Matthew Barnaby

Of all the new rules this season, the one Blackhawks coach Trent Yawney has railed against the most is the automatic delay-of-game penalty for shooting the puck into the crowd in the defensive zone. Twice in the last three minutes Saturday, the delay...

What goes around usually comes around pretty quickly in sports. Monday night in Denver, the Blackhawks lost a game on what would be considered a bad goal in the final seconds against the Avalanche. Wednesday night they were the beneficiaries of three...

It's not a good idea to give any team eight power plays in one period, let alone a team riding an eight-game winning streak and playing the best hockey in the NHL. Yet there were the Blackhawks on Friday night, one after another, trudging off to the...

If there is such a thing as a must-win game in the first month of the season, Sunday night was it for the Blackhawks. With their captain and three of their top forwards sidelined with injuries and a stern upcoming schedule, the Hawks could ill afford...

Why stop at one penalty when taking two is so easy now? That seems to be the philosophy of the Blackhawks, who have made a habit of taking another penalty when already short-handed. "We know [the referees] are going to call them, so we have to be...

For large parts of the three-game series between the Blackhawks and Detroit, the Hawks outplayed or played even with the Red Wings. Yet Detroit won all three convincingly, including Tuesday night's 4-1 victory at Joe Louis Arena. The loss dropped the...

For the first quarter of the season, center Denis Arkhipov was considered a disappointment. Signed as a free agent to be the Blackhawks' second center and provide some offense, it took Arkhipov nine games before he scored his first goal. For three games,...

Brenden Morrow scored in the eighth round of a shootout to give the Dallas Stars their 11th victory without a loss in the NHL's new tiebreaker, a 3-2 decision over the Blackhawks on Friday night. Chicago's Matthew Barnaby and Dallas' Sergei Zubov...

It would be easy to look at Wednesday night's final score and come to the conclusion that not much has changed for the Blackhawks since they were last seen in April 2004. But coach Trent Yawney isn't going to draw too many conclusions after a season-...

As far as opponents go, the Nashville Predators couldn't have asked for a better matchup to secure a playoff berth than the Blackhawks. The Hawks have been as competitive in Nashville recently as your standard homecoming opponent for a major college...

Teams can't lose to the two bottom-feeders in the league often and consider themselves playoff-worthy. So, with 46 games left in the season after Wednesday's 2-1 loss at home to the 30th-place St. Louis Blues, the question for the Blackhawks is: What's...

If there has been one player who has personified the struggles the Blackhawks have gone through this season it's Kyle Calder. Normally rock-solid and dependable, this season has been a constant battle for Calder, who is a minus-7 in his last six games...