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Deserving of the roar

By Jon Greenberg
ESPNChicago.com

Saturday, October 10, 2009

CHICAGO -- I swore to myself I wouldn't write about it. I wrote 20 times on the small chalkboard in my kitchen: "Don't write about the atmosphere. Don't write about the atmosphere." It's been done to death, the whole "Blackhawks' resurrection" angle. You get it already: These aren't Dollar Bill's Blackhawks. But then, during the introductions of the team's home opener Saturday night, against a feisty Colorado Avalanche team, I looked around the 300 level, the newly tagged "Madhouse on Madi ...

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