1) The Hawks have a target on their back now since this streak has become so big and headline news. Every team plays Chicago as if it is a playoff game.
2) It is a Blackhawks, Red Wings game! Every game since I can remember have been like playoff games. No matter who is better in the standings, those games are always tough and good games.
3)Its the NHL! Any team can win on any night. No game is easy, all of them are tough games.

When the Red Wings were on that home winning streak last year, I was not saying oh they almost lost the islanders or columbus at home. I was rooting for them (unless they were playing the Hawks of course) to keep it going. I was mad that Vancouver ended that streak but hell they played their tale off and should not take anything away from the wings during those 20+ no matter who they played.
As a Blackhawks fan, I know this streak is going to end sooner rather than later, so let us enjoy the ride while it lasts. We need a lose in regulation so they can get that out of their way and just focus on the cup. I am affraid of these games coming up with the Avs but no matter what happens and who we loose too, it was fun!

GO HAWKS 19-0-3!

Cry baby cry
Make your mother sigh
She’s old enough to know better
So cry baby cry cry cry cry baby
Make your mother sigh

I couldn’t name a Nickleback tune if my life depended on it, but they’ve done rather well coming as they do from a tiny prairie town in filthy rich Alberta. As far as I’m concerned, rock and roll quit producing anything original after the Beatles and certainly after the premiere of Saturday Night Fever. New wave, punk and grunge did its best, but the mindless repetition and techno-slop served up today is just that…

Ditto the hockey. Advancements in equipment, use of helmets, and small rinks have ruined the game. Was a time when every team had two or three players of Datsyuk’s ilk. Now, you just need to be big, dirty, and willing to give your brain to science by the time you reach forty five. I miss old time hockey and I miss caning in the schools, the world is sorrier for the loss…

It’s funny to me that you went to the “inbred children in their basement” chestnut, especially given your post @ 3:48 p.m. If that doesn’t reek of immature and petulant denial in the face of the reality that, while yes, Chicago has been on the receiving end of some breaks, they are not some bumbling team of retreads that just stumbled their way to this streak.

It’s my honest opinion that your honest opinion will never give Chicago any credit, even in the absolutely absurd and win out and go 16-0 in the playoffs. So be it.

P.S. That attempt to defend Nickelback was awesome. And not in the way you probably wanted.

Nickelback is one of the most commercially successful Canadian groups, having sold more than 50 million albums worldwide and ranking as the eleventh best-selling music act, and the second best-selling foreign act in the U.S. behind the Beatles, of the 2000s. Billboard ranks them the top rock group of the decade, and their hit song “How You Remind Me” was listed as the top rock song of the decade and the fourth song of the decade. They were listed number seven on the Billboard top artist of the decade, with four albums listed on the Billboard top albums of the decade.

Do you need a hug? Is that all it is?

he’s talking about that great slap shot clearing attempt