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TTMI~Radio, e.77, Everything Gone Wrong

Posted on March 16, 2011 by Chris Block| 3 Comments

The title isn’t probably what you’d think.

On this week’s show we review the Blackhawks 6-3 possible statement win over the visiting San Jose Sharks on Monday night.  As well as the three-game losing streak, which we did predict on last week’s show, leading up to Monday night’s win.

Also on this week’s show:

-Kudos to Joel Quenneville’s recent handling of the goaltending position and why
-Change in Quenneville’s philosophy
-Stan Bowman acknowledges team fortunate
-Potential playoff matchups and which favor the Hawks
-Why a series with Vancouver may not favor Chicago
-Toews for MVP
-Ridiculous reasoning for ruling out other Hart candidates
-A GM doing his job
-This site celebrates a 5th year
-Updates on Dave Bolland and Brian Campbell injuries
-Florida game
-Playing Crawford every night
-More on Campoli acquisition and his value
-Trouble if Bolland’s out
-Handicapping the week ahead
-Convincing Marcus Kruger & Alexander Salak to move to N.A.
-No success explaining new standings tie-breaker method
-Superstar hits the road, and the water
-Someone visits temporary sobriety
-Hossa & Kane get their Awesome on

We didn’t get to everything, but that’s nothing new.  The title of this show is a reference to the last two years of this web site.  Thanks to everyone as always for visiting and listening.  And for your incredible patience with us.  The show returns next Tuesday night, March 22nd @ 8pm central with Dieter Kurtenbach joining me as guest-host.

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TTMI~Radio: MVP, Comparisons, Crazy Talk and Winning

Posted on March 8, 2011 by Chris Block| Leave a comment

With Sidney Crosby apparently out for the rest of the regular season, is Jonathan Toews now the frontrunner for Hart Trophy?  Who is the real MVP of the 2010-111 Blackhawks?  Corey Crawford’s competition for the Calder?  Blackhawks on the road this week; Chicago sports talk radio personality in trouble, thoughts on Michael Frolik, Chris Campoli, the Hawks power play, numerous questions remain despite recent 8-game winning streak, an update on some injured IceHogs and much more on this week’s TTMI~Radio.

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Monday March 7, 2011

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Show returns next Tuesday, March 15th @ 8pm central.  You can listen live here.

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TTMI~Radio: Trade Deadline edition with Al Cimaglia, Dieter Kurtenbach and Chris Block

Posted on February 28, 2011 by Chris Block| Leave a comment

Monday night I was joined by Sirius/XM Radio & HockeyIndependent.com ‘s own Al Cimaglia, and as well by Dieter Kurtenbach to discuss the Blackhawks moves and non-moves leading up to the NHL’s 2011 Trade Deadline earlier in the day.

We talked about what Chris Campoli brings to the Hawks, and what he doesn’t; the Blackhawks’ needs and if Stan Bowman addressed any;  what effect Jordan Hendry’s injury had on Bowman’s plan; Scotty Bowman’s future; the Leddy plan; the Brent Seabrook contract extension and we also speculated on what would have happened had the Hawks not extended or traded Seabrook now or in the off season.

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Monday February 28, 2011 ~ 5:30pm cst

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Feb 15th edition of TheThirdManIn~Radio

Posted on February 17, 2011 by Chris Block| 1 Comment

On Tuesday’s show we tackled two huge news stories involving former Blackhawks, Dustin Byfuglien and Kris Versteeg as well as listener emails and topics involving the Rockford IceHogs and their recent struggles.

We discussed Dustin Byfuglien’s 5-year $26 million contract extension in Atlanta and how, if at all, it will impact the Blackhawks negotiations with impending restricted free agent Brent Seabrook.  On Monday, Kris Versteeg was traded for the second time in eight months and we have the breakdown on Versteeg’s move to Philadelphia.  We revisit the June trade that sent Versteeg to Toronto and evaluate and compare the return against what Toronto received from the Flyers this week.

Also, we have excerpts from a Kyle Beach interview discussing his play and criticisims and Bill Peters evaluating the progress of Hawks’ prospect Chris DiDomenico, who is one of the pieces acquired from Toronto in exchange for Kris Versteeg.  In the emails, we discuss the possibility of Nick Leddy becoming a power play “quarterback”, the Hawks’ 50-man roster and obvious error on CapGeek, what’s keeping Kyle Beach in the AHL, probability of Marty Turco being traded and much more.

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The show returns this coming Monday night, February 21st at 8pm for a special Blackhawks-Blues post game edition of TTMI~Radio.

