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Game #53 – Hawks vs. Wild Preview: At Least We’ve Got You Beat

By Sam Fels February 4, 2020 0

vs. RECORDS: Hawks 25-21-6   Wild 23-22-6 PUCK DROP: 7pm TV: NBCSN ONE GOOD DOSE OF THUNDER: Hockey Wilderness The Hawks will conclude their mini-trip out of the bye week in St. Paul tonight, before returning home for all of one game and then heading back out where they came from for another five games. That’s […]

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Game #53 – Hawks vs. Wild Spotlight: After The Gold Rush

By Sam Fels February 4, 2020 0

You may not want to hear that it was over seven years ago that Ryan Suter and Zach Parise shook the hockey world, or at least tried to, by signing matching 13-year contracts, worth $98M. What’s even funnier is that they still have five more years to run, though one wonders if they’ll actually finish […]

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Game #34: Wild 3, Hawks 5 – I’m Just Trying to Keep My Head Above the Ground

By Rose Rankin December 15, 2019 0

Patrick Kane picked a good time to have a hat trick. Yes, the third goal was an empty netter but you know what? After the debacle against St. Louis last night someone had to step up and it might as well be Kane. This team needed to bounce back in any way at all, and […]

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Game #34 – Wild vs. Hawks Preview: Collecting Fallout From The Blast

By Sam Fels December 15, 2019 0

vs. RECORDS: Wild 16-12-5   Hawks 12-15-6 PUCK DROP: 6pm TV: NBCSN Chicago BEYOND THE WALL: Hockey Wilderness Well, should be quite the tasty atmosphere at the United Center this evening, no? Tonight is all about finding out if this is bottom or not. The Hawks will be in front of what has to be a […]

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Game #34 – Wild vs. Hawks Spotlight: Parise The Reaper

By Sam Fels December 15, 2019 0

Earlier in the season, when the Wild couldn’t get a save and were even rooted behind the Hawks in the standings, there was a feeling that Bruce Boudreau wasn’t long for this job. And the joke going in hockey circles was, “Zach Parise kills another coach.” It’s funny because you don’t think of Parise that […]

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Game #34 – Wild vs. Hawks: Hedley Lamarr’s Mugs, Pugs, And Thugs

By Sam Fels December 15, 2019 0

Bruce Boudreau – Not because he’s annoying, though he can be, but because of jealousy. The Wild aren’t going anywhere either, and have yet to win a playoff round under him. But you can’t argue that he doesn’t maximize whatever he has, at least in the regular season. Last year was the aberration, but he’s got […]

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Game #19 – Hawks vs. Predators Spotlight: So He Ran Away….GRANLUND

By Sam Fels November 16, 2019 0

Mikael Granlund‘s career might be measured in just how much it never quite was. When Granlund came up with the Wild in 2013, it was assumed that Mikko Koivu was only keeping the #1 center role warm for him. Here we are nearly seven years later, and Koivu is somehow still there while Granlund is […]

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You Ain’t Shane, You Ain’t Mook – ’19-’20 NHL Team Previews: Minnesota Wild

By Sam Fels October 1, 2019 0

There are few teams around that I can definitely say the Hawks will finish ahead of. And there’s only one in the division I can be certain of, and it’s this outfit. Or. to put it more accurately, if the Hawks don’t finish ahead of this collection of used rags and grill scrapings, everyone is […]

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Only In The NHL

By Sam Fels August 8, 2019 0

Maybe it took me a week to really come to terms with this breakdown of Paul Fenton’s firing in Minnesota. Maybe I needed a week to remember why I should care about the Minnesota Wild (and I still don’t). Maybe it was just the time of year and things are moving more slowly. But if […]

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Game #53 – Hawks 3, Wild 3, Hawks Win Ice Sculpting Contest – The Truth is We’re Just Being Representative of the Midwest

By Rose Rankin February 2, 2019 0

Ummmm…. ::checks notes:: ….yeaaaahhhh….so this game….to the bullets! Box Score Corsica Natural Stat Trick – This game didn’t even become noticeable until mid-way through the second period. It wasn’t until Alex DeBrincat scored that the Hawks seemed to realize they were playing a real live game, but once Top Cat tied it up they actually