Archive for April, 2010

This weeks roundtable once again features Second City Hockey, Fifth Feather, The Third Man In and yours truly. We take a look at… well you know exactly what we talked about. Just read it. What grade would you give the Hawks on their first round series? Fifth Feather: Probably a B-.  We predicted the series to go 7, but we didn’t think it was going to take a careless Martin Erat turnover with under a minute to play to finally kick-start the Hawks past the Preds.  Up until that point, the Hawks seemed genuinely intimidated by the Predators.  Whatever, though, they survived [...]

More on last night’s series-clincher against Nashville and the upcoming series later today. Follow BlackhawkUp.com @blackhawksup and on Facebook Download Blackhawk Up’s FREE iPhone and Droid apps

I’ve waited until now to write about Game 5 in order to come down from the euphoria I experienced Saturday at the United Center. I wanted to be more objective about Game 6, wait for the ruling on  Marian Hossa and analyze rather than simply continue a wild celebration of one of the greatest games in Blackhawks history. We’ll see if I succeed. After all the nipple twisting done by myself, the rest of the blogsphere and media during this series, the Blackhawks gave us a game of epic proportions and a giant shove toward accomplishing their One Goal. It [...]

I knew the Arctic Monkeys inspiration would help to get this series even heading back to the UC tomorrow. Before I look ahead later today to Game 5, here’s another image in the countdown. See you back here later for a look at The Biggest Game of the Season.

Not shy of a spark, A knife twists at the thought that I should fall short of the mark, Frightened by the bite though its no harsher than the bark, Middle of adventure, such a perfect place to start – Arctic Monkeys, “505″ This quote seems fitting in describing the Blackhawks and the city’s mentality heading into Game 4 in Nashville. You read what I had to say after Game 3, along with the rest of the blogosphere’s and the mainstream media’s reactions. We’re all a bit worried and we’ve placed blame in many different places for the ‘Hawks’ sub-par [...]