Jeff has covered the Blackhawks since 2009 with his former website www.puckinhostile.com and podcast The Puckin Hostile Shoutcast until 2017, when he moved over to The Rink.
After a short hiatus to cover the inaugural Seattle Kraken season, he came back to Blackhawks coverage and started "The Net Perspective" podcast to discuss goaltending and goaltender development.
Gary Bettman announced at the league’s Board of Governors meeting Monday, that the salary cap for 2019-20 could rise as much as $3.5 million from this season’s ceiling of $79.5… Read more »
The Steel moved past the Cedar Rapids RoughRiders into third place and took four important standings points from the second place Central Illinois Flying Aces this weekend. Chicago Steel 5,… Read more »
After a terrible loss to the Vegas Golden Knights, on Tuesday, the Blackhawks took a short trip to Winnipeg Manitoba to face the high scoring Jets. The Jets were coming… Read more »
The Blackhawks and Arizona Coyotes announced a trade late Sunday evening, which caught a lot of fans by surprise. Not only the timing of the transaction but the names involved…. Read more »
Saturday afternoon the Blackhawks took the trek across Florida to face the Panthers, in Sunrise, after a terrible showing in Tampa less than 24 hours prior. With every mounting loss… Read more »
On Friday, November 30th, the Chicago Steel will host a first-in-nation Crazy Hat Night vs the Central Illinois Flying Aces, presented by The School of Art, to benefit the Alyssa… Read more »
The Blackhawks announced this afternoon that they had signed the second of this summer’s first round draft picks, Nicolas Beaudin, to a max three-year entry level deal at $1,166,700 per season…. Read more »
Just hours before new head coach Jeremy Colliton was set to coach his first National Hockey League game, Blackhawks fans gathered in the United Center Atrium for a first look… Read more »
Since the organization smacked us all in the face on Tuesday morning with the announcement of Joel Quenneville’s firing, the move has been met with (mostly) anger and cynicism. Regardless,… Read more »
The Chicago Blackhawks surprised everyone this morning by announcing that long time coach and three-time Stanley Cup winner Joel Quenneville was relieved of his coaching duties. In addition to Quenneville,… Read more »
The Blackhawks took a short trip across Alberta from Edmonton, where they dropped a goose egg Thursday night, to nearby Calgary for a Saturday night game against the Flames. The… Read more »
Chicago Blackhawks (6-4-3) at Edmonton Oilers (6-4-1) 8:00pm Central, 7:00pm Mountain Rogers Place TV/Radio: NBCSCH/WGN PROJECTED GOALIES: Chicago – Cam Ward (3-1-3 W-L, 3.91 GAA, .889 SV%) Edmonton – Mikko Koskinen (1-0-0… Read more »
After suffering their first regulation loss (in their first actual regulation finish) Thursday night, the Blackhawks traveled to Columbus, Ohio to face the Blue Jackets. Both teams came into this… Read more »
In preparation for the return of Corey Crawford, tonight, forward Luke Johnson was reassigned to the Rockford Icehogs. As first reported by Scott Powers of The Athletic from the optional… Read more »
No rest for the wicked, as the Chicago Blackhawks had no time to celebrate their exciting overtime win in St. Louis, the previous night. The team travelled home to meet… Read more »
After some panic and goalie drama earlier in the day, the Blackhawks visited the much maligned Ottawa Senators to open the regular season. Cam Ward got his first official Chicago… Read more »
According to reports from the beat writers travelling with the team, the Blackhawks were participating in their usual game day morning skate when backup goaltender Anton Forsberg left the ice… Read more »
Last night, on the latest Blackhawks Rinkcast, we teased predictions for this upcoming season. Now is a great time to give a more robust set of NHL predictions, from the… Read more »
In the first part of this series, we brought you the masks for “most” of the goalies in the Blackhawks organization. Rockford Icehogs fans might have thought that we left… Read more »
One of the most anticipated reveals for goaltenders and fans are the player’s new custom painted masks. The reveals have been enhanced even more by specialty mask reveals, such as… Read more »
The United Center was buzzing (sort of) Saturday night, with the young, fast Columbus Blue Jackets visiting for the last exhibition game before hockey gets real this Thursday. Blackhawks goalie… Read more »
The bloated love affair with organizational prospects and potential draft picks has led to a supernova of internet outrage that needs to be reeled in. One of the more common… Read more »
Blackhawks terminate professional tryout agreement and sign veteran defenseman to one year deal This morning right as practice began, the Blackhawks snuck out a press release announcing that they had… Read more »
Blackhawks assignments push the team one step closer to opening night roster. Prior to the Blackhawks preseason opener, the organization made some minor training camps moves. Defensemen Carl Dahlstrom and… Read more »
The Blackhawks rookies took part in the Traverse City 2018 Matthew Wuest Memorial Cup this past weekend. The rookies went 2-2 and lost in the third place game last night…. Read more »