On July 14th, 2009, Stan Bowman was named the ninth General Manager in Chicago Blackhawks history. Nearly four years has passed since his inauguration into the GM position and he has made 21 trades to his name, along with two waiver claims and has signed just over 60 contracts. Today we’ll dive into his trade ...
As the NHL lockout continues to deprive fans of the ability to witness the highest level of professional hockey, several Blackhawks are honing their skills overseas for lesser-known teams in less visible leagues. Patrick Kane As one of the most notable Blackhawks and NHL players playing internationally, Kane has teamed with Boston Bruins young center ...
If I was to ask Blackhawks fans who the ‘Hawks leading scorers would be after the first five game of the playoffs would be the unanimous answers would be Jonathan Toews and Patrick Kane and they would be right but after those two there are some interesting names that occupy the 2nd slot. Toews and ...
Corey Crawford is to Michael Leighton, as Mikkel Boedker is to Patrick Kane. It’s hard to tell whether Crawford was trying his best Leighton impression, or whether Boedker did his best Patrick Kane impression. Either way, Mikkel Boedker scored the game-winning goal in overtime as the Phoenix Coyotes defeated the Chicago Blackhawks 3-2 in the third consecutive overtime ...
Jim Neveau, Managing Editor After the first two games of this series, it could easily be argued that the Phoenix Coyotes and Chicago Blackhawks were pretty evenly matched. Both games had gone to overtime, both teams had displayed some very solid goaltending and an ability to capitalize on mistakes when they were on offense, and ...
Sam Gagner, Blackhawks killer? Nobody would’ve predicted it. Ganger started the evening with just 5 goals and 17 assists for the entire season. Only one of those points, an assist, came against the Blackhawks in the past 3 match ups. Thursday night in Edmonton, however, Gagner scored no less than 4 goals and 4 assists ...
Western Conference // Eastern Conference I know what you’re thinking: how could this be a predictions piece nearly a week into the NHL season? But, if you really think about it, most teams haven’t even begun to get their legs underneath them yet. So it’s still fair game in my mind to bring to you ...
For the first time in his time as general manager of the Blackhawks, Stan Bowman has the financial freedom to build the team the way he sees fit. Interestingly enough however the additions he made on July 1st are all of a different breed of player than Bowman had acquired in the past. In adding ...
Now that the smoke has cleared from the Stanley Cup finals and the 2010 season its time to look ahead to the 2011 off-season. This is the first real off-season for Stan Bowman who went into last summer with his hands tied behind his back thanks to Dale Tallon’s mismanaging of the salary cap. With ...
With the Blackhawks season now behind us and about a month before a new team kisses the cup marking the official start of the off-season, let take a look at how each player did this year. A little house keeping before I get into it; I’m only looking at players who played at least 5 ...
