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NHL Trade Deadline: Chicago Blackhawks

February 24, 2011   Monte Stewart   No comments

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The Blackhawks have two of the NHL’s best defensemen in Duncan Keith and Brent Seabrook — but will be looking for more blue line help at the NHL trade deadline.

If they can afford it.

“When you look around the league, I think everybody has their comparable needs,” said coach Joel Quenneville. “I think everybody likes to have depth on the back end. That’s generally how everybody would like to improve their team.”

Keith won the Norris Trophy in 2010 after he and blue line partner Seabrook helped the Hawks claim the Stanley Cup. They also played key roles as Team Canada won Olympic gold. But after that dynamic duo and Brian Campbell, the Hawks don’t have much defensive experience as they try to defend their crown.

 

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NHL Trade Deadline: Florida Panthers

February 23, 2011   A.J. Perez   No comments

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Come inside the showroom. The cellar-dwelling Florida Panthers are selling and they have plenty of soon-to-be free agents that could be solid rentals, even if a few have some extra miles on them.

The Panthers also have plenty of unrestricted free agents at season’s end, including Tomas Vokoun, the team’s elite goalie who has carried them for long stretches during his four seasons in South Florida. (He’s making $6.3 million this season, but a team would have to foot less than $1.5 million in prorated salary.) It could be hard to part with Vokoun with nobody behind him primed to take over between the pipes.

The other veterans set to become unrestricted free agents would be easy to let go, including forwards Cory Stillman, Radek Dvorak, Christopher Higgins and Marty Reasoner along with defenseman Bryan McCabe. But so far it’s the players signed at least though the 2012-13 season — forwards David Booth and Stephen Weiss — that have reportedly been the most sought after by other clubs.

 

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NHL Year in Review: Patrick Kane for Play of the Year

December 28, 2010   Christopher Botta   No comments

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The Play of the Year in the National Hockey League was so transcendent, so spectacular, so bound-to-be iconic, it … well, hardly anyone realized what happened. As a gimpy Kirk Gibson’s extra innings playoff home run sailed into the right field seats at Dodgers Stadium, announcer Jack Buck famously intoned, “I don’t believe what I just saw.” When Patrick Kane‘s medium-speed shot sailed through the five-hole of Flyers goalie Michael Leighton and ended the Chicago Blackhawks‘ Stanley Cup drought at 49 years, history was made. Trouble is, only Kane seemed to know he’d made it.

There was a slightly empty feeling about The Goal, so much so that it probably hasn’t earned the capital letters. Since almost no one knew Kane scored, none of the broadcast calls are legendary. But as time goes on, the silence in the Flyers’ home rink — broken only by a few whoops by Kane and a few teammates who wanted to believe — will be remembered as one of the most unique moments in NHL history. When you’re waiting since 1961 for another championship, what’s another minute or two for video review?

More Nominees: Carlson | Crosby

 

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Patrick Kane Suffers ‘Setback’; Doubtful for Friday Return

December 16, 2010   FanHouse Staff   No comments

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The Chicago Blackhawks have been missing forward Marian Hossa for a couple weeks, and an injury to star forward Patrick Kane only made matters worse. Kane’s missed four games, but was slated to return against Detroit Friday.

That apparently won’t be happening. Kane was on the ice with the team at practice Thursday in Chicago, but suffered a setback, according to Chris Kuc of the Chicago Tribune. The left ankle Kane injured is apparently still not right.

As a result, Kuc reports that Kane is now “doubtful” for Friday’s game.

“It’s part of the process,” Chicago coach Joel Quenneville told the paper. “(Kane) might need a day off. He was out there for two days in a row and (Thursday) he might have aggravated it. I don’t think it’s to the extent where it’s a step in the wrong direction.”

Kane’s “setback” is described as slight, indicating he won’t be out long-term. Meanwhile, Quenneville said Hossa should be on the ice for Friday’s morning skate, though he won’t play against the Red Wings.

 

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Patrick Kane Could Miss Three Weeks

December 07, 2010   FanHouse Staff   No comments

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Chicago Blackhawks forward Patrick Kane could miss “upwards of three weeks” after injuring his leg Sunday against the Calgary Flames, according to head coach Joel Quenneville.

While Quenneville wouldn’t specify Kane’s injury as anything but “lower body,” it appeared Kane injured his left leg just 23 seconds into Chicago’s win over the Flames. When Kane spun to avoid a hit by Calgary’s Cory Sarich, his left skate slammed into the boards, and he stayed on the ice until he was helped to the bench and eventually the locker room.

“We’re going to leave it as a ‘lower body,’ and you can speculate on where it is,” Quenneville said in a Tuesday post-practice meeting with the media, “but certainly that’s the extent of it and he’s progressing right now.”

Since Marian Hossa is already out with a leg injury, the loss of Kane could be damaging, especially if he misses three weeks as expected. Hossa might not be able to skate again until the end of next week.

