However, the Chicago Black Hawks defeated Detroit in the finals, winning the best-of-five series in four games and winning their own first title.

Although they lost that game to the Black Hawks 4 – 3, the next night they beat their expansion brethren, the Washington Capitals, 5 – 4.

However, the Smythe Division was so weak that year ( only the Black Hawks finished above. 500 ) that the Rockies were able to edge out the Vancouver Canucks for second place in the division by two points.

The Detroit Red Wings disposed of the New York Americans in their first round best-of-three series two games to one ( even as the Americans had analytical and notorious ex-Bruins star Eddie Shore ) and the Toronto Maple Leafs ousted the Chicago Black Hawks two games to none.

In 1970 – 71 the Flyers returned to the playoffs, but were swept by the Chicago Black Hawks in the first round.

The 1967 NHL Expansion depended on securing votes from the then-current NHL owners ; to ensure that Pittsburgh would be selected for expansion, McGregor enlisted Rooney to petition votes from James D. Norris, owner of the Chicago Black Hawks, and his brother Bruce Norris, owner of the Detroit Red Wings.

On October 21, 1967, they became the first team from the expansion class to beat an Original Six team, as they defeated the Chicago Black Hawks 4 – 2.

Pittsburgh achieved a playoff berth in 1972 only to be swept by the Chicago Black Hawks in the first round.

This finish made them the first champions since the 1938 – 39 Chicago Black Hawks to have failed to qualify for the playoffs both the seasons before and after their championship season.

The Chicago Blackhawks ( spelled as Black Hawks before 1986, and known colloquially as the Hawks ) are a professional ice hockey team based in Chicago, Illinois.

The Chicago Black Hawks joined the NHL in 1926 as part of the league's first wave of expansion into the United States.

For many years, the name was spelled " Black Hawks.

Several of them, including Doc Romnes, Taffy Abel, Alex Levinsky, Mike Karakas, and Cully Dahlstrom, become staples with the club, and under McLaughlin, the Black Hawks were the first NHL team with an all-American-born lineup.

The Black Hawks won their first game by beating the St. Pats 4 to 1.

The Black Hawks lost the 1927 first-round playoff series to the Boston Bruins.

The Black Hawks proceeded to have the worst record in the league in 1927 – 28.

In 1938 the Black Hawks had a record of 14 – 25, and almost missed the playoffs.

To this day, the 1938 Black Hawks possess the poorest regular-season record of any Stanley Cup champion.

The Black Hawks returned to the Finals in 1944 behind Doug Bentley's 38-goal season and their linemate Clint Smith leading the team in assists.

Norris had also been the Black Hawks ' landlord since his 1936 purchase of Chicago Stadium.

For the next eight years, the Norris-Tobin ownership, as a rule, paid almost no attention to the Black Hawks.

In 1967, the last season of the six-team NHL, the Black Hawks finished first, breaking the supposed Curse of Muldoon, 23 years after the death of Frederic McLaughlin.

In that season, despite Hull breaking his own previous record of 54 goals in a season with 58, the Black Hawks missed the playoffs for the first time since 1958 — and the last time before.

Late in the 1932 – 33 season, he was hired as coach of the Chicago Black Hawks and became general manager as well the following season, building a defensive squad around Lionel Conacher and goalie Charlie Gardiner.

On September 23, 2007, Milton Bradley tore his right ACL while being restrained by Padres manager Bud Black during an altercation with first base umpire Mike Winters.

* February 10 – Boxer Mike Tyson, the former undisputed heavyweight champion of the world, is found guilty of raping 18-year-old Desiree Washington, Miss Black Rhode Island, by a jury in Indianapolis.

