THREE THINGS: Tough Ending, Leading Janmark and Kalynuk Debut

The Blackhawks saw the Tampa Bay Lightning notch six unanawered goals as they saw a 3-0 lead early in the second turn into a 6-3 defeat in the third straight game against the defending champions.
"That first 20 minutes was excellent," head coach Jeremy Colliton said. "Really pleased with how we played and we're not catching them by surprise. They know, we've played them hard here over the first two games, so really happy with (the fact that) we keep improving."

After going up 3-0 on goals from Philipp Kurashev, Mattias Janmark and Pius Suter, Chicago fell into penalty trouble with three of the Lightning's four middle-frame goals coming on the man advantage, taking hold of the game and not letting up from there.
"At 3-0, the first shift after the (third) goal, we'd love to not take a penalty there," Colliton continued. "After that, they obviously scored off the power play and then they get a quick one off the rush and then it's a different game. The rest of the game was just so many penalties, it was really hard for us to get our rhythm back."

Here are three takeaways from the loss on Sunday:

TOUGH ENDING

After a back-and-forth opening two games of the triple set and a dominant opening period-plus in the third installment, the Blackhawks are obviously disappointed with the sour ending to the series, but remain positive about their performance against Tampa overall.
"This loss was very disappointing. I feel like we could've won all three games here," Janmark said. "Obviously, they could've done that, too. There's some positives here… It's a good team and we've proven we can play with them, but now it's up to us to to respond from this loss here."
"The last game, how it ended wasn't great, but the other games, we were in there, got points," Suter said. "We played well. We go 2-0 or 3-0 up, that's a good thing, a good sign that we can play that way. We've just got to shut it down and just keep going the full 60 minutes."

LEADING JANMARK

The Blackhawks offense on Sunday was led by Janmark, who officially registered a goal and an assist, but was a centerpiece of all three goals.
On Kurashev's opener, it was Janmark's corner-battle that forced a turnover right to the stick of Carl Soderberg for the setup. On the third goal, it was more offensive-zone pressure from Janmark, winning a puck back in the opposite corner and feeding Pius Suter out front for the 3-0 lead.
In between, he put on a show of hand-eye coordination, batting a puck out of midair on the power play for his eighth goal of the season.
"(Patrick Kane) made a play to Kubalik and he kind of tipped it towards backdoor where I was and it was kind of a reflex. I know the puck is somewhere there in the air, so just take a whack at it and was lucky to score from there."
"A lot of our team was skating really well and coming up with loose pucks and being relentless. That's our calling card. That's how we are hard to play against," Colliton said. "He obviously had some good shifts and you like to see guys get rewarded when they do that."

KALYNUK DEBUT

Following a two-assist performance with the Rockford IceHogs on Friday night, Wyatt Kalynuk was recalled to the Blackhawks roster on Saturday and made his NHL debut in the defeat to Tampa Bay. The college free-agent signing last spring skated 10:33 of ice time in his first game on Sunday.
"I really liked his first period. He had multiple shifts where he closed in D-zone, stopped the puck, he skated it a bunch of times," Colliton said, noting the increased roll the young defensemen were thrust into over the back half of the game without Calvin de Haan (injury) and Connor Murphy (match penalty). "It's not super fair what we asked of some of these guys, the responsibility and the ice time and the matchups as the game went on."
Kalynuk, who has spent most of the season on the Blackhawks' taxi squad, was assigned to the AHL during Chicago's nine-day homestand so he could see game action once again. All told, he has four points (1G, 3A) in three AHL games this season.
"This stretch while we were at home was a good chance to get him in some games and he's done well," Colliton said before the game. "He skates well and moves the puck well. He's produced there offensively… we're happy with how he's progressing."