The Rockford IceHogs look to bounce back this weekend after dropping their Wednesday ‘School Day’ game, 2-1 to the Iowa Wild. With back-to-back contests at home, the IceHogs look to… Read more »
What separates pure goal scorers from everyday NHL players? Let’s follow their Ten-Fold Path: Mindset: Every prolific NHL goal scorer begins each shift with the idea that, “It is possible… Read more »
Thursday night seemed like the beginning of the rest of our lives, in Blackhawks land. They were coming off a pretty brutal 7-5 loss, Sunday night, to the upstart New… Read more »
The Blackhawks played well for 40 minutes of last night’s 6-3 win over the Rangers. But they’ve had good stretches this year—do you trust last night’s play? After 20… Read more »
The 8-8-2 Blackhawks host the New York Rangers in an Original 6 matchup tonight, as both teams look to improve less than stellar starts to 2017-2018 season. New York… Read more »
3 key contributors from the 2016-17 Blackhawks are gone—none of them named Panarin—and the impact is perhaps more dramatic than might be immediately evident. In an interview at the… Read more »
The Rockford IceHogs completed their second three-games-in-three-days stretch of the season on Saturday night with a 5-2 win over the Milwaukee Admirals to salvage two points in the standings after… Read more »
The Chicago Blackhawks blow a 4-1 lead last night at home and fall to New Jersey, 7-5, setting the team’s overall record at 8-8-2 after 18 games this season…. Read more »
Looking for consistency, and coming off a big OT road win last night, the Blackhawks host New Jersey tonight at the UC. New Jersey Devils (10-4-2) at Chicago… Read more »
The Chicago Blackhawks, led by rookie Alex DeBrincat, came back from a late 3-1 deficit to win a big road game last night. Back in the heady days of… Read more »
After yet another disappointing and uninspired Blackhawks game, Thursday night, I sat down and asked myself if the Blackhawks are really as bad as we FEEL like they are. It… Read more »
Chicago Blackhawks (7-7-2) at Carolina Hurricanes (6-5-3) 7PM Eastern/6PM Central RADIO: WGN 720 TV: WGN/Fox Sports CAR GOALIES: Chicago: Anton Forsberg (0-1-2, 4.26 GAA, .895 save%) Carolina: Scott… Read more »
At 7-7-2, can the Blackhawks’ record be defended anymore? Or can patience still be urged with a roster that doesn’t seem to be working? What follows is a matter… Read more »
Photo courtesy of the NHL.com Tweet to Gatekeeper The Blackhawks strolled into Philadelphia, Thursday night, to face the Flyers in a battle of the middling teams with identical records. Both… Read more »
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 »
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 »