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Game #32 – Hawks vs. Coyotes Spotlight: Does Nick Schmaltz Mean Anything?

By Sam Fels December 12, 2019 0

The list is far too long, but it feels like Nick Schmaltz is the one first-rounder the Hawks chucked that no one kicks too much dust up about. His meaning is that he’s on the list, and how that list seems to be ever expanding. Maybe it’s because Schmaltz’s big season as a Hawks was […]

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Game #30 – Coyotes 3, Hawks 3 (Coyotes get to face Robin Lehner in shootout) – The Air Is So Cold And Numb

By Adam Hess December 8, 2019 0

Box Score Natural Stat Trick The more of these recaps I do, the less I want to do them. Each game just gets more and more incredible, in a bad way. I almost feel like I, and perhaps Blackhawks Twitter/Bloggers in general, are out of things to say about this team that aren’t just the […]

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Game #30 – Coyotes vs Hawks Preview – Dog At Large

By Matt McClure December 8, 2019 0

vs Game Time: 6:00PM CST TV/Radio: NBC Sports Chicago, WGN-AM 720 We Didn’t Come Here To Rock: Five For Howling Having just pulled off a minor miracle of taking four of four points on a mini two-game road trip, including a win against arguably the best team in the league, the Hawks now return to West Madison to […]

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Game #30 – Coyotes vs. Hawks Spotlight: Still Waiting On Our Billy Beane

By Sam Fels December 8, 2019 0

Just about two years ago, we wrote a spotlight on Arizona GM John Chayka and how we hoped that one day the NHL would finally have a front office that did things differently and broke through the old ways. We wanted our Moneyball, so that the sport might actually move into the 21st century. At the […]

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You Ain’t Shane, You Ain’t Mook – ’19-’20 NHL Team Preview: Arizona Coyotes

By Sam Fels September 23, 2019 0

For the 378th straight year, this is the time when the Arizona Coyotes will be relevant. Their oh-so-smart and oh-so-young and oh-so-handsome GM has finally broken the code, and now all the young talent they’ve been amassing since I had hair is finally going to gel, take a huge leap forward, and save hockey in […]

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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 – Dylan Strome

By Adam Hess May 13, 2019 0

As a pretty damn good fantasy sports player (mostly self-proclaime, admittedly) I love a good “Buy Low, Sell High” move. If you’re a beliver in regression, and you should be, nothing can make you look quite as smart as offloading a player who is performing above what you expected and cashing in, especially if you […]

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Ocean Of Confusion

By Sam Fels November 28, 2018 0

Note: Yes, I realize I’m mixing my Screaming Trees references but just go with me on this, friend.  Babies, I like to pretend I know everything. Or at least enough where I can convince you I know what’s up with the Hawks. But I have to say the last few days have left me as […]

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Live From The Five Hole – No More Love

By Matt McClure November 27, 2018 0

There’s never a dull moment even when the on-ice product is mediocre at best, so that’s why Sam, Fifth Feather, Pullega, and myself (Scottie, Luc, Ron Harper, Robert Chief) are here to discuss it. As is customary, no subscription necessary for the post-jump audio.

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It Has Worked! You’ve Given Everything Away!

By Sam Fels November 26, 2018 0

There are so many layers to this Nick Schmaltz trade. So let’s start on the surface. On the surface, or in a vacuum, or whatever arena you need to evaluate the trade simply on the players involved, it’s not a bad trade. If you go by the “Team That Gets Best Player Wins Trade” model, […]

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Game #22 – Hawks 2, Capitals 4: It’s Just a Face in the Crowd Down a Dead-End Street

By Rose Rankin November 21, 2018 0

I don’t know what the hell the Hawks were doing at the beginning of the game, but a slow start pretty much screwed them. They followed that up with a lot of dumb penalties, making life harder for themselves, but had it not been for some abject stupidity right after puck drop we may have […]