Steve Kwiatkowski has been writing about the Chicago Blackhawks since 2023 for his blog, Eat The Hatchet, and also writes for Second City Hockey. Born and raised in Chicago, Steve now lives in California after serving 12 years in the Marine Corps.
Embed from Getty Images The season is winding down. With the Hawks season coming to an end within the next couple of weeks, and the playoffs starting, I've been thinking about what to do with the blog during the offseason. I have some ideas and things, but if
"If life hands you lemons, you gotta cram 'em down some punks throat til he see's yellow." - Frank Reynolds At least, that's the quote I wanted to use before the game started. You see, I actually thought that the Hawks would embarrass the
There are no April Fools jokes in this post. Just me. I am the fool. Fell for a post that said Oliver Moore was signing with the Hawks. Before we get into business, some housekeeping stuff. Last week, I wrote that I was going to make a post about the
God was trying to tell me not to watch this game. I didn't listen. After my phone decided to stop connecting to satellites in space (which is to say, I lost signal), I couldn't listen to my Hawks radio feed on the commute home. Then when
Embed from Getty Images I miss it. I miss when the Hawks were good. When most nights meant fun hockey. Last night was fun and sure, most of those players aren't going to be on this team when the Hawks are good again. But when you have a
Embed from Getty Images I'm back. It's only been about a week since I last posted. I traveled from Cali to Chicago while the Hawks did the opposite of that. God bless all of you for choosing to stay in Illinois. So did I miss anything?
Ok, so I lied. I'm doing at least one game preview this week. The Hawks just lost to the Kings last Friday and got smoked 5-0. A big part of that was how the Kings clogged the neutral zone. As was quoted numerous times and talked about
Embed from Getty Images There is one more month of Blackhawks hockey left and things aren't as bleak as they might seem. With Slaggert in the lineup, Reichel being called up to close the season strong, and Kaiser having a callup of his own, there are things to
Well, there you have it, the Hawks decided to do some regressing towards the mean and lose 5-0 to the Kings. It didn't take long either as it only took a few minutes into the game for the Kings to score. And no, this was not on
The Hawks take on the Kings tonight at 7:30pm CT here at home. Tonight we''ll see if the Hawks powerplay success can hold up to a team with an actual PK system. If the Hawks want to come out of this one with a W, they&
You miss it, don't you. You miss when the Hawks were good. When a slump usually meant an exciting resurgence. That at the end of the season, there was more excitement to be had in the postseason. It's 2015 and an electric Madhouse on Madison is
Hawks Ducks Foligno-Bedard-Kurashev Jones-McTavish-Killorn Blackwell-Dickinson-Anderson Vatrano-Strome-Terry Athanasiou-T.Johnson-Raddysh Meyers-Lundestrom-Silfverburg Donatao-Entwhistle-R.Johnson Johnston-Groulx-Leason Vlasic-Jones Fowler-Zellweger Korchinski-Megna Mintyukov-Gudas Tinordi-Zaitsev Lacombe-Lindstrom Mrazek Dostal Tonight marks the second of three match ups