Lighting The Lamp: Old Time Hockey

Lighting the Lamp With Rick Ackerman

It was only three or four years ago that Blues Nation hated the Detroit Red Wings more than any other NHL opponent; remember? But then the red-clad octopus-lovers were relocated to the Eastern Conference for the 2013-14 season after 35 years in the same division of the Western Conference with the Blues and it just hasn’t been the same since.

Of course, now a much more intense rivalry has developed, and today we can all enjoy loathing the red-clad, Chelsea Dagger-singing Chicago Blackhawks even more than we despised the Winged Wheelers. This divisional rivalry with tonight’s visiting Hawks has gone on for 46 long years. In 1970, Chicago joined the…