The Blackhawks’ next game is at home against Dallas Wednesday night.

 

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Line Combinations Not Exact Science, Always Subject to Change

December 06, 2010   Susan Slusser   No comments

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Last year, Red Wings stars Pavel Datsyuk and Henrik Zetterberg played on different lines, a notable development considering how well the two work together.

Understandable, though, when seen from a coach’s perspective: nothing might get a slumping line going like adding one of the best forwards in the game. Spread the scoring and passing wealth, that’s the idea.

This year, though, Datsyuk and Zetterberg are back together, and Detroit is off to a sensational start, leading the Western Conference with 37 points.

The Red Wings’ success this year compared to this time last year is due mostly to better health, of course. But Datsyuk and Zetterberg are clicking particularly well, playing at the top of their games.

 

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NHL Coaches Must Stop Yapping About Opponents Padding the Score

November 22, 2010   Christopher Botta   No comments

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There can be crying in hockey, for it is a sport fueled as much by passion as it is by artistry. What should be prohibited is whining, and we got another dose of it when the Chicago Blackhawks wiped out the Canucks in Vancouver on Saturday.

There was little new about this round of whine, but you’d like to think classy Canucks head coach Alain Vignealt was above pouring the bottle. Vigneault was offended by the Blackhawks’ lineup on a power play near the end of the 7-1 carnage.

To Vigneault’s eyes, his battered team was facing too much skill.

“We basically embarrassed ourselves tonight in front of our fans, and they did everything they could tonight to rub it in our face,” Vigneault told the press after the game. (The score was) 6-0 and they throw their No. 1 power play unit when it’s 5-on-3. They have every right to do that. They did it. They were pushing it, and they did.”

 

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Blackhawks’ Overhaul Not a Roadblock to Stanley Cup Contention

November 01, 2010   Christopher Botta   No comments

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NEW YORK — The Chicago Blackhawks may have stumbled on to something with their forced overhaul of half of a Stanley Cup-winning roster.

Replacing 10 contributors of its first Stanley Cup championship in 49 years — most for the purpose of squeezing under the salary cap — these Blackhawks will not be complacent. As core stars Duncan Keith, Brent Seabrook, Jonathan Toews and Patrick Kane remain, over the long grind of an NHL season they could be energized by the opportunity to contend for another title with a different supporting cast. Except for goaltender Marty Turco, most of the new faces have not come close to winning a ring.

“We’re still grasping our system,” said captain Jonathan Toews, emphasizing the “we” to include the holdovers, after the Blackhawks lost to the Rangers 3-2 at Madison Square Garden on Monday. “If we keep getting better, we’ll see the results.”

While the Blackhawks said goodbye to a handful of players vital to the Cup run, most notably clutch power forward/defenseman Dustin Byfuglien and No. 1 goalie Antti Niemi, they will almost undoubtedly benefit from a step-up in performance from a pair of holdover big-contract players. Teams were not going to absorb the long-term contracts of Brian Campbell and Marian Hossa, no matter how many sweeteners placed before them. This could be a blessing for Chicago. After all, on their worst days this is a pair of very good hockey players.

 

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Taylor Hall Scores First NHL Goal

October 28, 2010   Adam Gretz   No comments

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In his eighth NHL game, No. 1 overall draft pick Taylor Hall scored his first career goal for the Edmonton Oilers in a 3-2 shootout loss against the Columbus Jackets on Thursday night. Entering play on Thursday the 18-year-old Hall had recorded just one point (an assist) in his previous seven games, but managed to chip in on both Oilers goals in regulation, also getting credit for an assist on Shawn Horcoff‘s power play goal in the first period.

The goal itself was a deflection in front of the net as Hall directed a Theo Peckham shot from the point past Blue Jackets goaltender Steve Mason, tying the game at two midway through the third period, ultimately sending the game to overtime and giving Edmonton an opportunity to earn at least a point in the standings.

Here’s the video…

 

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Roberto Luongo’s Bizarre Night in the Shootout

October 20, 2010   Adam Gretz   No comments

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Canucks goalie Roberto Luongo was so close to exorcising some of his demons against the Chicago Blackhawks — the team that has eliminated Vancouver from the playoffs in each of the past two seasons — on Wednesday night. Unfortunately he came up just inches short in what can only be described as a painfully unlucky sequence in a 2-1 shootout loss.

After stopping 31 of 32 shots through regulation and overtime, including one against Marian Hossa, the NHL‘s leading scorer, on a breakaway in the extra period, Luongo had a forgettable night in the shootout, surrendering three goals on all three shots he faced. It wasn’t so much the fact that he gave up the goals, but the way the pucks ended up finding the back of the net.

Jonathan Toews opened the shootout by simply wiring a shot through Luongo’s five-hole before the Canucks goaltender could even react. From there, things just got bizarre.

 

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