At Brightside, our biggest goal is to focus on optimism in hockey and the Blackhawks. Sometimes that’s hard to do. So instead of finding pessimism and overreactions, we like to break those down, and calm ourselves by calming the public. This is the first in the series of overreactions and breakdowns. This time we focus on Jonathon Toews. Overreaction: Jonathon Toews should no longer be captain of this hockey team…
Three stars: 1. Patrick Kane 2. Duncan Keith 3. Artem Anisimov the Brightside: Kane continues to 20. Like I said. Don’t expect a premature ending. It’s fair to say right now the gritty first line experiment has failed. I’m the biggest proponent of Andrew Shaw (extend him already) but he and Tazers game don’t mesh. Hossa doesn’t belong below line 2 either. It’s time we found a consistent lineup. We…
Brightside’s Three Stars: 1. Patrick “Showtime” Kane 2. Niklas “Hjammer” Hjalmarrson 3. “The Terminator” Duncan Keith So the Hawks gave that game up. They had the chance to win that game well into the third period. They lost on a mistake from to-that-point Norris caliber Seabrook. Don’t know what happened there, but Seabs will take responsibility for his mistake and will be back to playing really good hockey. Then in…
This is the first in a series of musings about what would happen in the NHL should certain things happened or not happened. Our introductory article is about what the Blackhawks would look like had they not signed Bryan Bickell after the 2013 Stanley Cup.
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