Since before Jonathan Toews passed the Stanley Cup to Kimmo Timonen, there’s been much hue and cry over the Blackhawks payroll and the salary cap. Rightly so, since the Hawks decided to give Toews and Patrick Kane contracts that give them each the largest salary cap hits in the NHL, roughly $1 million more than […]
After the Chicago Blackhawks shopped various players around the NHL for the earlier part of the week, they spent the first round Friday night listening to teams not congratulate them for winning the Stanley Cup. That Cup cost them their first round pick in the trade for Antoine Vermette and one of their second rounders […]
Now that the confetti has been swept off the streets and the NHL draft quickly approaches, Stan Bowman has to move swiftly…not only does he need to clear salary cap space for the contracts he needs to give to Brandon Saad and Marcus Kruger, but also so he can actually ice a team of 20 […]
Patrick Kane’s broken clavicle, remember that? Kane came back from that to play the Hawks’ first playoff game to nobody’s surprise. At least nobody around here.
Last night the Chicago Blackhawks shook the hockey world…wait, no they didn’t. I’m not even sure it’s a mild tremor. Anyway, they traded Rockford defenseman Adam Clendening to the Vancouver Canucks for defenseman Gustav Forsling.
Due to the generosity of Nick the New Guy, I had the good fortune tonight to attend a screening of Gabe Polsky’s documentary “Red Army” at Soho House, which seems an unlikely place to watch a documentary about hockey, seeing as it’s basically an ant colony for hipsters.
We recently became aware of 26shirts.com, a site devoted to making limited-edition shirts to raise money for people in need, like the one you see here, that is only available for a couple more days, to raise money for Clint Reif’s family. And since we’re apparently unaware of methods of fundraising that don’t […]
Wednesday night marks Bandon Bollig’s return to the United Center for the first time as a mamber of the Calgary Flames. As is the custom for the Blackhawks, they plan on paying tribute to Bollig with a video to be shown during one of the TV timeouts in the first period. HOCKEENIGHT has managed to […]
This morning I woke up to two emails from our good friend Sam Fels. I get emails from him a lot, particularly on Mondays – him wondering when he’s getting my Top Ten, because it’s holding up the Ivy Drip. Today though, there was one saying there would be no Drip this week. The next […]
Stuff is starting to happen in Blackhawk-land. Prospect Camp is winding down, the Blackhawks Convention is this weekend, and Patrick Kane and Jonathan Toews had their presser to announce their new contracts. Let’s get to this…