As the NHL and Rbk release the new updated uniforms for the NHL this year, we'll provide a link to the NHL shop page and a preview of the new look. Here's the new clothing choice for discriminating Chicago Black Hawk fans.
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Black Hawks shop page.
Showing posts with label Chicago Black Hawks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chicago Black Hawks. Show all posts
Monday, October 01, 2007
Friday, February 09, 2007
Days of the under dogs
This has been a most unusual week for the Northwest Division’s would be leaders, seemingly intent on not seizing the moment, both Calgary and Vancouver have seen potentially good things slip through their gloves to the most unlikely of opponents.
Calgary kicked off the parade of surprises a few days ago when they surrendered a two goal lead and watched Martin Havlat lead the Chicago Black Hawks on to a 3-2 Overtime upset of the Flames in their own home.
The Canucks followed up that surprising result with one of their own, allowing those same Hawks to walk into GM Place and take two points away from an uninspired looking Canucks squad on Wednesday night. This after the Canuck’s had played perhaps their most intense game of the season the night before in Edmonton, ripping two points from the Oilers and setting themselves up for a run at the first place Flames. In the end, they squandered the chance and basically split two nights of the schedule, losing a perfect opportunity to put some distance between themselves and the lower teams of the Northwest.
So Thursday comes along and it’s over to the Flames and their chance to recapture some momentum, Calgary arrived in Columbus aware of the underlying turmoil in the Ohio city, threats of trades have been made, Ken Hitchcock looking for a way to improve is underperforming squad has called out the leaders of the team to step up or step out. Thursday, they stepped up much to the dismay of the Flames, who probably had visions of easy pickings at the expense of the league’s third worst team. By games end however, it was the Flames that were looking rather frustrated with themselves after losing 2-1 to the Jackets.
Those were two valuable points that could very well come back to haunt the Flames in a few short weeks as they and the Canucks and Wild battle it out for the top spot in the Northwest.
Things won’t get any easier for Calgary as they continue their eastward trek, they next play the Sabres this Saturday night, and two points will be a little harder to come by on the shores of Lake Ontario than they should have been off the state that shares Lake Erie.
The Western teams have been making a bit of noise of late about wanting to see more of the eastern teams, weary of the inter divisional battles that live up to the term familiarity breeds contempt, however, if they keep losing to the lesser sisters of the league they may wish to just stay in their own backyard and battle it out amongst themselves.
Calgary kicked off the parade of surprises a few days ago when they surrendered a two goal lead and watched Martin Havlat lead the Chicago Black Hawks on to a 3-2 Overtime upset of the Flames in their own home.
The Canucks followed up that surprising result with one of their own, allowing those same Hawks to walk into GM Place and take two points away from an uninspired looking Canucks squad on Wednesday night. This after the Canuck’s had played perhaps their most intense game of the season the night before in Edmonton, ripping two points from the Oilers and setting themselves up for a run at the first place Flames. In the end, they squandered the chance and basically split two nights of the schedule, losing a perfect opportunity to put some distance between themselves and the lower teams of the Northwest.
So Thursday comes along and it’s over to the Flames and their chance to recapture some momentum, Calgary arrived in Columbus aware of the underlying turmoil in the Ohio city, threats of trades have been made, Ken Hitchcock looking for a way to improve is underperforming squad has called out the leaders of the team to step up or step out. Thursday, they stepped up much to the dismay of the Flames, who probably had visions of easy pickings at the expense of the league’s third worst team. By games end however, it was the Flames that were looking rather frustrated with themselves after losing 2-1 to the Jackets.
Those were two valuable points that could very well come back to haunt the Flames in a few short weeks as they and the Canucks and Wild battle it out for the top spot in the Northwest.
Things won’t get any easier for Calgary as they continue their eastward trek, they next play the Sabres this Saturday night, and two points will be a little harder to come by on the shores of Lake Ontario than they should have been off the state that shares Lake Erie.
The Western teams have been making a bit of noise of late about wanting to see more of the eastern teams, weary of the inter divisional battles that live up to the term familiarity breeds contempt, however, if they keep losing to the lesser sisters of the league they may wish to just stay in their own backyard and battle it out amongst themselves.
Monday, November 27, 2006
Bottom feeding Hawks look to Savard for on ice salvation
Perhaps Tom Cruise was too busy on his honeymoon for the next mission. Denis Savard was named head coach of the Chicago Black Hawks today, a decision that should be considered cruel and unusual punishment in most judicial districts.
