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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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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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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 […]

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Live From The Five Hole – Change Your Mind

By Matt McClure August 11, 2020 0

Well, the Hawks are in the playoffs, but does it really mean anything? Listen to Slak, Sam, John and myself to find out. Links after the jump.

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A Serious House On Serious Earth – Oilers vs Hawks Game 4 Preview

By Matt McClure August 7, 2020 0

vs Game Time: 5:45PM CDT TV/Radio: NBC Sports Chicago, NBCSN, SportsNet, WGN-AM 720 Potemkin City Limits: Copper n Blue, Oilers Nation It can never be said that the general public wasn’t warned about this. This series was always going to be frustrating, surrealist theater with members of each bench desperately trying to give games away, and by the time […]

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I Won’t See You In Hell If I Get There First – Hawks vs Oilers Preview – Defensemen

By Matt McClure July 28, 2020 0

Now begins the portion of the preview to this “series” where any parents allowing their children to read this should probably be reported to DCFS. While both the Hawks and Oilers boast varying concentrations of firepower among their respective forward corps, to call both of these teams a bit of an adventure on the blue […]

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Game #57 – Hawks at Canucks Preview – Seaward With The C-Words

By Matt McClure February 12, 2020 0

@   Game Time: 9:30PM CST TV/Radio: NBC Sports Chicago, SportsNet+, SN360, WGN-AM 720 Slaying The Dragon: Nucks Misconduct, Canucks Army After a thoroughly embarrassing performance in Edmonton last night, the Hawks have no time to regroup as they continue their Western Canadian tour in Vancouver tonight against the Canucks, and just in time for Sedin Twin Night […]

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Game #50 – Capitals vs. Hawks Preview, Themed Birthday Party – Do The Standing Still

By Matt McClure January 20, 2019 0

 vs  Game Time: 11:30AM CST TV/Radio: NBC, WGN-AM 720 What A Bunch of Clowns: Russian Machine, Japer’s Rink Now that the calendar has turned, the usual heavy dose of brunch hockey games on national TV is set to begin, with this installment featuring the defending champs, and at present, the worst team in the NHL. How’s that for star […]

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Game #30 – Hawks vs. Knights Preview, Travel Expense Report – All These Things That I’ve Done

By Sam Fels December 6, 2018 0

 @  Game Time: 9:00PM CST TV/Radio: NBC Sports Chicago, SN affiliates, WGN-AM 720 Indecent Proposal: Sin Bin, Knights on Ice Because getting territorially dominated by a Randy Carlyle coached team without two of its best ice flipping defenseman wasn’t insulting enough, the Hawks now have no time to even sit in the corner and feel shame for it […]