For the Chicago Blackhawks, rivalries have become rather common. Becoming a perennial favorite and defending the Stanley Cup has put the Blackhawks in a position where they are targeted every game. And while the rivalry may be a bit overstated, [...]
Things are once again looking up for the Chicago Blackhawks. The team has already faced both high and low points, despite the NHL season not even being halfway over. One of the low points thus far has been the injury to [...]
The scorelines all say the same thing: 6-2, 6-2, 7-2. Those are not an early-20th century football scores, those are hockey scores. The team responsible for those scores is the Chicago Blackhawks. Their victims have been the Florida Panthers, Dallas Stars [...]
Tuesday night’s battle between the Chicago Blackhawks and the Dallas Stars brought Antti Raanta center stage to be put to the test in the crease as the new no. 1 netminder. With Corey Crawford tragically out for a few weeks [...]
The next week may be the most difficult of the Chicago Blackhawks‘ season, as the team learns to play without its starting goaltender Corey Crawford. What seemed to be a team regaining its health has now, once again, become thin. [...]
Antti Raanta started the 2013-14 hockey season with the Rockford Icehogs, completely unaware of the season he was going to have. Now he’s being forced to become the starting goaltender for the Chicago Blackhawks. It only took an injury to Nikolai Khabibulin and [...]
This is one of those obvious assertions that can be lost in the midst of a bad break for a team, but the Chicago Blackhawks cannot let Corey Crawford‘s injury become one that could cause the entire team to collapse [...]
Okay, first off, this article is not panicking. It’s only two months into the NHL season, after all, but the Chicago Blackhawks have already lost three games in a row for the first time since the 2013 Western Conference Semifinals against the [...]
Jeremy Morin and Joakim Nordstrom are going to get another chance at the NHL. The Chicago Blackhawks called up Morin and Nordstrom from the AHL‘s Rockford IceHogs to fill in for Michal Handzus and Andrew Shaw, as they are both out with injuries. The two will start [...]