Savard takes over the under performing Hawks from Trent Yawney, who had the misfortune of getting off to a decent start, only to watch the team spend the better part of the last month in various clinics and hospitals and perhaps a comfy lazy boy chair or two. Yawney for a brief moment in time had done something that hadn’t been seen in Chi-town in a good number of years, win games, sometimes back to back and score goals and stop shots, in short, briefly they began to resemble a professional hockey club.
But in the space of a few short weeks it had all unraveled, as Martin Havlat’s scoring spree was stopped by injury, as were the scoring talents of Michal Handzus. To make matters worse, Nicklai Khabibulun, who was brought over from Tampa Bay to channel the energies of Glen Hall and Tony Esposito, has managed to show a rather stark inability to stop the incoming shots of late.
Things had spiraled out of control with the Hawks losing 12 of their last 15 games and looking like a solid bet for missing the playoffs as the people of Chicago were putting away their Turkey dinner. This made for a dire situation that seemed to yell out for action, considering that there is more than four months to go in the season.
With only Columbus between them and the bottom of the league and Columbus having hired on a big gun last week in Ken Hitchcock, Hawks GM Dale Tallon felt the time had come for a change of his own. But instead of seeking an outside agent who could come in with a clean slate and wide broom, he tapped hall of famer and Black Hawk legend Savard to take over the duties on the bridge.
It’s a chance for Savard to do what many say is impossible, make the Hawks a winner. But it surely must come with some serious drawbacks. The Hawks have long seemed the most dysfunctional of teams in a league that has had more than their fair share of unusual management teams. They have been mired so long in the bottom echelon of the league that they barely register in the third largest city in the USA, the rink frequently is empty, the games rarely televised at home by choice of management.
They at times resemble gypsy players, traveling from town to town in one of the most historic uniforms in NHL history but a mere shadow of those now ancient teams of Hull, Mikita, Hall, Stapleton or Roenick, Belfour, Chelios and Savard.
You have to wish Savard well, he’s been a hard worker through his career and this is certainly going to be in for a major challenge. But somehow you just get the feeling that the problems in Chicago run a lot deeper than changing a coach or moving some players...
Savard takes over the under performing Hawks from Trent Yawney, who had the misfortune of getting off to a decent start, only to watch the team spend the better part of the last month in various clinics and hospitals and perhaps a comfy lazy boy chair or two. Yawney for a brief moment in time had done something that hadn’t been seen in Chi-town in a good number of years, win games, sometimes back to back and score goals and stop shots, in short, briefly they began to resemble a professional hockey club.
But in the space of a few short weeks it had all unraveled, as Martin Havlat’s scoring spree was stopped by injury, as were the scoring talents of Michal Handzus. To make matters worse, Nicklai Khabibulun, who was brought over from Tampa Bay to channel the energies of Glen Hall and Tony Esposito, has managed to show a rather stark inability to stop the incoming shots of late.
Things had spiraled out of control with the Hawks losing 12 of their last 15 games and looking like a solid bet for missing the playoffs as the people of Chicago were putting away their Turkey dinner. This made for a dire situation that seemed to yell out for action, considering that there is more than four months to go in the season.
With only Columbus between them and the bottom of the league and Columbus having hired on a big gun last week in Ken Hitchcock, Hawks GM Dale Tallon felt the time had come for a change of his own. But instead of seeking an outside agent who could come in with a clean slate and wide broom, he tapped hall of famer and Black Hawk legend Savard to take over the duties on the bridge.
It’s a chance for Savard to do what many say is impossible, make the Hawks a winner. But it surely must come with some serious drawbacks. The Hawks have long seemed the most dysfunctional of teams in a league that has had more than their fair share of unusual management teams. They have been mired so long in the bottom echelon of the league that they barely register in the third largest city in the USA, the rink frequently is empty, the games rarely televised at home by choice of management.
They at times resemble gypsy players, traveling from town to town in one of the most historic uniforms in NHL history but a mere shadow of those now ancient teams of Hull, Mikita, Hall, Stapleton or Roenick, Belfour, Chelios and Savard.
You have to wish Savard well, he’s been a hard worker through his career and this is certainly going to be in for a major challenge. But somehow you just get the feeling that the problems in Chicago run a lot deeper than changing a coach or moving some players...
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