For sending the wrong message #optics and cheering when Kane scored a goal last night. Don't they know that he hasn't been charged with anything!!!

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

Roz wrote that it feels "insensitive and insignificant" to talk about the Blackhawks. Then he proceeded to write an entire column about them. He's my hero.

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I was a proud Blackhawks Douchebag Fan cheering last night.

I wanted to send a clear message to Bernstein & DiCaro... go away.

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"This is Chicago, my friend. Anything can happen."

Insensitive to what?

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

Buncha douchebags

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I was going to get myself a Hjalmarsson sweater to replace my worn to shit Daze sweater, but now I'm getting a Kane one as a middle finger to the SJWs.

Yep its that time of year (already ) for them. Once the Cubs lose, the rest of them will come out of the woodwork. The longtime fans are fine for the most part. The newbies are nearly insufferable.

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Really? I like the newbies more than the crusty old fucks who have to pull rank on everyone because they sat through a bunch of Steve Passmore starts. At least ya knew what you were gettin'!

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People shouldn't like new things. Once you turn 13 all your choices should be made and that's that.

Says the guy who has posted 2 pages worth of crap (so far) in the "pop tunes" thread.

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truly clueless

They will be gone soon enough. A couple of years without a Stanley Cup and the soccer moms wearing hawk jerseys will disappear. Many have already switched to jerseys of the beloved Cub.

That is a question for Remo Williams to explore. My days of e-mailing Rozner are long since past. I went after him one time when he lamented in an article about, "the good old days" of sports. I questioned if he was referring to the days when baseball was segregated. I also pestered him about the use of "we told you so" and the like. I asked if there were multiple people in his body that he felt the need to always refer to himself in a plural fashion. Needless to say, he didn't like my questions.

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Rozner lamented the good old days? He's the same guy going full Deadspin against Kane even after the train left the station. Who's he crappin'?

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He wrote a column about one of his mentors at the Daily Herald. I think the guy retired or something. He was an editor. The entire article was about how things were better in days gone past.

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Well, everyone knows everything was better 2 years ago...

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I kind of do miss being able to watch bad hockey for $8 with a student ID. I use to go to 15-20 games a year and haven't been to a game now since 2010 because of the price and availibility of tickets. Not saying I want it to go back to how it was but I do miss some parts of it in an odd way.

So do displaced Red Wings fans, I'm sure.

There are a lot of Blackhawks eras worth romanticizing. The dark age isn't one of them. Like I said about listening to Mike North last week, it's a bit like being nostalgic for being home sick with strep or the flu. You miss certain comforts but you don't think about coughing up greenish-brown gunk. Boris Mironov was greenish-brown gunk.

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I recall going to a game in the cheap seats against the Red Wings. There were 13,000 fans in the UC, and more than half were Red Wings fans. No fun.

Now, I do have some nostalgia for that crap hole, Chicago Stadium. That place was scary during a Hawks game.

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Alexander Karpovtsev

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The ABC line. I was actually excited about that.

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I always seemed to get along with Wings fans at those games. I'm a prolific shit talker and we would have fun going back and forth. No one ever got salty about it. I never hated the Wings. I always hated the Blues, never the Wings. It wasn't me trying to be different, I just reallllyyy hated the Blues. I would get banned from their message board all the time for relentless trolling back in high school.

I truly believed deep down in my heart that Ruutu was going to save the franchise.

Was the Stadium really that bad? I never got to go (all my arena trips as a yoot for circuses and ice shows were to the Rosemont Horizon), but from pictures I've seen, the lobby actually looked kind of interesting in the way that Chicago's old north-side music halls are interesting: http://www.ballparks.phanfare.com/24140 ... =162157885


He got us Andrew Ladd, who didn't save the franchise, but certainly helped us out. Then we traded Ladd for Adam Clendening. Can't win 'em all.

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Old time Hawks fans have to be some of the worst people around. Imagine gong to those games an supporting that tam while the old man was there. The guy did nothing to try and win or be good.

He basically said, I want your ticket and beer money, then F you. I mean the guy didnt even want his team on TV...and people supported that?

There are still people that think that was better....I guess they liked pissing at a urinal while standing in 6 inches of urine filled water at the old barn too.

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“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

I have yet to meet one Hawks fan who thinks the dark ages were better.

hmmmmmmmmmm...

Well, until about the mid-1990s, when sports on TV and the internet exploded, I don't think it was the kind of thing people dwelled on all that much. While no one was as dogmatic and stupid as Wirtz was about home games, lots of teams had crappy television deals. Canadian teams, who you'd think would be the most diligent about getting games on TV, were actually the worst of all. Winnipeg never had a season-long local TV deal, Vancouver had pay-per-view for home games until even the mid-2000s, Quebec spent years being blackballed by the CBC for being owned by a rival to Molson, and even the Maple Leafs just kinda got weekday games on TV here and there where they could.

Now that we're constantly blitzed by sports media, the extent to which hockey was under the radar is unthinkable. I think it says something that Hawks attendance went off a cliff about the same time that coverage of sports went through the roof. The Hawks led the league in attendance when the United Center opened. Sports became a multimedia, life-consuming pursuit a few years later, the Hawks got bad, and fucking everyone stopped going.

EDIT: also, "give me your beer money, then fuck you" was pretty much the default stance of NHL owners at the time, with Jeremy Jacobs still carrying that torch up in Boston. Say what you will about the Philadelphia Flyers, but they've always tried to win.

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Satellite and then cable pushsed PPV/subscription TV out of the picture around the same time that ESPN began to push aside the broadcast sports networks. That was the early 80s. Wirtz, under the guise of protecting his "season reservation" holders would still black out the first period of televised road games. I can't speak for Canadian TV markets except that they had hockey night Canada to give the league exposure.

1991 and 1992 were Stanley Cup caliber (Presidents cup in 91) and combined with the novelty of the UC led to full houses. But then getting the new skybox money (5 year leases) also gave Wirtz some new cash flow that didn't go into the team.

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Instead of 'burrito', the filter should turn that name into 'dead Caller Bob'.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George