Bryan Smolinski

He has a long way to go to be considered his hockey equivalent—chances are he won't come close to getting there because only Wayne Gretzky occupies that spot—but there are some parallels between Martin Havlat's first season in Chicago and Michael Jordan's...

All season the Blackhawks have struggled to score goals at even strength or on the power play. Put a Hawks player in the penalty box, however, and it's a different story. For whatever crazy reason, the Hawks are among the league leaders in short-handed...

During exhibitions it appeared the Blackhawks had a more potent offense, but in Thursday night's season opener in Nashville they looked more like the Edmonton Oilers circa 1985 than the slogging, impotent unit that has been on display the last couple of...

The Blackhawks now have faced every team in the Western Conference and coach Denis Savard thinks he knows which one is the best. "This is the best team we've played by far this year," Savard said after the San Jose Sharks methodically dismantled the...

Bad hands have made short work of good intentions for the Blackhawks countless times this season, and it happened yet again Friday night. The offensively challenged Hawks gave the Edmonton Oilers all they could handle at Rexall Place on the fifth stop of...

He never would say it publicly because two points are two points, and they have been rare around here lately. But deep down it had to botheran ex-defenseman such as Blackhawks coach Trent Yawney just a bit that the first three victories of the season...

Playing the New Jersey Devils apparently rubbed off on the Blackhawks. One night after learning how to play a tight, low-scoring game from the NHL's masters, the Hawks applied what they learned to snap their eight-game losing streak with a 3-1 victory...

Nikolai Khabibulin was happy to win Sunday, no question about that. But, boy, just once he would like to have an easy game. "Every time we jump to a big lead, we can't seem to stick with it and get an easy game," the goaltender said after the...

He wanted it to be an important goal and they don't come much bigger than a game-winner. Peter Bondra became the 37th player in NHL history Friday night to score 500 goals when he jumped on a rebound of a Jassen Cullimore shot 5 minutes 37 seconds into...

Lost in the aftermath of Martin Havlat's sensational debut was an opener that was just as important for the Blackhawks' fortunes this season. Rene Bourque, beginning his second season in the NHL and just his third as a professional, had a short-handed...

Denis Savard must have had a sense of déjà vu as he watched Pierre-Marc Bouchard score the game-winning goal for the Minnesota Wild in the sixth round of the shootout Tuesday night. Bouchard executed a spin-o-rama, a move Savard made famous, to beat...

Maybe when Martin Havlat gets into game shape, he'll really start showing people something. Of course, it's hard to imagine Havlat doing much more than he did in his first two games after a seven-week layoff because of a sprained ankle. In the second of...