Looks like Monty is headed to Rock Vegas: Chicago Tribune Third Man In
Tired?? Comcast
Trading Iggy is delicate: Puck Daddy
Hockey is apparently dangerous: The Globe and Mail
Gretzky wants visors: Sportsnet.Ca
30 Thoughts: CBC
Beer Pong to end real hockey games!PuckDaddy
Best Gifs of the first half: Backhand Shelf
First half awards: TSN
Hossa, Shaw and Montador will travel to Denver: (Blackhawks)
Defense: (Comcast)
Revenge of the stat nerds: (Puck Daddy)
Signed, Sealed and Delivered: (TSN)
So no one gets hurt: (The Globe and Mail)
Doesn’t really do anything:(CBC)
No Regrets: (Third Man IN)
Need to know basis: (ESPN)
Jesus Christ…Retire dude: (TSN)
Mix-Master cut faster:(Daily Herald)
Because I feel disgrace because you’re all in my face: (Comcast Chicago)
Engine running hotter than a boiling kettle: (Suntimes)
The {dude} is crafty like ice is cold: (Blackhawks)
And I know the fly spot where they got the champagne.{and the Nucks won’t find it}(TSN)
We’re offered Moet – we don’t mind Chivas (Globe and Mail)
So there it is. The Hawks officially have the longest points-streak (or unbeaten streak) to start a season in NHL history. This one isn’t even tainted by the NHL’s new-ish format (mostly), as the Hawks haven’t lost in OT even. Under the old system — y’know, one that made sense — the Hawks would just have three ties to go with their 14 wins.
It’s cool to say now. I guess I’m glad it happened. But in a few months, it’ll either be a nugget that goes along with something we’ll remember much more fondly and distinctly, or it’ll be a marker for what could and probably should have been. It’s a record that is designed to be buried by what comes after it. After all, can you name who has the most wins to start an MLB season? You can’t. It’s the ’82 Braves and ’87 Brewers. And I had to look that up, because neither went on to win anything.
Game Day: (Daily Herald)(NHL)
They are ready: (Vancouver Province)
Aiming for History: (Pro Hockey Talk)
Good for these players: (Puckdaddy)
Soviet legend remembered: (RT)
Do players need to be saved from themselves? (The Score)
OH Yes!! All our problems are solved: (SunTimes)
Sharp isn’t worried: (Daily Herald)
Game Preview: (Blackhawks.com)
Oh and Sharp has free time for the ladies: (Puckdaddy)
Kesler is back: (Sportsnet)
So Matt Cooke must pay: (Ottawa Sun)
What if the IOC,NHL and NHLPA all crap in our cocoa puffs:(US of Hockey)
Evander Kane and the race problem: (Puckdaddy)
Sportsmanship personified in Russia: (RT)
This needs to happen..Also click on the figurine link: (Daves Geek Ideas)
We are utterly delighted to announce that The Fifth Feather is joining our team. As you probably already know, The Feather has been maybe the smartest Hawks blog going for a while now, and we’re lucky that that level of hockey intellect and snark will be part of our dysfunctional family. Don’t worry, he won’t be making our twitter feed any more schizo, as he will still be found @fifthfeather. And for all you other Hawks blogs, if you’re worried that we will systematically add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own to make an all-powerful species, we will. Resistance if futile. -Fels
So this is what the other side smells like. I can see why I’ve been away for so long. Anyways, let’s get to it. You’ve all waited long enough.
–Patrick Kane is looking more and more like a basketball player in hockey equipment after every game this season. What I mean by that is his ability to slow down the play, handle the puck, and maneuver his way around the ice is very point guard-esque. His assist on Hossa’s OT winner in Dallas should’ve been on an Ahmad Rashad-narrated highlight reel. (Is Ahmad Rashad still alive? Is he still roaming NBA sidelines? These are questions I need to know answers to. Also, let’s put “Inside Stuff” back on the air while we’re at it. That show was great.)
Fish-wrap recaps: Trib ST DH DFP
Finally a positive sorry about killing minors: ESPNChi
Refs need to knock off the rust too: SI
Turns out Jason, you Arnott a Ranger: TSN
Maybe if we all pool our money we can buy the Yotes: PHT
This is the league I work in, I wish Clarky had pulled this when the Wild came to Minot: PD
I know we get Simpsons heavy on this blog, but sometimes the analogies are just so apt. Tonight’s game felt like Homer Simpson’s boxing tactics. The Hawks allowed the Wings to repeatedly, and futilely, punch them about the face until they tired themselves out. Except the Hawks never really got to the point where they simply pushed them over. At least until after they’d surrendered a point to a division rival that they didn’t have to.
Once again, this was post-lockout hockey at its most glorious. If by glorious I mean tired, sloppy, and just kind of all over the place. And it is strange indeed for the Hawks to spend a large swath of a contest trying to serve it on a plate to Detroit, and watching Detroit merely stare at the silverware trying to figure out which one was the salad fork.
To let the Wings in these days when they’re such a mess, you have to continually give them power plays and be sloppy in your own end. Check. And yet they couldn’t take advantage, mostly because the entry on their power play looked like a bank robbery planned by ADHD-riddled children. But hey, you take your advantages where you can find them I guess.
So it’s six in a row to start the year, before embarking on a pretty nasty looking six game road trip (looking even nastier with each San Jose win).
