It will be fun watching these kids gel. If it works, this is how you can sustain true elite success in today's NHL. Gotta keep hitting on picks/trades.

 

The Red Wings model come to life. Hold on to your superstars, trade your 2nd and 3rd tier players for draft picks, and draft/develop well.

Bickell-Toews-Kane

Sharp-Pirri-Hossa

Morin-Shaw-Saad

Kruger-Zues -Ben Smith/or J Hayes

Bollig

 

 

Keith-Seabrook

Hjalmarsson-Leddy

Oduya-Rozsival

 

Crawford

Khabibulin

 

 

That third line with Saad moving back to RW and Morin on LW will be great

The Red Wings model come to life. Hold on to your superstars, trade your 2nd and 3rd tier players for draft picks, and draft/develop well.

Well - no. The Red Wings "model" existed in an area without strict salary caps in place

The Red Wings model come to life. Hold on to your superstars, trade your 2nd and 3rd tier players for draft picks, and draft/develop well.

 

With the current salary cap, that's the only way to do it. Hold on to your top talent, everyone else is expendable. It's why Pittsbugh has five guys talking up almost half their cap, it's why Anaheim gave Getzlaf & Perry so much cash.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/hocke...0,1971662.story

The league is expected to announce its players will participate in the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, next February.

 

On the heels of that announcement, which could come as soon as Thursday if the NHL, its players' association, the International Olympic Committee and the International Ice Hockey Federation can work out the final details, will be the release of the 2013-14 regular-season schedule.

 

It's likely the schedule will be released the same day as the Olympic announcement and will provide an intriguing look at how the NHL will shut down for the Games and also showcase life after NHL realignment, where each team will face every other in a set of home-and-home games.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/hocke...0,1971662.story

 

As much as Bettman threatened to say no, there was no way he was gonna stop the players from going out there. The time zone is not as convenient as Vancouver was, but it's still good marketing. Plus, guys like Ovi already said they were going over no matter what.

Steve's favorite prospect Beach is back. One year deal. Could be on the 4th line this year as make or break year for him.

 

The Blackhawks have agreed to terms with forward Kyle Beach on a one-year contract, the team announced today.

 

Beach, 23, earned 26 points in 66 regular-season games with the Rockford IceHogs in 2012-13 and led the team with a career-high 204 penalty minutes.

 

Beach was originally selected by Chicago in the first round, 11th overall, of the 2008 NHL Entry Draft.

 

Bickell (AHL)

21Yrs old - 42GP 6G 60PIM

22Yrs old - 65GP 16G 58PIM

 

Beach (AHL)

21Yrs old - 71GP 16G 163PIM

22Yrs old - 66GP 16G 204PIM

 

As much as Bettman threatened to say no, there was no way he was gonna stop the players from going out there. The time zone is not as convenient as Vancouver was, but it's still good marketing. Plus, guys like Ovi already said they were going over no matter what.

 

Sochi is 9 hours ahead of EST. So if they have the US/Canada primarily playing late evening games local time that's going to be mid-late morning games in North America.

 

With the current salary cap, that's the only way to do it. Hold on to your top talent, everyone else is expendable. It's why Pittsbugh has five guys talking up almost half their cap, it's why Anaheim gave Getzlaf & Perry so much cash.

We have alot of similarities with the wings dynasty (top center/captain, top D men, etc)

Steve's favorite prospect Beach is back. One year deal. Could be on the 4th line this year as make or break year for him.

 

 

 

Bickell (AHL)

21Yrs old - 42GP 6G 60PIM

22Yrs old - 65GP 16G 58PIM

 

Beach (AHL)

21Yrs old - 71GP 16G 163PIM

22Yrs old - 66GP 16G 204PIM

God damn if I don't still hope Kyle Beach figures it out. He was drafted like 30 years ago - so much so at the time he was called the next "Todd Bertuzzi" like anyone would use that reference any more.

God damn if I don't still hope Kyle Beach figures it out. He was drafted like 30 years ago - so much so at the time he was called the next "Todd Bertuzzi" like anyone would use that reference any more.

I think we both gave up hope a long time ago.

 

Kyle Beach would be an amazing Men's League addition. That's about it.

I think we both gave up hope a long time ago.

 

Kyle Beach would be an amazing Men's League addition. That's about it.

He'd crush in rat, too.

He'd crush in rat, too.

Yeah, he'd totally be THAT guy at rat.

It does honestly feel like Kyle Beach was drafted 15 years ago.

2013-2014 Blackhawks regular season schedule

It's weird seeing so many Eastern Conference teams on the schedule again.

 

New division names are: Pacific, Central, Atlantic, and Metropolitan

Edited July 19, 201312 yr by LittleHurt05

2013-2014 Blackhawks regular season schedule

It's weird seeing so many Eastern Conference teams on the schedule again.

 

New division names are: Pacific, Central, Atlantic, and Metropolitan

Heaven forbid we not phallate the New York area.

The Bruins ready for the Biebs...

 

 

Too bad there is no trophy there for him to touch

http://mylittleblackhawk.tumblr.com/

 

oddest thing ive seen today on the internets.

http://mylittleblackhawk.tumblr.com/

 

oddest thing ive seen today on the internets.

 

First Flapship, now this Tumblr. Nothing but self-promotion from you Badger.

That's f***ing awful.

Study finds that since NHL supposedly began penalizing hits to the head, concussions in the league have actually gone up rather than down, and only 28% of concussions actually occurred on plays where the hit drew a penalty. The most common type of hit to cause a concussion is a body check, and those hits aren't penalized.

Study finds that since NHL supposedly began penalizing hits to the head, concussions in the league have actually gone up rather than down, and only 28% of concussions actually occurred on plays where the hit drew a penalty. The most common type of hit to cause a concussion is a body check, and those hits aren't penalized.

 

Reading their methods, I'm not convinced they were able to adequately deal with the possibility that the new rules resulted in players being more forthcoming with concussion reports.

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Blackhawks set to announce Quenneville contract extension http://trib.in/13IOeg2

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Blackhawks set to announce Quenneville contract extension http://trib.in/13IOeg2

 

With that power play??????

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Blackhawks set to announce Quenneville contract extension http://trib.in/13IOeg2

I just went from six to midnight!