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Game #16 – You’ve Got Your Knife Up to My Throat, Why Do You Wanna See Me Bleed? – Hawks 2, Penguins 2 (Penguins Win Keno tourney)

John Pullega November 9, 2019 0

Box Score Natural Stat Trick A frustrating loss for the Hawks, but for a different reason tonight. Instead of getting ragdolled, the Hawks spent most of the game looking good. But a blown puck-settling on an easy clear and a microcosm of why we don’t trust Colliton’s system kept Pittsburgh in

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Game #9 – Hawks vs. Hurricanes Preview: Working For The Weekend?

Sam Fels October 26, 2019 0

vs. RECORDS: Hawks 2-4-2   6-3-1 PUCK DROP: 12pm TV: NBCSN Chicago HE HIT THE FUCKIN’ BULL: Canes Country Well now that the coach has laid down the gauntlet, how will his players respond? That’s the question facing the Hawks this weekend, as they face their first back-to-back of the year. They could have picked better […]

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Game #8 – Flyers 4, Hawks 1 – But You Knifed Me In My Dirty, Filthy Basement

Rose Rankin October 24, 2019 0

The fact that the score isn’t two goals worse for the Hawks should be cold comfort. They got the benefit of the hockey version of VAR thanks to Captain Stairwell being offsides not once but twice and having goals called back for it, but make no mistake, the Hawks played like shit. And they got […]

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Game #7 – Gotta Coke Up My Nose to Dry Away the Snot – Hawks 1, Knights 1 (Hawks Crap Out)

John Pullega October 22, 2019 0

Box Score Natural Stat Trick Corsica For the first 30 or so minutes, the Hawks looked like a true NHL hockey team, if not a playoff-bound team. They kept pace with the Knights’s unbelievable-if-you-weren’t-watching-it-with-your-own-eyes speed, a team that has had the Hawks’s number since their inception. But nothing gold stays, Pony Boy, and even the […]

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Game #4 – Oilers 1, Hawks 3 – It’s Not Enough to Feel It, It Needs to Overwhelm You

Rose Rankin October 14, 2019 0

It finally happened, folks! The Hawks played a solid game nearly the full 60 minutes, they had even-strength goals, Corey Crawford was back to his old self. And all is right with the world (well, not really, but for like this very minute it kinda is). Box Score Natural Stat Trick Corsica –The big news […]

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Waiting On Dach, Homestand Charge, And Whatever Else I Can Think Of

Sam Fels October 8, 2019 0

It’s been one of the stranger starts to the season, in its lack of action. The Hawks have played one game, while some teams have played four, and we’re just sitting around basically still waiting for the season to get started. We can’t draw any conclusions after one game (we’re not Toronto), so we don’t […]

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Game #1 – Hawks 3, Flyers 4: Nothing Rhymes With Orange

Sam Fels October 4, 2019 0

Box Score Shift Chart Natural Stat Trick Ok, so we’re off. Sort of. It’s a little silly to jump to any conclusions off of one game played in a weird place due to odd scheduling. It’s a little difficult to not feel a tad deflated when the Hawks looked exactly like we kind of feared […]

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Pictures of Matchstick Men – ’19-’20 Blackhawks Player Previews – Andrew Shaw

Adam Hess September 27, 2019 0

I was not a huge fan of the Blackhawks moves over the offseason, but just about all of them were understandable. They brought in some defensemen, even if not great ones, because they clearly needed blue line help. They traded Artem Anisimov for Zach Smith because they both suck, but Smith was ever-so-slightly cheaper. They […]

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Pictures of Matchstick Men – ’19–’20 Blackhawks Player Previews – Brandon Saad

John Pullega September 25, 2019 0

Few people hold Brandon Saad’s jock like I do. Today, I’m going to try something different. Rather than going all in on how THIS WILL BE THE YEAR THE REAL BRANDON SAAD APPEARS, I’m going to try to figure out where the latent angst about Saad exists, despite all the good he does on paper. […]

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Preseason Game #4 – Bruins 2, Hawks 3 – Twist it Around Till You Find a Solution

Rose Rankin September 21, 2019 0

The Blackhawks went with an actually serious lineup tonight, not just a collection of children and randos fighting for a spot. No, tonight’s roster was in theory an actual version of the team we’ll see this season…while their opponent was a collection of children and randos and, for some reason, also Charlie McAvoy. And that’s […]