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Pictures of Matchstick Men – ’19-20 Blackhawks Player Previews: Zack Smith

By Rose Rankin September 26, 2019 0

I’m as tired of writing about 4th-line glorified quadruple-A guys as you are of reading about them. Let’s just get through it: 2018-19 Stats (with Senators) 70 GP – 9 G – 19 A – 28 Pts. 44.6 CF% (-0.8 CF% Rel) – 41.3 oZS% 45.2 xGF% (-2.24xGF% Rel) Avg. TOI: 16:21 A Brief History: […]

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The Arty Dump Is Upon Us…Wait What?

By Sam Fels July 16, 2019 0

It probably should have happened a year ago, if ever at all, and you knew it was coming for sure as soon as the Hawks drafted Kirby Dach. The Hawks needed cap space, they needed a space for another center either this year or next, so off Artem Anisimov had to go. And today he […]

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Hawks Make It Official, Sign Kirby Dach

By John Pullega July 8, 2019 0

The Hawks have been conspicuously quiet for the past few days, despite the facts that their blue line still sucks to high heaven and they never really filled the open spot in the top six (and if you think Andrew Shaw is that, please mail me whichever substances you’re using). So, the official signing of […]

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Hawks Sign Centers To Have Too Many Centers So Get Rid Of One Center You Know Which One

By Sam Fels July 1, 2019 0

I bury the lede too much, so let’s start with the Hawks signing Ryan Carpenter for three years at a million each. It’s a little weird to sign a fourth-liner for three years, but at a million apiece it makes no difference. Still, I find it funny that the Hawks tell you they need a […]

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Hawks Add Two Forwards You Probably Already Thought Were Added, Does Another Have To Go?

By Sam Fels May 23, 2019 0

It’s a morsel, but it’s something. Today, the Hawks announced the signing of Anton Wedin, which we’d already talked about before a few weeks ago. Wedin is something of a scratcher lottery ticket, as players who pop off for the first time at 26 and not gaudy numbers are hardly a sure thing to ever […]

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The Doll’s Trying to Kill Me and The Toaster’s Been Laughing At Me – FFUD’s ’18-19 Player Reviews – Artem Anisimov

By Rose Rankin May 9, 2019 0

It’s a pretty sad state of affairs when we’re still talking about Artem Anisimov and it’s not “wow they finally traded him,” or “what a relief, he spontaneously combusted and got sucked into a hole in the space-time continuum.” No such luck though, so let’s just get this over with: 78 GP – 15 G […]

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Game #67 – If You Could Only See ‘Em Then You Would Agree, Agree That There In’t No Romance Around There – Sabres 4, Hawks 4 (Hawks Win Extended Jane Byrne Interchange Project Contract)

By John Pullega March 7, 2019 0

Box Score Natural Stat Trick Money Puck THE BEST PART WAS WHEN THE BUILDINGS FELL DOWN. Until late in the third, this one had all the appeal of an open-air autopsy in Miami-Dade in July. But with both of these teams out of the running, there was always a chance this would turn into a […]

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Game #64 – The Surface Shines While the Inside Rots – Hawks 4, Ducks 3

By John Pullega February 28, 2019 0

Box Score Natural Stat Trick Money Puck The last four minutes were a speedball that saw the four best players the Hawks have decide, “Enough of this bullshit.” But everything up to that point was a one-too-many-Vicodin full-body dry heave. The Ducks have won just five games in the last 10 weeks, and it took […]

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And I Walk Around Like I Got a 36” Chain

By John Pullega February 22, 2019 0

All stats from NaturalStatTrick.com, hockey-reference.com, and NHL.com. Since going 10-2-0 in the last 12, there’s been more swagger and flexing about the Hawks’s playoff prospects. If the Hawks win tonight against the Avs and Sunday against the Stars—two of four teams directly above them in the wild card race—they can more firmly entrench themselves in […]

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Game #51 – Step Right Up: Everyone’s a Winner, Bargains Galore – Islanders 2, Hawks 2 (Hawks Turn a Sandwich Into a Banquet)

By John Pullega January 22, 2019 0

Box Score Corsica Natural Stat Trick The Hawks get pantsed in the nerd stats but come away with a shootout win on the backs of the power play and Cam Ward. Just like we all predicted. To the bullets! – Cam Ward had a mostly good game tonight. He let in his embarrassingly soft goal […]