Burns: 3 Things we learned from a shootout loss in Detroit

Tampa Bay entered Detroit for a Sunday evening tilt having won 16-consecutive games in the regular season over the Red Wings, the longest win streak against one team in franchise history and tied for the third longest in NHL history.
The Lightning couldn't overcome a slow start and missed opportunities late in the contest and into overtime to push that run to 17 in a row, however.

The Bolts fell behind 4-2 early in the third period at Little Caesars Arena, but rallied to force overtime, Pat Maroon jamming home a loose puck at the edge of the blue paint with 8:41 remaining in regulation to tie the game 4-4.
After both teams failed to score in overtime, Detroit won the contest 5-4 in a shootout, Dylan Larkin (2nd round) and Robby Fabbri (3rd round) each converting after the Lightning went up 1-0 in the first round when Mikhail Sergachev was true with his shot.
The Lightning have now picked up three of a possible four points on their road trip with one game left to play Tuesday in Toronto.
Here were Three Things we learned about the Lightning in their shootout loss.

1. EXPECTED LETDOWN
Getting up for a Detroit team occupying last place in the NHL standings was always going to be difficult for the Lightning, particularly on the heels of playing one of the grittiest, hard-fought, emotional games of the season a night earlier in a 5-3 win at Boston.
But doing so less than 24 hours after said victory having arrived in Detroit at 3 a.m. in the morning (moving the clock forward was not kind to the Lightning) and going out to play again a little over 12 hours after going to bed?
It's almost a miracle the Lightning were even able to secure a point.
"I don't know if anyone got to bed before 4 in the morning for a five o'clock game," Lightning head coach Jon Coper said. "It was a lot of positives out there."
Predictably, the Lightning started slowly. For the first half of the opening period, the Bolts had the majority of the shots. But Robby Fabbri got behind everybody for a clear breakaway and scored at 10:11 of the first, and Detroit controlled play through the remainder of the period, hemming the Lightning in their own zone and testing Bolts netminder Curtis McElhinney.
Tampa Bay trailed by a goal after 20 minutes of play.
"Probably to expect, we had a tough first period," Cooper said. "That wasn't too good for us, but after that, I thought we pretty much controlled the game. In the end, we can't give up a breakaway. We can't give up a back door 2-on-1. We didn't make too many errors. The ones we did were pretty glaring."
Two quick Lightning goals midway through the second period seemed to wake Tampa Bay from its slumber. Dylan Larkin tied the game 2-2 going into the second intermission with his late second-period goal off a rush with 14.3 seconds left until the break.
"Tough to give up that goal at the end of the second," Cooper said. "Giving one up with 15 seconds, blew a little coverage in the offensive zone, led to a rush, little unlucky break for us."
After that, it was anybody's game and one the Lightning had chances to win but just fell short.

2. RESILIENCE ON DISPLAY
Starting with Larkin's goal at the end of the second, Detroit scored three-consecutive goals to take a commanding 4-2 lead by the five-minute mark of the third period.
Under the circumstances the Lightning were dealing with - banged up, physically exhausted from the previous night, worn out from travel and a late night's sleep - that two-goal deficit seemed to be more than enough for Detroit to pull off the upset victory.
But Tampa Bay never gave up. The Lightning were resilient. And even through exhaustion, they fought back to take a critical point from the contest.
"That was a lot of emotion and a lot of energy used (in Boston)," Bolts defenseman Ryan McDonagh said. "It might have showed a bit in our play tonight. I don't think we were happy with some of our decision making and giving them some looks like that is not the way we want to play. We've got to learn. It was good that we kept fighting there. Guys didn't give up, got a big point. At the end of the day, I think we want to play a little more complete, a little more solid."
The Lightning comeback started a little more than a minute after Tyler Bertuzzi put Detroit up 4-2. Brayden Point netted his second goal of the game at 5:55, carrying the puck into the zone on a rush and shooting a puck that knuckled over the shoulder of Red Wings goalie Jonathan Bernier and into the back of the net.
The Bolts thought they'd tied the game minutes later when Nikita Kucherov latched onto a rebound off the back wall and stuffed the puck past Bernier. However, he was spotted high-sticking Larkin a moment before collecting that rebound to free himself, the goal was disallowed and Kucherov was sent to the penalty box.
That setback didn't deter the Lightning, however. At 11:19, Luke Schenn's shot from the point was blocked down in front of goal. Pat Maroon was battling hard on the edge of the crease to find the loose puck and stuff it past Bernier to level the score 4-4, the Bolts showing determination to will themselves to a point under dire circumstances.
"You go down two pretty quick and think you've tied it and call goes against you that you might want to have back," Cooper said. "We fight through that and score again to tie it, so I thought the boys showed a little bit of resiliency to battle back the way we did. Unfortunately, we just couldn't close it out in extra time."

3. POWER PLAY IGNITING
Lost in the disappointing 5-4 shootout loss in Detroit, the Lightning have started to produce some power-play goals despite losing one of the units major weapons with Steven Stamkos and his left circle one-timer out of the lineup for the foreseeable future.
With its offense sputtering through much of the first 30 minutes of the game, the power play was the spark Tampa Bay needed to get on the board and get going.
Down 1-0, the Lightning capitalized on their first power play of the game to level the score, Tyler Johnson battling on the edge of the net to maintain possession and firing a puck across the crease for a wide-open Brayden Point to one-time into the open goal.
"Great play (by Johnson)," Point said. "Good look, battle in front to get that puck and slung it over, gave me an empty net. Good for our power play to continue to score in games, and hopefully we can build on those goals."
Tampa Bay has now scored a power-play goal in three-consecutive games even as it searches for the right combination of players and positioning to make up for Stamkos' absence.
The improvement on the power play and the continued effective work of the penalty kill has Tampa Bay's special teams in a pretty good spot with less than a month remaining in the regular season.