The Hawks continue to hang on to first round home ice advantage by a thread.  Here are your Friday links:

• Blatantly stopping and deking, continuous motion, it's all the same thing.
• Jahns: The dog fight in the west continues.
• Rozner: The White House visit gives the Hawks one last chance to celebrate.
• Block's got some birthday announcements for you in his Thursday notebook.
• Fotoshop Friday has a few awesome entries this week.
• Bucci lists MVP candidates in his latest vlogumn.
• Wysh: What's the deal with the Marian Gaborik situation?
• Joe Thornton's not sayin, he's just sayin.
• McKenzie: Headshots a hot topic at the next GM meeting.
• The Devils have managed to make THN's biggest disappointments and biggest surprises lists in the same season.