Where Will You Watch the Blackhawks Pursue the Stanley Cup?

Where will you be sitting at 7 p.m. Wednesday when the Chicago Blackhawks entertain the Boston Bruins in the first game of the Stanley Cup Finals?

If you are one of the approximately 20,000 people with a ticket to the United Center you know where you will be. If not, both Trax Tavern & Grill in Deerfield and Norton’s in Highland Park will be rocking with hockey enthusiasm.

Trax, which became an official bar of the Chicago Blackhawks hockey team a few years ago, installed a red light like the kind that sits atop a goal was installed on a poll in the bar. When the Hawks score, the crowd behaves much like it does in the United Center.

“We light the light and gets the music going,” Trax Manager Robby Cohn said describing what happens when the Hawks score a goal. “People get really excited. You should have seen it for the Stanley Cup (in 2010).”

Norton’s may not have the red light, but when Chicago puts the puck in the net, the music goes off along with the packed restaurant as it did when the Hawks defeated the Los Angeles Kings Saturday to advance to the finals. Co-owner Richie Holleb was one of them wearing a team sweater.

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