Can you believe it's been five years ago today (October 23) since beesharps.com went online? Wow...quite remarkable, that. The site has been the one aspect of this team that either makes us the most hated or liked team (no one out and out loves us) in the whole ERHL. We're like the Maple Leafs - we get all the media attention (entirely due to our doing), yet we've no results to show for it.
Five years ago, the Chicago Blackhawks still sucked. In fact, they've pretty much sucked for 15 years, dating back to their impressive run to the 1992 Stanley Cup Finals. The team has been run by "Dollar" Bill Wirtz since, oh, about 1933, and has been run into the ground with amazing efficiency for the past decade or so. Wirtz wouldn't televise home games for the 'Hawks, convinced that if fans could watch the games on TV, they wouldn't bother to buy tickets. The move ended up alienating an entire generation of hockey fans in Chicago who are now more content in watching the AHL Wolves than the once great Blackhawks.
Well, Wirtz, the Robert Mugabe of the NHL, passed on not three weeks hence, leaving the tattered remains of the Blackhawk empire in the hands of his son, Rocky. Instead of staying the misguided course, Rocky waited barely a fortnight to make sweeping changes to his new team, as outlined in this article from The Hockey News :
WINDS OF CHANGE BLOWING IN CHICAGO
I miss the Blackhawks of old. Those mediocre teams with such players as Denis Savard, Doug Wilson, and Al Secord which would always crush even more mediocre teams like the North Stars and Red Wings in the playoffs for the right to be crushed even worse by the Oilers (or, in tragic circumstances, the Flames). Here's hoping the Hawks will be back in the playoffs, getting swept in the second round, soon.
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