"On a day general manager Stan Bowman said there was no help on the horizon, the Blackhawks continued to look in desperate need of some.

Bowman said the game Friday against the Calgary Flames would be an opportunity for the team to show its ability to respond after an embarrassing loss to the Edmonton Oilers on Thursday.

What happened was another poor showing and a deepening of the Hawks' worst stretch of the season. They fell to the Flames 3-1 at the Scotiabank Saddledome for their season-high fifth consecutive loss.

"We were better than last night," captain Jonathan Toews said of the 8-4 loss to the Oilers. "It didn't take much to do that, but we got to find a way to play the way we did early on in that game and find a way to get our confidence back because it's obviously not there right now."

Much like the night before, the Hawks began well enough.

Brent Seabrook jumped into the play to score his fourth goal of the season with 28.4 seconds left in the first period. Patrick Kane and Patrick Sharp assisted on the goal, which tied the score at 1. But that was all the offense the Hawks would muster."