Three years ago, there was a meeting of the minds. The stuff of legends, really. Much like the Founding Fathers or whoever it was that decided starting up Canada was a good idea.

Fork: I was thinking about starting a Hawks blog.

CT: Me too.

Fork: Want to do one together? It'll be half the work and half the cost for each of us.

CT: Sounds good.

And with that, Hockeenight was off and running. In that time, we've seen approximately 2000 Blackhawks blogs fire up, which is pretty cool, considering it really wasn't that long ago that the Hawks operated amidst thundering indifference.

Also in that time, we've recapped damn near 300 games, done damn near 150 Puckcasts, damn near a million BMBRolls in the Shoutbox, managed to buy blocks of tickets for readers and witnessed the Chicago Blackhawks winning the Stanley Cup.

Last weekend, our new friends Sam and Nolan at Galway Bay gave us Tonkfest, our first ever Hockeenight boozeup. A good time was had by all, and 4 bottles of sweet Jeppson's Malört were consumed.

The coming year will see an offseason where the Hawks will actually have a little Cap space, 10 draft picks, and the name "Winnipeg" on the schedule for the first time in 16 years.

FORK: I know I never expected to find out that people we've never met actually read what we have to say. Especially if you go back to the early days, when we did a lot of Onion-style things, some of which worked better than others. (We still get hits from political message boards over this) We still occasionally get hits from here and there where people link to us and talk about how much we suck. It probably happens more than I know, but I don't really check that often, and I'm pretty sure CT doesn't either.

This is also the time of year when I thank Andy at Desipio and Bad Kermit at Hire Jim Essian (Together they do Fisted Foul) for basically creating a template for us to rip off.

My favorite part of doing this are the Puckcasts. True story, for the most part it's the only time during the week when CT and I actually speak to one another. We genuinely dislike each other. We've even managed to live in different counties in order to have enough space between us to give the acrimony room to breathe.

Seriously, my second favorite part in all of this is reading whatever CT writes. I always wind up laughing my ass off at whatever he has to say. I think it was the 2008-09 season when his recap of a game against the Wild consisted solely of him ranting about his flooded basement and hatred of Jacques Lemaire. While it sucked that his basement flooded, it was insanely funny.

Finally for me, thanks to everyone who reads us, and follows us on Twitter and Facebook. Now go buy some shit so our layout will be a little less next year, OK?

CT:  Wow, three whole years of hockey blogging.  On the internet, that's like 47 years.  It's tough to say what my favorite part of all this has been.  The fame?  The fortune?  The Malort?  No, it's probably the many enemies I've made across the world, including Kyle Wellwood, John Scott (probably), the writers and commenters at the Fifth Feather, Barry Rozner and every self-respecting Hawks messageboard there is.