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Specific information to come later, but in my mind the best possible outcome happened. Hawks have home ice in Round 1 and host Calgary. Hawks swept them in the season series.

Wake up, people. Playoffs are here!

I'm so glad we aren't playing Vancouver in the 1st round. 3/4 of the wins against Calgary were with comfortable leads.

6-1
3-2 OT
5-2
5-2

Some more pluses to this, we get the Canadian national anthem before home games, too, and Jim Cornielsen is kickass at that. Also, the Red Out in Calgary is something to see, since they never hand out t-shirts or anything, the fans just do that.

Isn't Calgary really banged up and struggling as of late? This is the perfect matchup for us. Go Hawks!

SportsWorld wrote:Isn't Calgary really banged up and struggling as of late? This is the perfect matchup for us. Go Hawks!

Roy, Bourque, Giordano, Primeau and Warrener are on IR, Phaneuf is day-to-day.

So yes, Calgary is considerably banged up.

WEFFPIM wrote:Some more pluses to this, we get the Canadian national anthem before home games, too, and Jim Cornielsen is kickass at that. Also, the Red Out in Calgary is something to see, since they never hand out t-shirts or anything, the fans just do that.

The Bulls are trying to do the same thing, but Bulls fans never seem to be motivated. it will be a failure.


The Blackhawks are getting really hot when they need to. 2-0 against Detroit. I'm very confident they will get past the first round.

Schedule for Chicago/Calgary opening-round playoff series (Best-of-seven):
Thursday 7:30 p.m. Calgary at Blackhawks
Saturday Time TBD Calgary at Blackhawks
Monday, April 20 8:30 p.m. Blackhawks at Calgary
Wednesday, April 22 Time TBD Blackhawks at Calgary
*Saturday, April 25 9 p.m. Calgary at Blackhawks
*Monday, April 27 Time TBD Blackhawks at Calgary
*Wednesday, April 29 Time TBD Calgary at Blackhawks

I assume these will be on Comcast SportsNet.

Actually here's the TV schedule:
SERIES H #4 vs. #5
Network
Thursday, April 16 at Chicago, 8:30 p.m. TSN, VERSUS
Saturday, April 18 at Chicago, TBD TSN
Monday, April 20 at Calgary, 9:30 p.m. TSN, VERSUS
Wednesday, April 22 at Calgary, TBD TSN, VERSUS
*Saturday, April 25 at Chicago, 10:00 p.m. TSN, RIS
*Monday, April 27 at Calgary, TBD TSN
*Wednesday, April 29 at Chicago, TBD TSN

wtf a 10:00 PM Eastern start in Chicago?

All the games are on Comcast.

Your second post has East Coast times.

I can't wait, the playoffs are back in Chicago baby!

Only about 3 hours until the puck drops. Can't wait.

I hope the both of you plan on being in this thread during the game, the Blackhawks board on their site is probably going to get very haywire with all the traffic. Plus, there's a lot of really stupid people on it.

I cannot tell you how damn excited I am for 7:30

The Stanley Cup Playoffs logo on the United Center ice. Beautiful.

lol Jay Cutler drops the puck

They look like they just woke up.

What a start

Worst period of the season

The only thing good out of that period was the fact they won faceoffs consistently. Horrid passing, no offensive pressure, letting Flames camp out in front of the net or blow right by the D.

Wake the f*** up.

Very flat. Calagary is out husting them and being more physical. Hopefully if they finish killing off this pentaly that will light a spark under their ass. They definitely need that.

Hey we did something