All Entries Tagged With: "Kane"
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 [...]
Toews Injured as Hawks Fall to Predators
The Blackhawks split their weekend games and hopefully the loss to Nashville on Saturday was the worst of their problems. On Friday, the Panthers and the Hawks squared off in a contest that at times looked as if it was being played in about six inches of snow. After the NHL lockout games are played [...]
Blackhawks Snap Four-Game Losing Streak Versus Jackets
The Blackhawks finally recorded a win in 2012, though it came against the worse team in the NHL. It wasn’t a masterpiece, but the Hawks battled hard and found a way to put the Blue Jackets away and record a 5-2 victory. Viktor Stalberg has owned Columbus this season, and his good fortune continued against [...]
Blackhawks Rookies Shine, but Flyers Come Out On Top
The beauty of professional sports is you can always expect the unexpected. Against the Flyers, three young Rockford Ice Hogs were pressed into action due to injuries, and they played well. Two of three were among the best players for the Hawks, which was a pleasant surprise. Thursday night, the problem was the performance from [...]
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, [...]
Kane Dazzles as Hawks Defeat Wild
The Blackhawks played an entertaining game against the Minnesota Wild Wednesday and captured a 4-3 shootout win. The gamewas fun to watch and had a little of everything: fast-paced action, very good goal keeping, a fight, poor officiating and a dazzling shootout goal. In the opening period, the Wild battled but couldn’t find their skating [...]
Bad Habits…Are Hawks A Victim Of Their Own Success?
On Monday night, the Blackhawks once again spotted the Coyotes a big lead, but this time they managed to capture one point. Last year the third period was a struggle, this season poor starts have been an issue. Of late is has been a habit for the Hawks to surrender the first goal of the [...]
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, [...]
Canucks Trounce Misguided Hawks
The best part of the evening for most of the 21,883 attending Sunday’s Chicago-Vancouver game was the ride home. The Blackhawks were defeated 6-2. Although the score was lopsided, it was still flattering to the home team. The Canucks completely dominated the contest and left little doubt from the opening puck drop they were the [...]
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 [...]
Less Than Perfect Hawks Prevail
The Blackhawks put forth a spotty effort against the Anaheim Ducks Tuesday, but maybe it would be best to credit the opponent with causing the Hawks to struggle rather than to point to a suspect performance. At the end of the night, the Blackhawks were the best team and scratched out a 3-2 shootout victory. [...]
Third Period Woes A Bad Habit – Time To Reunite Keith And Seabrook??
Saturday night at the United Center, the stage was set for a great matchup. Two Original Six teams, the previous two Stanley Cup winners, were on the ice in front of 22,073 boisterous fans. The game was entertaining, and when it was over the club that made the fewest costly errors was the winner. Losing [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
A Little Perspective….
As the end grows near for Blackhawk followers it might be a good idea to remember the past. By past I mean pre- Kane and Toews. For those who jumped on the bandwagon during the past three years…There was a time when things were awful here. Long time Hawk fans realize the outlook wasn’t always [...]