Dead Hawk
@deadhawk.bsky.social
Providing part-time, unpaid, untrained, and probably wrong hobbyist hockey analysis. Fan of the #Blackhawks and #GratefulDead. Feel free to claim all the analysis as your own, it’ll probably be wrong.
December 13, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Ugh. Do I have to start a podcast now?
Tristan Jarry to EDM?
December 12, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Ugh. Do I have to start a podcast now?
This is the post. With 3 minutes left.
December 8, 2025 at 3:32 AM
This is the post. With 3 minutes left.
Do not write about being on game 3 in four nights. Do not excuse this as young guys needing to learn how to play.
This is a garbage effort.
It’s time to move some things around.
This is a garbage effort.
It’s time to move some things around.
December 8, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Do not write about being on game 3 in four nights. Do not excuse this as young guys needing to learn how to play.
This is a garbage effort.
It’s time to move some things around.
This is a garbage effort.
It’s time to move some things around.
Alabama. Conference game blowout. No spots dropped.
Ohio State. Conference game close loss to number 1. Drops a spot.
Corruption.
Ohio State. Conference game close loss to number 1. Drops a spot.
Corruption.
December 7, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Alabama. Conference game blowout. No spots dropped.
Ohio State. Conference game close loss to number 1. Drops a spot.
Corruption.
Ohio State. Conference game close loss to number 1. Drops a spot.
Corruption.
This is, without questions, a pretty awful take.
December 6, 2025 at 6:50 PM
This is, without questions, a pretty awful take.
Tristan Jarry to EDM?
December 6, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Tristan Jarry to EDM?
This is a good one. Encourage you to read it.
Frank Nazar called Teuvo Teräväinen "one of the smartest players" he's ever played with.
I wanted to know exactly what he meant by that. The more I asked around, the more I heard things I'd never heard in all my years covering hockey.
Read it:
www.nytimes.com/athletic/685...
I wanted to know exactly what he meant by that. The more I asked around, the more I heard things I'd never heard in all my years covering hockey.
Read it:
www.nytimes.com/athletic/685...
Spin class: How Teuvo Teräväinen’s hockey smarts keep the Blackhawks in awe
Teräväinen takes his passing ability to degrees other players, even his own teammates, can’t fathom.
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:13 PM
This is a good one. Encourage you to read it.
November 29, 2025 at 6:34 PM
People are losing their minds about Arvid Söderblom right now. Let’s settle down a bit.
If you remove the 9 goal game that most goalies would have been pulled his number would look like:
29 25 .862
21 19 .905
46 45 .978
24 21 .875
21 19 .905
26 23 .885
33 29 .879
Save percentage .905
GAA 2.71
If you remove the 9 goal game that most goalies would have been pulled his number would look like:
29 25 .862
21 19 .905
46 45 .978
24 21 .875
21 19 .905
26 23 .885
33 29 .879
Save percentage .905
GAA 2.71
November 29, 2025 at 5:00 PM
People are losing their minds about Arvid Söderblom right now. Let’s settle down a bit.
If you remove the 9 goal game that most goalies would have been pulled his number would look like:
29 25 .862
21 19 .905
46 45 .978
24 21 .875
21 19 .905
26 23 .885
33 29 .879
Save percentage .905
GAA 2.71
If you remove the 9 goal game that most goalies would have been pulled his number would look like:
29 25 .862
21 19 .905
46 45 .978
24 21 .875
21 19 .905
26 23 .885
33 29 .879
Save percentage .905
GAA 2.71
As we enter the quarter mark of the 2025-26 season, it’s interesting to look at how teams are shooting (and defending shooting). Here’s a quick glance at where all 32 teams are recording shots on goal from (and their shooting % from each) and where they are allowing shots (and S%) from.
November 28, 2025 at 7:55 AM
As we enter the quarter mark of the 2025-26 season, it’s interesting to look at how teams are shooting (and defending shooting). Here’s a quick glance at where all 32 teams are recording shots on goal from (and their shooting % from each) and where they are allowing shots (and S%) from.
When you build algorithms to fit narratives.
November 28, 2025 at 1:25 AM
When you build algorithms to fit narratives.
Wait.
The NHL scheduled no games on Thanksgiving?
How are they so incredibly bad on this growing the game thing?
The NHL scheduled no games on Thanksgiving?
How are they so incredibly bad on this growing the game thing?
November 26, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Wait.
The NHL scheduled no games on Thanksgiving?
How are they so incredibly bad on this growing the game thing?
The NHL scheduled no games on Thanksgiving?
How are they so incredibly bad on this growing the game thing?
