Morning Links (1/3)

every bad game we play against them ups my dislike for their team.

This has really nothing to do with the game but on Friday’s Boers and Bernstein show, Barry Rozner filling in for Terry Boers was in a discussion with Bernstein about Dave Bolland. Rozner, for all his faults, does have some solid sources within the Hawks. He mentioned in passing about how some people within the Hawks felt like Bolland sort of milked his concussion last year and has become a bit gun shy since.

That was all they really discussed about it. And I think that’s all pretty much anyone needs to know with how the Hawks handle their concussed players. It seems like some within the Hawks would prefer their players simply learn to lie about how to pass concussion tests than worry about the health of their brains.

Meanwhile, Marcus Kruger is out for the foreseeable future because he rushed back from a concussion. Spare me the next time Pat Foley goes on an extended rant about how forward thinking the Hawks are for letting the team surgeon and head doctor travel with the team on the road. It’s obvious that the Hawks aren’t really too concerned with their medical opinion. Or they’re quacks. Either way, a lack of respect to concussed players is about 15 years behind the times.

I’m not the biggest supporter of Dave Bolland as I’ll always believe that Stan Bowman should’ve shipped him out long before Andrew Ladd, especially if Marcus Kruger was ‘the plan all along’. But that is neither here nor there.

But it’s sad to see that the more things change, the more they stay the same with the attitude of the Blackhawks organization in that they still have a Neanderthal way of thinking and going about things. Concussions are an epidemic across the league and one has to wonder if their views would be considerably different if Toews suffered another concussion after returning (it appears now) too early from the Mitchell hit.

Only time can tell but it seems Dave Bolland is playing his final days here in Chicago which is sad as I’m sure many FA might hesitate coming here on July1st given how they treated their previous prized FA’s (Campbell) and now Bolland through PCS.

periods 2 and 3 were some outstanding hockey. Having watched that, then headed to the UC, made my head hurt.

Loved the bullets.

where is everybody? Too hungover to hang out on the interwebs?

at the prospect of Carcillo missing the game on Thursday. He certainly is an attention-getter.

why the Hawks have signed all of these entry level deals in the last few days? Are they trying to meet some kind of deadline or is it just to have the option to call these guys up?

To shoot wide short-side. I really started to notice it in that Kings game where he had 5-10 chances and completely biffed it. I heard he was getting over an illness so I didn’t really blame him for that performance, but the last couple of games were pretty dreadful as well.