Rain in the forecast, but ice conditions are nomimal for the moment.

Eddie just called hockey "the greatest game in the world".

Eddie, buddy. Chill.

These outdoor games are way overrated. Quality of play is usually bad.

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

Maybe it would have been a better idea to have Wings-Leafs as the Winter Classic and do Hawks-Blues as a stadium game at the shitty nameless dome no one uses anymore.

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Telecast started at 12pm, players not even on the ice at 12:17, and they're now running promo packages for the rivalry, now a promo package on Nelly's pregame concert.

When the fuck does the puck drop? This is annoying, you're not the fucking Super Bowl. Just play the damn game.

Same goes for any regular season NHL game, pretty much.

There is someone performing the sign language of...an instrumental performance of the National Anthem? K.

It wasn't raining 20 minutes ago while they were dicking around with promo packages for a game set to start, but now the fog has rolled in and camera lenses are sporting droplets of water.

Krazy Chicagoan checking in.

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

DROP THE FUCKING BISCUIT ALREADY

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http://soundcloud.com/darkside124 HOF 2013, MM Champion 2014

Kempny with a goal off a Blue deflection. Hawks looked sharp in those first few shifts.

Great start...

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An unjust law is no law at all--St. Augustine of Hippo

Cause tried and true
I see the light in you
Oh, can you dig in my soul?
Could you smell my whole...
life?--Gener and Deaner

They already have surpassed their last outdoor performance in Minnesota.

Please, please stop cutting to cameras with water-covered lenses. Yeah, the robo-cam shot is cool and looks like a video game, but I can't freaking see anything because there's water all over the lens.

Kane's Tony Montany impression needs work.

Brett Hull approaching Big Red weight territory

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Sherman remarked, "Well, Grant, we've had the devil's own day, haven't we?" Grant looked up. "Yes," he replied, followed by a puff. "Yes. Lick 'em tomorrow, though."

Hjarlmasson kicked a puck into his own net. 2-1 Blues with 6.5 minutes left. Game is over.

Hey, look, Tarasenko owned the Hawks again.

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Hey, look, Tarasenko owned the Hawks again.

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An awful, lazy-ass turnover turns into another goal. Crawford missed badly on that one too. 3-1. Ballgame.

You can't start a new calendar year without the Hawks getting their dicks kicked in for games at a time.

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Blues fans can go eat a bag of dicks...congrats you can count to 3....

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An unjust law is no law at all--St. Augustine of Hippo

Cause tried and true
I see the light in you
Oh, can you dig in my soul?
Could you smell my whole...
life?--Gener and Deaner

This roster is trash and there's nothing we can do about it because Cheech Toews takes up so much cap space. Tootoo and Desjardins combine for 52 games, zero points, and a net -1 in point shares.

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I'm not gonna go bitch-cry in a corner b/c the Hawks lost a gimmick game on January 2nd.

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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

Well, they'll have taken three points of the last twelve possible, is that cause for concern? or are you fine with .250 hockey?

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6 skaters on the ice, and these assholes can't get it out of their own zone.

That 4-seed is going to be awesome.

Maybe pothead Toews is going to take Baffoe's old job delivering pizzas, seeing as he doesn't seem to give a fuck about the hockey gig anymore.

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Why is that a bad statement? I believe hockey to be the best game in the world and know plenty of like minded individuals who feel the same way. In fact, I'd say that 90% of the people who play hockey believe its the best game in the world.

I love ripping No-check, but absolutely nothing wrong with him calling hockey the greatest game in the world.



Now if he would've said the Winter Classic was the greatest hockey event in the world I'd be first in line to rip him a new one.

Hopefully after yesterday's debacle the Hawks are no longer invited to these outdoor shit shows. I hate these outdoor games so much, such a disgrace to hvae the best hockey players in the world compete in substandard conditions.

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And 90% of the people that play baseball believe it's the best game in the world. And 90% of the people that play football believe it's the best game in the world. And 90% of the people that play basketball believe it's the best game in the world. And 90% of the people that play tennis believe it's the best game in the world. And 90% of the people that play golf believe it's the best game in the world.

I love hockey, but c'mon man. Even if it were 99% of people that play hockey think it is the best in the world... that isn't even a quarter of the people that would take baseball or football #1.

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

If you're doing a showcase game for your sport and you don't call the sport you played the greatest in the world, then what exactly are you saying?

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