Chicago Blackhawks (7-6-2) at Philadelphia Flyers (7-6-2) 7PM Eastern/6PM Central RADIO: WGN 720 TV: NBC Sports Chicago/NBCS Philadelphia PROJECTED GOALIES: Chicago: Corey Crawford (7-5-0, 1.77 GAA, .945 save%)… Read more »
The Rockford IceHogs are coming off of their first back-to-back losses of the season and are welcomed by a three games in three days stretch of their schedule. This marks… Read more »
Follow @jaeckel Good morning RinkRats. Just a quick update today on the-rink, an “off day” for the Blackhawks, and one week out from our official launch last week. Upcoming… Read more »
Follow @jaeckel The 2017-18 NHL season is basically 1/5th over. The Hawks are essentially a .500 team. And per reports out of practice this AM, not surprisingly, the line… Read more »
The-Rink.com co-hosts Jeff “Gatekeeper” Osborn and John “Double J” Jaeckel are joined by The-Rink.com Rockford Icehogs expert Mario Tirabassi to take you through this week in Chicago Blackhawks and Rockford… Read more »
Follow @jaeckel To be fair, the Hawks have played well over their last three games. It wasn’t until the third period last night when the coach (not Joel Quenneville)… Read more »
Photo courtesy of the NHL.com Alex DeBrincat – Jonathan Toews– Richard Panik Brandon Saad – Nick Schmaltz – Patrick Kane Patrick Sharp – Artem Anisimov – John Hayden Lance Bouma… Read more »
Follow @jaeckel Montreal Canadiens (5-8-1) at Chicago Blackhawks (7-5-2) 7PM Eastern/6 Central RADIO: WGN 720 TV: NBC Sports Chicago PROJECTED GOALIES: Montreal: Carey Price (3-7-1, 3.77… Read more »
Follow @jaeckel Make no mistake, the first star, if you will, of the Blackhawks’ 2017-18 season thus far has been goaltender Corey Crawford. Delivering his second straight shutout last… Read more »
How can the Blackhawks be more effective in the offensive zone slot? Let’s take a page from NHLers past and present who developed a specific move or moves that… Read more »
A late second period goal from Vladislav Kamenev was enough for the Milwaukee Admirals to get past the Rockford IceHogs on Friday night as they came away with the win,… Read more »
Follow: @jaeckel Chicago Blackhawks (6-5-2) at Minnesota Wild (5-4-2) 7PM Central RADIO: WGN 720 TV: WGN, Fox Sports North PROJECTED GOALIES: Chicago: Corey Crawford (6-4-0, 1.91 GAA, .941 save%)… Read more »
Tonight, the Rockford IceHogs travel North to take on the Milwaukee Admirals. It’ll be the fourth meeting between the teams in their first dozen games. The matchup pits the top… Read more »
Photo courtesy of NCAA.com The Chicago Blackhawks’ College Hockey prospects are off to a great start this season led by Northeastern University’s Dylan Sikura The Chicago Blackhawks have seen a… Read more »
When the IceHogs landed in Rockford in 1999 as part of the United Hockey League, they jumped into a community that would grow to embrace them wholeheartedly. It would return… Read more »
I never thought that sports journalism would ever be a side project for me. Ever since figuring out what I wanted to do with my life at 17-years old, I… Read more »
by Gatekeeper Tweet to Gatekeeper Alex DeBrincat – Jonathan Toews – Richard Panik Brandon Saad – Nick Schmaltz – Patrick Kane Patrick Sharp – Artem Anisimov – John Hayden Lance… Read more »
Sometimes someone can describe something you’ve always seen, but never noticed. Stars head coach Ken Hitchcock did that for me during the 2010 Stanley Cup playoffs. At the time, Hitch… Read more »
Philadelphia Flyers (6-5-1) at Chicago Blackhawks (5-5-2) 8PM Eastern/7 Central RADIO: WGN 720 TV: NBC Sports PROJECTED GOALIES: Philadelphia: Brian Elliott (5-2-1, 3.23 GAA, .884 save%) Chicago: Corey… Read more »
by Gatekeeper Tweet to Gatekeeper With opening night less than a week away, the Blackhawks are down to some tough decisions with their roster. We talked at length about the… Read more »
by Gatekeeper Tweet to Gatekeeper With opening night less than a week away, the Blackhawks are down to some tough decisions with their roster. We talked at length about the… Read more »
by Gatekeeper Tweet to Gatekeeper With opening night less than a week away, the Blackhawks are down to some tough decisions with their roster. We talked at length about the… Read more »
Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for taking the time to investigate what the team here at The-Rink.com have begun. I’m extremely proud to be joining a team… Read more »
Why I’m going to The-Rink About the last thing Blackhawk fans, and hockey fans in general, need is another “blog.” But there’s something different about this one—and it’s what made… Read more »