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Mediocrity Gets You Pears – Hawks Lose 5-1, 5-2 In Lightning Series

By Matt McClure January 16, 2021 0

Box Score 1 Box Score 2 Game Log 1 Game Log 2 Natural Stat Trick 1 Natural Stat Trick 2   Well this started out about as generously as could be expected given the how wide the gulf between these two teams currently is. There were extended stretches of both games where the Bolts were […]

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The New What Next – Hawks at Lightning – Games 1 & 2 Preview

By Matt McClure January 13, 2021 0

at Game Times: 7:00PM (1/13) & 6:00PM (1/15) TV/Radio: NBCSN (1/15), NBC Sports Chicago (1/15), WGN-AM 720 Tonight We’re Gonna Give It 35%: Raw Charge Despite every indication that this shouldn’t be happening from both the world at large given that pestilence still ravaging this country, and the fact that the league itself has said that they’d […]

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Live From The Five Hole – Your Time Is Gonna Come

By Matt McClure January 13, 2021 0

Well, the Bears season is mercifully over as the Hawks season is unfortunately just about to start. We cover both in this transitional phase of your beshitted Chicago sports calendar. Find it all the usual places.

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Live From The Five Hole – Decatur St.

By Matt McClure January 6, 2021 0

It’s another week of the Bears season despite their best efforts, and the Hawks open camp. Give a listen, won’t you?

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Abracadabra – Magic Training Camp 2021 Opens

By Matt McClure January 4, 2021 0

Now that the calendar has turned over from 2020, training camps across the league are now open, and the Men Of Four Feathers hit this ice this morning for their first practice of what will surely be many over the next week-plus where they will finally hone their man-to-man defensive zone coverage skills under the […]

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Live From The Five Hole – Hand To Mouth

By Matt McClure December 30, 2020 0

It’s the last recording of 2020, and there’s another fresh round of terrible things to discuss. Come join us won’t you?

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Illness To Insult And Injury

By Matt McClure December 29, 2020 0

In somewhat of a stunner of an announcement this morning, in a joint statement, Jonathan Toews and the Hawks let the public know that he will not be reporting to Magic Training Camp on January 3rd and there is no timetable for his return due to ongoing chronic fatigue that Toews has been experiencing for […]

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The Egg Nog Has Gone Bad, And Other Housekeeping Items

By Matt McClure December 28, 2020 0

There are people and outlets out there that will demure and deflect in situations like this, where a disaster could be spotted a mile away and was called out at the time, and still failed to be avoided. This is not such an outlet, never has been and never will be. I fucking told you […]

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Live From The Five Hole – Like A Gift From God Or Whatever

By Matt McClure December 22, 2020 0

The Yule Log is burning brightly, and there are Bears and Hawks thoughts abound to fill the stockings of all you degenerates who would otherwise be getting coal. Links below, it’s in all the usual spots.

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A Festivus Miracle

By Matt McClure December 21, 2020 0

Right smack dab in the middle of the Holidays right as Chanukah came to an end and as the Christmas Express barrels towards the 25th, the NHL and the NHLPA have somehow managed to put aside their usual Mutually-Assured-Destruction-caliber negotiating tactics to put a little something under the tree and into the stockings of hockey […]