{"id":2525,"date":"2007-10-21T13:41:52","date_gmt":"2007-10-21T18:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/?p=2521"},"modified":"2007-10-21T13:41:52","modified_gmt":"2007-10-21T18:41:52","slug":"chicago-blackhawks-off-to-a-good-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/?p=2525","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Blackhawks off to a good start."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/pa190015.jpg\" title=\"Opening Face-Off.\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/pa190015.jpg\" alt=\"Opening Face-Off.\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/pa190021.jpg\" title=\"The Blackhawks celebrating rookie Jonathan Toews opening goal.\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/pa190021.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"The Blackhawks celebrating rookie Jonathan Toews opening goal.\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/pa190024.jpg\" title=\"Kevyn Adams taking the Face-Off in the Chicago\u2019s zone.\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/pa190024.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Kevyn Adams taking the Face-Off in the Chicago\u2019s zone.\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/pa190026.jpg\" title=\"Chicago led 3-0 at the end of the 1st period.\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/pa190026.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Chicago led 3-0 at the end of the 1st period.\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last Thursday night Julie and I headed to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.finleydunnes.com\/\" title=\"Finley Dunne's\">Finley Dunne&#8217;s<\/a> to watch overrated South Florida lose to Rutgers.  After talking to the bartender about the Hockey Package he offered us tickets to the <a href=\"http:\/\/scores.espn.go.com\/nhl\/recap?gameId=271019004\" title=\"ESPN:  Late goals lift Blackhawks over Avalanche.\">Blackhawks<\/a> game on Friday.  We had plans to do diner with <a href=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/?p=1163\" title=\"Black Hand Productions:  The Frenco Wedding.\">The Frencho&#8217;s<\/a> and Dom &amp; Kelly so we decided to just catch the beginning of the game and then bail.  It was worth it.  The tickets were in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unitedcenter.com\/suiterentals\/BudLightLegendsLounge.asp\" title=\"United Center:  Bud Light Legends Lounge.\">Bud Light Legends Lounge<\/a> which just so happens to have an open bar and buffet.  My kind of seats.<\/p>\n<p>I was completely amazed at the lack of filled seats in the areana.  At about 5 minutes before opening Face-Off I&#8217;m swear I could have counted everyone in the arena.  Seemed like it was in the hundreds.  There were whole sections that were empty or had 4 or 5 people in them.  Amazing.<\/p>\n<p>The Blackhawks got off to a quick start scoring two goals within the first 7 minutes and then taking a 3-0 lead before the 1st period was over.  We left after the 1st period but we&#8217;re seriously considering getting a 5 game package.  We took at a cab to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quartinochicago.com\/\" title=\"Quartino:  Ristorante, Pizzeria, Wine Bar.\">Quartino<\/a> and met up with everyone else for a night of more food and more drinks.  The Blackhawks ended up holding on for a 5-3 victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Thursday night Julie and I headed to Finley Dunne&#8217;s to watch overrated South Florida lose to Rutgers. After talking to the bartender about the Hockey Package he offered us tickets to the Blackhawks game on Friday. We had plans to do diner with The Frencho&#8217;s and Dom &amp; Kelly so we decided to just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,17],"tags":[55,87,173,255,386],"class_list":["post-2525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-sports","tag-blackhawks","tag-chicago","tag-hockey","tag-nhl","tag-united-center"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pazIS5-EJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}