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MTS Syndrome: Hawks at Jets Preview/Pregame Thread/Bada Bing Meeting

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250px-Ozymandias vs. Kenny Smith

PUCK DROP: 7pm

TV/RADIO: CSN, WGN

EVANDER KANE FAN CLUB: Arctic Ice Hockey

Jets Stats

Jets War On Ice

The Hawks will take their Keithers-less act on the road for the first time tonight, and they’ll face a Jets team that was a major headache for them last year (though not at MTS Centre). Winnipeg won all three games at the United Center last year, and a couple of them pretty handily. This will be a major test for the Hawks’ reshaped blue line, and they very well could need Corey Crawford to bail them out again as he did Monday.

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Non-Taxing Fractions: Looking Around The Central

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Now that we’ve laid out what we think about the Hawks, it’s probably time to peruse the other squads they’ll actually be competing with in the division and the West. And looking around, it’s hard to find a team that has taken a huge step forward to a point these Hawks can’t reach (assuming everything goes right for them). The only one that looks poised for a major leap, while knowing that one or two teams will get one through luck or weirdness, is Dallas. But Dallas looked like that last year, and it doesn’t look like they’ll take a big enough jump to overtake the Hawks. Let’s get through it all.

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Wake Up Late And Honey Put On Your Clothes: Hawks at Jets Preview/Pregame Thread/Mimosa Brunch

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Hawk Wrestler vs. acr057038035-jpg

FACEOFF: 6:30pm Central

TV/RADIO: WGN, City (whatever that is) Up There, WGN Radio 720

JETSETTER MUSIC LETTER: Arctic Ice Hockey

We’re all a little weary of the Hawks embarking on a new dawn, or in need of a wakeup call, or promising that this time they mean it. It’s all coming out again this morning, but this time it’s real, right? It had better be, because the Hawks schedule combined with the fact they now sit in 4th in the division requires all systems to be operational. We’ll pardon you if you choose to watch Wrestlemania instead.

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Yeah, Jets: Hawks at Jets Preview/Pregame Thread/Apartment Painting

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AltLogo_medium vs.  firemaned

FACEOFF: 7pm

TV/RADIO: CSN for the 606, NHLN-US for non, WGN Radio 720

COLDER THAN A WELL DIGGER’S ASS: Arctic Ice Hockey

COMMITTED INDIAN ROADWATCH TONIGHT AT BOTTOM LOUNGE

(1375 W. Lake St)

Seems strange but this is the first visit the Hawks have into Manitoba this season. I believe Arizona is the only other Western Conference city the Hawks have yet to travel to, and they’re out of the division. And this shapes up as a pretty big one for a variety of reasons: how the Hawks’ trip and specifically the last game have gone, the Jets current spiral, and the utter goofiness that’s taking place up there.

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This Is A Jetsetter Music Letter: Jets at Hawks Preview/Pregame Thread/Dog Grooming

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Kenny Smith vs. Hawk Wrestler

FACEOFF: 7:30pm Central

TV/RADIO: CSN, WGN Radio

SO COLD, SO COLD: Arctic Ice Hockey

Nothing like a rare four-day break to illustrate how empty our lives are without Hawks hockey. So I’m pretty primed for this one, if only to have purpose again. I doubt I’m alone. And the Hawks return from this mini-sabbatical to what is something of a big game, at least in trying to set things right from earlier in the year and maintain the heat on the now understaffed Preds. A lot going on in one night, no?

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Early Vacation: Jets 5 – Hawks 1

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Box Score

Event Summary

War On Ice

I’ve provided the usual stat pages, but this one doesn’t need much analyzing. I feel it would be somewhat callous to blame the Hawks simply not being at the races in the 1st period on everything they’ve been through the past few days, but I don’t think it’s incorrect either. Considering there’s a three day break after this one, and teams rarely get three days off during an NHL season–the All-Star break is pretty much it–combined with the emotional roller coaster of the past four days, the Hawks can be forgiven for just coughing up a hairball tonight. Especially when you have their record over the past month, which is 13-3-1. That’ll do.

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And The Rest…

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So I didn’t get through the whole Central before the season started. Whoops. There were things to do. Luckily all we have left are the two teams that are most certainly going to be the also-rans in this division, unless Peter Laviolette can find leftover Trotz elixir and sprinkle it on his Preds. Am I half-assing this? Yes, of course. But no more so than the Jets spent building their team, so I don’t feel too bad about it.

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My Least Favorite Hawk – Bobby Hull

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Continuing in the series, Alex Sheridan (@lawnie2 and The Full Amonte) has a few words for Bobby Hull.

This is the best thing Bobby Hull ever gave us. I could give two shits about his team-record 604 goals, 1,153 career points, or status as the first player to ever break the 50 goal mark. Hell, a 1961 Stanley Cup is pretty much worthless to me, too. His son, on the other hand, is one of the greatest goal scorers of all time, and trolls Buffalo like nobody’s business (I bet Brett never missed wide right…) But how can I praise a guy who played much of his career in St. Louis and Detroit, while shoveling shit on his father, whose number is in the rafters at the United Center?