Posts About "Andrew Desjardins"
Gain Desjardins, Lose Motte, Keep Winning
November 9th, 2016 A couple of days ago, Andrew Desjardins was officially taken off of the IR. It looks like his first game back from the injury he suffered in the preseason will be this Wednesday night against the St. Louis Blues. This is a big benefit for the Chicago Blackhawks, who had made national headlines for their special team struggles. The...
Blackhawks Need Help a Man Down
October 27th, 2016 Maybe the Chicago Blackhawks should hold a practice on a CBA-scheduled day off. Regardless of how they do it, they need to fix their penalty kill, which is ranked last in the league. The most glaring problem on this team and a large factor in their ho-hum 3-3-1 start is the failure to kill penalties. A Telling Tale The penalty-kill was...
Chicago Blackhawks Losing Anger
March 18th, 2016 The Chicago Blackhawks lost their fourth straight game Wednesday night to the Philadelphia Flyers. That in and of itself is news. Entering their last eleven regular season games, the Blackhawks sit in third place in the Central Division with 88 points, three points out first and five points ahead of in the first wild card race held by...
Blackhawks Hot Sticks Igniting in 2016
January 5th, 2016 Earlier in the season, the conversation almost always revolved around Patrick Kane, and while he is still a central part of most of the storylines coming out of Chicago, his line is no longer the only one grabbing the headlines. Over the course of the last few weeks, we've seen captain Jonathan Toews, Duncan Keith, Andrew Shaw and Dennis...
Minnesota Loses Justin Fontaine on Friday
October 31st, 2015 The Minnesota Wild lost third-line winger Justin Fontaine in Friday's game after he took a knee-on-knee hit from Chicago's Andrew Desjardins while cutting across his defensive zone blue line. Fontaine went down, clearly in pain, and had to be helped off the ice by center Erik Haula. He did not return to the game. In the post-game...
Andrew Desjardins: From Mexican Border to Stanley Cup
September 10th, 2015 If you call yourself a hockey fan but aren't familiar with the town of Laredo, Texas, you're not alone. The city of roughly 250,000 people is on the border of Mexico. Only the Rio Grande River separates Laredo from its Mexican sister city Nuevo Laredo, in Tampaulipas, Mexico. Laredo is in the central part of Texas but by bordering with...