Bust A Move Adam / Photo by: the_mel

As most of you know by now, a selection of former and current Blackhawks, in addition to players from around the “World”, played a charity hockey game on Friday night at the Allstate Arena. The good news is over $300K was raised for the Ronald McDonald House near Lurie Children’s Hospital. The bad (or perhaps best) news was that the game was so beyond ridiculous that you had to laugh. And cry. It was better than “Cats.”

The World Team beat the team of assorted Blackhawks 16-15 in a shootout. Because we take journalism so seriously here at Runs On Duncan, I humbly present to you a summary of this game, courtesy of the most awful, silly and absurd photos I took while in the third row.

Warning – extremely photo-heavy post after the jump. If you still own a Blackberry, I’d hate for it to burst into flames if you try to view this.

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Photo: @RMHCCHI/Twitter

It’s Chicago versus The World, and it’s all for charity.

Members of the 2010 Stanley Cup-winning Blackhawks team — including Jonathan Toews, Patrick Kane, Patrick Sharp, Adam Burish, and Brian Campbell — will be taking on various other hockey stars in “Champs for Charity” at Allstate Arena. This exhibition game will take place on October 26 at 7:30pm  and will benefit the Ronald McDonald House in Streeterville.

To get your tickets, go here. For a list of who will be there, check it out after the jump.

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October 7, 2011

8:30 PM ET/7:30 PM CT

Comcast SportsNet Chicago, Fox Sports Southwest, WGN 720

Chicago Blackhawks
Record: 0-0-0
Points: 0
Western Conference Standing: N/A
Central Division Standing: N/A

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Dallas Stars
Record: 0-0-0
Points: 0
Western Conference Standing: N/A
Pacific Division Standing: N/A

The enemy’s Aerys Sports site: Deep In The Heart Of Texas

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Trade bait update as of February 25th. FINALLY.

Nick Boynton was placed on waivers today. I’ll miss him being a pylon, his inability to play defense despite being paid to be a defenseman, and his unwavering commitment to taking the dumbest penalties known to man when the Blackhawks finally had momentum going their way. It was like having Matt Walker back in the lineup. Ah, memories…

I mean, John Scott is functionally useless, but at least he’s funny about it.

So, what’s next? Unconfirmed Twitter reports say that the Blackhawks have put in a claim for Buffalo Sabres captain Craig Rivet, who’s on re-entry waivers. If you don’t know how waivers work — you might be Evgeni Nabokov or the St. Louis Blues, who didn’t think of looking up “waivers” on Wikipedia.

In other news…

Bobby Hull is going to be at the Rockford IceHogs game on February 26th. He has obviously heard about my tales of drunkenness off of one “large cocktail” at the game (it was three-fourths vodka!) and has come to see about this for himself.  (Rockford Register Star)

The Blackhawks @ Capitals game on Sunday, March 13th has been flexed to be the NBC Game of the Week. It will air at 11:30am CT. (TV By The Numbers)

Ex-Blackhawk Adam Burish defends Patrick Kane. Aw, their bro-love endures! (ESPN Chicago)

And an informative article by the Wall Street Journal: Where The NHL Stashes Its Mistakes. Cristobal Huet, the erstwhile Blackhawks goalie, is mentioned. (WSJ)