After their most embarrassing loss of the season on Saturday against the Panthers, the Blackhawks looked like themselves again Monday night - at least for a while.
The Hawks mounted a three-goal lead in the second period only to see it dwindle before falling to the Lightning 5-4 in overtime.
Yanni Gourde ended an exhausting extra session with a wrist shot on a breakaway with 35 seconds remaining to give the desperate Lightning two points in a tight Eastern Conference playoff race.
Artemi Panarin got the scoring started just 1 minute, 23 seconds into the first period when his one-timer trickled past Andrei Vasilevskiy. It was Panarin’s 25th goal of the season. The Lightning responded with a power-play goal from Ondrej Palat, who deflected in a Victor Hedman shot from the point at 9:29, but the Hawks wasted little time responding.
Patrick Kane scored from just inside the left circle off a skilful pass from Niklas Hjalmarsson at 10:17 for Kane’s 34th goal of the season. Then Tomas Jurco scored his first goal as a Blackhawk and first since February 18, 2016, when won a loose puck battle in front of Vasilevskiy and stuffed it home at 13:41.
Jurco’s goal came after a stretch of solid play that Jurco will need to stay in the lineup after missing five of the last eight games. After Jurco’s goal, Lightning coach Jon Cooper pulled Vasilevskiy in favour of backup Peter Budaj, but Vasilevskiy came back out to start the second period.
The Hawks kept pouring it on and gained a 4-1 lead at 8:47 when Richard Panik scored his 21st goal of the season by stuffing in his own rebound.
But after that the Lightning made their surge. Jonathan Drouin got the puck rolling with a power-play goal to make it 4-2 at 11:45. Anton Stralman made it 4-3 with a goal in front just 1:02 later to get the crowd back into it.
The Lightning didn’t let up their push and took advantage of a Niklas Hjalmarsson delay of game penalty to get the tying goal from Drouin at 16:24.

Hurricanes’ Lack stretched off in OT loss to Red Wings
Carolina Hurricanes goalie Eddie Lack was in hospital Monday night after being sent sprawling as the Detroit Red Wings’ Andreas Athanasiou scored a game-winning goal with 3:01 left in overtime.
Athanasiou crashed into Lack on the play and the Swedish goalie, who missed significant stretches of the NHLseason with concussions, was attended to on the ice for more than 15 minutes as both teams and the crowd in Raleigh, North Carolina, watched in silence. He was taken off on a stretcher and on to hospital for evaluation, giving a thumbs-up sign as he was carried off the ice.
The Hurricanes later released a statement saying Lack was undergoing tests but had full feeling in his extremities.
“I did see it,” Carolina coach Bill Peters said when asked about the replay. “(Athanasiou) obviously went into the net hard, and there was a little shot to the head there at the end of the play and that’s where the problem lies right now.”
Athanasiou said he hadn’t even realised he’d hit Lack as he scored the goal that gave the Red Wings a 4-3 victory.
“I had a tight angle there, so I just tried to drive the net and I’m fortunate it worked out,” he said. “You never want to see a player go down like that and go on a stretcher. I hope he’s OK. I had no idea I hit him.”

RESULTS
Lightning 5 Blackhawks 4 (overtime)
Predators 3 Islanders 1
Blues 4 Coyotes 1
Sabres 4 Panthers 2
Red Wings 4 Hurricanes 3 (OT)
Flames 4 Avalanche 2