SI's Best Shots of Stanley Cup Final Game 4

SI Staff | Jun 20, 2013

SI's Best Shots of Stanley Cup Final Game 4 /

SI's Best Shots of Stanley Cup Final Game 4

Stanley Cup Final: Game 4

Game 4 in Boston was a bit of a shocker as both teams, usually sound defensively, ended up in a wild, sloppy, see-saw battle the produced a total of 11 goals. After being shut out by Tuukka Rask in Game 3, the Blackhawks' offense erupted, peppering Boston's goalie with 47 shots while putting six past him. Rask had given up only five goals in his previous three games.

Stanley Cup Final: Game 4

Michal Handzus opened the scoring with a shorthanded goal at 6:48 of the first period, snapping Tuukka Rask's shutout streak at 129:14. Handzus later assisted on Marcus Kruger's second period tally that gave Chicago a short-lived 4-2 lead.

Stanley Cup Final: Game 4

Blackhawks captain Jonathan Toews was reunited with Patrick Kane on Chicago's top line, which also included rugged winger Bryan Bickell. Toews scored his first goal in 12 postseason games as the line combined for five points and was +7 on the night.

Stanley Cup Final: Game 4

Jonathan Toews: "We definitely worked really hard at creating the chances that we did. The chances that we got, the goals that we scored, weren't turnover plays by them or just lucky bounces by us, they were goals that we were moving the puck around, we shot it, we got rebounds, we recovered the puck, we kept it moving around and finally scored a goal."

Stanley Cup Final: Game 4

Despite twice being down by two goals, the Bruins kept battling back. "They keep coming," Blackhawks coach Joel Quenneville said after the game. "One of those nights." Boston's bench boss Claude Julien's take: "It wasn't a Bruins' type of game, but at the same time you have to get yourself back into it. Our guys worked hard to score goals. Probably got ourselves out of what our normal game plan is. So we opened up and we scored goals, but we also gave them some goals, like the game-winning goal."

Stanley Cup Final: Game 4

Bryan Bickell battles Patrice Bergeron, who had another big game with two goals -- his eighth and ninth of the postseason.

Stanley Cup Final: Game 4

At 11:19 of the third period, Patrick Sharp scored Chicago's first power play goal in 23 consecutive chances. It gave the Blackhawks a 5-4 lead that held up for all of 55 seconds.

Stanley Cup Final: Game 4

Blackhawks goaltender Corey Crawford had a shaky night. The Bruins seemed to figure him out, beating him to his glove side on all five of their goals.

Stanley Cup Final: Game 4

Michal Handzus checks Boston's Johnny Boychuk into the boards. Boychuk would later score at 12:14 of the third period, tying the game at 5-5 and ultimately sending it to overtime. It was his sixth goal of the postseason.

Stanley Cup Final: Game 4

Blackhawks defenseman Brent Seabrook was the hero in overtime, driving home a slap shot from the right point at the 9:51 mark. The tally made him only the fifth blueliner in NHL history to score two OT goals in one postseason. The others: Leo Reise (Detroit, 1950), Chris Chelios (Chicago, 1995), Niclas Wallin (Carolina, 2002) and Scott Niedermayer (Anaheim, 2007).

Stanley Cup Final: Game 4

Brent Seabrook unleashes the decisive shot.

Stanley Cup Final: Game 4

Game 4 was the highest-scoring match to date of the 2013 postseason and it made this Cup final the first since 1993 to have three OT games.

Published Jun 20, 2013

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