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Hartman snaps drought: Injury updates on Mark McNeill, Leighton; More info on...
Ryan Hartman (24) and T.J. Brennan (7) hug out their OT winning-goal connection on Fri Nov 21st in Rockford Photo credit: Rockford IceHogs By Chris Block Blackhawks 2013 first round draft pick Ryan...
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A look at Rockford atop AHL at quarter mark; Ted Dent comments on PIMs,...
Ryan Schnell (38) fights Milwaukee’s Michael Liambas Nov 22 in Rockford photo courtesy of Rockford IceHogs By Chris Block Rockford IceHogs have rolled off four consecutive wins, all without their...
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More on Jeremy Morin’s AHL “Conditioning” loan, his trade demand,...
By Chris Block Jeremy Morin agreed to a maximum 14-day conditioning loan with the Rockford IceHogs for the dual purpose of getting the 23-year old left winger some game time and showcase the...
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Rockford’s Slump Continues, Drop 3-2 shootout loss to Charlotte; Stan Bowman...
Mark McNeill doesn’t beat Drew MacIntyre in the shootout Tuesday Jan 13th in Rockford Photo: Rockford IceHogs Hockey – By Chris Block On Tuesday night, the Rockford IceHogs began the second half of...
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Hawks trade Clendening to Vancouver Canucks for Gustav Forsling
Gustav Forsling – By Chris Block The Chicago Blackhawks made a deal late Thursday sending third-year pro Adam Clendening to the Vancouver Canucks in exchange for the rights to Gustav Forsling, 18, in a...
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Lindbloom’s View: On Pond Stars and Kimmo Time
Five veterans overlooked by Stan Bowman By Rich Lindbloom “Growing old is compulsory, growing up is optional.” The picture above depicts five “experienced” (i.e. – old as dirt) players that Stan Bowman...
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Toews powers Hawks past Hurricanes; New guys debut; Teuvo Up To Stay; Ben...
By Chris Block After a weekend dealing with wild rumors of off-ice turmoil and supposed discord, the Blackhawks took to the ice on Monday with a couple of new faces and minus another. A United Center...
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PuckChatter~Radio; e.142, Crusaders of the Lost Podcast, A Blackhawks Chat...
By Chris Block It took six, long months but PuckChatter~Radio returned Thursday night for 90 minutes of Hawky Talk just the way you like it. Or, not. Over the course of the initial 80 minutes, Al...
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On Carl Dahlstrom, and possible disconnect between Blackhawks management, pro...
Carl Dahlstrom, photo courtesy of Rockford IceHogs – April 18, 2015 – Roughly half of the following piece first appeared in The Committed Indian program on May 21st. Also included here are...
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Salary Cap and Reality of Off Season Now Set; A look at Blackhawks position...
[As I noted on Twitter last week, our Summer Blackhawks prospect rankings, originally scheduled for release on Monday, will be delayed due to a family emergency that had me pulled away and out of town...
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No movement from Hawks on Day One; Names to keep an eye on for Day Two of NHL...
By Chris Block Friday evening’s opening round of the 2015 NHL Entry Draft came and went without any involvement from the Chicago Blackhawks. The anticipated trade of Patrick Sharp did not materialize...
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Sunday night’s HockeeNight PuckCast and other audio talking recent Blackhawks...
By Chris Block A couple podcast links for you today, since I haven’t been putting out any of my own recently. Sunday night, I joined our friends at HockeeNight.com for their weekly PuckCast program. We...
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Thoughts on the state of the Blackhawks, Joel’s future and trade deadline
By Chris Block Though it hasn’t quite been a full three years, June 15, 2015 seems like forever ago. On that night, the Blackhawks franchise stood atop the hockey world once again – for the third time...
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NHL Entry Draft First Round ‘Live’ Blog; Pick-by-pick analysis
By Chris Block Welcome to this not exactly live, live blog of the first round of the 2018 NHL Entry Draft. My intention was to do this live but I wound up watching this almost entirely on a little...
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NHL Free Agency Opens, Blackhawks fish for scraps
By Chris Block Whether Chicago is just no longer a desirable destination over other franchises, or the Blackhawks had little excitement over the crop of free agents found on this July 1, Stan Bowman...
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Blackhawks drop preseason opener in DC
By Chris Block The Blackhawks opened the preseason Monday night with a 4-3 overtime loss at Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C. Aleksi Saarela, Alex Nylander and Adam Boqvist notched the goals for...
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Puck Chatter Radio – Transparency
The return of the long-forgotten Puck Chatter Radio continues today as Chris Block and Al Cimaglia link up again for another new podcast. On this episode, we discuss the latest on what a 2021 NHL...
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Blackhawks, How handling of Aldrich relates to Garret Ross revenge porn...
By Chris Block In wake of the findings into the investigation of the Chicago Blackhawks handling of a 2010 sexual assault allegation made by John Doe 1, who we now know to have been 2008 first-round...
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By Chris Block This is something I wasn’t sure would ever happen again. We’ve talked about doing this for awhile now, but it finally came together. Al Cimaglia and I sat down today to record a BRAND...
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September 2013 phone call tipped Blackhawks off that Brad Aldrich was about...
“The report speaks for itself.” – Blackhawks CEO Danny Wirtz, October 26, 2021 By Chris Block Upon recently re-reading Jenner & Block’s report on its purported findings into the investigation of...
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