A Bolingbrook man was in the DuPage County Jail this morning after he allegedly sold a pair of phony tickets for a Blackhawks game, according to sheriff’s police....
Andrew Shaw again rested with a lower-body injury and didn't practice with the Chicago Blackhawks on Thursday at United Center. The good news for the Blackhawks is that Shaw, a scrappy, versatile second-year forward, is close to skating again a......
They've played the most games in the NHL the past two seasons, and the Chicago Blackhawks still are halfway to repeating as Stanley Cup champions. Between the regular season and Stanley Cup Playoffs they've played a whopping 165 games in the pa......
Like most of the Blackhawks, Ben Smith will be watching Friday night as the Ducks and Kings face off in a Game 7 to determine who advances to the Western Conference final. But not just to get a scouting report on the Hawks’ next opponent. “I’ll watch as a fan, I guess,” he said. “Maybe a little bit of both — watch as a fan, but also try to take away a couple of things and watch the power plays and...
MORRISSEY: It shouldn’t have been so difficult. That’s the knee-jerk, thank-goodness-that’s-over response to the Blackhawks’ much-too-arduous second-round survival of the pesky Minnesota Wild. The more thoughtful, deliberate response is the same as the first, but with fewer hyphenated phrases. ...
For most of the regular season, the Blackhawks had a fourth line that was reliable and consistent. Brandon Bollig, Marcus Kruger and Ben Smith were the one constant throughout the season as coach Joel Quenneville mixed and matched and tinkered with the top three lines. It emerged as a true checking line, a shutdown line that started the overwhelming majority of its shifts in the defensive zone, determined...
Marian Hossa has scored twice on 50 shots on goal and 78 shot attempts in 12 games in the playoffs. Patrick Sharp has scored twice on 40 shots on goal and 72 shot attempts in 12 games in the playoffs. That the Blackhawks’ leading scorers in the regular season — Sharp scored 34 goals, Hossa 30 — have such modest goal production in the postseason is not the Hawks’ problem. If anything, it’s the Anaheim...
The Chicago Blackhawks and WGN-Ch.9 have agreed to a three-year extension of television broadcast rights, keeping NHL hockey games on the Tribune Co.-owned station through the 2018-19 season....
The Chicago Blackhawks hit the ice Thursday after a much-needed day off and began preparation for the Western Conference finals that will begin Sunday afternoon....
Many Blackhawks are nursing injuries that might have sidelined them during regular season Marcus Kruger limped through the Blackhawks dressing room and passed Niklas Hjalmarsson, who still isn't medically cleared to speak after taking a puck to his throat....
He was healthy scratch last 2 games in favor of Sheldon Brookbank after playing 10 in row and now awaits another chance As part of the Blackhawks' three-man rotation at the sixth defensive spot during the regular season, Michal Rozsival was used to coach Joel Quenneville informing him he was a healthy scratch....
The Blackhawks squared off against the Kings three times in the regular season, winning all their games....
The Blackhawks faced the Ducks three times in the regular season, winning twice....
The Chicago Blackhawks and Chicago’s WGN-TV today announced a three-year extension of the station’s television rights. Though the current agreement wasn’t set to expire for another two years, the extension keeps Blackhawks hockey on “Chicago’s Ver......
LOS ANGELES -- Winger Trevor Lewis and defenseman Jake Muzzin scored goals, goaltender Jonathan Quick made 21 saves as the Los Angeles Kings defeated the Anaheim Ducks 2-1 Wednesday and forced a seventh game in the Western Conference semifinal series....
Hockey fans will tell you that one of the best traditions in the NHL is the post-series handshake line and it's hard to argue with them....
Steve Rosenbloom: Corey Crawford is getting hosed....
NEW YORK – The National Hockey League today announced that the 2014 Stanley Cup Playoffs Western Conference Final will begin Sunday, May 18, when the Chicago Blackhawks face off against the winner of the Second Round series between the Anaheim Duc......
RICK MORRISSEY: Corey Crawford could throw his body in front of a bullet, and somebody would question his glove hand. That’s how it is for the guy, who might be the best most-abused goalie in the NHL. ...
Something had to give. And, not surprisingly, it wasn’t the Blackhawks. With their 2-1 overtime victory over the Minnesota Wild late Tuesday in Game 6 of their Western Conference second-round series, the Hawks kept alive an impressive streak: They now have won a road game in 12 consecutive playoff series. The Wild had won their previous five home games in the playoffs. The Hawks’ road playoff streak...