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The Chicago Blackhawks Are Now Facing Elimination

04/20/2016 at 8:01am EDT

from Chris Hine of the Chicago Tribune,

It's not supposed to happen like this, not to the Blackhawks, the Stanley Cup champions in three of the last six seasons.

They are not supposed to lose two consecutive games at home to an opponent, the Blues, whose annual first-round exits in April help signal the start of allergy season.

They are supposed to wrestle control of a series beginning in Game 4, as they have done to the tune of a 43-14 record under coach Joel Quenneville entering Tuesday night.

"I think as the series has gone along here there's always another level," defenseman Duncan Keith said.

But the Hawks haven't found it.

The Blues defeated the Hawks 4-3 on Tuesday night to take a 3-1 lead in the best-of-seven series with Game 5 on Thursday in St. Louis.

In recent Hawks history, they fell to the Kings in 2014 Western Conference finals in seven games after falling behind 3-1 and came back to defeat the Red Wings in the second round of the 2013 playoffs.

"It's now one game at a time," goalie Corey Crawford said. "We're down all series so we're not going to change anything. We'll play hard and play the way we can play."

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