** We’ll have much more on Kyle Beach in Friday night’s issue of The Committed Indian.

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TTMI~Radio Special Friday Trade Edition ~ Bowman & Tallon make a deal

Posted on February 11, 2011 by Chris Block| Leave a comment

A special Friday afternoon edition of TheThirdManIn~Radio today.  Dieter Kurtenbach joins me to break down the Jack Skille-Michael Frolik trade piece by piece.  We also have a long discussion and share our take on the process of how trade rumors take a life of their own, the true villains in the process and the relationship between main stream or professional reporters, amateurs, hobbyists, pretenders and the general audience.  That and so much more.

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Friday February 11, 2011 ~ 2pm central (original air)

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More on this show….

– Michael Frolik not so “versatile” after all
– Where newest Hawk fits best
– Comparisons to Kris Versteeg
– Michael Grosek (I resisted the Nikita Alexeev urge)
– Reflections of the Jack Skille Experience
– Will Skille score 20 in South Florida?
– The Skille-Chicago match
– Particular thing the trade didn’t accomplish
– Why Alexander Salak may have been available?
– What made Salak’s inclusion in this deal particularly strange
– Dale Tallon giving up on two 2006 1st rounder in 4 months
– Word on two Hawks’ recent goaltending draft picks
– Q, again, refusing to put his best lineup on the ice
– Perfect sense flying over Quenneville’s head
– Most important line in hockey
– Love for the Mike Fisher deal
– Some ideas for if the Blackhawks fall out of the chase
– Zach Bogosian not in play for Chicago
– A all of a sudden a web site has gone all Eklund on the Internet
– Hawks defense a sloppy mess even in victory
– Block predicts something & winds up wrong a few hours later (big shock)
– “I’ve pumped Steve Montador for a long time now” (Thanks SL)
– And so much more…..

You can follow Dieter on Twitter @DKurtenbach

Show returns Tuesday night, February 15th in our usual weekly time lot, 8pm central at BlogTalkRadio.com/TheThirdManIn.  We say this frequently but somehow never get to it… However, we have received a lot of feedback for our last month of shows and we’ll read and answer some of those emails on Tuesday night.  If you are a regular listener and have anything you’d like to hear addressed on this week’s show, send an email to the address below and I’ll do my best to get through as many as I can.

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TTMI~Radio e.71, Blackhawks-Flames fallout with Al Cimaglia of Sirius/XM & HockeyIndependent

Posted on February 8, 2011 by Chris Block| Leave a comment

Al Cimaglia of Sirius/XM Radio and HockeyIndependent.com joined me on Tuesday night for 70-plus minutes of Blackhawks’ talk.

A great show.  Al’s extremely knowledgeable and has keen slant on the goings on with the Blackhawks.  We discussed the fallout from the Blackhawks’ performance in a 3-1 loss at Scotiabank Saddledome on Monday night and previewed the road ahead with games upcoming this week in Edmonton, Dallas and Phoenix to close out the Hawks’ six-game road trip.

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Tuesday February 8, 2011 ~ 8pm (central) original air

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Among the topics discussed:

- Was Duncan Keith right to call out his forwards after Monday’s loss, no matter how correct his assertion is?
- What Keith is upset about and what may have set him off
- Is a “bag skate” in the middle of a road trip, on the Eve of 3 games in 4 nights a sound idea?
- We give Al the Hawks’ GM seat from now until the Feb 28th trade deadline, what would he do?
- ..Wait it out, or react now…
- Which popular former Blackhawk could be a right fit to return this month?
- Other names who could make a positive impact
- Where have the Blackhawks stood for the past three months
- Stat that doesn’t give impression things are so bad
- Record the Hawks must close out with to earn spot in postseason
- Talking sense, not fanatical nonsense, in Brent Seabrook negotiations
- What Seabrook may be thinking
- Sharp at center, positives and negatives
- Hawks around the net, who gets there & who doesn’t
- Who’s hot and who’s not
- Troubling sign again noted with Marian Hossa’s shot
- Q’s line allocations and responsibilities; Defining the 4th line
- Getting a jump start on RFA’s now; why it didn’t happen last year
- Odds Cristobal Huet will ever wear an Indianhead sweater again?
- Have the Hawks hit the physical and emotional wall?
- This year’s locker room vs. last season’s locker room
- And much, much more

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TTMI~Radio e.70, Blackhawks-Canucks and Officiating Blues, UFC 126 predictions

Posted on February 6, 2011 by Chris Block| Leave a comment

A special Saturday night edition of TTMI~Radio here to discuss the aftermath following the Blackhawks somewhat controversial loss to the Canucks in Vancouver late Friday night.

** Note: We recorded this show a different way, in a different setting.  Chris’s audio in particular suffered from some background echoing for the first five minutes, but cleared up after then.   I don’t recall anything profound said during that time, so if you jump ahead to minute six or seven it should be just fine.

