Last night, I went to my second Blackhawks game, and it was a great game. They played the Colorado Avalanche, which was the team I saw the Blackhawks play the first time I went to a Blackhawks game. The scoring started when Andrew Shaw redirected a shot from Brent Seabrook for a goal about halfway through the first period to give the Blackhawks a 1-0 lead. The Avalanche answered when John Mitchell scored a goal with about one and a half minutes left in the first period to tie the game at 1-1. In the second period, the Avalanche took a 2-1 lead when Matt Duchene scored with about 7 minutes remaining in the period, and the Blackhawks could not answer during the rest of the period. Then it got really crazy. About two minutes into the third period, Jonathan Toews scored a short-handed goal to tie the game at 2-2. A short-handed goal is when a player scores a goal when his team is down at least one player because they have committed a penalty. As the game went on and the clock wound down in the third period, both teams had a few really good chances to take a commanding lead in the game, but nobody could put the puck in the net. Finally, with about a minute and a half left, the Blackhawks got the puck into the Avalanche zone and had a flurry of shots and near misses, but with 49.3 seconds left in regulation, Daniel Carcillo, a forward for the Blackhawks, was able to force the puck into the net to give the Blackhawks a 3-2 lead, and it turned out that the goal was Carcillo's first goal of the season. In the final seconds, the Avalanche were able to get one or two chances to tie the game, but they could not convert on those chances, and the Blackhawks won the game 3-2. The win was their 11th in a row, and stretched their streak of at least one point earned in a game to 24 games, which has demolished the previous record of games like that to start a season. In the 24 games, the Blackhawks have won 21 and have lost 3 in overtime. They will now try to break the 1980 Flyers team for most games straight of registering at least one point at any time during the season. That year, the Flyers were able to rattle off 35 such games in a row, 25 of which were wins and 10 of which were ties. The picture at the top is of Carcillo, #13, celebrating his game-winning goal Johnny Oduya and Nick Hjalmarsson.
So today has been really crazy. When I woke up, I thought that we had a snow day because I din't hear anybody. Then, when I looked outside, I saw practically no snow in the street, so I thought that we had school today. Next, I looked at my clock and it said 8:45 so I realized that we did have a snow day. I didn't do that much until my sister came down, and then we decided to make a big fort out of some blankets and chairs. We got the idea from when we made a fort like it last year, and I have to say that this year's version was a lot better. I have a picture of the inside of the fort and a picture of the outside of it at the bottom. Then, at 1, Chris, his brother, Will, his brother, Marco, and me went to the sled hill, and it was crazy over there. There were tons of people over there, and people were crashing into other people everywhere. We all kept going down in a little pod-like group, and we kept breaking apart from the others and we ran into and knocked down a lot of people. At one point, I had slipped while going up to the top of the hill, but I was able to catch and hang onto Chris's brother's coat, and while the rest of them were going down in their sleds, I was going down on nothing except for my stomach. It was also really fun when I would see a lot of people ahead of me, and then I would get turned around and I would start going backwards. After that, we went to the other side of the hill and went down the back of it, which was really fun, and then we had a massive snowball fight that was really intense and fun. Finally, we went back to the front of the hill and we did some more sledding as a pod. After a little while, we met some more of Will's friends, and we went down with them, and in the end, we all went down the hill in a 10-person group, and we kept falling into each other and other people and their sleds, and the group would always fall apart in one way or another by the time we got down to the bottom of the hill. After that, me, Marco, Will and his brother all went to Will's house, and we had another snowball fight before we went inside to warm up. Before we finally left, we had a final snowball fight, but this time it was everybody for themselves, and there were no teams. As a whole so far, the day has been great, and it has been my favorite snow day ever.
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AuthorHi. This is Ned. I am in 8th grade and these are my blogs. I will be updating them every week. Enjoy. Archives
May 2013
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