Hard Feelings Linger After Kronwall Hit On Havlat

It's a good thing Corey Crawford had his cell phone on at the United Center Friday night. Sitting in a suite near the top of the building for Game 3 of the Western Conference Finals, Crawford received a phone call just moments after the second ...

The timing couldn’t have been better.   Samuel Pahlsson's long, strange trip to Chicago hit its high point Friday with a key goal and a game-winning assist for two crucial points in what was his best game as a Blackhawk.   With...

CHICAGO – In the dressing room after Sunday’s loss, Chicago Blackhawks defenseman Brent Seabrook offered to stand in for goalie Cristobal Huet, absent from the postgame media session. Clearly, it would have helped had Seabrook stood...

Niklas Kronwall laid one of the biggest hits in NHL playoff history on Martin Havlat. A perfectly clean hit and one that the referee thought was legit until Havlat laid motionless on the ice.In the hometown call of hometown calls, Kronwall was given a game misconduct which later proved to be costly to the wings in OT.

Joel Quenneville, head coach of the Chicago Blackhawks, has been fined $10,000 for public comments critical of League officiating made following yesterday's game against Detroit, the National Hockey League announced today. The money goes to th...

There's a brash, "make-my-day" confidence that drives the Chicago Blackhawks. At times, you'd think there's no fear in this young bunch. But there are still times when they need a veteran touch in key situations. Like in Game 3 of the...

Almost all of the talk about the Red Wings and Blackhawks the last couple of days has surrounded the massive hit on Martin Havlat dished out by Niklas Kronwall of the Wings.  Hearing the Blackhawks and Red Wings react to the check, you’d think they watched two different plays.  The Wings say clean hit with [...]

Patrick Sharp and Cristobal Huet rescued the Blackhawks after their three-goal lead evaporated. Sharp scored at 1:52 of overtime, giving Chicago a 4-3 victory over Detroit in the West finals.

CHICAGO — Marian Hossa and Henrik Zetterberg scored two goals each Sunday, and the Detroit Red Wings overcame the absences of Nicklas Lidstrom and Pavel Datsyuk to rout the Chicago Blackhawks 6-1 and take a 3-1 lead in the Western Conference finals. The defending Stanley Cup champions can clinch a return trip to the finals with a victory Wednesday at home. The Red Wings played without...

This was a scary hit from the Blackhawks victory Friday night over the Red Wings.  Niklas Kronwall is the tattooer, Martin Havlat is the receiver.  YouTube user crazieman76 summed up the legality of the hit and penalty ruling nicely: Rule 56 - Interference - The last player to touch the puck, other than the goalkeeper, shall [...]

The Red Wings overcame the absences of Nicklas Lidstrom and Pavel Datsyuk to rout the Blackhawks 6-1.

There is a wide ranging debate going on in response to the hit by Detroit Red Wings’ defenseman Nicklas Kronwall on Chicago’s Martin Havlat in the first period of the Friday’s Game 3 Chicago victory. Personally, I think Kronwall should be handed a suspension on the play. When you…