Archive for August, 2010

Ssshhh. Hear that? No? Good. Things are finally quiet this off-season. It’s kind of nice, actually. And speaking of quiet, former Blackhawks goalie  Antti Niemi finally talked a bit about his time in Chicago and his future. In his interview with  David Haugh, Niemi expressed his disappointment and said he always believed a deal would get worked out. Reading his quotes, it convinced me further Niemi’s agent,  Bill Zito, persuaded Niemi to hold out for more cash and convinced him he can have the best of both worlds: The Blackhawks and the money. “I thought it would get worked out [...]

Part of me wishes I had no ammo to write something like this. A calm off-season would’ve been nice. But nothing worth having ever comes easy, right? Last season, the ‘Hawks signed Marian Hossa to a monster deal and let Martin Havlat walk. They let Nikolai Khabibulin walk and gave the reigns to Cristobal Huet. They even botched the initial offers to their restricted free agents. That led to The Blackhawks’ Off-Season Drama: Seinfeld Style, Part I. After losing a good chunk of a Stanley Cup championship team, it’s only fitting I do this again and relate the Blackhawks’ off-season [...]

  While this may not be considered ”big” news that I was supposed to cover during Jeff’s hiatus for the weekend, it is news that is causing reactions by some and I’m here to tell you “don’t worry”.  Now considering that the biggest concert event of the summer, Lollapalooza is going on in Grant Park, by the time you get home and read this, you’ll be so shit faced that you won’t know that it wasn’t Jeff writing this, but me, Frank Rekas.  A transplanted lifelong Chicago Blackhawks fan, now living in Florida, and covering the dreaded Florida Panthers on my site The [...]

I’m heading up to Michigan’s U.P. for a camping trip this weekend and distancing myself from anything related to technology. Well, except for the wave runner I’ll be zooming around on. I wanted to leave you with a link to the Blackhawks Blogsphere Rountable conducted by Second City Hockey’s McClure which includes myself, Forklift from Hockee Night, John from the Fifth Feather and Block from The Third Man In. If the Blackhawks happen to trade Jonathan Toews while I’m gone, Frank Rekas from The Rat Trick will be posting it here so those who have the Droid and iPhone apps will be [...]

A roundtable discussion with myself, Fifth Feather, Hockee Night, The Third Man In and Second City Hockey will be posted later. After that, I’m done talking about this whole situation for at least a week. It’s starting to drive me insane. While most of the Blackhawks blogsphere chimed in with positive reactions to the  Marty Turco signing and  Antti Niemi dumping, some of the mainstream folk seemed to have a different opinion regarding  Stan Bowman’s handling of the ‘Hawks’ cap situation. Before delving into that, Adam Jahns of the Sun-Times provides us with some statistical comparisons between Niemi and Turco. [...]