Welcome to the Madhouse!! The home of the best damn National Anthem http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e-KsPhvnvc

First off, much thanks for the PG guys , Dobber, Angus for the opportunity and for carving out a little slice of this fine site for us to write about our favorite teams.

Introduction.

I am Brandon 37 years young from Detroit, Michigan born and raised. I am a big Red Wings fan, however somewhere in my DNA at birth the doctors must of done something to me because I bleed Blackhawk colors. Growing up in Detroit around my friends and family was indeed a wild ride, no one understanding how I can be a Red Wing fan but a Blackhawk Diehard. Thinking back as far as I could it was ( I'd guess around 1985) with the likes of Denis Savard, Troy Murray, Al Secord, Doug Wilson, Steve Larmer, Ed Olczyk - this is when my love for the Hawks really took off and 25 years later the love is as strong as ever. A few years later my all time favorite Chicago Blackhawk came on board and the Hawknation love fest just grew and grew ( Jeremy Roenick) I dont care what anyone says this was a great moment http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ec8PNGt7N0. Steve Thomas, Adam Creighton, Chris Chelios, The Eagle.. Anyway, enough rambling...


This area will feature any / all Hawks news and notes

Game feedback
Player news. lines, trades, injuries, etc etc
Prospect news
Some Rockford news that is relevant
Hawk History ( going down memory lane)
Article links
Much Much more..

I will start out with simple stuff, get my feet wet then really delve into it.

I encourage everyone and anyone to participate and interact and share your Hawk comments.

Anyway I Just wanted to chime in for a quick moment give a small introduction of myself and let everyone know what will come ahead.

It's Thanksgiving here, so it will be a couple days or so before I really dive into this, by the weekend I will be ramping up The " Madhouse"

For now, I leave you with this

( some bad lyrics so mute volume if you dont want kids or others to hear-It's Eminem haha)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVjKIxgZeHY

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i just bought a toews jersey. not really relevant but i thought i'd share it anyways haha. welcome to the team shake!

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XBOX 360 Gamertag: praba911

welcome and cant wait to her everything about kane, hossa, and turco. hawks i own in some leagues. but besides that if you are making a hawks thread and you are posting all these youtube videos i am pretty upset that you missed the best hawks video of them all.

Ofcourse this came out at the end of last season or during the playoffs but its been viewed over 400k times.. so this is your new thread slogan..

WE LOVE THE HAWKS...yeah i am a devil fan but love this video and if you havent seen it get to know it well:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNn3k1KfOrs

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12 team H2H Keeper League
g/a/+-/PIM/PPP/SHP/SOG/W/GAA/SV%/SHO
play 4c/4lw/4rw/6d/2g (2min start)
Center: Datsyuk, Getzlaf, Marleau, Ribiero, Brian Boyle
RW: Hossa, Horton, Downie, Franzen, vrbata, Cole
LW: Kovalchuk, D.Sedin, Semin, Fleischmann,
Defense : Enstrom, E.Johnson, Goligoski, Wisniewski, Hamilton
Goalies: Lundqvist, Brodeur, S.Mason, Garon

Farm noteables: Niederreiter, Avtsyn, Greiss, Frazee, Kinkaid

haha yeah I've seen that before, to gimmicky but its a good laugh

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yeah a bit upsettig.. i see now they have tons of other videos. i just thought they were a bunch of guys who got together to make a hawks video but it seems that is not the case. but yeah its funny. love the taves/toews part. not watching games i had no clue how to pronounce his name so thats too funny.

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12 team H2H Keeper League
g/a/+-/PIM/PPP/SHP/SOG/W/GAA/SV%/SHO
play 4c/4lw/4rw/6d/2g (2min start)
Center: Datsyuk, Getzlaf, Marleau, Ribiero, Brian Boyle
RW: Hossa, Horton, Downie, Franzen, vrbata, Cole
LW: Kovalchuk, D.Sedin, Semin, Fleischmann,
Defense : Enstrom, E.Johnson, Goligoski, Wisniewski, Hamilton
Goalies: Lundqvist, Brodeur, S.Mason, Garon

Farm noteables: Niederreiter, Avtsyn, Greiss, Frazee, Kinkaid

Cast your vote.


Keith and Toews are in the top 5 in votes in the early going . Keith ranks 1st among defense men.


http://www.dailyherald.com/article/2...rts/101129831/

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Chicago Blackhawks (Official Site) >> Blackhawks assign forward Ben Smith to Rockford buzztap.com/-bbRNXX

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The best in the West meet tonight in Minnesota.


Ray Emery will be in net for tonight's bout ( his 3rd consecutive start).


Bickell is back in the lineup relpacing demoted Ben Smith.



Toews, Sharpie, Hossa, Kane - all four are in the top 15 in overall league scoring.

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Think Paul Stastny is a fair trade for Crawford? I already have Emery and this is a great buy low time for Crawfish.

Stastny has been terrible, but he is also under the "buy Low" category.

Locking up Philly/Chi starters makes this deal feel like a must do.

Any advice?

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19 team Dynasty League - POINTS ONLY. Daily starts: 9 fwds, 6 D, 1 goalie

G=2pts, A=1pt, Dman G=3pts, GWG=1pt, Goalie Win=3.5pts, SO=4pts, L=-1pt


Kovalchuk, Couture, Wheeler
Parenteau, Elias, Little
Desharnais, Hemsky, Zuccarello
Smith, Cogliano

Karlsson, Letang, Ehrhoff
Carle, Giordano, Martin
Hamhuis

Fleury
Schneider

I don't think so. You just lost Michalek to injury. Also you only start 1 goalie, so each night 2 goalies are sitting where as you would have Stastny starting each night. I think you'd be cutting yourself off short if you did that deal.

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