I haven't really been paying attention, but it's just about the Holiday break, and with the free time I'm so gonna catch up on the Blackhawks.
There are 3 games to go before the giant outdoor Event game vs. the eternally evil Detroit Red Wings at Wrigley Field, and the Hawks are getting super hot right at the right time.
Last night they beat the Calgary Flames in Calgary in overtime 3 to 2 for their 6th straight win.
In advertising, you make alot of friends - editors, color correction guys, reps for directors, special effects people, and it seems like lots of them have Hawks tickets and out of the blue you'll get a call from somebody with an extra ticket.
Hasn't happened once this year.
That can only mean what I'm reading in the paper - the Hawks are seriously good.
I made a (blasphemous) case last March that we could be witnessing a sort of re-incarnation of Hull and Mikita with the young Jonathan Toews and Patrick Kane. But it seems this team is way deeper than that, or maybe it's luck with injuries (they were hit pretty hard last year).
And unless you've been hibernating since last summer, you know we now have the privilege of watching the Hawks on tv:
Tonight vs. the Canucks at 9 on WGN (and CBS nationally), Friday after Christmas vs. the Flyers at 7:30, that Sunday vs. the Wild at 5:30, and then the biggie at Wrigley on the 30th at 6:30.
Who knows?
They might square off against Detroit with a 9 game winning streak...
Go Hawks.
(The illustration is just messing with photoshop - kinda fun.)
