“Yeah, this question comes up every day now,” he said on Thursday at Amalie Arena. “I think maybe the talk of all this is a little—how do you say?—it's gone on and it became something that maybe it's not as big of a deal.”
Because of an injury to Michal Rozsival at the end of the second round and a lack of players head coach Joel Quenneville trusts beyond his top-four guys, the Chicago Blackhawks have leaned heavily on Duncan Keith, Brent Seabrook, Niklas Hjalmarsson and Oduya over the past eight games.
That workload, combined with the physical nature of the Anaheim Ducks, could’ve worn down the Blackhawks over seven games of the Western Conference Final.