1. Long time listener first time caller

2. Chicago is gay.

3. Don't make fun of me being broke. I can barely pay for my internet

4. Who gives a fuck if my residents can't spell/Kane is a pussy. Have you suffered through Michigan public education?? If not, fuck off.

5. I wanted to emulate my fellow fans with littered typos and unintelligible sentences but I would need a few more punches to the head to know how a retard types

6. 3 games to 1=Sweep

7. We're going to win the Cup so fuck you. Oh wait I'm a 30 year old fat fuck behind a keyboard and I don't get shit for the Red Wings winning?? Fuck you anyway and Kane's a pussy.

8. Don't call my team Scum. That's immature. If you don't like it I'll call you names and call you out for a fight even though you're 200 miles away.

9. I'M NOT UNEMPLOYED I'M A PROFESSIONAL TROLL!!!

10. Look at my posts. See how I claim to be a Wings fan even though I have 10 posts here and haven't registered at Winging it Motown??? Well that's cause Kane's a pussy and I think you should be reminded of that.

11. Unless you want to punch a hole through your monitor stay away from the GDT when we close you out because we're a bunch of non-functional retards/Kane is a pussy.

Love Detroit  Fans

ps. We know the Pens will beat us in the finals. Please actively post on our sites while the remaining dinosaurs on our team collapse like our economy.

pps.Our city is so bad our mayor just claims residency but wouldn't live in our fuckhole if he had too.

In the NHL's quest to pimp itself out for opening week, the Hawks are playing the Panthers in Finland to open the season on 10/3.

The NHL announced today that the Hawks will play an exhibition game against the Zurich Lions on Sept. 29 in Zurich. It's for the Victoria Cup, which means nothing. The Zurich Lions won the Euro Cup, which also means nothing.

Interpol has been notified all women in Finland and Switzerland that during that time Adam Burish will be in their countries and to use discretion when leaving their homes.

Want a link? Fuck yourself....Ok here.

Now that Phoenix is officially bankrupt, rumors will be flying. Of course the rumors mostly involve Winnepeg and eventually Quebec. Jim Balsille of BlackBerry wants to buy the team for $212 million (US) and bring back the Jets. Canada needs more teams, population be damned, they'll buy tickets.

Bettman, in his infinite wisdom, doesn't want them to move since that would admit defeat. The NHL brass botted the old owner out and want someone to step in.

Reinsdorf is wanting to buy the team and keep it in Glendale, the Sox moved their Spring Training there this winter. However, Reinsdorf offer won't be even close in terms of value.

But since the Coyotes declared bankruptcy that puts this issue in courts. Normally, a bankruptcy court will award it to whoever has the highest bid. But since Balsille's offer is contingent on a move to Southern Canada, it could get tricky.

Personally, I say fuck Bettman. Move to Canada, where they'll appreciate a team.

It's been awhile since there's been a music thread so I figured we're due for one. Especially with the Animal Collective CD to be released Tuesday. It was leaked online and I've had the vinyl copy for some time and I'm without doubt that it's definately top 5 of the year. Personally I give the CD a 9 but Pitchfork gave it a very rare 9.6.

Is there anything else good released?

New Bon Iver EP, Fleet Foxes to play SNL. What Else???

So I'm watching the second period intermission with friends, and we're enjoying the hot girl shooting the puck. Then she scored on her first shot and started jumping up and down. And then it happened..... A NIPPLE!!!! Exposed and all of us (4) saw it. We were celebrating still when she went for the second more difficult shot it happened again. A glorious exposure of the same previous nipple. By nip we mean the differentiated skin color and not the "nip" part. Anyway the point is that nobody mentioned this in the game thread and I want to see this on YouTube pronto. Oh btw we're all single if you didn't pick up on that.

Thank you and God Bless America

With the Hawks playing so well the future seems here already but I decided to take a look at how some other guys are doing.

First, the Fresno Falcons closed up shop on the 22nd. The Hawks ECHL affiliate is now the Gwinett Gladiators.

http://blackhawks.nhl.com/team/app?articleid=400236&page=NewsPage&service=page

Rockford stats are a pain because you have to go to the AHL site and its not user friendly. I'm not too sure on how the style of play compares in the AHL to NHL as in terms of how to specifically translate stats. It looks like around the league that about 3.2-3.6 goals a game per team is about average in the AHL and the average in the NHL is about 2.9 to 3.7 (I'd assume team philosphy is the reason for more fluctuations) As a team Rockford is about average so far. The AHL teams are real tightly bunched together, but Rockford is on the outside looking in so that is part of the reason for low +/- number.

