Rene Bourque

Blackhawks defensemen have been doing some forward thinking this season. With three goals in Wednesday night's victory over Columbus and another in the Hawks' 4-2 win over the St. Louis Blues on Friday night at the United Center, the defensive corps...

Whenever there were an odd number of men on the ice Tuesday night the Blackhawks found trouble. The San Jose Sharks scored two power-play goals and a short-handed goal and went on to snap the Hawks' four-game winning streak with a 3-2 victory before a...

Head coach Denis Savard shuffled his forward lines for the Blackhawks' West Coast trip with the intent of bringing balance to his team. The result of the first of three games in four nights was about as uneven as a game can get as the Hawks fell 9-2 to...

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 may have been more the product of frustration, but Blackhawks general manager Dale Tallon may need to resort to some kind of drastic measures. After another lackluster loss Thursday night at the United Center, this one 6-1 against Colorado, Tallon...

It would be one thing if it was the young players who were making the mistakes, then it could be pinned on youth and growing pains. But while none of the youngsters has stepped to the fore and proclaimed himself a future top-notch NHL player, it is the...

If the planets had been aligned differently, Brad Richards could have been wearing a Blackhawks sweater Thursday night. With their current alignment, the center instead was playing for the Dallas Stars. The high-scoring Richards, whom the Stars...

With very little margin for error, the Blackhawks were marginal at best Wednesday night. The Hawks suffered a devastating blow to their postseason dreams with a 4-0 loss to the Columbus Blue Jackets before a crowd of 14,454 at Nationwide Arena. The...

With a little less than two minutes remaining in the first period Tuesday night, the lights at Nationwide Arena dimmed to near-complete darkness. Unfortunately for the Blackhawks, the lights quickly came back on to expose another unsightly exhibition...

If the Blackhawks were counting on their mastery of the Detroit Red Wings earlier this season to help snap their four-game losing streak Sunday night, they needed a better plan. The NHL-point-leading Red Wings raced to a 3-0 first-period lead and never...

The Blackhawks are running out of season. The knowledge that they again gave the NHL's top team a rough time just isn't enough these days as the games click off the schedule with the Western Conference playoffs looming. The Hawks' 3-1 loss Tuesday...

The Blackhawks have found some innovative ways to lose during their current eight-game losing skid, but Friday night it was old-fashioned poor goaltending that led to the latest defeat. Nikolai Khabibulin, who has ranged from spectacular to merely...