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Saturday February 5, 2011 ~ 8pm central

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TTMI~Radio e.69: Pucking Around the NHL with Breakout! Hockey

Posted on January 31, 2011 by Chris Block| 1 Comment

This week we’re joined by Adam Summers of the Breakout! Hockey Program, which you can find at BreakoutHockey.podomatic.com.

With Adam we touch on a ton of league-wide topics including the weekend’s All-Star festivities, highlights, the burden of being Phil Kessel and the man who wakes up every day knowing he traded for him.

We take advantage of Adam’s Montreal Canadiens expertise to delve into that team’s first half.  The P.K. Subban controversies, the decision to keep Carey Price and trade Jaroslav Halak – how that looks so far and if we can expect the preliminary results to continue.

With 28 days to go until the NHL trade deadline and 69 days left in the NHL 2010-11 regular season, we look at early favorites, and possible darkhorses, to come out of the Eastern and Western conferences.  Other topics include HBO’s 24/7 vs TSN’s Oil Change documentary series, the plight of one Ilya Kovalchuk and much more including Summer’s thoughts on the current state of the Blackhawks and who on the IceHogs has impressed him in his visits to the Rockford MetroCentre.

Later in the show we discuss the blatant and unethical salary cap circumvention motives involved in Nick Leddy’s All-Star break supposed “reassignment” to AHL-Rockford.  Hint: Leddy never went there.  We discuss the Blackhawks’ upcoming 5-game road trip; what looks good and what looks to be dodgy.  Some notes on the next CBA negotiations, if Patrick Sharp was the right choice as ASG MVP, upcoming podcasts and much, much more.

And in amongst all of that, on a hockey show, we made space to discuss Snowmageddon!!, Shinsuke Nakamura, Satoshi Kojima, the GHC Heavyweight Champion Takashi Sugiura and the G-1 Climax tournament~!  Awesome.  I challenge you to find another hockey radio show anywhere with that kind of versatility.  Well, aside from Adam’s show.

Anyhow, enjoy, and thanks to all for listening.

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You can also find Adam on Twitter @Adam_Summers
He is also the co-host of the Adam & Mike Big Audio Nightmare, talking hockey, mixed martial arts and mostly Japanese pro wrestling at WrestlingObserver.com

Thanks again to Adam for joining us.  We’ll be back at least once more this week.  Superstar and I will be recording an experimental show on Saturday night talking Blackhawks-Blue Jackets, Hawks-Canucks and UFC-126 “Silva vs Belfort”.  I should also mention we will be drinking (perhaps heavily) during that show.

And we’ll return in our weekly weeknight timeslot next Tuesday, February 8th at 8pm central with a guest who is To Be Determined.

Until then, enjoy the snow and your silly big weekend ball games.

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TTMI~Radio e.68 with FifthFeather.com

Posted on January 25, 2011 by Chris Block| Leave a comment

Monday night, we were joined by John and Bob of the fantastic Blackhawks’ blog FifthFeather.com

A bevy of topics were discussed, from Jay Cutler to Ivan Vishnevskiy.  There’s a quick wrap on the weekend that was for the Blackhawks and thoughts on where the team stands now.  We look at what Stan Bowman can do.  A move he soon will make.  Roster headaches.  An unbiased realistic look at the Brent Seabrook contract negotiations.   Other topics include Stanley Cup favorites, the Evgeni Nabokov waiver situation, the NHL All-Star weekend ahead, tweaking the shootout format and so much more. 

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The show returns on Monday January 31st @ 8pm central.  We’ll be joined by Adam Summers or the Breakout! Hockey podcast to recap the NHL All-Star weekend festivities and look ahead to what essentially is the home stretch of the 2010-11 NHL season.

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Jan 10th TTMI~Radio Blackhawks & NHL Mid Season report

Posted on January 10, 2011 by Chris Block| Leave a comment

On this week’s show, we discuss Blackhawk victories this weekend over the Ottawa Senators and Brideport Sound Tigers; the penalty kill woes, tackle the team’s biggest problem (rhymes with “teeth”), Brent Seabrook and Corey Crawford’s contracts and respective futures with the Blackhawks.

Also we look at Nick Leddy and if he’ll crack the significant 10-game barrier this week.  Later, we look at Stan Bowman’s trade options, his needs and our ideas for potential trade targets.

We list our picks for 1st Half MVP, Norris, Vezina and Jack Adams trophy leaders; biggest surprise, disappointments and more.

And we close with a shootout debate.  Should it be changed, if so, how?  And how we would improve the NHL’s current 3-point system.  All this and a little bit more on this week’s TTMI~Radio!

We’re joined this week by Dieter Kurtenbach.  You Tweeters can follow Dieter on Twitter @DKurtenbach

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We return next week, Tuesday January 18th @ 8pm central.

And on Monday January 24th, John & Bob of the FifthFeather.com

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