Dave Bolland got a nice, new well-deserved contract in the off-season but isn't on the ice at training camp and won't be, the club says, for three-four days. He didn't play, as scheduled, in the Blackhawks' Shootout at Cog Hill on Labor Day, either, but was there to watch the golf event. At that time I was told he didn't play golf as a precaution to keep him healthy for training camp. An outside-the-organization source told me the injury was to his shoulder, but the Hawks said ``lower body'' when training camp opened. Now they say it's ``lower back.'' Who knows what it is, but the Hawks need this guy. Bolland's health status could become a sensitive issue as the season closes in.
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Len Ziehm just completed his 40th year as a member of the Sun-Times sports department. He has been the beat writer for the Chicago Blackhawks since the 2001-02 season and he covered the minor league Chicago Wolves of the American Hockey League as part of his writing duties before that, starting with the Wolves' creation in time for the 1994-95 season.
In addition to covering hockey Ziehm has been the Sun-Times golf writer for the past 39 years, during which he covered 25 U.S. Opens, 15 Masters and 17 PGA Championships.
Prior to assuming Blackhawks' duties he was the beat writer for Northwestern sports for 11 years, which encompassed the Wildcats' run to the 1995 Rose Bowl, and beat man on soccer from 1984 through 2008. He was selected into the Illinois Soccer Hall of Fame in 2004.
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