BICKELL with the Game-Winner...CRAWFORD playing 24-7-365 LOCKDOWN in the Net "ICE Program"...Forget "Drive Home Safely"...hit your Local Water-Hole then drive Home safely...HAWKS Win! HAWKS Win!..."FROZEN TALK" 1901 West Madison..HAWKS up on WILD 1- NIL

The Blackhawks will make you go through all the refreshments, the cooler, and whatever else you had at your BlackHawks Game 1 Party. In the end it was all worth it as the Hawks go up 1-0 on a feisty Wild Bunch winning on a Bickell Goal more than halfway through the 1st overtime period.

The Blackhawks knew coming in it was going to be tough as the Wild struck first just 5 minutes in frame one. Hawks Winger Marian Hossa then struck in Period two and tied the game up. Then both goalies were going at it stop after stop as the Wild Goalie Josh Harding wasn't even suppose to play if it wasn't for starting Wild Net Minder Niklas Backstrom getting hurt during warm-ups. That was fool's gold for Hawks Nation as Harding more than rose to the occasion stopping some 35-37 shots and that second on that went in was inevitable.    

The Hawks Net Minder Corey Crawford like during the season played "Warden of the Madhouse on Madison" stopping everything but the Suns flowing from Concessions. Crawford stopped 26 of 27 shots as the Hawks will go to Ray Emery for game Two as the Hawks have been telling everyone in Ice Games all season..."Two Net Minders are better than your one".

The game played out like both suspected tight checking and fundamental play in the zones and that's Ice Games Winning Time Hockey to boot. No Team will give you an easy one and if they do and you capitalize that same problem will not happen the rest of the series. Hawks out shot the Wild 37-26 including a barrage of the "Frozen One" in the 3rd frame.

Hawks now will face the Wild in Game two on Friday May 3 at 930pm ET...at the MAdhouse on Madison.

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