The-Rink.com co-hosts Jeff Osborn, John Jaeckel, are joined by good friend’s Uncle Forklift and CT from HockeeNight.com to talk about the latest developments in the NHL. New COVID-19 cases in Florida,… Read more »
The Chicago Blackhawks will eventually be playing meaningful games to close the 2019-20 season. After the NHL announced the league’s return to play format, centered around a 24-team “playoff” with… Read more »
With the excitement over the NHL’s initial plans to restart play with a 24 team play-in tournament that will lead to a full 16 team playoff, the Blackhawks wasted no… Read more »
The-Rink.com writers led by RHL (Rink Hockey League) Commissioner Mario Tirabassi and RHL General Managers Jeff Osborn (1st overall), Ron Luce (2nd), Eric Andrews (3rd), Aaron Goldschmidt (4th), John Jaeckel… Read more »
The 2019–20 AHL season came to a bitter end on Monday, as the league made the decision to shut down the remainder of the season, including the 2020 Calder Cup… Read more »
It’s official. The 2019-20 AHL regular season and 2020 Calder Cup Playoffs have been canceled. In a statement released Monday morning, the league announced its decision to end the season… Read more »
Wednesday, May 6 is National Nurses Day in the United States. It marks the start of Nurses Week, which runs until May 12. As we know, the global COVID-19 pandemic… Read more »
A report from Sport Bladet in Sweden has indicated that Rockford IceHogs forward Anton Wedin will not re-sign with the Blackhawks organization and has returned to the SHL (Swedish Hockey… Read more »
Chicago Blackhawks Chairman W. Rockwell “Rocky” Wirtz surprised the fanbase this afternoon by announcing that team President and CEO, John McDonough, had been relieved of his duties. Under McDonough’s direction,… Read more »
“We’ve played every season. We’ve had the good fortune that this league has never stopped playing. There’s a lot of firsts happening. I don’t really see, at this point, how… Read more »
While the NHL and AHL seasons are on pause, players are not waiting to make their next moves. On Sunday afternoon, it was announced that Rockford IceHogs forward Jacob Nilsson… Read more »
Following a 15-year career, 643 NHL games and two Stanley Cup championships, former Chicago Blackhawks winger Kris Versteeg officially announced his retirement from hockey on Tuesday morning. A former fifth-round… Read more »
The-Rink.com writers John Jaeckel, Jeff “El Gatekeeper” Osborn, Mario Tirabassi, Aaron Goldschmidt, Ron Luce, Eric Andrews, Eric Johnson, and Sean Fitzgerald get together to lightheartedly discuss the lack of hockey… Read more »
It was announced on Monday that Oscar Dansk was named the Chicago Wolves IOA/American Speciality AHL Man of the Year award recipient for 2019–20. This is the first time the… Read more »
For the second time in three seasons since joining the Chicago Blackhawks’ organization, goaltender Collin Delia has been named the Rockford IceHogs IOA/American Specialty AHL Man of the Year. It… Read more »
Since the hockey world is on hold, I thought I would spend an article (or two, or three—we will see how ambitious I am next week) discussing some myths I… Read more »
There was actual hockey news on Thursday afternoon, as the Chicago Blackhawks announced four contract agreements. The team reached contract extensions with Matthew Highmore and Kevin Lankinen and signed 2017 draft… Read more »
March 11, 2020 will forever be remembered by sports fan around the world. Heck, even non-sports fans will remember the day that the world seemed to grind to a halt…. Read more »
The Colorado Eagles hosted the Ontario Reign this weekend for back-to-back matchups on Friday and Saturday night, then faced the Texas Stars on Tuesday and Wednesday. Ontario The Eagles won… Read more »
Following the joint statement from the MLB, NBA, MLS and NHL on Monday, the Chicago Blackhawks and Rockford IceHogs are taking procedures to combat the spread of the Coronavirus. Teams… Read more »
The Rockford IceHogs are not going away easy. I’ll save you the poetry this week. With just 13 games remaining on the schedule, the IceHogs currently sit in a tie… Read more »
The-Rink.com co-hosts “Gatekeeper” and “Double J” get together with former Chicago Tribune Blackhawks beat writer Jimmy Greenfield to discuss the post-deadline Blackhawks. Blackhawks three game winning streak. Nick Seeler, Ian… Read more »
The last time the Colorado Eagles faced the Milwaukee Admirals was in October, only two weeks into the season, and before anybody knew what kind of year the Admirals were… Read more »
In the two weeks since we last checked in with the Wolves, the Wolves have lost five of their last six games. One lone win for the Wolves on February… Read more »
The Rockford IceHogs will not go gently into that good night. They will continue to rage, rage against the dying light that is their slim Calder Cup playoff hopes. After… Read more »