Anyway here are some stats for players of note

Name GP G A PTS +/- PIM PPG SHG Pt/G PIMPG
20 Petri Kontiola C 31 8 23 31 +1 8 4 0 1.00 0.26
8 Tim Brent C 30 9 20 29 -5 31 3 2 0.97 1.03
9 Pascal Pelletier LW 31 14 12 26 -6 18 7 0 0.84 0.58
12 Jack Skille RW 26 10 14 24 +4 17 5 1 0.92 0.65
4 Danny Groulx D 31 2 15 17 +3 32 1 0 0.55 1.03
7 Evan Brophey C 30 6 10 16 +7 47 1 0 0.53 1.57
37 Rob Klinkhammer LW 28 4 7 11 +6 13 0 0 0.39 0.46
18 Tim Hambly D 31 2 7 9 0 19 0 0 0.29 0.61
26 Niklas Hjalmarsson D 23 1 8 9 +6 27 1 0 0.39 1.17
17 Bryan Bickell LW 27 4 4 8 +7 38 0 0 0.30 1.41
28 Jake Dowell C 28 0 8 8 +5 44 0 0 0.29 1.57
21 Michael Blunden RW 30 2 5 7 -3 40 2 0 0.23 1.33
6 Jordan Hendry D 24 3 1 4 +7 21 0 0 0.17 0.88

Kontiola leads the team in points and he's still young. His ETA is still of a bit and without too much of a high ceiling could be good trade deadline bait.

Pelletier leads the team in goals but as we saw in his 1 game this year he is a grinder and his age makes him not that appealing.

Don't know much about Brent. Statwise he's basically like Kontiola. Same age same height, similar weight. That's all I got to say about that.

Skille's a guy I like and he's been putting up good stats since his calldown. Brouwer is the only Hawk who's play has been disappointing to me. Brouwer was supposed to be a PP guy especially since when he was called up the Hawks were still in their early sturggles. But now he's basically off the PP line, I wouldn't mind seeing them switch places again. As for the negatives, he's supposed to be a good 2 way guy with some physicallity that makes sense on the shutdown line, but last year and the start of this year he was noticably lazy on defense. He's 21 so maybe he just needs to mature.

While Groulx is fifth on the team in pts as a D man he caught my interest but once I saw 1981 as DOb it was time to move on.

Brophey had 19 pts in 74 gms last year and 16 in 30 games this year. He is also one of the team's top +/- guys. He turned 22 this month so I'll keep my eye on him.

Hjalmarsson's numbers neither impress or disappoint. He's a 6-3 D who's only 21 and  was on the opening day roster until nagging rib injuries got him sent down. If somebody on the blueline gets hurt I hope he's the 6th D and not Sopel.

Bickell is 6-4 and used to be viewed as a future NHL'er but he just can't score or hit enought to warrant prospect status.

Hendry has a good +/- but he's the only player that I've heard constant criticism from by IceHog fans. Might as well let him stay there for awhile.

Name GP Mins GA Shutouts Avg. W L SOL SA SVS %
2 Corey Crawford 13 791 33 0 2.50 9 3 1 415 382 0.920
3 Antti Niemi 18 1056 45 1 2.56 7 9 2 489 444 0.908

Crawford is obviously the guy the Hawks call up for the next goaltender injury/trade as shown by Khabby's injury. Crawford just has a low ceiling and I don't think will ever be a starter. Niemi is the one with a brighter future, but it's going to be a few years before he's an NHL starter.

If there's anything of note it's that with Toews, Sharp, Bolland, Fraser, Brophey, Dowell, Kontiola, and Brent we have a lot of depth at center that could be valuable at the trade deadline.

Anyway the Bears play soon and I need to sleep so it's time to wrap it up.

As far as draft picks....

Akim Aliu is 6-3 averaging more than a point and PIM a game. I think he'll be the first Nigerian in the NHL.

This year's number 1 Kyle Beach has 8 goals nad 20 assists in 26 games along with 92 PIM. He and some other guy are the only one's averaging over a point a game and as long as he avoids concussions a line of Eager, Fraser, and Beach gets me excited for next year.

I've heard a lot recently from people who know people and they are saying that Wayne is going to sing the anthem at the game. I would be stoked and my old man has a broner on Messmer forever (even own his CD.) It would be nice to see him do it. It fits with the bring back the legends routine and I assume the Wolves won't mind ( he part owns the team and singing their anthem is what ended his relationship with the Hawks.) He is the stadium announcer for the Cubs and if WM sang the anthem maybe Gene Honda could do the stadium announcing then. I'd feel bad for Cornielson who I think does a fine job, but ya can't beat Wayne. As long it's not some crappy recording artist I won't care too much who does what.

what is going on with the blog?

Some of the other posters are upset with the lack of content.

SCH hasn't logged on in 10 days, let alone posted anything. Now I no longer see his name at the bottom of the page as who runs the site?

Is there a new person who is going to run the blog??

Can we expect to see more previews/recaps/news???

The prospect watch is up for nov 3-9 so hopefully I can put something up about the Ice Hogs and players in the system, but I'd like an idea of what's going on here before I put in too much work.