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Tag: Ryan Ellis

  • Southern Fried – Game 1 – Hawks at Predators Preview, Pregame Thread, Cartography Class

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    Game Time: 7:30PM Central
    TV/Radio: CSN, NBCSN (US), SN360 (Canada), WGN-AM 720
    Yellow Ice: On The Forecheck

    And so it begins. In all reality, tonight is the first night of the last ride of these Chicago Blackhawks as they are presently constituted. With another salary cap doomsday looming along with diminishing production from some veterans, it’s the general consensus that a retooling is nigh. And the Hawks at current are sixteen wins away from making a definitive statement of this era of the National Hockey League before many will part ways. But it has to start with one.

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  • The Best Bad Idea We Have – Nashville Predators Playoff Preview: Goalie And Defense

    The Best Bad Idea We Have – Nashville Predators Playoff Preview: Goalie And Defense

    Well, it’s time to get in up to the elbow on everything yellow that comes with the three stars of Tennessee. We’re going to name it that because there were simply no good matchups for the Hawks to find. Had they even won the division that would still mean Minnesota, otherwise known as the West’s best team since January. Or it could have meant the Jets, a team with three wins at the United Center this season and perhaps will have the hardest arena to play in anywhere in these playoffs. The Blues? Probably on paper (which doesn’t include what’s in between their ears) the most solid team out there. So yeah, no good solutions.

    So while the Predators are far from anything resembling easy, and have just as good of a chance of winning this series as the Hawks do, it’s probably the one you’d choose for least painful. So let’s get to it. As the Preds are built from the net out, that’s how we’ll comb it.

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  • Just Dropped In – Hawks at Predators Preview, Pregame Thread, Reasonable #GamerGate Discussion

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    Game Time: 7:00PM Central
    TV/Radio: CSN, WGN-AM 720
    Ghost With A Boner: On The Forecheck, III Communication

    Tonight is literally the most important hockey game of the season to this point league wide, with the last two teams without a regulation loss squaring off in Music City. The somewhat surprising Predators holding a slight advantage in the standings in the early going, with a shootout loss in the one more game they have played than the Hawks, and Conference III bragging rights are on the line.

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