Chris Simon

The Northwestern Eagles won the game, but Presentation College won their respect at Swisher Field Saturday afternoon.  After clubbing the Saints 55-0 a year ago, Northwestern had a battle on its hands before recording a 35-10 non-conference football...

Faulkton: Raymond J. Huss, 89, of Faulkton passed away Tuesday, March 13, 2012, at the Faulkton Healthcare Center. Mass of Christian burial will be at 10:30 a.m. Friday, March 16, 2012, at St. Thomas Catholic Church, Faulkton, with Father Joji...

Wal-Mart employees have not only cost the retail giant thousands of dollars but have also put a local company out of business. It all surrounds a scheme they set up to steal and sell dozens of cell phones. It took more than three months of...

At a time when the best skating teams seem to be at an advantage in the new skater-friendly NHL, the Blackhawks faced two of the better ones in the league Saturday and Sunday. The results weren't promising. Sunday's 4-1 loss to the Edmonton Oilers...

Facing a double-digit deficit for the final playoff spot with the games now dwindling near the single digits, the Blackhawks—whether head coach Brian Sutter wants to admit it or not—have to have an eye on next season. Although Tyler Arnason's ice time...

Eric Daze returned Friday night after missing the season's first 15 games because of back surgery. But with 1 minute 26 seconds to play in regulation, another Blackhawks left wing, Chris Simon, stole the show to keep his former team from stealing the...

An old saying—the first game of a road trip is your last game at home—was making the rounds in the Blackhawks' locker room before Sunday night's game against the Rangers. If that's true, the next two weeks will be quite a ride for the Hawks. On the eve...

I read a lot about a "trapping defense." What exactly is it? --Jeff Butler, Skokie, Ill. Jeff, a "trap" is when all five skaters collapse into the neutral zone. Normally a team will have one or maybe two forwards pressure the opposition in their own...

If the Blackhawks were happy with their one point in Saturday's overtime loss to Nashville, they were positively giddy with their one point in Sunday's 3-2 overtime loss to the Colorado Avalanche. "Darn rights [sic]," Hawks coach Brian Sutter said....

When a team is having trouble scoring goals, the solution is a simple one, Blackhawks coach Brian Sutter says. "Pucks have to go to the net. There is no other way," Sutter was saying at the Hawks' Thursday morning skate. "When pucks aren't going in,...

The defensive miscues appear glaring and out of the norm. But Blackhawks coach Brian Sutter says mistakes happen every game. The only difference lately is that every mistake seems to cost the Hawks a game. A couple of defensive blunders and some...