Today will be the final day of NBC Sports Chicago, CSN Chicago, Comcast SportsNet Chicago, whatever you prefer. It’ll go off the air at midnight tonight and CHSN will launch tomorrow at 5pm, 2 hours before our first televised preseason game against Minnesota.
This channel has been around since October 1st, 2004. Since then we’ve had a lot of good and a lot of bad; among the bad being the final years in the mid 2000s before becoming contenders, the 2010 scandal breaking during the most painful Hawks season we’ve had in a good while (imo), Vosters, etc.
But there’s been a LOT of good! The channel was where you could watch every single Blackhawks game, home or away, in 2007 and hasn’t changed since. We got to see the 3 teams that won 3 Stanley Cups in the span of 5 years. The final years of Kane and Toews in a Hawks jersey, the final years of Pat and Eddie broadcasting Hawks games, etc.
I have been a Hawks fan since the shortened 2021 season, and I’m excited to see us win another and have a championship parade on the new network with Bedard, Leshunov, Nazar, etc.
What has been your favorite Hawks moment on this network? Mine to this point would either be our game against the Maple Leafs on Black Friday this past season with that amazing ending in OT, or a game probably nobody remembers from that shortened season against the Lightning where Malcolm Subban went off and then Pat called that crazy OT where there like 50 breakaways.
RIP to the best NHL theme, I hope CHSN has something good to replace it.
(Also, worth noting, Bulls media day is today and I would be shocked if we don’t hear anything new about CHSN during it.)