Over the weekend, the Rockford IceHogs faced the Tucson Roadrunners in back-to-back games on Friday and Saturday night in Arizona. Taking three of four points from the Roadrunners with an… Read more »
Tampa Bay Lightning (4-1-1) at Chicago Blackhawks (4-1-2) 6:00pm Central/7:00pm Eastern United Center TV/Radio: NHLN-US,NBCSCH,SUN/WGN PROJECTED GOALIES:Chicago: Cam Ward (.879 SV%, 4.07 GAA) Tampa Bay: Louis Domingue (.950… 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 »
Chicago Blackhawks (3-1-2) at Columbus Blue Jackets (4-2-0) 6:00pm Central/7:00pm Eastern Nationwide Arena TV/Radio: WGN,FS-Ohio/WGN PROJECTED GOALIES: Chicago: Corey Crawford (.900 SV%, 3.15 GAA) Arizona: Sergei Bobrovsky (.875… Read more »
Corey Crawford made his first start in net for the Blackhawks in nearly ten months, Thursday night. The visiting Coyotes spoiled the celebration as returning former players Niklas Hjalmarsson, Vinnie… 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 »
Arizona Coyotes (1-4-0) at Chicago Blackhawks (3-0-2) 7:30pm Central, 5:30pm Mountain United Center TV/Radio: NBCSCH, FS-A/WGN PROJECTED GOALIES: Chicago: Corey Crawford (.000 SV%, 0.00 GAA) Arizona: Antti Raanta (.903… Read more »
The-Rink.com co-hosts Jeff “Gatekeeper” Osborn and John Jaeckel discuss the unexpected Blackhawks success, and discuss the newest, most robust NHL salary cap website, PuckPedia, with its founder, Hart Levine. The Blackhawks lose to… 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-Rink.com co-hosts Jeff “Gatekeeper” Osborn and John Jaeckel discuss the Blackhawks start to training camp and first preseason game with Rink prospect writer Aaron Goldschmidt . Blackhawks lose to Columbus with a very young… Read more »
On Friday morning, Corey Crawford returned to the ice for the Chicago Blackhawks for the first time in nearly seven months. Having missed half of the regular season last year,… Read more »
It has now been a full week since the Blackhawks held their annual fluff & fan festival (aka the Fan Convention), where they trot out their newest show ponies and… Read more »
Among the flurry of post season signings, The Athletic’s Scott Powers floated a story on Wednesday regarding 24-year-old Russian goaltender Ivan Nalimov. The Blackhawks chose Nalimov in the 6th round… Read more »
We wrap up the player grades from the 2017-18 season with the goaltenders. Obviously, I could go on and on because it is my (self proclaimed) area of expertise. This… Read more »
Last summer, at my previous website, I took some time to examine (what I consider to be) my area of expertise… To the surprise of many, that expertise is not… Read more »
On Thursday, the Chicago Blackhawks made the move to recall goaltender J.F. Berube from the Rockford IceHogs as Jeff Glass cleared waivers. Glass will be sent to the IceHogs after… Read more »
The Corey Crawford saga took another step in the X-Files direction last night, when Sun-Times Blackhawks beat writer Mark Lazerus reported that he had heard from three sources that Crawford… Read more »
Though it’s only halfway through the season, the race for the Vezina has begun, and there are already some early front runners. Andrei Vasilevskiy currently leads the Vezina Race, with… Read more »
On Wednesday morning the Chicago Blackhawks placed goaltender Corey Crawford on injured reserve and recalled goaltender Jeff Glass and forward David Kampf from the Rockford IceHogs. Additionally, the IceHogs recalled… Read more »
Today the Blackhawks surprised everyone by announcing that Corey Crawford was put on IR and Jean-Francois Berube was recalled from the Rockford Icehogs. In conjunction to the Berube move, Collin… 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 »