It won't be easy for the Hawks and assistant coach Marc Crawford has had enough with the lacklustre efforts at practice. The Blackhawks were working on forechecking on Tuesday, a drill that Crawford was leading and he absolutely lost it.
'That wasn't a great effort [Monday],' Strome said. '[We have] to be more desperate than that, especially now. . . . [Crawford] does a good job of showing his emotion. He has been around for a long time, and he knows when to do it and when not to do it. Clearly, he felt like we needed it, and we'll respond [Wednesday].'