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First-period blues

By Jesse Rogers

Monday, October 12, 2009

CHICAGO -- If the Hawks have many periods like the first on Monday night, it's going to be a rather long season. They trailed 5-1 after the opening 20 minutes, giving up three of those goals in a 53-second span and all five over five and a half minutes. The last time they gave up that many in a period was on Jan. 5, 2007, against Nashville. Cristobal Huet was in net for the first three and, at first, heard boos. Then came the cheers when Joel Quenneville replaced him with Antti Niemi. Niemi ...

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