Dickinson scored at 9:37 for the 5-2 final.
"In this game, a lot of adversity is thrown your way and it's about how you react to it, and we haven't done a good enough job so far," Sharks forward Logan Couture said. "You lose four in a row you're not jumping for joy. Guys are upset, frustrated, everything that you can imagine when you're going through tough times."
Nico Sturm put the Sharks ahead 1-0 at 13:58 of the first period. Karlsson sent a cross-ice pass, and Sturm scored through traffic from the left face-off circle.
Karlsson made it 2-0 at 19:22 with a shot from the blue line that deflected off the skate of Blackhawks defenseman Seth Jones in front of the net.
"Our first period, we were really good the first half of the first period and then I think we thought it was coming maybe a little too easy," Richardson said. "We took the foot off the pedal and had a couple scrambling [defensive]-zones they ended up capitalizing on. We kind of went to the dressing room after the first and just chatted with the guys. Credit to all the leaders in that room. I didn't say too much."
NOTES:Lafferty is the seventh Blackhawks player since 1933-34, when goals by type officially began being tracked, to score two short-handed goals in a period and the first since Rene Bourque on Feb. 28, 2008. He is the first player to score two short-handed goals against the Sharks in the same game since Detroit Red Wings forward Kirk Maltby on Oct. 10, 2002. ... Dickinson fell one point short of tying Martin Havlat, who had four points (two goals, two assists) in his debut with Chicago on Oct. 5, 2006, in an 8-6 win against the Nashville Predators.