Breakdowns. Breaking Down. Broken: Coyotes 6, Hawks 1

I don't know what's been more difficult, lately, managing to see the games at all or being able to bear what I see when I can watch.  I missed two games entirely thanks to an unexpected TV blackout and another when the guy downstairs knocked the cable out for a day but, by all accounts, those games weren't worth seeing, anyway.
But neither have any Hawks' games the last couple of weeks.

Tonight's effort embodied all of the issues The Hawks have struggled with recently.
Inability to score - I only noticed Kane on one shift before the last three minutes of the game, Toews maybe once or twice, Saad not at all.  Duc started well and then disappeared.  Only DeBrincat was a semi-consistent threat, but....
Lineup Strangeness - DBC skated with Bouma and Wingels.  Bouma was on the first PP unit.  Hartman skated on the second line two games ago but tonight found himself, once again, in the press box.  The third and fourth lines logged more minutes than Duc and Saad.
And let's not forget, tonight there were five players in the lineup who started the season in The AHL, along with another three guys who are marginal NHLers, at best.
But this is what it comes to when the guys that the team are counting on to carry the mail, aren't.
Rubbish Goaltending, full stop.
Careless Errors and Bad Penalties - if Michal Kempny played like Oesterle did tonight Coach Q would have jettisoned Kemps into the sun.  Kampf, Duclair and whoever was the sixth guy over the boards on the too-many-men penalty...all needless infractions.

Burish cracked me up during the second intermission, stating that The Hawks "need to stick with the plan".  What plan is that?  I see no plan, but I see a whole lot of half-hearted execution, underachieving and downright mysterious player deployment, not to mention a single point in the last six games.