Mason Lohrei posted his first career multi-goal game as the visiting Boston Bruins came from behind with five unanswered goals to defeat the Chicago Blackhawks 5-2 on Saturday night.
Charlie McAvoy, Viktor Arvidsson and Marat Khusnutdinov also scored for Boston, which has won six straight and eight of its last nine games.
David Pastrnak, Elias Lindholm, Casey Mittelstadt and Pavel Zacha each had two assists, while Joonas Korpisalo made 10 of his 22 saves in the third period en route to his third victory in a row.
Chicago’s Ryan Greene and Wyatt Kaiser each netted a goal while Arvid Soderblom stopped 18 shots. The Blackhawks are on a three-game skid and have lost four of five.
Each team had only one power play; Boston converted its power play and killed Chicago’s.
Korpisalo thwarted all six shots on goal from Chicago star Connor Bedard, including one point-blank on a man advantage in the opening frame.
After Boston’s early pressure resulted in the first eight shots on goal, a Nikita Zadorov roughing penalty at the 14:11 mark helped sway the game in Chicago’s favor early.
Greene opened the scoring just three seconds after the minor expired, taking Andre Burakovsky’s centering pass and placing a wrist shot from the slot high to Korpisalo’s blocker side to put the Blackhawks in front.
Chicago struck again exactly two minutes later at 16:11 to make it 2-0. After Mittelstadt was tripped, Kaiser stepped up into open ice and triggered a shot from the top of the circles.
McAvoy brought the visitors within a goal just 1:55 into the second, starting the rush back in the defensive zone and finishing it by putting away Elias Lindholm’s pass in the middle of the ice.
The Bruins continued a solid middle period with Lohrei’s game-tying goal at 14:51. A precision puck-moving sequence finished with Hampus Lindholm making a cross-ice dish to the defenseman in the right circle, where he let a snipe go past Soderblom.
Arvidsson gave Boston a 3-2 lead with 45.9 seconds left in the middle frame, finishing a give-and-go with Zacha with a tap-in goal near the crease.
Two goals in a 2:01 span in the third put the Bruins well in control, with Lohrei walking in from the blue line to score a wrister from high above the left circle for the first insurance marker at 9:01. It was a power-play goal.
Pastrnak, who played in his 800th NHL game, made an incredible centering pass through two defenders to a streaking Khusnutdinov to cash in from out front for Boston’s final goal with 8:58 remaining.
–Field Level Media
