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Toews, Quenneville and Blackhawks place high in 2011-12 NHLPA Player’s Opinion Poll

Posted on February 22, 2012 by Chris Block| 6 Comments

By Chris Block

Jonathan Toews, Joel Quenneville and the Chicago Blackhawks organization scored high in this year’s NHLPA Player Poll.

318 players submitted answers to the annual questionnaire, written by the staff of Hockey Night in Canada and the National Hockey League Player’s Association.

Joel Quenneville, who some Blackhawks fans were screaming to have fired as little as eight days ago, saw his league-wide player approval rating in the “Coach players would most like to play for” category increase from 6 percent in the 2010-11 player poll to 11% this season.  Quenneville placed second to Pittsburgh’s Dan Bylsma, who again received 21% of votes cast in the category.

In last year’s poll, 11% of players indicated the Chicago Blackhawks as the team they would most-like to play for, putting the Blackhawks in a tie for second with the Vancouver Canucks.  This time around the Blackhawks received the most votes supplanting the Detroit Red Wings who topped the category a year ago.  14% of players responding indicated the Blackhawks were the team they’d most-like to play on.  Detroit slid into second-place with a slight drop at 13% of the votes.  Boston came in 3rd taking 11% of the votes, also the biggest one-year jump of any NHL team. Read more »

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TTMI~Radio, e.80, Hawks-Habs Preview & NHL Awards

Posted on April 4, 2011 by Chris Block| Leave a comment

For at least the initial fifty minutes I think we have a really great show for you this week.

Our friend Adam Summers of the Breakout! Hockey podcast returns to help us breakdown Tuesday night’s epic battle in Montreal between the Canadiens and Blackhawks.  Adam’s allegiance is oddly divided between these two Original Six combatants and he provides us with some great insight on the Habs in particular, but Blackhawks as well.

Join us for a line-by-line detailed overview on the Canadiens (who are captained by three Americans); what to look for Tuesday night; who’s been pulling the wagon and who hasn’t and which of this year’s Habs aren’t expected back next season.

We’ll also get Adam’s take on the Zdeno Chara-Max Pacioretty incident, supplementary discipline and Gary Bettman’s dilemma. We also get the latest on the Whizzinator James Wisniewski, an ex-Hawk heavy Canadiens bunch; Habs on the mend, a little bastard on the Bruins, Blackhawks’ playoff odds, Rockford IceHogs Hockey and so much more.

There’s a hot topic state of pro wrestling discussion as well.  Don’t tell Vince!

In all, its a great Tuesday game primer and we thank Adam very much for his insight.

Check out Adam’s show, the Breakout! Hockey Program each week at BreakoutHockey.podomatic.com & Tuesday night about an hour after the Hawks-Canadiens game for his recap, plus all the latest from around the National Hockey League.

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In honor of another NHL Playoff season beginning, we have some special audio planned for you next Monday night.  Whether the Hawks care to partake in the postseason or not.

Next Monday night, April 11th, We’ll be joining forces with CT and “the Forklift” of Hockeenight.com fame along with Dieter Kurtenbach for a special HockeeNight PuckCast.  Its become an annual playoff tradition at this point.  I’m sure Fork will have plenty of wit and surprises in store.  Or he may have neither.  And as always, stop by their site for their unique take on Blackhawks hockey.

So that’s next Monday night.  TTMI~Radio will sometime in the next week or two with playoff talk and a 2010-11 Rockford IceHogs season recap show and special guests.

ChrisBlock@TheThirdManIn.com

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The Wearing and Tearing: Hawks no-show in Beantown

Posted on March 29, 2011 by Chris Block| 11 Comments

Boy, let’s hope the NHL doesn’t schedule any games on back-to-back days should the Blackhawks make the playoffs.

The Blackhawks roll-over and play dead act in Boston on Tuesday was widely anticipated and accepted by many before the two teams even took the ice before a nationwide audience at TD Banknorth Garden.

You see, because the Hawks skated so exceptionally hard to earn a 61-minute win over an AHL goaltender in Detroit twenty-four hours earlier, it’s perfectly understandable the team wouldn’t stand much of a chance against the Vezina Trophy frontrunner and the big bad bully Bruins.

Right.

Boston outshot the Hawks 9-0 in the first seven and a half minutes of the contest.  From the onset, the visitors had little to offer.  Apparently, whatever the team had stowed in its ‘care-tank’ was exhausted the night before in Motown.

There’s a good chance Milan Lucic would have scored the game’s first goal at that point had Marcus Kruger not slashed Lucic’s stick on the Bruins’ 15-foot rebound opportunity.  An early gift from referee Paul Devorski as that act was overlooked (because Lucic’s stick didn’t break) but when Kruger and Lucic continued and got entangled in the battle for what then became a loose puck, Devorski called Lucic for holding. Read more »

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