Any chance that momentum made the trip home from California with the Blackhawks disappeared Thursday night when coach Joel Quenneville tried to fix what wasn't broken.
Perhaps other technical explanations exist for why the Ducks beat the Hawks 2-1 in Game 3 of the Western Conference finals, but this one lingered in barrooms and living rooms all over Chicago: Quenneville played the wrong hunch.
You still can believe Coach Q has all the answers and question his decisions — especially ones this unusual and unexpected with the stakes so high.
In the first two games of the series, no Hawks line produced more than the fourth unit of Marcus Kruger, Andrew Shaw and Andrew Desjardins — the group on the ice for Kruger's triple-overtime game-winner.