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deadspin.com - 12/11/2008

Chicago Blackhawks Star In A Heart-Warming Tale Of Thanksgiving Joy [NHL]

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I got an interesting email this morning about the Chicago Blackhawks. (Wait guys, that's not a joke!) Last month, the Hawks had six straight road games sandwiched around the Thanksgiving holiday. They went from Phoenix to Dallas to Toronto (nice travel agent), then had three days off before ...

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sports.yahoo.com - 12/8/2008

Marketing the Classic: Behind the scenes of NHL's Wrigley TV spot

— sports.yahoo.com — (Ed Note: This is Part One of Puck Daddy's interview with Brian Jennings, Executive Vice President of Marketing for the NHL, regarding how the League plans to sell and create interest around the 2009 Winter Classic at Wrigley Field. Part Two runs on ... (more) Marketing the Classic: Behind the scenes of NHL's ...

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sports.yahoo.com - 12/9/2008

Marketing the Classic: Can hockey have a 7th-inning stretch?

— sports.yahoo.com — (Ed Note: This is Part Two of Puck Daddy's interview with Brian Jennings, Executive Vice President of Marketing for the NHL, regarding how the League plans to sell and create interest around the 2009 Winter Classic at Wrigley Field. Read Part ... (more) Marketing the Classic: Can hockey have a 7th-inning stretch?

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sports.yahoo.com - 12/15/2008

The Funeral Burgers: Blackhawks' story a holiday gift to NHL, world

— sports.yahoo.com — Last week, radio host Mike Ross of XM NHL Home Ice was mired in non-stop talk about the Sean Avery / "sloppy seconds" debacle, as that cloud of negativity obscured all other hockey news. Then came a forwarded e-mail from a listener in ... (more) The Funeral Burgers: Blackhawks' story a holiday gift to ...

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Nice Blackhawks Story, Wild Notes
18,568 Reasons Why — ... But today I came across the same story on Deadspin, the only source I've found to have published the story. They verified the story (or at least the basis of the story) with Sarah Spain, a reporter for Mouthpiece Sports. ...

The Mighty Midget Speaks!
Vent About Sports — ... USA Today - Corey Pavin to captain 2010 Ryder Cup Team. Deadspin - Heart-Warming Thanksgiving Hockey story. Sports By Brooks - Sacramento Kinds co-owner Joe Maloof suffers stroke. ...

Barely A Mention
KK Hockey — ... game was complete, and a unanimous decision is made by this young team to skip this flight and stay one more day. They make arrangements to check back in the hotel and on a frozen Sunday morning charter two buses that have no heat and begin a journey two hours straight north into a sparsely inhabited Canada , but where hockey is its passion. They arrive at their destination to the surprise of the teams general manager who is there attending his fathers wake. read on Thanks to a KK reader for the pointer and I did confirm with ...

The Chicago Blackhawks Support Their GM, Dine At Gravenhurst McDonalds
TheScore.com Blog — ... The Blackhawks were in Toronto on November 22nd, and scheduled to fly back to Chicago for an off-day the next day, when they learned that general manager Dale Tallon's father had died. There was a wake the next day, and according to an email sent to Deadspin, "back in the locker room a vote is taken after the game was complete, and a unanimous decision is made by this young team to skip this flight and stay one more day," so that they could be with their GM and his family. ...

Blackhawks = A bunch of fine young gentlemen
Second City Hockey — ... This story has been flying around for a while now, even on this site, it was emailed to me a few days ago too but it's still a great story that I should have put up earlier. So if you haven't read it then you should. Deadspin wrote about it recently and even confirmed it with Sarah Spain from Mouthpiece since she's able to talk to people in the organization, which is very cool. ...

Puck Headlines: Sundin doesn't have 'spine' to help Chicago win
Puck Daddy — ... • We've received this Blackhawks story over e-mail on a few occasions in the last week, and Deadspin does a nice job clearing up the legend. Yes, players did hit a small town McDonald's after surprising their GM at his father's wake. But the bus wasn't some rickety, unheated rambler. Still, great story. [Deadspin] ...

Link Dump!
Rumors and Rants — ... Terrell Owens’ time in Dallas is about to end - Epic Carnival Forgetting Sam Mitchell - Cuzoogle Nick Collison vs. Chris Mihm - The Blowtorch I’m sure there’s some way to pretend this has anything to do with sports. We just haven’t figured it out yet - Sports by Brooks So that Barry Melrose firing is getting uglier - St. Petersburg Times The Blackhawks are really stocking up on good karma - Deadspin The Facebook strikes again - The Sporting Blog ...

The Funeral Burgers: Blackhawks' story a holiday gift to NHL, world
Puck Daddy — ... Since then, this true story of professional athletes showing unbridled compassion and modesty during the holidays has been circulated around the Web more times than an offer for Nigerian gold. In the last 48 hours, we've received the forward nearly two-dozen times. Puck Daddy first posted about it when Deadspin picked up on the story; and, because it's Deadspin, debunked the notion that NHL players were crammed onto an unheated bus. ...

The Blackhawks Are Quite Popular These Days
MOUTHPIECE Blog // A Chicago-Addled Sports Blog — ... It’s of little surprise to anyone these days that the Blackhawks are on the up and up as far as popularity is concerned in the city of Chicago. Putting home games back on TV again has had a lot to do with it, as has marketing guru John McDonough and young stars Jonathan Toews and Patrick Kane. (And hey: look how nice these guys are!) It’s cool to like hockey again. I think. ...