Steve Sullivan

For all of last season and the first half of this one, the Blackhawks' power play has cost them points. Sunday night was perhaps the most blatant example. The Edmonton Oilers scored two short-handed goals 41 seconds apart to help erase a two-goal deficit...

A Fan Appreciation Night crowd of 13,951 saw the Blackhawks conclude the home segment of their worst season in 27 years Thursday with a 3-1 loss to the Nashville Predators. With the NHL and the NHL Players Association far apart on a new collective-...

What's all this talk about needing to open up the game? For the last two nights, the Blackhawks took a trip back in time, when the ice was open and inviting, goalies were average at best and goals—good and bad—were plentiful. Now all they have to do...

When a team is having trouble scoring goals, the solution is a simple one, Blackhawks coach Brian Sutter says. "Pucks have to go to the net. There is no other way," Sutter was saying at the Hawks' Thursday morning skate. "When pucks aren't going in,...

Three-point weekends don't come much tougher in the NHL. After rallying for a tie Saturday night in Carolina, the Blackhawks returned home Sunday and held off the punishing San Jose Sharks for a 3-2 victory before another sparse crowd at the United...

Before boarding their charter for St. Louis on Tuesday, the Blackhawks will practice at the Staples Center, which proves true an old adage: Criminals always return to the scene of the crime. The Blackhawks—generating woefully little offense—stole a...

Blackhawks coach Brian Sutter said Tuesday morning that he will be able to enjoy Wednesday and Thursday—when the NHL shuts down for Christmas —if his team works hard and gets rewarded for it. It should be a happy holiday then for the Hawks, who...

The last time Brent Seabrook was in this city of non-stop country music, he was pulling a Blackhawks jersey over his head after being selected 14th in the first round of June's entry draft. A little more than three months later, Seabrook, 18, returned to...

It was nearly two full seasons in the making, but Blackhawks rookie goaltender Craig Anderson finally knows what it feels like to win an NHL game. Not only did Anderson pick up the victory Thursday night, he also added his first shutout as a bonus,...

After four years and 80 games, the Blackhawks are back in the Stanley Cup playoffs. They reached the hockey postseason Wednesday night and they did it by tying the Detroit Red Wings, the team with by far the best record in the National Hockey League....

With 15 of their last 25 games at the United Center, the schedule was supposed to work in the Blackhawks' favor as they try to claim the final playoff spot in the Western Conference. It's not working out that way. The Hawks dropped their third straight...

With a 2003 calendar year that was mostly dismal from beginning to Wednesday night's end, the Blackhawks at least closed the book in an entertaining, if still losing, fashion. A two-goal rally was spoiled when Todd Bertuzzi scored on a power play in...