FanHouse Stan Bowman

Reports began to surface this week regarding some significant moves by the Chicago Blackhawks. Five-year deals are coming for forwards Patrick Kane and Jonathan Toews, and defenseman Duncan Keith is apparently going to sign a mammoth 13-year deal for less annual money.

Stan Bowman is well aware that there's a public perception he got his new job as general manager of the Chicago Blackhawks because his dad, Hall of Fame coach Scotty Bowman, is a senior consultant with the team.

That doesn't bother him a bit.

"One thing I learned from my dad is that you can't control what people say or write, because they don't have all the information," Bowman told FanHouse on Tuesday. "I know what happened. My body of work can stand on its own. And ultimately, it comes down to performance, so I try not to worry too much about it. You just try to focus on your job."

The four scheduled meetings between the Minnesota Wild and Chicago Blackhawks in 2009-2010 just got quite a bit more interesting.

It wasn't enough that former Blackhawk Martin Havlat appeared to rip the organization on his Twitter page after Chicago chose to sign Marian Hossa and let Havlat go to Minnesota as a free agent. Now, Havlat is taking aim at the firing re-assignment of general manager Dale Tallon.