’m wrong but this reporter should probably Get Smart: CBS

Owners and players to meet today and neither side will bring their Kingpin: TSN

The players side of the table will be Larger than Life: PHT

While the owners send a few faces from the hardliner’s mt. Rushmore: PHT

Meyers says the NHLPA may have to change its Stripes: CSN

But when crossing the boarder some of the labor laws get Lost In Translation: ESPN

Proof that its not just fans who can act/think like Meatballs: SI

Jesse points out the mistakes made by The Man Who Knew Too Little: ESPNChi

For goalies With Friends Like These…: PD

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Have You Seen The Little Piggies?

By Sam Fels 1445 0

I hadn’t been to a Wolves game since their inaugural season in 1994 on Hanson Brothers night, which was two lockouts ago. I hadn’t been to the Horizon at all since Adam Jones, Justin Chancellor, and Danny Carey were polishing off the last notes to “Lateralus.” So to say I was in for a new experience of sorts would be right on the mark last night.

I hadn’t seen the new re-model of the interior of the Horizon, and I have to say I’m a fan. It feels cozier than it did, the sight-lines for hockey are better than they were, and it just feels like a more-modern arena, whereas the old layout felt dated probably from the moment the place opened. The constantly turning concourse could have used some work, but there’s only so much you can do. And the search for a beer other than Coors is mind-numbing. If Killion ever makes the trip there he’s probably going to have a seizure.

Anyway, other thoughts on my night watching the Hogs and Wolves:

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Lockout Insurance – Frozen Piggies

By Sam Fels 1680 0

Well, we come to it. Your other AHL option in the “area”, but the one that will probably interest you most. There are many benefits to the Hogs, and one crucial drawback. But we’ll focus on them here.

Venue: The Metro Center, or I guess now it’s called the BMO Harris Bank Center. Which only makes me want to call it the BM Center, and I think that’s pretty apt because it’s in Rockford. But anyway, people who have been there (namely Chris Block) say it’s a pretty cool place to see a game because it’s small. That makes the atmosphere a little more tense and the sightlines great. So there’s that. It’ll be a much more intimate setting than the airplane hangar the UC can feel like at times.

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Morning Links 10/10

By Joe DeTolve 1401 0

Always cite your sources before you get the hammer of the gods brought down on you by the hockey starved interwebs:(Twitter)

Apparently the AHL is fine, but the I-90 shuffle is better (Autoplay) (CSN)

Hockey is back with lots of ads and Russians on some fly-by-night tv station:(RT)

Can’t hold down a grinder:(GnM)

Hatred Growing: (SN)

Probably at the time the most hated team in Chicago:(TSUN)

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In Davy Jones's Locker

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I think that picture perfectly sums up where we are now and what we’re all feeling. Confusion in a desolate place that we have no control of getting out of ourselves. We only need an army of crabs to guide us to the sea. Maybe we should start with Patrick Kane’s.

There are just some thoughts rattling around my head as we come up to the actual date that will mark the first time we really should have been at the UC and discussing other things. They’re all kind of infuriating.

-It’s been mentioned before, but the staring contest part of this is by far the most deplorable aspect of this. I know, negotiating tactics and all that. But this inhabits a different stratosphere than say, a bunch of machinists striking against the airlines or something. “Well we put our proposal out and now we’re waiting for their proposal but they said that they made their proposal and now they want our next proposal but we didn’t think it was a proposal and ours was  a proposal and they’re bad men and stupid heads and we just need a proposal.”