Blackhawks fans face soggy bottoms after Game 6 arena roof leak CHICAGO – Drip, drip, drip. The United Center roof, yielding under the flash-flood rains that poured down on Chicago on Monday evening, sent tiny streams of water into the end zone sections behind the goals before Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Final. Workers scrambled to preserve the seats that were most saturated by covering them … [Read more...]
Marek vs. Wyshynski Podcast: It’s the Wysh vs. Mark Lazerus Game 6 preview!
Marek vs. Wyshynski Podcast: It's the Wysh vs. Mark Lazerus Game 6 preview! LISTEN HERE! [And if that doesn't work, try here.] It's a (don't like) Mondays edition of Marek vs. Wyshynski beginning at 2 p.m. ET/11 a.m. PT, and we're talking about the following and more: Special Guest Star: Mark Lazerus of the Chicago Sun-Times! • The Stanley Cup Final! • Game 6 preview! • Hockey News and … [Read more...]
Kimmo Timonen wants Patrick Kane Cup winner, like 2010 vs. his Flyers
Kimmo Timonen wants Patrick Kane Cup winner, like 2010 vs. his Flyers CHICAGO – It was Game 6 of the 2010 Stanley Cup Final. It was overtime, the result of a Philadelphia Flyers comeback in the third period. It was Patrick Kane with the puck along the half boards, juking his shoulders like he might feed back to the point before motoring towards the net. It was Kimmo Timonen, the veteran … [Read more...]
Lightning’s Nikita Kucherov ‘probable’ for Game 6
Lightning's Nikita Kucherov 'probable' for Game 6 CHICAGO — Nikita Kucherov will participate in warmups prior to Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Final Monday night, and then the decision on whether he plays will be up to Tampa Bay Lightning head coach Jon Cooper. After leaving Game 5 with an upper-body injury following a collision with a goal post, Kucherov was involved in Monday’s morning skate … [Read more...]
What We Learned: Best Stanley Cup Final in recent memory?
What We Learned: Best Stanley Cup Final in recent memory? (Hello, this is a feature that will run through the entire season and aims to recap the weekend’s events and boils those events down to one admittedly superficial fact or stupid opinion about each team. Feel free to complain about it.) There is a lot of reason to praise the level of hockey seen over the five games of this year’s … [Read more...]
Cup Final Game 6 tickets going for up to $71K
Cup Final Game 6 tickets going for up to $71K Want to see Game 6 in Chicago? Take out a second mortgage. (USATSI) Even though the Chicago Blackhawks have won two Stanley Cups since 2010, they haven't lifted one of the most famous trophies in sports on home ice since 1938. After beating the Tampa Bay Lightning in Game 5 2-1 Saturday night, the Blackhawks will have a chance to do just that in Game … [Read more...]
Proposed NHL antitrust lawsuit settlement brings price changes, single-team streaming options
Proposed NHL antitrust lawsuit settlement brings price changes, single-team streaming options On Thursday, the NHL, Comcast, DirecTV, Madison Square Garden Co., and eight NHL franchises proposed a settlement to an antitrust class-action lawsuit filed in 2012. Should the settlement be accepted by the judge, the NHL will become the first of the major sports leagues to offer subscription … [Read more...]
Blackhawks one win from Stanley Cup after Game 5 victory over Lightning
Blackhawks one win from Stanley Cup after Game 5 victory over Lightning The Blackhawks are one win away from their third Stanley Cup since 2010 and a chance at a modern-day NHL salary cap era dynasty. Chicago got some fortuitous bounces early and saved their best at the start of the third period, showing their championship-caliber mettle in a 2-1 Game 5 win at Amalie Arena. "I … [Read more...]
Antoine Vermette can’t stop scoring big goals for the Blackhawks
Antoine Vermette can't stop scoring big goals for the Blackhawks TAMPA — When the Chicago Blackhawks acquired Antoine Vermette two days before the March NHL trade deadline, they did so with depth in mind. They gave up a hefty price — a 2015 first-round pick and defensive prospect Klas Dahlback — but three months later it’s paying off big time. Vermette’s goal two minutes into the third … [Read more...]
Nikita Kucherov injury crashes mighty Lightning offense
Nikita Kucherov injury crashes mighty Lightning offense Just over five minutes into Game 5 of the Stanley Cup Final, the Tampa Bay Lightning suffered their biggest loss of the playoffs. Nikita Kucherov flew head-first into the goal post while trying to take a puck from Corey Crawford and put it into the net. He went down staggered to the bench and couldn’t continue. Without the playoffs … [Read more...]