This segment is rough...I thought that the rinks are all 200 feet long by 85 feet wide, some caller said that they were all different, I know they used to be, but now aren't all of them regulated? Some jackass called up and said that the hawks have never won a playoff game in the UC And then some woman called up saying that the cheering during the national anthem started happening in the 80's? I thought it started during the gulf war...Am I wrong? That segment was hard to listen to.

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team Meatpants

Cheering during the anthem started pre- Gulf war, but reached it's peak at that time and gained national attention for it. Not sure of an exact time/date....

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They are all the same now.

This was the blind leading the blind...If they are going to do this for TW, they need Giangreco, Carm or Jurko in studio to validate. Merkin is a lot of good things, a puck expert he is not.

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Yes, this segment was brutal, they never shoudl have allowed on the one caller who stated in 2002, the Hawks were swept, when in fact they won the first game in St Louis, then lost 4 straight, anyway.

Yes, now all rinks are the same size, as Boston Garden, Maple Leaf Garden, Chicago
Stadium had been "grand-fathered" in their size, once they were replaced, all rinks
needed to be the regulation size.

I first remember the cheering during the anthem in the 82-83 season playoffs, but I have a hunch it started in the 81-82 playoffs against the Vancouver Canucks. When it first began, the cheering was only toward the end of the song, and as time as gone on it gradually made it's way to be cheering through the entire song.

One of my favorite moments, was in the 82-83 playoffs, the Hawks were about to get swept in game 4 at home by the Oilers, to end an awesome season. With about 4 minutes remaining the Old Stadium went nuts until the end of the game, as the fans saluted the Hawks and thanked them for a great season.

This set up some great playoff battles with the Oilers in 85 & 86, where teh Hawks put up more of a fight, still falling to the dominating Oilers.

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Blackhawk goal, scored by number 20, Al Secord.

Sarge is correct about the anthem. Very good memory, Sarge.

Thank you to whoever it was that texted in about the blood drawing high stick being a double minor and not a major. Since I was doing 70 down the Tri-State I figured it wasn't the best time to text.

The Gulf War Anthem always be easy for me to remember. It was Janaury 19, 1991 as the Stadium played host to the NHL All Star game. I was getting in my scrubs... watching on NBC... as I prepared to the arrival of my first son, Van. He arrived between the second and third periods. Now he's getting ready for college. It DOES go by fast.

that would be... FOR the arrival of....

Damn MAC you always be on point

Long time USA Hockey official here. Started refing in '76.

There is NO blood rule.

Rule 60.3 High Sticking

"When a player or goalie carries or holds any part of his stick above the shoulders of the opponent so INJURY results, the ref shall assess a double-minor penalty for all contact that causes INJURY, whether accidental or careless, in the opinion of the ref."

A very common misconception. In the early 90's, on the open book portion of the ref's exam, a question referenced the high sticking penalty for drawing blood. 85% of all the refs in the US missed it because we all also thought it was for drawing blood.