The-Rink.com co-hosts Jeff “Gatekeeper” Osborn and John “Double J” Jaeckel are joined by returning Rinkcast guest Tyler Cameron aka Justin Lowe from www.HockeyBuzz.com to talk about the Blackhawks latest streak and the trade deadline. The… Read more »
Last night at the United Center, Panarin Derangement Syndrome® (PDS) (as we’ve coined it here at The-Rink.com) was in full display as impending free agent and former Blackhawk left… Read more »
Just perusing Twitter this morning, man, there is a lot of silliness out there. #loseforhughes and #anythingcanhappen are both unrealistic extremes (albeit, one more so than the other), and… Read more »
The-Rink.com co-hosts Jeff “Gatekeeper” Osborn and John “Double J” Jaeckel are joined by the great Forklift from www.HockeeNight.com to discuss what is going on with this Blackhawks franchise and their 5 game winning streak. Fork… Read more »
The Blackhawks entered action in St, Paul, Minnesota last night, nursing a 3-game win streak and, as a result, some emerging confidence. It’s never easy to play back-to-back on the… Read more »
With one quote this past Saturday, regarding his team’s aging, injured #1 goaltender, young Blackhawk head coach Jeremy Colliton may have summarized the entire state of the team. Speaking to… Read more »
The struggling Chicago Blackhawks faced off against the New York Rangers at Madison Square Garden last night. Promising young netminder Collin Delia got the start in net for the Hawks,… Read more »
The Blackhawks travelled to New York tonight to face the Islanders for the first time this season. The biggest question in this game would be whether the Hawks could recapture… Read more »
The Blackhawks entered action Saturday night in Denver having gone 5-4-1 over their previous ten games—a marked improvement versus the ten prior. Bad news: as improved as 5-4-1 might be,… Read more »
Hot on a two-game winning streak, the Chicago Blackhawks took the Ice in Colorado last night against the Avalanche. The odds of a third straight win were perhaps not high,… Read more »
It’s time for Blackhawk fans—all of them, not just those who hearken back to the days before 2007 (when, to paraphrase Mel Brooks, things were truly rotten)—to accept a few… Read more »
The Blackhawks entered action tonight hoping to break a 6-game winless streak on home ice against the Montreal Canadiens. In the pre-game intro, NBCSN Chicago on-air men, Pat Foley and… Read more »
Reeling from 3 consecutive losses, the Blackhawks returned home to the United Center Sunday night to face the Calgary Flames. The obvious question in this affair would be whether the… Read more »
Chicago Blackhawks (9–12–5) at Nashville Predators (17–8–1) 7:00pm CST Bridgestone Arena TV/Radio: WGN/FS-TN PROJECTED GOALIES Chicago – Corey Crawford (5-10, SV%: 0.901 GAA: 3.18) Nashville– Pekka Rinne (10-4, SV%: 0.935 GAA: 1.85) TEAM STATISTICS Power Play Chicago (12%, 31st) Nashville (14.4%,… Read more »
As with any trade, the one made last night, that sent Nick Schmaltz to Arizona for Dylan Strome and Brendan Perlini will not be fully assessed until a few years… Read more »
The Blackhawks entered Friday night’s game in Amalie, FL with an 8-9-5 record and struggling to demonstrate how their recent coaching change has had any meaningful impact. Worse still, last… Read more »
My partner Gatekeeper and I theorized, a number of weeks back on the RinkCast, around the possibility of Jeremy Colliton replacing Joel Quenneville as head coach of the Blackhawks… Read more »
Recently, NBCSN Chicago hosted a fan poll, asking the question whether Erik Gustafsson is a legitimate top 4 defenseman or not. While the vote was 98% “no” at one… Read more »
The Blackhawks took a 6-2-2 record into St. Louis last night, for their third meeting of the season with the Blues. The talking heads on WGN and NBCSN, as… Read more »
The St. Louis Blues came into Chicago last night, looking for revenge after an overtime loss to the Blackhawks on home ice last week. The game was marked by a… Read more »
Chicago Blackhawks (0-0-0) at Ottawa Senators (0-0-0) 8:30 Eastern/7:30 Central Canadian Tire Centre TV/Radio: WGN/WGN Goalies: Chicago Cam Ward (.000 save%, 0.00 GAA) Ottawa Craig Anderson (.000 save%,… Read more »
On a couple of higher profile Blackhawk podcasts recently, hosts have suggested that faceoffs really don’t matter that much in hockey, that their importance is “overrated.” This has been stated… Read more »
The Chicago Blackhawks sent a roster that’s likely more representative of the Rockford Ice Hogs and/or the London Knights to Columbus last night to kick off the preseason. The… Read more »
Those of you who’ve been following my posts this summer will recognize a familiar theme here—but events continue to unfold (or not unfold) that seem to keep me and… Read more »
Twitter, the human imagination, and some less than responsible analysis out there has a way of driving convenient, feel-good hockey narratives that don’t hold up under the harsh light of… Read more »