Lyle Odelein

Do you think that Nathan Dempsey will be a regular this year and will he get time on the power play? --Mike Spriggs, Markham, Ontario Mike, I'm surprised Dempsey hasn't played more thus far. Along with Phil Housley he is the best skater on the Hawks'...

A recurring theme this season has been the Blackhawks' inability to win a faceoff. The topic stayed the same Tuesday but took a different tone as the Hawks beat the Columbus Blue Jackets 3-2 before a crowd of 10,203 at the United Center. The winning...

As the Blackhawks boarded their charter flight to Chicago on Monday night, they thought not of the three out of four points they collected in two games in Florida, but of the fourth point they thought they should have had. "This feels like a loss,"...

The schedule says the Blackhawks' two-week, seven-game trip starts Tuesday night in Edmonton. The Hawks said it started Sunday night at the United Center. Wanting to hit the road on a high note, the Hawks fought their way through a 4-2 victory over the...

As Theo Fleury skated from the penalty box to the dressing room at the end of the second period Sunday, many in the crowd of 13,454 at the United Center gave him a standing ovation. The ovation was as much an indictment of Fleury's Blackhawks teammates...

Before boarding their charter for St. Louis on Tuesday, the Blackhawks will practice at the Staples Center, which proves true an old adage: Criminals always return to the scene of the crime. The Blackhawks—generating woefully little offense—stole a...

Everything that anyone could have asked for was on display Monday night at Joe Louis Arena. Great goals? Check, in abundance. Strange goals? Had a couple of those too. Great saves? Oh, yes, nearly a great save for every goal. Stirring comeback? Yep,...

Playing perhaps their most important game of the season against the top team in the Western Conference, the Blackhawks left their All-Star goaltender and 605 career goals on the sideline. With Theo Fleury and Sergei Berezin in the press box and Jocelyn...

If the Blackhawks were happy with their one point in Saturday's overtime loss to Nashville, they were positively giddy with their one point in Sunday's 3-2 overtime loss to the Colorado Avalanche. "Darn rights [sic]," Hawks coach Brian Sutter said....

I hate to pick on one guy, but besides his size, what good does Mark Bell bring to the team? He takes bad penalties, has poor shot selection, and seems lazy and out of position often. Shouldn't he be in front of the net instead of Fleury or Sullivan?...

Sunday offered a glimpse of what could have been this season for the Blackhawks. Were it not for a balky back, a torn groin and a scary ankle infection, who knows how many goals Eric Daze would have at this point, or where the Hawks would be in the...