from Cam Cole of the Vancouver Sun,

Maybe they're tired. Maybe their best players are whipped from the Olympics and the compressed schedule and too much hockey in too short a period.

Maybe they haven't got the bounces, while everything the other guys look at goes in the net.

Maybe they didn't think it was going to be this hard.

Or maybe the Los Angeles Kings are just the better team.

That last possibility is the one the Chicago Blackhawks won't be admitting until the final nail is in the proverbial coffin, which could happen as soon as Wednesday evening in the friendly confines of the Madhouse on Madison.

But it could be true. Because none of the other maybes add up.

Bounces? Not over a whole series.

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