When I hear the Chicago Blackhawks complain about how they’re losing money still, it makes little sense to me. It makes as much sense as when Pro Football Weekly claimed the reason they went under is the NFL lockout. One NFL preseason game and OTAs was missed; that’s it. The NFL lockout occurred during the time of the year when no one cares about football anyway, yet it killed off PFW? Huh?

Same thing when the Chicago Blackhawks claim every year they’re in the red; both in their on-ice sweaters and in the fiscal balance sheets. The Blackhawks are selling the place out every night despite sky high ticket prices; concession prices are also through the roof (never a short line there too), and everyone seems to be incessantly tweeting about how Blackhawks television ratings are so high (Take a cold shower! We know HHR numbers like these give you a boner).

Not to mention the Blackhawks bandwagon is filled with drunk douches spending tons of their disposable income on Blackhawks regalia. Oh, and they receive EXTREMELY SOFT coverage in this city from all their cheerleaders disguised as reporters to boot. So what gives?

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Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final will certainly be remembered for the midnight goal by Andrew Shaw. The Chicago Blackhawks and Boston Bruins began playing at 7:30 CDT Wednesday night. They ended in the third overtime with Andrew Shaw deflecting a shot past Tuukka Rask for the game-winner. Although some observers initially thought the goal should have been credited to Dave Bolland.

Either way, it was an exhausting game for fans in Chicago and Boston who followed the game for 5 hours on Twitter. Andrew Shaw then dropped an F-bomb on national television in celebration of the big victory.

Some language NSFW

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Chicago Blackhawks vs Boston Bruins. It’s almost here.

The Stanley Cup Final, not Finalsssssssssss, is soon upon us. A battle of two teams with hot goal-tending and horrific power play. But hey, great penalty kill.

Yesterday, NBC Sports’s top NHL announce team Mike ‘Doc’ Emrick (play-by-play), Eddie Olczyk (analyst) and Pierre McGuire (‘Inside-the-Glass’ analyst) participated in a conference call to preview the 2013 Stanley Cup Final.

I’ll be back later today with the Eddie O. interview posted on Chicago Now. Obviously it will be Blackhawks centric. But for this article we’ll talk Bruins and Stanley Cup Final. The Bruins and Blackhawks have never met in a final before. Bruins vs Blackhawks gives us the first Original 6 Final matchup since 1979.

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The Chicago Blackhawks are in the Stanley Cup Final versus the Boston Bruins. Time for some Patrick Kane photos. Kaner may have turned the corner in terms of his behavior. At least publicly. I’m sure Patrick Kane matured quite a bit during his time in Switzerland. It helps that he had family watching over him. And we’re not judging Patrick Kane here. The Sports Bank is certainly not “Focus on the Family” or the “Moral Majority” or Nixon’s “Silent Majority” or anything like that.

Or to quote a famous Chicagoan: “I don’t see nothing wrongggggggggggggggggg, with a little bump n grind.”

Patrick Kane has said he’s “got some growing up to do” in regards to the public release of some past pictures. I disagree. I think he should enjoy every minute of his youth. And I don’t think he did anything terribly wrong. Well, the University of Wisconsin stuff was creepy. He’s too old for that shiz. And stories out of the Badgers celebration on Cinco de Mayo were…not good.

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Darryl Sutter is a retired Canadian hockey player and coach of the NHL LA Kings.

He is one of seven Sutter brothers, six of whom made the NHL (Brent, Brian, Darryl, Duane, Rich and Ron); all but Rich and Gary (the seventh Sutter brother) worked alongside Darryl in some capacity with the Calgary Flames. Sutter has also coached for the San Jose Sharks and the Chicago Blackhawks, the team with which he spent his entire NHL playing career.

Darryl Sutter is also the WORST soundbite in history. Almost all his press conferences are an absolute a waste of time for everyone involved. And that reason makes the photo below all the more hilarious:

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