** Boxer Mike Tyson is arrested and charged with the rape of Miss Black America contestant Desiree Washington 3 days earlier, in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Has performed with: actor / singer Danny Aiello, Richie Cannata ( saxophonist w / Billy Joel ), Marc Ford ( Black Crowes ), Peter Stroud ( Sheryl Crow ), Mike Huckabee ( political commentator / bassist ), Michael Wolff ( pianist-The Arsenio Hall Show and Sonny Rollins ), Harvie S ( bassist-Stan Getz and Tony Bennett ), Victor Jones ( drums-Dizzy Gillespie and Chaka Khan )

* Desiree Washington, contestant of Miss Black America whom Heavyweight boxer Mike Tyson was found guilty of raping

* Mike Bordin regularly performed as a member of Ozzy Osbourne's band, as well as Black Sabbath, and performed with Korn on tour when their drummer David Silveria suffered a broken wrist.

After Black Flag, she formed the two-bass duo Dos with Mike Watt ( to whom she was married between 1987 and 1994 ), who are still performing today.

Black Emperor was formed in 1994 in Montreal, Quebec, by Efrim Menuck ( guitar ), Mike Moya ( guitar ), and Mauro Pezzente ( bass ).

He was also known as " Black Mike " because of his fiery, competitive nature.

In late 2007, Bo Bice joined veteran Southern rock legends Jimmy Hall-vocals / sax / harmonica ( Wet Willie Band ), Henry Paul-vocals / guitar / mandolin ( Outlaws, BlackHawk ), Steve Gorman-drums ( Black Crowes, Jimmy Page ), " Dangerous " Dan Toler-guitar ( The Gregg Allman Band, The Allman Brothers, Dickey Betts & Great Southern ), Reese Wynans-keyboards ( Stevie Ray Vaughan ), Mike Brignardello-bass ( Giant, renowned session player ), Jay Boy Adams-guitar ( Texas blues solo artist ) to record Brothers of the Southland celebrating Southern rock with a renewed spirit and maturity.

McCartney's demos include " One and One Is Two " ( 1964, eventually an uncharted single for Mike Shannon and the Strangers ), " Step Inside Love " ( 1968, given to Cilla Black ), " Goodbye " ( 1969, given to Mary Hopkin ), " Come and Get it " ( 1969, given to Badfinger ), and early versions of " We Can Work It Out " ( partially taped over by Lennon ) and " Michelle ".

Under a plan devised by Alistair Irwin and approved by General Sir Mike Jackson, on 16 December 2004 it was announced that the Black Watch was to join with five other Scottish regiments-the Royal Scots, the King's Own Scottish Borderers, the Royal Highland Fusiliers, The Highlanders and the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders-to form the Royal Regiment of Scotland, a single regiment consisting of 5 regular and 2 territorial battalions.

** Mike Berniker ( producer ) & the original Broadway cast for Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Presently, their status as a group is in question, as Mike G and Sammy B are touring ( Sammy B also toured as fellow Native Tongues member Black Sheep Dres ' DJ ), and Afrika Baby Bam now goes by B. A. M.

As her corpse drifts away, BOB / Leland enters the Black Lodge, where he encounters Mike and the Man from Another Place ( who is seated at Mike's left side as the aforementioned " arm ").

* Mike Fabulous, member of The Black Seeds and Fly My Pretties

That line-up consisted of Ripper Owens, Mike Portnoy, Mark Anthony of The Letter Black, Phil Demmel of Machine Head and David Ellefson.

While dying of cancer in 1963, he tells Mike about his experiences in the U. S. Air Force in the 1920s and about establishing the Black Spot, a club started by Will and his black Air Force buddies and originally meant exclusively for black members, but gradually began accepting members of other races as well.

He tells Mike that, in 1929, a year before the fire at the Black Spot, the entire gang was murdered by Derry residents when stopping through town to buy ammunition.

Although Dick Hallorann plays a minor role in this novel, by saving Mike Hanlon's father at the fire at the Black Spot, he plays a more significant role in the novel The Shining.

* ' Black Book ' booklet by Mike Nystul ( 1993 )

Lance Bangs ( born September 8, 1972 ) is an American filmmaker, documentarian, and music video director who has created videos for Sonic Youth, Nirvana, Green Day, the Arcade Fire, the Shins, The Thermals, Belle & Sebastian, Menomena, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, R. E. M., Mike Watt, Death Cab for Cutie, The Black Keys, Kanye West, Odd Future, and Pavement.

* Black, Mike.