bdutts
- Houston, Texas
He has a record that will never be broken: 502 consecutive games starting and it was somewhere around 554 if you count playoffs.
Chicago Blackhawks 2025-2026
Is this good?
Joel Goodson
- how was I to know, she was with the Russians too?
all about making the cap floor next season. get Ellis' dead contract. now the $76M floor is easily made and the Hawks can go full bore with the youth movement.
KD did solids for Allan and Brossoit.
Illiniaaron
- Geneseo, IL
They needed to get rid of Brossoit, didn’t they?
Joel Goodson
- how was I to know, she was with the Russians too?
didn't want him blocking the 2 young keepers in Rockford
2X2L
- Metaluna
And he played most of his career without a mask.
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One of the things I remember most about him was that he vomited before every game.
I don't blame him considering he was playing without a mask.
I saw a photo once , touched up to mark every scar on his face from stitches he recd in his career . my lord .
Basically solved three issues with one trade. Moved Brossoit, addressed the cap floor for next year and relieved a bit of the blue line logjam. I liked Allan's game, but I don't think there was a clear path to a role here. The Sharks are desperate for real defensive blue liners and Allan should fit that bill for them.
yea
hardly unique to him though .
vomiting before games or other events is more common than you think .
No masks until after Mikita & Hull figured out curving a stick helped them get lift on shots. Not many shots were heading to the face before that.
Joel Goodson
- how was I to know, she was with the Russians too?
yep. not a big fan of helping out the Sharks (I think Allan is going to be a solid 3rd pairing guy for a long time), but it is what it is. Sharks held a hefty dead contract that the Hawks needed (much rarer than they were a short time ago). KD certainly did Allan a solid here.
I vomited after the Wisconsin football game and the Nebraska bball game.
The trade makes you stop and consider how much young blue line talent is at or near the big club. Kaiser, Vlasic, Lev, KK, Rinzel, Crevier, EDM is that all of them?
I'd love to see them get back a young forward with size if we decide we need to deal out of that bunch again.
I'd love to see them get back a young forward with size if we decide we need to deal out of that bunch again.
Also, not to just talk to myself, but Bedard is back!
bdutts
- Houston, Texas
I agree, I was a pretty big Allan guy. Good physical, defense first guy.
bdutts
- Houston, Texas
if you find that again, please post. I'd be interested in that. I'll have a look around as well.
Illiniaaron
- Geneseo, IL
Holy Crap
bdutts
- Houston, Texas
Saw that one. Brutal.
Stan Mikita was a pioneer in having players wear a helmet. He was one of the first if not the first in the NHL to do so. He was a smart man who one day realized that one’s upper story is a pretty darned important thing and should be protected on the ice.
Another thing about Stan. Early in his career he was a hothead and was easy to fly off the handle and rack up penalties. He wised up one day and matured and realized he was hurting both himself and his team that way. He became a great on-ice and locker-room leader and learned to play with control and purpose. And his stickhandling was magic.
Except for the Golden Jet... Mikita was always the biggest star on those Blackhawks teams when they played together. A great one-two punch.
chiefini
- Rockford, Illinois
Hull & Mikita were true leaders with amazing skill and presence, who were so much fun to watch. Those were the days we’d go to the old stadium, pay our $3.00 for standing room only, climb those smelly stairs to the top, and try to see the ice through the smoke-filled haze and five deep rows of fans. Fun and memorable times!
Fans today wont experience the joys (sarc) of... driving through dangers on the West Side to get to Old Chicago Stadium. Or – God-help-you – riding the bus. If you drove you then got to pay too much to park in a rutted open lot filled with broken glass and refuse...
For Bulls games in those days just before the opening tip off (they still had those then) an interesting grassy smell began to pervade the airspace around you. Gee, I always wondered what that was... (!). Not to mention for Hawks and Bulls games the nights were mostly cold as hell.
And yet somehow through all of this, it was damned good fun. That place had personality and a vibe to it that was special. And the sound was deafening when the fans got cranked up. Your ears might hurt for hours after the game ended.
Sure, the United Center seems like a palace compared to the Old Barn. But for many, the Old Barn was still more fun to watch a game at.
And you learned how to pray – that your car was still there when you went back there...
it was very very sketchy around the old barn in the 60’s-70’s .
but i’m a south sider originally and am old enough to remember the awful smell around the old Amphitheater.
yea - the Bulls played there in their first year , the WHL Cougars played there , and many rock concerts , roller derby & wrestling was done there . what a joint that was . many political events too . but what a stench around that joint