NHL: Blackhawks edge Bruins 6-5 to level Stanley Cup Final

Brent Seabrook #7 of the Chicago Blackhawks celebrates with Patrick Kane #88, Niklas Hjalmarsson #4 and Jonathan Toews #19 after scoring the game winning goal in overtime against the Boston Bruins in Game Four of the 2013 NHL Stanley Cup Final at TD Garden on June 19, 2013 in Boston, Massachusetts. (Getty Images)

Chicago defenseman Brent Seabrook scored the game-winning goal 9:51 into overtime on Wednesday to give the Blackhawks a 6-5 victory over Boston in the National Hockey League Final.

The victory snapped a seven-game Bruins’ win streak on home ice and pulled Chicago level at 2-2 in the best-of-seven showdown for the Stanley Cup, with game five on Saturday in Chicago and game six back in Boston on Monday.

Seabrook’s second overtime goal of the playoffs capped the third overtime game in the title series.

“I just tried getting it on net,” Seabrook said. “We had a great screen in front and somehow it went in.”

There had been only 12 goals over the first three games of the final, but the clubs struck for 11 in game four alone against Boston goaltender Tuukka Rask, who made 46 saves, and Chicago netminder Corey Crawford, who denied 28 shots.

“One of those games,” Seabrook said. “We got a few goals. They had to answer that. They got a few on the power play and we got some bounces. It was nice to get a few past Tuukka.”

Chicago’s Michal Handzus opened the scoring with a shorthanded goal 6:48 into the game, but Rich Peverley’s power-play goal equalized for Boston with 5:17 remaining in the opening period.

The Blackhawks jumped back in front with a pair of goals only 2:08 apart, the first from playmaker Jonathan Toews and the next from Patrick Kane to give Chicago a 3-1 edge.

Boston answered on a Milan Lucic goal that, like the Bruins’ opening goal, came with only 5:17 remaining in the period.

Chicago stretched the lead when Marcus Kruger found the net with 4:28 to play in the second period, but Boston answered on a power-play goal from Patrice Bergeron 1:50 later to lift the Bruins within 4-3 entering the third period.

Bergeron scored 2:05 into the third period to deadlock the game, but the Blackhawks answered on Patrick Sharp’s power-play goal with 8:41 to play in regulation.

Only 55 seconds later Johnny Boychuck equalized for the Bruins to make it 5-5, and set the stage for overtime.