Great Blackhawks Story

[mikeypat15]

Heard about this a few weeks ago but this is the first text of the story I have seen.

In the middle of a grueling six game road trip where a very

young hockey team is away from home, the third game

of the trip ends late on a cold Canadian Saturday night. This is the

only break on the trip and the three

days between games allow them the only break

to get back home in their own

beds for a couple of days before going

back on the road. A scheduled commercial flight waits for them at

Toronto's International Airport for the short flight home; they could be home by

midnight. This plane departs on

schedule, but without a single member of the hockey team.

Back in the locker room a vote is taken after the game was complete,

and a unanimous decision is made by this young team

to skip this flight and stay one more day. They make arrangements to

check back in the hotel and on a frozen Sunday morning charter two buses

that have no heat and begin a journey two hours straight north into a

sparsely inhabited Canada ,but where hockey is its passion. They arrive at

their destination to the surprise of the team's general manager who is there

attending his fathers wake.

After a few emotional hours, this team boards

the buses and head back for a two-hour trip back to Toronto . On the

way they ask the drivers to stop in a

tiny Canadian town because they are hungry. To the shock of the

patrons and workers at this small hockey town McDonald's, a professional team

walks out of two rickety buses and into the restaurant,

which just happens to have pictures of two members of this team on

its wall. The patrons know every single one of these players by sight

being fanatic fans of hockey in these parts. One can only imagine their

amazement of the locals seeing and entire professional hockey team

sit down and have a meal in their tiny little town in the middle of a hockey season.

After a while they board the buses and catch their same flight 24 hours later,

giving one day to their general manager.

This a true story of the Chicago Blackhawks last Saturday night and they decided to

attend Dale Tallon's fathers funeral. Its amazing that such a good story

can be found nowhere on the internet, and not even

mentioned in the Chicago papers.

Had one of the Blackhawks got into a fight and punched some drunk in a Toronto bar, or said something derogatory about some ex-girlfriend, it would be plastered all over papers and the television.

This being said, its hard to imagine any professional football, basketball

or baseball team doing this, but the members

of the Blackhawks claim any "hockey" team would have done this.

This is one reason I continue to be a huge hockey fan, and another reason I am

excited about this Chicago team.

I thought I would share as this story appears to have gone unnoticed.

EDIT: ALSO IF ANYONE IS INTERESTED THE BLACKHAWKS GAME WILL BE STREAMED ON WWW.ATDHE.NET AT 730 LOCAL TIME

[soohockey15]

Hard to imagine any football, basketball, or baseball team would do this? C'mon now, that's a bit ridiculous.

[mikeypat15]

Hard to imagine any football, basketball, or baseball team would do this? C'mon now, that's a bit ridiculous.

In my defense I did not write this, I copied and pasted off the Hawks forum.

[redwing77]

A nice story from a franchise whom, though I love most of their players (Huet excluded), I still have a huge bone to pick.

If you live in Canada and get the NHL Network, you will see a good % of Blackhawk games. If you live in the US, you MIGHT get to see the game at Wrigley but otherwise, that's it without buying NHL Center Ice.

Every team has its issues with attendance and money, but not every team will intentionally black out their games because they refuse to televise games to a wide population until the narrow population fills the seats. I'd go to Hawks games if I lived in Chicago. However, I don't. But that's the reason I was told that the Blackhawks are rarely televised.

It pisses me off. It is why I root for Toews, Kane, Sharp (especially now that Sharp escaped Philly), and company, I'll never really like them (as much as a Detroit fan can like the Hawks) until they stop screwing over their own fans.

[andtheHomeoftheSIOUX!!]

LINK

Of all the places to find a little info on this...

[soohockey15]

A nice story from a franchise whom, though I love most of their players (Huet excluded), I still have a huge bone to pick.

If you live in Canada and get the NHL Network, you will see a good % of Blackhawk games. If you live in the US, you MIGHT get to see the game at Wrigley but otherwise, that's it without buying NHL Center Ice.

Every team has its issues with attendance and money, but not every team will intentionally black out their games because they refuse to televise games to a wide population until the narrow population fills the seats. I'd go to Hawks games if I lived in Chicago. However, I don't. But that's the reason I was told that the Blackhawks are rarely televised.

It pisses me off. It is why I root for Toews, Kane, Sharp (especially now that Sharp escaped Philly), and company, I'll never really like them (as much as a Detroit fan can like the Hawks) until they stop screwing over their own fans.

I'm pretty sure that they show all Blackhawks games in the Chicago area. This happened after the owner died last year.

And the New Year's Day game is on NBC I believe.

[The Whistler]

Doesn't everyone have "Center Ice?"

[mikeypat15]

I'm pretty sure that they show all Blackhawks games in the Chicago area. This happened after the owner died last year.

And the New Year's Day game is on NBC I believe.

Every game is on TV this year with no blackouts.

Also again if you want to watch Hawks games in good quality check out ATDHE.net they always have a feed and it is excellent quality.

[mikeypat15]

LINK

Of all the places to find a little info on this...

The story was run on MSNBC and a Europeon Hawks fan is saying it was run in all the papers over there