Lukas Reichel made his season debut — but how long will he stay? 4 takeaways from the Chicago Blackhawks’ 3-0 loss to the New Jersey Devils.

NEWARK, N.J. — The Chicago Blackhawks had to do a bit of scrambling when Jonathan Toews woke up feeling “flu-ish” Tuesday morning.

Lukas Reichel rushed to get to New Jersey to make his season debut in the road trip finale against the New Jersey Devils, and the Hawks shuffled the lines, reuniting Max Domi with Patrick Kane.

But in the end, the results played out exactly like the night before against the New York Islanders — a 3-0 shutout that was secured in the second period.

“It’s two games. It’s a long year,” coach Luke Richardson said. “I think they get frustrated certainly at times. You’ve got to go right after it the next game because it doesn’t get any easier.”

The Hawks took 24 shots on goal and had three power plays, but couldn’t crack the net.

“Didn’t score a goal,” Jack Johnson put it pointedly.

“Can’t win if you don’t score,” he added. “They only needed one (goal) to beat us. And that was big, It’s something we just didn’t capitalize on chances. We had plenty of chances.”

The last time the Hawks were shut out two games in a row was during the 2014-15 season, when the San Jose Sharks blanked them 2-0 on Jan. 31, 2015, followed by the Minnesota Wild 3-0 on Feb. 3. Those Hawks won the next two games, scoring a total of six goals.

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After Tuesday’s loss, Johnson wasn’t worried about a drought.

“We’re not going to sound the alarms,” he said. “It’s just something that you don’t have to be a hockey expert to know, if you don’t score, you can’t win.

“So we’ve just got to bear down on our chances.”

Here are four takeaways from the game.

Reichel got a quick call-up after Toews felt sick, and Richardson didn’t want to expose Toews’ to the rest of the team.

“He woke up feeling a bit flu-ish this morning,” Richardson said of Toews before the game.

The Hawks already are without Sam Lafferty and Tyler Johnson, so they would’ve had to go with 11 forwards without the move.

“It was pretty quick, everything,” said Reichel, who played in 11 games last season. “Straight to the airport, driving an hour, and then the plane, hour and a half, and then straight to the rink.”

He arrived 2 1/2 hours before the game. “No nap, but I felt pretty good.”

He added: “Didn’t even eat lunch, just eating power bars or banana. But, like I said, I felt good.”

The forward played on a line with Jason Dickinson and Taylor Raddysh, and then later centering for Raddysh and Andreas Athanasiou. He got 14 minutes of ice time; 1:14 on the power play.

In the second period, Brendan Smith sent Reichel flying — just after a stoppage for offside — and Smith was called for roughing.

“It was a late hit,” Reichel said. “I heard the whistle and I stopped playing. It was pretty late and that’s why they call it as a penalty.”

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Richardson said he skated well.

“He had a couple good moves with the puck there tonight and he showed some flash,” he said. “It’s a tough game to come in. That team comes at you hard. And I didn’t get (him) a whole lot of time on the power play. I’m sure he’s a little more creative there as well.”

Health could be a factor in how long Reichel stays.

“I think we’ll see how everybody is. Hopefully, a bug doesn’t go through the team,” Richardson said. “I think he’s been playing good as of late, and he deserved the call-up.”

Reichel has 10 goals and 13 assists points in 19 games for the Rockford IceHogs this season.

Call-ups are an everyday part of the game, but they’re no less of a shock for prospects when they get the word.

Such was the case for goalie Jaxon Stauber when goalie Petr Mrazek injured his groin.

“We’d just finished our game in Hartford and Mark Bernard, our GM down there, came up to me as I was eating my postgame meal and said I was going up,” Stauber said. “It was really exciting.”

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Stauber wasn’t aware Mrazek had been injured, so he rushed back to the hotel and a friend of Bernard’s from Springfield, Mass., drove him to New York.

“We got there around 1:30 (a.m.),” Stauber said. “It was nice of him to do that.”

The Hawks have had a rash of injuries to goalies this season. Mrazek has had separate groin injuries and was placed on injured reserve Tuesday.

Söderblom, who had to leave a game with an illness earlier this season, took a bit of a beating himself Tuesday night. Besides getting knocked around for three goals, his mask was knocked off in the first period and he took a stick to the face in the third.

The Devils peppered Söderblom with a lot of premium strikes — including some clear shots from dead center — particularly in the first period.

Söderblom has looked solid overall, even on rebound attempts, but lately when teams get third and fourth chances, it’s led to trouble.

“He played great,” Johnson said. “He’s been playing great. We’ve gotten good goaltending all year. If you don’t have good goaltending, you don’t have a chance in the league.”