All Entries Tagged With: "hossa"
Busy Weekend for Blackhawks with All Star Game and Morrison Trade
On Friday night, Chicago Blackhawks General Manager Stan Bowman announced the acquisition of veteran center Brendan Morrison from Calgary. For Blackhawks fans expecting a big splash, the deal will leave them wanting more. It would probably be best to not expect much from Morrison and then hope to be pleasantly surprised. Morrison, 36, has often [...]
Blackhawks Closeout 2011 with a Big Win Over Detroit
The Blackhawks closed out 2011 in fine fashion with a 3-2 victory over the Detroit Red Wings. The raucous, capacity crowd of 22,166 was treated to a highly entertaining game. Both teams played well enough to win but the Hawks best players were better than Detroit’s top performers. The Blackhawks deserved the victory as they [...]
Hawks Defeat Columbus to Keep Rolling in December
The Columbus Blue Jackets do not get paid in beer and pizza because they are a professional hockey team. Although there are times when it looks like the Jackets can’t really compete. Last night Columbus had a strong start as the Blackhawks still had visions of sugar plum fairies in their heads. In the end, [...]
Time Is Now For Another Cup Run For The Blackhawks
As the season rolls on, there seems to be three schools of thought on the fate of the Chicago Blackhawks. 1. The team is not as good as their record: When injuries hit and the schedule gets more difficult the Hawks will slide in the standings. 2. The Hawks are focused on trying to get [...]
Hawks Show Up In 3rd Period To Stun Sharks
Those who recorded Sunday night’s Hawks’ game and haven’t watched it yet, take my advice: Fast forward to the third period and don’t waste a second watching the opening 40 minutes. Many of the 21,456 who were in attendance would agree most of this contest was forgettable. Fortunately, the ending was great, as the Hawks [...]
Hawks Defeat Pesky Islanders
It took the Blackhawks almost nine full years to win on Long Island as they came away with a 3-2 overtime victory on Thursday evening. The ingredients for a hard fought road win were evident. Marian Hossa was the best player in the game. Ray Emery outplayed his counterpart Al Montoya. The Hawks’ special teams [...]
Hawk Fans Should Be Happy, If Not, Don’t Blame Quenneville
After 27 games played the Blackhawks have accumulated 35 points. That’s one fewer then than the league leading Pittsburgh Penguins. The Hawks don’t always look good winning. They often can get by without putting forth a complete effort. But no matter how they are viewed the Hawks have won 16 games in regulation. That’s a [...]
Blackhawks Roll On as Biggest Test Lies Ahead
Give the Edmonton Oilers their due, they fell behind early but didn’t quit. Playing their final game of a six-game road trip, the young Oilers didn’t get frazzled. On Sunday night, the Blackhawks left little doubt as to who was the better team. Chicago scored three goals in the opening frame and never looked back, [...]
Emery and Hossa Lead Hawks To Victory
On Friday night, the Blackhawks continued their domination of the Calgary Flames on home ice with a 4-1 victory. The lopsided score was not reflective of the contest. It was more of a taffy pull, as the rested Flames put up a good fight until late in the final period. There is little doubt hockey [...]
Hawks Rollover Hapless Blue Jackets
For the first time this season, Blackhawks defensemen keyed the offense as they led the way to a 6-3 victory over the Columbus Blue Jackets. By the way the Jackets performed Thursday night, they were made to order for a struggling club looking to an end a losing streak. Still, the Hawks deserve creditfor taking [...]
Hawks Win Depite Themselves As Crawford Shines
Blackhawks fans will either look back to the beginning of the 2011-2012 campaign as a foreshadowing of great times or as an indicator of future problems. The Hawks keep winning, but they often succeed despite themselves. On Thursday night, the Blackhawks defeated the Florida Panthers 3-2 in a shootout. The game marked the fifth time [...]
Hawks Struggle But Manage Split
The NHL regular season is 82 games long and there will be times the Blackhawks come up with a dismal effort. Often, the better teams save the substandard outings for later in the season, during the dog days of January and February, but the Blackhawks got the jump on half-hearted efforts on Friday night in [...]
Determined Hawks Defeat The Coyotes
The Chicago Blackhawks controlled the majority of the action and went on to record a 5-2 road victory over the Phoenix CoyotesTuesday night. The Hawks were dominant as the Coyotes were held to only 16 shots on goal. The Hawks recorded 35 strikes against a subpar Jason Labarbera. Hawks’ netminder Corey Crawford was sneaky good. [...]
Hawks Tempt Fate But Survive
Last season, the Hawkssquandered valuable home ice points to lesser opponents. The most striking examples were two losses within days of each other to the lowly Edmonton Oilers in late October and early November. The Winnipeg Jets aren’t to be confused with last season’s Oilers, but they are a club the Hawks should beat, especially [...]
Will The ‘Car Bomb’ Implode?
Thursday night against the Winnipeg Jets, Dan Carcillo, aka “Car Bomb”, will make his Chicago Blackhawks debut. Carcillo had a decent training camp and would have been in the starting lineup sooner if not for a two game suspension. In his last playoff game with the Flyers, Carcillo had a problem with the officiating, so [...]
Hawks Split As Quenneville Keeps Tinkering
We found out a couple of things about the Blackhawks this past weekend: There is room for improvement and Head Coach Joel Quenneville is not going to take a relaxed approach. Quenneville is known for almost constant line juggling, but he also opened this season with a couple of new roster wrinkles. For the most [...]
New Look Hawks Could Need Some Time
Although many faces have changed from the 2010-2011 Blackhawks to this season’s edition, there is one similarity both squads share. For the second year in a row the Hawks have turned over about 40% of the roster. Although optimism abounds Blackhawk faithful shouldn’t expect too much too soon. This summer general manager Stan Bowman’s mission [...]
Odd link between the Pens and Atlanta Thrashers’ demise
Much ink has been used over the past week detailing the downfall of NHL hockey in Atlanta for another generation of Georgian fans and the related relocation of the city’s franchise, like the Flames in 1980, up north to Canada, this time to Winnipeg. Many factors force a team to move to a different place: fan apathy for [...]
Decisions on Frolik, Stalberg, Kopecky, Brouwer, Crawford and Offer Sheet Possibilities
For those trying to connect the dots for potential roster moves by Stan Bowman this summer they likely will hinge heavily on one player. The 2011-2012 Blackhawk roster could fall into place once a decision on Michael Frolik is reached. Although some other concerns may surface. Judging from Bowman’s remarks it seems almost a certainty [...]
A Historic Event Or Just A Nice Story?
Winning a Stanley Cup is the highest achievement for any NHL team. Coming back from a 0-3 deficit in the playoffs is a historic act as only three teams have done so. Tonight The Blackhawks could become part of NHL history. My take was the Hawks were going to lose Game 4. But once they [...]