A Good Year for the Outlaw

Last month I said the Chicago Blackhawks would be the next major sports team from Chicago to win a championship. Shaddup, Chicago Fire fans, I said major sport.
I stand by that statement, they WILL be the next Chicago team to win it all in a major sport. Where I might have have wrong, however, [...]

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What an unbelievable turnaround in just two short seasons in Chicago for the Blackhawk franchise. Sad to say, it’s now COMPLETELY obvious how much Bill Wirtz was holding back this club.
In just two short years since Rocky Wirtz took over for his dad, and made perfect hire after perfect hire, the ‘hawks are again [...]

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It appears as if the AHL’s short-lived, unsuccessful-at-the-gate run in the Quad Cities, and more specifically at the iWireless Center in Moline, is over.
This takes away the closest rival (and thus, cheapest travel costs) for the Peoria Rivermen, and also, I believe, sets the stage for the AHL’s eventual exodus from downstate Illinois. Some [...]

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Full disclosure: I am the PA announcer for the Peoria Rivermen hockey team, and have been for 11 of the last 12 years. I love hockey. I desire to see the Rivs draw better. The front office works incredibly hard to try and draw more fans to Rivermen hockey fans. That being said…read on… 
My good friend [...]

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This week we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first black player in the NHL, Willie O’Ree, who was called up this month in 1958 by the Boston Bruins. O’Ree, who had lost the vision in his right eye in a junior league game long before his call up, kept that fact secret from the [...]

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True hockey fans know and accept that fighting – not the gratuitious, do-it-because-you-do-it-every-game style, but the “time to stick up for myself and my teammates” style – is a major part of adult hockey. Many newbies to the sport feel it has no place in the game, all the while enjoying the mugging that is [...]

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