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Kevin Spiewak for obvious reasons. + he was pretty fast & always worked his butt off.

There's no way Illinois upgrades their club team to D1. The state is broke & totally screwed up & there would be major yelling about adding hockey when it is cutting education & social services. People bitch & moan but when it comes down to it the unions rule the state & get the democrats voted in to keep screwing things up. The latest issue is to approve a referendum for a high school district that 35% of the teachers get paid 135K. They don't want to give up their 6% automatic pay raise in their last 4 years of teaching to boost their pensions. The union realizes what the results of the referendum will be & are considering agreeing to only 3% to try to avoid it. The pension fiasco in ILL. is going to bankrupt the state & nobody will be getting the pensions they expect & think they deserve. Sorry, end of rant,

I had an uncle that was an Army Ranger & was one of the first to storm the beach. Fortunately he made it back. He never said a thing about what he went through. I found out about it during his eulogy when he passed away at 93 yrs. old. The stories that passed away with the men that served would be be unbelievable.

Should be a barnburner battle of 2 heavyweights. Have to go with the Hawks again. 5-2 Hawks. Home ice is only going to help them put this series away. GO HAWKS!!!

And I would bet on the Hawks. GO HAWKS!!!!

Go Johnny GO!!! GO HAWKS!!!

I'm sure the players are po'd they let that one get away. The Hawks dominated the first 2 periods but fell apart after that goal at the end of the 2nd. They couldn't get back on track after that. They needed a wake up call in both series & finished them off to get to the western finals. This could be that wake up call. It's only one loss in a seven game series. I wouldn't count them out yet.

Game started at 7:15. Looks exciting now. GO HAWKS!!!

More colorful for the home crowd. Look at all the red sweaters in the crowd.

Matt always was one of my favorite Sioux defensemen. Big & quick & could lay a player out when the team needed a boost. Glad the Kings made it so I can watch Matt. Will be great to see Toews knock off another former Sioux & their team.

It looked to me like the defensemen intentionally put it off the boards looking for that carom to happen. Suter tied up his man & Cooke looked like he was more concerned with hooking Kane then trying to catch him. I guess if he did a better job of hooking, Kane wouldn'rt have scored but it could have been a penalty shot.

Heck of a 2nd. period. GO HAWKS!!!

I think they have to win game 6 first.

That made me laugh.

Maybe if they moved the camara crew a little closer we could see the game. Can barely make out the numbers on the jerseys. They don't even zoom in on the face offs.

I don't think it was the Chicago media, it was the national media that didn't think he had the talent to win it. Niemi was traded for salary cap reasons because Crawford showed a lot as his backup & paid his dues in the AHL. Emery was brought in as Crawford's backup & played great when Crawford was injured. The Hawks tried to keep him but he wanted to be the #1 guy and left as a FA. Did he play much this year? The Hawks brought in Habibulan (sp) as his backup, a total waste of a few million. He played a few games, got bombed & never saw the ice again. They blamed it on an injury. Crawford's got what it takes to win another Cup as long as the Hawks can keep winning.

I thought the same thing but they said it wasn't reviewable. Penalty had to be called on the ice.

Only when waiting for the Hawks-Wild game. Hawks 3-2. Go HAWKS!!!

Sarcasm use to be a lot easier to get before the smileys turned up everywhere. Couldn't stand them when they were invented & still can't.

Born & raised in Chicago, MM. Went to my first game when I was 9 & have been a fan ever since. Not sure where you are coming from. Just because I don't have 5000 posts doesn't mean I haven't been around here for a while. Probably as long or longer than most.

5-1 doesn't sound boring to me. Blues couldn't capitalize on all the PP they had in the 2nd. GO HAWKS!!! Who's next.

Sounds like losers to me.

Yea Sharp. Up 2. Go HAWKS!!!!

Toews with the goal to go up one. With about 4-5 make up penalty calls for the Hawks they should be in great shape.