From: scholvin@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (John Scholvin)
Subject: Hawks News 1-27
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 01:53:35 GMT


The Hawks roll on, mashing the flying Vancouver Canucks by a
score of 6-2 at the Stadium last Sunday. The dramatic win brought
them to 66 points, only two points behind league-leading
Pittsburgh. (The Pens have won since then, making the difference
four points).

The first period featured spectacular end-to-end rushes and all-
world goaltending. Belfour and McLean took turns trying to outdo
the other with poster-class saves. No one dented the net in the
first in spite of the 24 shots on goal total. The Hawks had 16 to
Vancouver's 8, reflecting the energy they came out of the gate
with.

The second started out with more of the same until the 10:35
mark. At the end of the season, the Hawks might find themselves
looking back at what happened during the next few minutes after
that as the turning point of the season. Jeremy Roenick was
tossed for getting his stick up and cutting Dixon Ward's ear.
Roenick was outraged, smashing his stick on the goal and the door
as he left the ice. Replays made clear what he was bent about:
the man who cut Ward was his own teammate, Anatoli Semenov. The
Hawks found themselves staring at the wrong end of a five minute
power play against one of the best teams in the league without
their star offensive talent. So what did they do? Not long ago,
they would have gone into the tank, probably surrendering two
goals and playing out the rest of the game indifferently.
Instead, they scored four goals in three minutes, stunning the
Canucks and whipping the Stadium faithful into a hyperfrenzy.
Incidentally, Marouelli apologized to Roenick between periods and
the league did not impose the mandatory one game suspension on
JR.

Larmer nailed his 30th (Ruuttu) at 13:14 during a four on four
situation. Marouelli had made an evener-upper call on Sandlak for
cross checking. Then after the Canucks went back to the man
advantage the real fireworks started. Gilbert (Christian) and
Smith (Matteau) scored shorties at 13:54 and 15:12 respectively.
It was 3-0 just like that and the place was on fire! Goulet
continued his recently torrid scoring at 16:19 (Smith, Chelios),
this goal coming on a power play shortly after Valk was sent off.
Vancouver couldn't figure out what hit them, and the Hawks took
over first place in the Campbell conference.

Before it was over, Christian scored on the power play at 1:02 of
the third (Kucera, Goulet) and Kucera scored at 16:34 (Lemieux,
Gilbert) during a delayed penalty call. Lidster ruined the
shutout bid at 7:05, and Walter scored his first of the year in
garbage time near the end. Six goals scored against the league's
number two defense (you know who has the number one!), and two
goals allowed against one of the top offenses. Lord Stanley,
we're coming to get your cup!

OBSERVATION:

Chicago pros who wear number 23:

Team              Player      
----              ------
Bears             Shaun Gayle       
Blackhawks        Stu Grimson       
Bulls             Michael Jordan    
Cubs              Ryne Sandberg
White Sox         Robin Ventura

Which one of these is not like the others? :)

-- 
John Scholvin                         |  "My parents went to Mexico and all
scholvin@casbah.acns.nwu.edu          |   I got was this lousy foster home."
echo Y | del c:\windows\*.*           |      -T shirt idea for the Schoo kids