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We Pay Our Debt Sometimes: Hawks 2 – Avs 6

By Sam Fels 1142 0

Well it’s over now. But I can breathe somehow.

I think those are important words to remember. I don’t get the impression anyone is really anyone is losing their shit right now, but just in case. Nothing of any real importance was lost tonight. 45 out of 50 points would be telescopically ahead of “acceptable.” What happens in June will still define what’s gone on so far as special or trivia.

Moreover, if this is what makes the Avs season, let them have it. We have bigger fish to fry. There was a time when they used to. It’s obvious they don’t know. The laugh at the end will be more satisfying. And though I’m no mathematician, I’m pretty sure if the Hawks win 21 of every 25 games in regulation from here on out, we’ll have smiles on our face.

Also, we didn’t learn anything tonight we didn’t already know. Or see anything we hadn’t seen. Or get something we didn’t suspect might be coming.

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Misty Mountain Hop – Hawks at Avalanche Preview, Pregame Thread, Snow Grooming

By Matt McClure 1215 0

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Game Time: 8:00PM Central
TV/Radio: CSN+, NHLN (US), WGN-AM 720
That John Denver’s Full Of Shit, Man: Mile High Hockey, JibbleScribbits

And so the second half of this shortened season begins same as the first, with the Hawks on the road. In this case, it’s not quite as far west as before, with the Hawks taking on their soon-to-be divisional opponent Avalanche in Denver on the tail end of a home-and-home.

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Attack Of The Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons – Avalanche vs Hawks Preview, Pregame Thread, Highway Salting

By Matt McClure 1169 0

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Game Time: 7:00PM Central
TV/Radio: NBCSN, TSN2 (Canada), WGN-AM 720
Trust Fund Hippies: Mile High Hockey, JibbleScribbits

Believe it or not, tonight already marks the halfway point of this abbreviated NHL campaign (Thanks Don and Gary!). Fittingly, tonight’s opponent, the Colorado Avalanche, is the last one the Hawks have yet to face so far in the intra-conference only schedule.

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Morning Links 2.26.13

By Joe DeTolve 1244 0

Well this is just getting ridiculous….

Beat Raps:(Chicago Tribune) (Daily Herald)(Comcast Chicago){ap}(NHL)(Fox)

Gangsta Raps:(Cheer the Anthem)(Blackhawk UP) (Hockee Night)

Verdi’s take: (Blackhawks)

Blocked Shots are key (autoplay)(Comcast Chicago)

Clowe got two games and Brendan Shanahan is blind..Brownie points to the first person to answer why that is..(clue it’s in his quotes) (Puck Daddy)

When the laughter stops….(The Score)

30 Thoughts: (CBC)

Troy Brouwer says what most of us assume: (Toronto Sun)

Geno to IR: (NHL)

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Nice Catch, Hayes: Canucks 3 – Hawks 3 (Hawks win nerf basketball)

By Sam Fels 1412 0

Boy, there’s a lot to get to here, so let’s just jump into the bullets, shall we?

-Let’s get to the most pressing issue. Why the fuck can’t the United Center spell, “Lightning?” It has a fucking T you dummards!

Ok, now that’s out of the way…

-Where to start? We’ve spent some time bemoaning the Hawks habit of sitting on leads, or doing their best to blow them, or straight up blowing them. It didn’t feel like that tonight, and I recognize how stupid that sentence sounds now. But the Hawks weren’t under siege until a Rozsival penalty, where both Toews and Saad went to block a shot and didn’t. Then it’s just a one goal game and all it takes is a puck squirting out of a board battle and one shot.

The Hawks did manage 13 3rd period shots. They pressed, they forechecked. Where they got themselves in trouble was straight up declining two 3rd period power plays that could have ended it. Instead of stepping on the throat, the Hawks played with their food. That was a problem last year and has been this year, where the Hawks just use a 3rd period PP with a lead to run the clock instead of cutting the jugular. They should stop that.