I've spent all 28 years of my life in Chicagoland, and I've never been more proud of a sports team exiting the playoffs. In fact, the 2008-2009 Chicago Blackhawks should go down as the best sports story of the year - period. A team that was so dead to this city was jump started to life. A league, rather a sport that could hardly find its way into a newspaper was catapulted to the front page.

I spent last night lying on my couch, but my heart was pumping so far out of my chest I was starting to worry about my ceiling. In between miracle Cristobal Huet saves, I was laughing out loud at my Twitter feed, marveling at how many fellow former hockey fanatics were once again reveling in their Chicago Blackhawks.

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In case you missed it this morning - Pat made a kid cry, much like he did to me on my first day at WGN. I feel your pain, Tyler. Here's the video.....




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