"Joel Quenneville has urged the Blackhawks to play with desperation as they try to break out of their funk.

"That's probably what it's going to take for us to get over the hump," the Hawks' coach said before their 3-0 loss to the Coyotes on Saturday night.

After another night of sleep-walking their way to defeat during their nine-game trip, the question now becomes: What exactly follows desperation?

The Hawks dropped their eighth consecutive game when they fell before a crowd of 17,353 at Jobing.com Arena. The skid is the Hawks' longest since the 2007-08 season and they have the franchise record 12 losses in a row in 1951 looming in the not-so-distant horizon."