every game yesterday turned into a 5 star thriller. colin blackwell, OT winner? oilers incredible rally late, skinner allows a knuckleball with less than a minute left. canadiens hung tough, have to tip your cap to ovechkin. ehlers still out after that collision with the linesman in chicago.

toronto already planning the parade route. the wild beating up on las vegas - playing hockey the way the current blackhawk roster should play. oilers still have a G problem, i believe pickard will get the start tonight. hellebuyck's playoff failure graph just registered a blip. robert thomas is an excellent player and an elite play-maker.

Hellebuyck is probably going to win his third Vezina this year but he's like .820 in the playoffs over the last three years. He's mentally weak, no other explanation. 2018, 2019, 2021, 2023, 2024, every time, the Jets lose four in a row with him.

What is the Chicago Sports equivalent of that game 7 loss by the Blues? At least it was only the first round and not the Finals.

What is the Chicago Sports equivalent of that game 7 loss by the Blues? At least it was only the first round and not the Finals.

Hawks game 7 loss to the Kings in 2014 comes to mind first. 2001 Bears loss to the Eagles, maybe: kinda bad team had no business being there but overachieved and lost.

Edit: no, duh, Hawks loss to Vancouver in 2011. 8 seed damn near stole the series from the President's Trophy winner until they blew it in overtime.

The loss to the Kings was a huge gut punch. That was rough.

League's really on one lately. Dallas was allowed to score on a kicked goal--the rulebook says even a deflection off an own stick is no goal--and then Bryan Marchment's shitty kid slashed a referee. Previous times that a player has slashed a ref, it's an ejection plus ten games. Zero tolerance. But when you're playing against Winnipeg in the playoffs and you gotta get them off American TV, it's fine. No penalty, no suspension, the league just said "it wasn't a big deal" and moved on. I wonder if it'll be a big deal the next time someone hits a referee with their stick because they're mad about not drawing a call. Combine that with the Florida Panthers continuing to get away with murder.

However, I'd like to congratulate shakes on his part-ownership of the Panthers:

We either would have had a threepeat or at the least we'd have called it three in five years, no doubt about it. The Rangers could always catch the Hawks dogging it on some February Wednesday but in a best of seven that 2014 team was always going to lose to whoever won the West.

Pretty sure either their tying or winning goal that game was offside and no one called it. Fortunately, the NHL got the idea to start Zapruder-filming every zone entry like the next year, one year after it would have helped the Hawks and about 20 years after the NFL had already been doing it for their line calls.