With the latest NHL Championship banner hanging over their heads in Los Angeles, the Blackhawks knew they would have a fight on hand in Game 3. The Kings controlled most of the action and skated to a 3-1 win at the Staples Center. Now the Hawks lead in the series has been cut two games to one.
Kings goalie Jonathan Quick rebounded well after being pulled in Game 2, but the Hawks didn’t challenge him as much as they did at the United Center.
It didn’t take Los Angeles long to get on the scoreboard in the first period. Justin Williams was able to bounce the puck off Corey Crawford and it went over the Blackhawks goalie’s left shoulder.
The Kings were able to take a 2-0 lead over the Hawks in the second period. LA defenseman Slava Voynov broke his stick on his shot and scored his fifth goal of the playoffs.
The penalty kill was strong again for the Hawks and they really needed it in the second period after Duncan Keith nailed Kings Center Jeff Carter in the mouth with his stick. Keith was assessed two minor penalties and his teammates successfully killed off the four minutes of power play.
Chicagoan Katherine Hodges' Flickr stream is one of my favorite destinations on the website.
Using the name "Katherine of Chicago," she has an eye for capturing empty, lonely and semi-loved urban place—not to mention odd signage, overlooked spots and dead shopping malls.
The Plaza, formerly the Evergreen Plaza mall, closed last week. Most of the 61-year-old shopping center at 95th Street and Western Avenue will be demolished and replaced by a new mall. I figured Katherine and her camera would make her way there before they shut the doors and soft-soaped the windows. In the photo above of the ghostly escalator and the ones below, Katherine captures the last days of one of the first shopping malls in America. We'll take a look. But first, a quick email Q&A:
I enjoy flying into Chicago at night. The city is laid out before me like a giant Rand McNally map. The distinctive orange street lights pretty much define the city's borders. The various expressways are easily identified, as are the major diagonal streets. It's a fun way to pass the time while circling O'Hare.
So let's take a plane trip over the Chicago of eighty years ago. If you were an airplane pilot, could you find your way around the city in 1933?
Thai food generates heat unlike any other exotic cuisine in Chicago, literally and figuratively. In fact the current darling of local food fans is Rainbow Cuisine in Lincoln Square.
Yesterday the unhappy whispers I first heard a few weeks ago from my buddy Jim “Jersey Beat” Testa officially became news: The legendary rock club Maxwell’s will close at the end of July.
To say that the tiny (capacity: 200) club was the best in Hoboken, N.J. (population: 50,000) is meaningless. Nor does adding that it was for decades the finest music venue in the greater New York metropolitan region add much to understanding its importance.
Now, consider that pretty much every important underground rock band in the last 35 years not only has played Maxwell’s but cited it among its favorite clubs in the world, and you’ll be starting to close in on what was special about the place.
The brownstone on the corner of 11th and Washington just across the Hudson River from midtown Manhattan originally housed a shot-and-a-beer joint open only during break times for the Maxwell House Coffee factory down the block.
In the perennial battle to keep Asian carp and other riverborne invaders out of the Great Lakes, one intervention is often proposed as the only long-term solution: separate the Mississippi River and Great Lakes watersheds.
Or, put another way: restore the divide that existed until engineers reversed the flow of the Chicago River during the 19th century, a feat that earned Chicago its can-do reputation and paved the way for the city’s explosive growth.
Gov.
