All Entries Tagged With: "Toews"
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, [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
Quenneville And Hawks Prove To Be Best
It took the Chicago Blackhawksquite a while to conquer the Detroit Red Wings, the club they set out to emulate a few years ago. Thursday night in Colorado, the Avalanche appeared to have become the team they wanted to pattern themselves after. In the opening frame, it looked as if Colorado would handle the class [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Two Down…Only Two To Go?
It certainly appears Blackhawk fans can soon start focusing on next season, as the Hawks lost Game 2 in Vancouver 4-3. Ben Smith will be a good Blackhawk poster boy for future hopes. Smith appears to be intelligent and gives a good interview. Smith picked up two goals versus the Canucks in a losing effort. [...]
No Answers Now and The Hossa Dilemma
It has taken a couple of years but now Canuck GM Mike Gillis has put together a group which can play physical hockey and stay out of the box. Maybe the Canucks can’t play for 60 minutes the away they did in the opening twenty last night, but it probably isn’t necessary to defeat the [...]
Hang On Tight…
It’s time to stop the hand wringing and being upset. Any Blackhawk fan that is still confused allow me to end any misconception. This group is exactly what they appear to be and only because of a very good rookie goal keeper and the winning will of some, they may crawl into the playoffs. This [...]
A Pleasure To Watch
On Monday night the Hawks defeated the Red Wings in overtime in the most entertaining game of the season. When the NHL came out of the lockout Gary Bettman’s design was for the game to have rules in place so there could be additional scoring and more excitement. The NHL is a better show than [...]
13 Questions and Some Thoughts
1. How long will it take a player after delivering a head shot to admit the obvious? …….“Yep, I meant to hurt him”. 2. Did Blackhawk fans believe it would be March 25, 2011 and two of four center positions would still be up for grabs? 3. Will the Coyotes or Thrashers survive two more seasons without being [...]
Fine Line
If the Hawks can win upcoming games with the Predators and Coyotes I will begin to get excited about a playoff berth possibility. The sooner the between periods, kick in the ass speeches by Jonathan Toews are replaced by individual motivation the better. Regardless the Hawks needed victories against the battered Penguins and the work in progress [...]
The Jackets, Canucks, an Interview and a Rumor
Currently there isn’t another player the equal of Sidney Crosby. But during the second period in Columbus, when Jonathan Toews took the game over, it reminded of the affect Crosby can have on a game. After recording a victory against the Blue Jackets the Hawks are not guaranteed a great road trip. But they could [...]
Crawford Comes Up Big – A Nabokov Solution
The Hawks outplayed a depleted Red Wing squad but if not for some big saves from Corey Crawford the score would have been much closer. This shouldn’t come as a revelation for those who watch closely, but if not for Crawford the Hawks would be on the outside of this season’s playoff picture. Crawford has [...]
Another Bad Ending…. and an XM Interview
If the Hawks can capture a regulation victory tonight the sting of another bad third period performance will be lessened. But let’s face it, playoff teams don’t consistently get outscored in the final frame. This is a whacky year, so maybe it won’t matter. But until proven otherwise a post season berth will be a long shot [...]
