A warning for the Blackhawks from Frank Chance

Well, after letting the Canucks run roughshod over them in Game One on Saturday, the Hawks knuckled down and beat the Canucks with three third-period goals last night, 4-2. Once again they demonstrated an ability to come back and win when it really counts, an attribute which bodes well for their prospects in the playoffs.

Still, I can't help but reflect on one of my favorite quotations from Cub history, from Manager Frank Chance in that world championship season of 1908: "Who ever heard of the Cubs losing a game they had to have?" The irony is a warning against taking anything for granted against a team as evenly matched with the Blackhawks as Vancouver.

The key to this series, as it was in the previous one against Nashville, is going to be somehow finding a way to steal back home ice advantage by winning one of the next two games at GM Place.

I still predict the Hawks in six.