One of the original six teams in the National Hockey League and our city's hottest sports ticket in the 1960s, the Chicago Blackhawks have spent the last 15 years in sad decline. Late owner Bill Wirtz infamously refused to televise home games, alienating and eroding the Hawks' longtime fan base; the United Center crowd booed his memorial service. Happily, things are finally looking up as scion Rocky Wirtz mends bridges with help from exciting young stars Patrick Kane and Jonathan Toews and former Cubs PR guru John McDonough. Today's rare outdoor NHL scrum is another marketing coup, which Wrigley Field nabbed over a competing bid from recently shuttered Yankee Stadium.