All Entries Tagged With: "Patrick Sharp"
De Ja Vu; Canucks Look to Avoid Elimination at Hands of Blackhawks Inside the Madhouse on Madison
The Canucks’ have shot themselves in the foot so many times this series, it is simply not possible for them to collectively harm themselves again, their metaphorical feet have already been blown right the [Gretzky] off.
Luongo, Kesler Lead Confident Canucks into War with the Blackhawks
After Vancouver’s impressive game one performance, the Canucks and Blackhawk’s continued the series trend of dominating visiting team victories as the Blackhawks manhandled the Canucks on Wednesday night at GM Place. The Blackhawks used their playoff specific game plan to simply outwork, outhustle and outwit the Canucks in game three. Chicago’s ability to force pucks [...]
Get Your Towels Ready; Canucks and ‘Hawks Take the Series to Vancouver
There comes a time in every young man’s life when he must make a very important decision, free tickets or day to day responsibilities? As hockey fans, you will all understand that the right choice is of course, the tickets. With that in mind, I apologize for the light article today; I’m busy racing to [...]
Canucks Look to Build on “Embarrassing” Game Two for Blackhawks
With a bad taste in their mouth that has lasted with them for a whole season, The Vancouver Canucks returned to the Madhouse on Madison determined to silence the crowd after being run out of the building in last year’s crushing season ending defeat. After a tense opening ten minutes, the Canucks got to work [...]
A Fight for Revenge; Canucks and Blackhawks Set for Battle in Conference Semi-Final Rematch
After a frustrating and at times scary series against the Los Angeles Kings, the Vancouver Canucks have once again emerged out of the first round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs with hopes of making the next step by advancing to the Western Conference Final for the first time since 1994. While the young and talented [...]
THE NARROW MARGIN: BLACKHAWKS-CANUCKS’ GRUDGE MATCH 2010
“Whenever you can win a playoff series, it feels good. I don’t know who said it was going to be an easy series or we were going to get upset. It was two teams that played hard going back to the regular season. It was a very tough series. I give them a lot of credit. It could have really gone either way.”
This was Patrick Sharp’s summary of the series against the Predators, but it could have been a preview of the rematch between the Blackhawks and the Vancouver Canucks. The ingredients for a classic combat are there. Two talented teams with a history of hate; two teams who match up in a variety of areas; two teams who have been anointed as legitimate contenders for the Stanley Cup.
Point taken
The Los Angeles Kings need to take the point and run with it against the dominant Blackhawks club.
Trading Tim Thomas A Reckless Theory For Bruins
Heading into this season, the Bruins knew they had something special in net. Leading the march would once again be Tim Thomas, in the first year of his new 20-million dollar contract, the reigning Vezina winning was coming off a 36-win season and possessed the NHL’s best goals-against-average and save percentage in 2008-09. Backing him [...]
Is Cam Barker Being Phased Out?
The Blackhawks captured nine out of a possible twelve points on their long circus road trip. After thumping the San Jose Sharks, an emotional let down and fatigue did appear to set in during the final two games. I heard Jesse Rogers from Espn Chicago.com mention on the radio the other day the best circus [...]
Blackhawks all sorts of dominant in 7-1 win over Flames
The last time the Blackhawks took on the Flames they had to come back from a 5-0 deficit. Six unanswered goals later, the Blackhawks won in overtime. In the second matchup of the season between these two teams, the Flames wanted to extract revenge against the Blackhawks in front of their Albertan fans. The Blackhawks [...]
Sharp’s Shootout Goal Lifts Blackhawks Over Avalanche
Three games, three shootouts: needless to say, when the Avalanche and Blackhawks match up this season you can expect a evenly matched game. Wednesday night maintained the trend of great hockey games between these two teams that are finally matching success at the same time. Ina game that neither team deserved to lose, the Avalanche [...]
Burish Out For Six Months
The emotional leader of the Chicago Blackhawks, Adam Burish, will be lost for six months with an ACL tear in his right knee. What does this mean for the Blackhawks?
Who will it be now?
There are some roster spots to be won in Blackhawks training camp – who will fill them? Dieter Kurtenbach analyzes.
