Joonas Korpisalo made 22 saves for the Bruins (28-19-2), who rallied from down 2-0 in the first period for their eighth win in their past nine games. Pavel Zacha, Casey Mittelstadt, David Pastrnak and Elias Lindholm each had two assists.
“You just never know,” said Boston coach Marco Sturm of his team falling behind and then rallying. “The frustrating part was because we played so well … All of sudden we were down 2-0. Again, good feeling today. Guys had a good energy. Maybe it was the siblings. I don’t know. But we got the job done because we just played our game.”
Arvid Soderblom, playing in his first game since Jan. 4, made 18 saves for the Blackhawks (19-22-7), who have lost three in a row and four of five.
Chicago coach Jeff Blashill said that sloppiness cost his team.
“Yeah, that’s what I thought, and that’s not taking anything away from them,” he said of the Bruins. “They’re obviously on a good roll right now, and they’re playing good hockey. They certainly make it hard on you in two different ways. They have a pretty good stretch rush game and they defend pretty hard.
“I just thought we had self-inflicted wounds that we didn’t need to. You’ve got a 2-1 lead with five to play in the second, you walk in and you’re down 3-2 and it was kind of some individualistic mistakes that we just have to be tighter. So in these moments, these games are going to get harder and harder and harder, and we have to make sure that you get rid of any self-inflicted errors.”
Ryan Greene put the Blackhawks ahead 1-0 at 16:14 of the first period, three seconds after a Chicago power play expired. Greene scored on a wrist shot from the slot after taking a pass from Andre Burakovsky at the bottom of the left face-off circle.
“Definitely felt good, but we didn’t win the game and that’s the most important thing,” Greene said. So that part [stinks].
“Leaving the first period with a 2-0 lead and giving up five unanswered obviously isn’t what we want to do. I would say a lot of that was self-inflicted, so that’s something we have to fix.”
Wyatt Kaiser made it 2-0 at 18:14. The defenseman skated in from the right point, moved into the slot and put a wrist shot past Korpisalo’s stick side.
Charlie McAvoy brought the Bruins to within 2-1 at 1:55 of the second period. Lindholm passed the puck in front to McAvoy, who scored on a wrist shot past a screened Soderblom.
“I’ve been trying to jump in the play more recently, responsibly, trying to be a threat, trying to be part of it,” McAvoy said. “I think it’s been effective. It’s been going well. I’ve been able to contribute when I get down there. That was a great play off the rush by them (his teammates), a heads-up play by ‘Lindy’ to slip it over to me. That started rolling the snowball down the hill.”
Lohrei tied the game 2-2 at 14:41, taking a cross-ice pass from Hampus Lindholm and scoring on a wrist shot from the right circle. Lindholm was activated off injured reserve earlier in the day after missing six games with an undisclosed injury.
