Mike Kiley

It`s more than just another preseason game Friday night for Blackhawks goalie Jimmy Waite. If he has any chance to open the regular season Thursday night at the Stadium against...

Brian Noonan appreciates hearing associate coach Darryl Sutter say that he is likely to make this year`s Blackhawks. But the right wing takes nothing for granted. How can he when...

Goalie Greg Millen didn`t want to make a retirement speech Monday when he left the Blackhawks and returned home to Peterborough, Ontario. But it sounded like one nonetheless. Unless another...

Bryan Marchment will run the risk of injury this season. But Blackhawks coach Mike Keenan emphasized that makes him no different than any other player. Louis Kolb, the Hawks` doctor,...

Mike Keenan never thinks small. Ask him if he will pursue Mark Messier, who has said he wants out of Edmonton, and the Blackhawks` coach and general manager quickly assents...

Left wing Dan Vincelette could have played hockey in France this season. Besides his salary, the team there would have given him a car and paid for his apartment and...

Associate coach Darryl Sutter is trying to decide whether to test Kerry Toporowski`s toughness this weekend in the Blackhawks` early preseason games. Sutter`s only concern is whether Toporowski, just 20,...

Look for Blackhawks right wing Wayne Presley to follow Doug Wilson to San Jose in a trade that will be completed before the start of the regular season Oct. 3....

Brian Noonan hopes to avert a feared sentence: minor-league lifer. ''I`m 26, and this is going to be a big year for me,'' he said. ''If I go down again,...

Doug Wilson`s agent, Larry Kelly, said Tuesday the Blackhawks are pressing San Jose for its first-round draft pick next June to allow the 34-year-old defenseman to escape to the Sharks....