Excuse this rather plain chart. It should be no surprise that the SOG Differential in the second period is bad and getting worse for the #Blackhawks
Avs game was simultaneously the best 1st pd and the worst 2nd pd of the season.
These Hawks aren’t starting late, they are just restarting late.
Avs game was simultaneously the best 1st pd and the worst 2nd pd of the season.
These Hawks aren’t starting late, they are just restarting late.
November 24, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Excuse this rather plain chart. It should be no surprise that the SOG Differential in the second period is bad and getting worse for the #Blackhawks
Avs game was simultaneously the best 1st pd and the worst 2nd pd of the season.
These Hawks aren’t starting late, they are just restarting late.
Avs game was simultaneously the best 1st pd and the worst 2nd pd of the season.
These Hawks aren’t starting late, they are just restarting late.
Hockey is just not accessible.
Signed our kid up in a Learn to Play league. $305 for all the gear and 6 sessions. Great deal right? Nope.
Cheap helmets did not fit. We spent two visits to store to find one that did. $330 after hoping for a $60 replacement.
$665 and we haven’t been on the ice.
Signed our kid up in a Learn to Play league. $305 for all the gear and 6 sessions. Great deal right? Nope.
Cheap helmets did not fit. We spent two visits to store to find one that did. $330 after hoping for a $60 replacement.
$665 and we haven’t been on the ice.
November 7, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Hockey is just not accessible.
Signed our kid up in a Learn to Play league. $305 for all the gear and 6 sessions. Great deal right? Nope.
Cheap helmets did not fit. We spent two visits to store to find one that did. $330 after hoping for a $60 replacement.
$665 and we haven’t been on the ice.
Signed our kid up in a Learn to Play league. $305 for all the gear and 6 sessions. Great deal right? Nope.
Cheap helmets did not fit. We spent two visits to store to find one that did. $330 after hoping for a $60 replacement.
$665 and we haven’t been on the ice.
Connor Bedard is currently ranked in the 95th, 98th, and 99th %ile of total speed burst categories.
This is not a small thing. And if it looks like he his flying on the ice it’s because he is.
He’s also logged the 8th most miles skated by forwards.
This is not a small thing. And if it looks like he his flying on the ice it’s because he is.
He’s also logged the 8th most miles skated by forwards.
November 6, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Connor Bedard is currently ranked in the 95th, 98th, and 99th %ile of total speed burst categories.
This is not a small thing. And if it looks like he his flying on the ice it’s because he is.
He’s also logged the 8th most miles skated by forwards.
This is not a small thing. And if it looks like he his flying on the ice it’s because he is.
He’s also logged the 8th most miles skated by forwards.
Maybe Jeremy Roenick should give Connor Bedard a fist bump after tonight’s game.
October 29, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Maybe Jeremy Roenick should give Connor Bedard a fist bump after tonight’s game.
Such a great idea to have the frozen frenzy all in about 7 hours on a random school night. So very dumb.
October 28, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Such a great idea to have the frozen frenzy all in about 7 hours on a random school night. So very dumb.
I believe 8:52pm local time is an incredibly stupid time to start a game no matter the day of the week.
Let’s grow our sport in a way no one can watch it.
Let’s grow our sport in a way no one can watch it.
I'm just going to say it, because sometimes it takes an incredibly brave person to say an incredibly brave thing:
I believe that 8:52 p.m. local time starts on school nights are bad.
I believe that 8:52 p.m. local time starts on school nights are bad.
October 15, 2025 at 11:57 PM
I believe 8:52pm local time is an incredibly stupid time to start a game no matter the day of the week.
Let’s grow our sport in a way no one can watch it.
Let’s grow our sport in a way no one can watch it.
Levshunov should be in Chicago, but if we are going to put him in timeout let’s just send him to Rockford. This is a bit silly.
Levshunov is running the second power-play unit, but, as we know, that doesn't mean he’s playing.
October 13, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Levshunov should be in Chicago, but if we are going to put him in timeout let’s just send him to Rockford. This is a bit silly.
Lukas Reichel Prove It Game volume 9.
Statline: 1 hit, 2 giveaways
It is time.
Statline: 1 hit, 2 giveaways
It is time.
October 12, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Lukas Reichel Prove It Game volume 9.
Statline: 1 hit, 2 giveaways
It is time.
Statline: 1 hit, 2 giveaways
It is time.
NHL Network is the biggest piece of garbage. Please stop putting games on a network that is hardly available to anyone in the country or allow me to pay for a per game subscription.
October 11, 2025 at 11:42 PM
NHL Network is the biggest piece of garbage. Please stop putting games on a network that is hardly available to anyone in the country or allow me to pay for a per game subscription.