The Chicago Blackhawks appear to be limping towards the finish line as the regular season concludes.
The club was dismantled 6-2 at the hands of the Dallas Stars on Tuesday, marking Chicago's sixth loss in its last seven games. However, with eyes still on a Stanley Cup repeat, the team remains confident it can hit the brakes on the current skid.
"Hopefully we can look back on this and say, 'It's better it happened now than in a month or so,'" Patrick Kane told Tracey Myers of CSN Chicago. "But we have to shake out of it.
"It seems to be the same old story where we get behind and we're playing catch-up the rest of the game."
The Blackhawks have averaged just two goals a game over their last seven contests, and while they may have come up just short on two occasions - losing two games to the shootout - captain Jonathan Toews doesn't think they can wait for their luck to improve.
"You can't blame it on bad luck," said Toews. "You just need to work through some of these games we're not getting the bounces."
The Blackhawks are sure to be back in the playoffs for the eighth straight season, and maybe then things will start to turn around. The team has been the picture of postseason success, winning three Cups while amassing a playoff record of 73-44 since the 2008-09 season.
