Brian Foran

Boy, Did The Blackhawks Really Hang Corey Crawford Out To Dry These Past Nine Months

God’s honest truth, had there not been two, reeking-of-shit junkies passed out where I was currently standing just hours prior, I would have gotten down on all fours and kissed the ground I stood upon the precise moment I caught wind of Corey Crawford’s imminent return to the Blackhawks. Not...

Bears To Sign Top Free Agent Wideout

It appears Mitch Trubisky has his number one target for 2018. According to NFL insider Adam Schefter, the Bears will sign free agent wideout Allen Robinson when free agency opens on Wednesday. https://twitter.com/adamschefter/status/973444603897679874?s=21...

A Comprehensive List Of Players The Blackhawks Might Trade In The Coming Week

There's an overwhelming abundance of things I despise about this horrible, terrible, deplorable, dirty, rotten, no-good, put-you-to-sleep-quicker-than-Nyquil Blackhawks team. But the thing that brings my piss to a boil more-so than anything else is this season's gruesome beheading of the euphoria...

Jeff Glass Never Stood A Chance With These Awful Blackhawks

Earlier today the Chicago Blackhawks placed goaltender Jeff Glass on waivers, meaning the netminder is likely to spend the twilight weeks of what should have been a fairytale season in Rockford – the place where his unlikely carousel of a season met its beginning. While it’d take the most buoyant...

We Asked "How Would You Fix The Blackhawks?" Here's Your Responses

Having dropped 4 of their past 5 contests and now trailing the Colorado Avalanche by 7 points for the final Wild Card spot in the Western Conference playoff hunt, it's a apparent the once-luxurious Blackhawks ship is sinking with the haste of a torpedoed ocean liner carrying 1,000 more people than...

Richard Panik Trade A Home Run, Regardless If Duclair Produces

Stan Bowman can be described as many things: Cunning, clever, ambitious, ruthless; Hell, even sometimes needlessly reckless. But if there's two things Stan Bowman certainly is not, it's predictable or boring. It's almost as if the crafty Blackhawks General Manager anticipates the calm before...

Trading Jonathan Toews Is As Illogical As It Would Be Impossible

Like the mythical Phoenix, I hath risen from the ashes of self-imposed exile to once again calm the prevailing winds of stupidity and hyperbole stinking up the city. At the moment, the Chicago Blackhawks are as mediocre as a professional sports team can get. Even the most tunnel-visioned Blackhawks...

Let's Over-Analyze Some Of The Blackhawks Free Agent Options

The responsible thing for me to do right now is to lead this off with a friendly disclaimer to curb your excitement on what to expect from the Blackhawks when the free agent floodgates open tomorrow at noon eastern time. Basically, because whatever does transpire, will pale in comparison to the...

What Would It Take For The Blackhawks To Trade Brent Seabrook?

I feel pretty confident declaring, at least at this point in time, if the Blackhawks were indeed able to find a viable trade partner for Brent Seabrook, they wouldn't hesitate for even microsecond to emancipate themselves from the regressing defenseman's albatross and monumentally troublesome...

Scott Darling's Farewell To Chicago Is Summer's Most Captivating and Inspirational Read

I honestly can't remember the last time something as harmless and well-meaning as a simple farewell elicited so many emotions from me all at once. Former Blackhawk and current Carolina Hurricanes starting netminder Scott Darling took to The Player's Tribune to issue a formal goodbye to his beloved...

Even Patrick Kane Knows Predators Were The Much Better Team

While the fan in me remains bitter the Blackhawks were eliminated in the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs for a second consecutive year (mostly financially bitter - since my job indeed mandates I cover the Blackhawks and that's kind of hard to consistently do when they're not playing), the...

Blackhawks Trade Scott Darling to Carolina

Stan Bowman's purge continues. This time it was not a firing or release, but a trade that will send the rights to Scott Darling to the Carolina Hurricanes for a 2017 third round pick. Darling, a 28-year old Lemont native, spent 4 seasons with the Blackhawks organization. He was to hit restricted...

Let's Bid A Proper Farewell To The 2016-2017 Chicago Blackhawks

I thought when I ultimately sat down to write this farewell ode to a disastrously disappointing Blackhawks season I'd have something far more clever, wittty and demonizing to open with in order to transition you into the actual obituary aspect of this article. But the harsh truth is, it's not even...

How Much Should The Blackhawks Pay Richard Panik?

It's funny to think that a little over a year ago the trade that sent Richard Panik to the Blackhawks barely even registered as a footnote in comparison to the other moves taking place throughout the NHL at the time. After all, what the Blackhawks gave up for the 24-year old, who, by that time had...

Patrick Kane Right In Middle Of Funnest, Wildest NHL Scoring Race In Years

At the time I began writing this piece yesterday evening, which was about thirty minutes before the first puck drop of the night between the Maples Leafs and Bruins, Connor McDavid and Sidney Crosby, together, occupied a single point lead in the NHL's scoring race after the latter netted his...

Magic Happens When The Blackhawks Shoot The Puck

To be honest, I'm still in a bit of a daze from the borderline cinematic conclusion to last night's Blackhawks and Avalanche game. I've sort of just been sitting here, in the same spot on my couch from which I watched the action unfold for the betterment of the past 12 hours motionless, partially...

Blackhawks Clinch Playoff Spot After Win Over Avs, Help From Calgary

To be honest, it's more than three hours before puck drop on Sunday afternoon as I'm writing this. If this isn't a testament to how confident I am the Blackhawks will win with ease tonight at home versus the NHL's version of the Cleveland Browns, I'm not sure what is. That said, don't let me down,...

With Anisimov Out, Nick Schmaltz Now Key To Blackhawks Run

In the weeks and days leading up to the NHL's March 1st trade deadline I wrote on multiple occasions in regards to the critical importance of the Blackhawks adding center depth before the team's imminent and demanding season-ending push for playoff seeding - a rigorous stretch that would merely...

Blackhawks No Longer In Need Of Big, Expensive Splash At Trade Deadline

The Blackhawks top line of Richard Panik, Jonathan Toews and rookie Nick Schmaltz was a mesmerizing sight to behold Tuesday night - and not just from a Chicago fan's perspective. Anyone who considers themselves a loyal pundit to the sport of hockey should appreciate what may have been the best...

Let's Talk Blackhawks Trade Deadline Targets

I feel morally obligated to begin this article with a cautionary disclaimer that I believe the absolute worst, most inexcusably careless thing the Blackhawks could do this forthcoming deadline is to go all in as they did last season. Long story short, Andrew Ladd, Tomas Fleischmann, and Dale Weise...