Rene Bourque

The Blackhawks are running out of season. The knowledge that they again gave the NHL's top team a rough time just isn't enough these days as the games click off the schedule with the Western Conference playoffs looming. The Hawks' 3-1 loss Tuesday...

The Blackhawks have found some innovative ways to lose during their current eight-game losing skid, but Friday night it was old-fashioned poor goaltending that led to the latest defeat. Nikolai Khabibulin, who has ranged from spectacular to merely...

Jonathan Toews and Phil Kessel renewed acquaintances Thursday night. The young, talented forwards met four times in college and often in international competition while Toews played for Team Canada and Kessel was on Team USA. And Thursday it was...

The Blackhawks are taking this short-handed thing to the extreme. With their lineup depleted do to injuries and a flu-bug that the team earlier in the day, the Hawks stayed in short-handed mode by scoring twice while down a man on the ice in a 2-1...

The Blackhawks honored Hall of Fame goaltender Tony Esposito before the game and Nikolai Khabibulin honored him between the pipes during it. Khabibulin stopped 25 shots to record his second shutout of the season and 38th of his career Wednesday night...

The Montreal Canadiens went out of their way to make the Blackhawks feel welcome in their city Tuesday night. Before the game, Frank Sinatra singing about his kind of town was piped into the Bell Centre and Montreal treated Hawks legends warmly during...

The continued adventures of the baffling Blackhawks hit the United Center ice Wednesday night. A night after getting hammered against a St. Louis team just above them in the standings, the Hawks outclassed the top team in the Northwest Division. They had...

For a brief while Friday night, the Blackhawks' present took a back seat to the past. Once the red carpet on the pregame ceremony honoring Hawks legends Bobby Hull and Stan Mikita was rolled up, the Hawks went back to the business of fighting for a...

The last time the Blackhawks defeated the Red Wings four straight games, five members of the team hadn't been born. The Hawks accomplished the feat Saturday night for the first time since the 1985-86 season with a 5-3 victory before a crowd of 20,006...

The Blackhawks are losing games they believe they should be winning, and as a result frustration is beginning to set in. Despite outshooting the Atlanta Thrashers and seemingly controlling much of the play, the Hawks fell 3-2 before a crowd of 15,789...

A night after picking up a point on the bottom-feeding Los Angeles Kings, the Blackhawks had to crane their necks to look up at the Anaheim Ducks on Friday. They probably should have ducked. In a fight- and penalty-filled contest—the most costly ones...

It's only appropriate the red-hot Blackhawks continued their trek through Western Canada with a match-up against the Calgary Flames. The Hawks are about to go supernova after collecting their sixth consecutive victory, a 3-2 overtime thriller Friday...