Monday, June 24, 2013

Chicago's top line too much for Boston to handle

CHICAGO (AP) ? Patrick Kane and Jonathan Toews are not exactly imposing, their playoff beards about the only thing keeping them from being mistaken for somebody's little brothers.

Try telling that to the Boston Bruins and their bruising tandem of Zdeno Chara and Dennis Seidenberg.

Chicago's top line made the Bruins pay again Saturday night, with Kane scoring two more goals in a 3-1 victory that puts the Blackhawks one victory away from its second Stanley Cup title in four years. Since Blackhawks coach Joel Quenneville tinkered with his top line before Game 4 to reunite his two best players, Kane and Toews have combined for four goals and seven points.

And, most important, two wins.

"I think (Kane) gets excited playing with (Bryan) Bickell and Toews," Quenneville said. "They get excited about that togetherness, and they seem to read off each other. Everybody brings a little bit something different to the party, and they scored two huge goals for us tonight."

Whether the star-studded line stays intact for Monday night's potential clincher in Boston isn't certain, however. Toews didn't play at all in the third period, though he stayed on the bench and was badgering Quenneville to give him a shift.

"We're hopeful he'll be ready next game," Quenneville said. "He wanted to play. We'll see."

Kane and Toews are Chicago's version of peanut butter and jelly, a perfect combination that just isn't the same by itself. Drafted a year apart ? Toews was the third pick overall in 2006, Kane was first in 2007 ? they arrived together for the 2007-08 season and have been the cornerstones of Chicago's rejuvenation. They've already won one Stanley Cup, and began this year helping the Blackhawks set an NHL record for season-opening points.

"We're different style players, but I think we complement each other very well," Kane said of Toews. "We've played together for six years now. I know we didn't play together very much this year, but throughout times in the past you can look back at those times that we've had success."

But with the Blackhawks facing Boston, Quenneville decided to split up his young stars.

At 6-foot-9 and 255 pounds, Chara looks like a mountain on the ice ? and he's about as impassable. Seidenberg is equally formidable, and Quenneville didn't want them ganging up on his phenoms at the same time and neutralizing them.

But the experiment failed. Pretty miserably.

With no goals from either Kane or Toews in the first three games, the Blackhawks found themselves trailing the Bruins 2-1. Needing a spark, Quenneville put Kane and Toews back together again for Game 4.

"I think we bring three different styles of play," said Bickell, who has three points in the last two games.

Such a simple switch, yet it's turned the series around.

"Playing with Johnny and Bicks, they create a lot of space, and I've been taking advantage of the space they do make," Kane said. "I think everyone wants to be that guy in big-time games, and I've been lucky enough in a couple to step up."

Toews scored his first goal in almost a month ? May 25, to be exact ? in Game 4, while Kane got his first goal of the series. It was more of the same Saturday, with Kane's quick reflexes putting Boston on the ropes.

With 2:33 left in the first period, Johnny Oduya's slapshot hit Seidenberg's stick and shattered the blade. The puck trickled behind Boston goalie Tuukka Rask and Kane scooped it up and tucked it into the net to give Chicago a 1-0 lead.

He doubled the score just over five minutes into the second period, getting help from both Toews and Bickell.

Bickell picked up a pass from Toews and took a shot from the left side, along the goal line. He got his own rebound and circled around the net, looking like a shark searching for prey. He finally spotted an opening, but the puck caromed off the side of the net.

Kane pounced on the rebound, and Rask never had a chance.

"It's an exciting time," Kane said, "especially when you're scoring in games like this."

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/chicagos-top-line-too-much-boston-handle-030458173.html

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Saturday, June 22, 2013

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How the Design of Soda Cans Have Changed Over Time

How the Design of Soda Cans Have Changed Over Time

Things change over time. Famous logos morph from black and white text into ornately embossed colorful graphics. Home screens go from a few icons to pages and pages. Phones go from bricks with numbers to slates with touchscreens. It's just what happens. Little tweaks become overhauls. Just look at how your favorite soda cans have transformed.

Though Pepsi gets a lot of crap for trying to find a logo that sticks and Coca Cola gets a lot of credit for having the same logo after all these years (other than the New Coke fiasco), both their soda can designs have changed dramatically from its humbly sweet beginnings.

Bold Post culled together all these images of soda cans over the years ranging from a 1948 Pepsi to a 1964 7-Up and more. In the early years, it seemed like the design of the whole can changed a lot more frequently while recent years gave way more to little tweaks and additions.

My personal favorites? The 1971 Coca Cola. The 1978 Pepsi. 1972 7-Up. The 1981 Crush. And the 1985 Dr Pepper. See more soda can design changes here. [Bold Post via Design Taxi]

How the Design of Soda Cans Have Changed Over Time

How the Design of Soda Cans Have Changed Over Time

How the Design of Soda Cans Have Changed Over Time

How the Design of Soda Cans Have Changed Over Time

Source: http://gizmodo.com/how-the-design-of-soda-cans-have-changed-over-time-526550275

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Ex-inmate recalls Gandolfini?s quiet support

James Gandolfini (AP)James Gandolfini (AP)James Gandolfini, who passed away on Tuesday, will long be remembered for his consummate acting chops. For wrongly convicted Marty Tankleff of Long Island, however, the "Sopranos" star left an entirely different kind of legacy.

Years after Tankleff was convicted as a teenager for killing his parents in 1988, Gandolfini became a quiet supporter of the Long Islander as he fought for two decades to overturn the double-murder charge, the New York Daily News reports.

?Jim was loyal?it wasn?t like he did it for the publicity,? said Tankleff, 41.

Gandolfini learned about the case through Jay Salpeter, a former New York Police Department detective, while researching a role for the 2006 movie "Lonely Hearts." Gandolfini met Tankleff soon afterward, driving several hours upstate to see him at Great Meadow Correctional Facility.

?He was a genuine, nice person you could sit down and eat dinner with,? said Tankleff. ?He got involved with my situation when others were reluctant.?

At the upstate facility, Gandolfini spent two hours talking with Tankleff and showed up to support him in a Brooklyn courtroom two months later. While the actor declined to do media interviews, Lonnie Soury, the PR executive who led the campaign to free Tankleff, told the Daily News that his presence alone delivered a powerful, unspoken message.

?My feeling was we were going to have a friend for the life of Marty?s case,? recalled Salpeter

Tankleff?s sentence was overturned by an appeals court in December 2007. According to the Daily News, Tankleff is a now a paralegal working toward a law degree.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/gandolfini-leaves-legacy-support-ex-inmate-135820547.html

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