Michal Handzus

A four-game losing streak brought out the Blackhawks' mean streak. The Hawks hit almost everything that moved in a Los Angeles uniform Wednesday night as they defeated the Kings 6-3 before a crowd of 12,534 at the United Center. Tuomo Ruutu started...

In the arc of any season, there are unexpected descents. For the Rangers, there already were damaging losses to lower-tier teams: Phoenix, Edmonton, Tampa, Florida. Add last night's game to the ledger. With a three-game winning streak on the line at...

With two top offensive players out, coach Trent Yawney made it simple for any Hawk who felt he should be on the ice more: "It's put up or shut up time." The silence at the United Center on Wednesday was deafening. Except of course for the small—and...

Last weekend coach Denis Savard said he would favor bringing back the current Blackhawks for next season. Considering the team will finish well out of the Western Conference playoff chase, the statement was a bit surprising. Or perhaps Savard believed...

Officially, the Blackhawks' losing streak is now at eight games. But Thursday night's 2-1 loss to the New Jersey Devils in a shootout wasn't a total defeat for the Hawks, who picked up a point for the first time since Oct. 18. "A huge point," center...

New coach. Same result -- so it seemed for two periods, anyway. The Blackhawks were plodding again and seemed on their way to another loss in Denis Savard's first game as head coach. And then, everything changed. Tuomo Ruutu took advantage of an...

When he was on a line with Michal Handzus and Martin Havlat, Radim Vrbata found a nice role as a second playmaker. With the Blackhawks lighting up the scoreboard in the first eight games, Vrbata was collecting more than one point a game.Going into...

As the Blackhawks took the ice Thursday, they found themselves in a familiar position. Not only were they on their annual trip while the circus invades the United Center, but they also were fighting early for their postseason lives.That fight took one...

He never would say it publicly because two points are two points, and they have been rare around here lately. But deep down it had to botheran ex-defenseman such as Blackhawks coach Trent Yawney just a bit that the first three victories of the season...

What looked like a potentially special through most of Friday's game in Dallas went south in a hurry for the Blackhawks. After imploding in the final five minutes and losing Martin Havlat for two to three weeks in Dallas, the Hawks watched another two-...

Jason Williams, who broke his toe in overtime of Sunday's shootout victory over the Ottawa Senators, was in the lineup Tuesday night, which on a one-game basis illustrated the kind of thorny issues the Blackhawks face at center. Thinking Williams would...

It's fitting that the Blackhawks wrapped up their 2006-07 season in the same place where it all began to go horribly wrong. Sunday's 3-2 loss to the Stars put the final touch on a 31-42-9 campaign and was their 10th straight game here without a victory....