Quenneville still tinkering in Blackhawks loss

By Mark Lazerus

Sun-Times Staff reporter

WASHINGTON - Think back for a moment to last fall, when Joel Quenneville's mad scientist routine was bordering on lunacy, with lines changing not just game by game, but period by period and even shift by shift. For about six weeks, until everything fell into place on the circus trip in November, Quenneville tried just about every combination possible, with players pinballing around the lineup from the top line to the bottom, from left wing to right, from wing to center. Anything to get his sputtering offense going.

It looked almost panicky at the time. In the end, of course, it all worked out just fine.

This is just what Quenneville does in the opening stages of the season as he feels out his roster. And that trigger finger is only going to be itchier this season, with five new faces among his 13 forwards.

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