I haven’t paid much attention to the Hawks or the broadcasting tryout fiasco this season, but I would not be surprised if Weideman is gone after next season - if not before. The team already stated that he is not getting the gig, and Weideman is apparently doing some national stuff that he will have to be subbed for.

I didn’t realize Weideman was already 60+, so it appears the Hawks want to go younger and most likely, cheaper.

Caught a bit of the thing they did on Foley the other night, brought back a ton of great memories, a little too much Edzo driven for me, but guess he was the most logical guy for the job.

Did come to a few realizations while watching. The fact that Pat was the only way you could follow home games for years was and still is amazing, a sports franchise not showing home games was and will always be one of the strangest decisions of all time. He also did several years solo, he said he would tell them to crank up the crowd sound levels in an attempt to give some type of representation to how loud the old Chicago Stadium would get at times, also remember plenty of Sunday night home games where it seemed, at least on an AM clock radio, that they had an ice level mic behind one of the nets because you would hear the sound of skates and pings off the goal post at times.

Still think Pat and Dale were the best pairing because Dale brought a much more Canadian type analysis than Edzo's NHL on NBC "everyone is a superstar" type half ass analysis.

In his prime Foley was great at giving you a feel for the moment by recognizing when to change tone and cadence to match the importance of moments or plays in the game, this was especially true in the playoffs. You could tell exactly how the game was going by how he called the game.

The team is becoming almost as irrelevant as it was when he first started.

a sports franchise not showing home games was and will always be one of the strangest decisions of all time.

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

It was actually fairly prevalent across the NHL. Canadian teams rarely aired their home games. The Jets and Nordiques hardly aired telecasts at all. The Bruins, Red Wings, and North Stars showed road games over the air but aired home games on premium-tier cable, if they did at all. The Senators were airing closed-circuit broadcasts in movie theaters rather than on TV as late as 2008. The idea of treating a hockey team as six months' worth of consistent television inventory didn't really take off until the mid-1980s with SportsChannel and the Islanders, and it took a long time for teams to catch up. Canada didn't even have RSNs until 1998.

The Blackhawks maintained this policy, which was dumb to begin with, long after the rest of the league figured out that it made sense to be on TV.

I remember in 1980 when we first got cable. It came with the Madison Square Garden and WOR channels out of NY. Got to see all the Ranger (Esposito, Dugay, Mark Pavelich teams) and whatever Islander games they showed on both channels as well as the big WWF shows at the Garden. Was weird I could watch all the Ranger games and yet only road Hawk games.

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

Marv was doing some of the Rangers games back then, right?

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

Watching because of all the hype. But so far

It was actually fairly prevalent across the NHL. Canadian teams rarely aired their home games. The Jets and Nordiques hardly aired telecasts at all. The Bruins, Red Wings, and North Stars showed road games over the air but aired home games on premium-tier cable, if they did at all. The Senators were airing closed-circuit broadcasts in movie theaters rather than on TV as late as 2008. The idea of treating a hockey team as six months' worth of consistent television inventory didn't really take off until the mid-1980s with SportsChannel and the Islanders, and it took a long time for teams to catch up. Canada didn't even have RSNs until 1998.

The Blackhawks maintained this policy, which was dumb to begin with, long after the rest of the league figured out that it made sense to be on TV.

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

i remember back in 83-84...you'd mess with the antenna and this and that, and you'd get 4 seconds of clear hockey and then back to fuzz. you'd catch esposito and bannerman fishing and swatting pucks out of the net after the edmonton players scored on them.

a few years later, hawks were a goon team. no playoffs...until, keenan and alain chevier and the run to the conference finals against calgary. by then, most bars had dishes and would get the opponent's feed or the canadian feed. you could watch hawks playoff games, but, not at the comfort of your home. good times, lots and lots of hockey/hawk fans packing bars on spring playoff nights.

2 seasons later, i paid for hawkvision and playoff hockey.

ahhh. got it.

Tonight (while celebrating 1000 games of Toews by losing at home to the fucking Coyotes, at least as of the 2nd period) they announced two things regarding the broadcasts:

1) new TV voice of the Hawks is Chris Vosters. He looks about 19 years old and I can't remember a single significant thing about him amid the 700 hacks they've had doing games this year, but at least it's not the guy who sounds like a cross between Professor Frink and HHH.

2) one last Foley and Tallon broadcast together next Sunday.

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

Blackhawks are expected to send franchise icon Patrick Kane to the New York Rangers, and a trade call with the league is planned for Tuesday night, according to Frank Seravalli of Daily Faceoff.

In return, the Blackhawks will receive a conditional second-round pick in 2023 and a fourth-round pick. The second-round pick could turn into a first-rounder in 2024 or 2025 if the Rangers make the Eastern Conference Final this season.

The Blackhawks will retain 50 percent of Kane's salary to make the deal work, and the Arizona Coyotes are involved as the third-party broker to eat another 25 percent, per ESPN's Emily Kaplan.

I have MANY years of experience in trying to appreciate steaming piles of dogshit.