EDMONTON, Alberta _ If the Blackhawks are able to come all the way back from oblivion to make the playoffs, they'll point to what they did to the Oilers Tuesday night as their launching pad.
The Hawks scored five third-period goals, including four in a span of 2 minutes, 48 seconds, to stun the Oilers, 6-2, at Rogers Place and send them to their season-high fifth straight victory.
The win pulled the Hawks to within three points of the final wild-card spot in the Western Conference. However, they still trail five teams and two of them _ the Blues and Avalanche _ have played three fewer games.
After a scoreless second period, the Hawks trailed 2-1 entering the third. John Hayden's third goal of the season at the 16:10 mark tied the game, and Dylan Strome followed 1:33 later with a blistering wrist shot to beat Oilers goalie Cam Talbot.
Patrick Kane made it 4-2 as he found a rebound and slipped it past a sprawled out Talbot 28 seconds later. After Kane's goal, which extended his point streak to 12 straight games, Oilers coach Ken Hitchcock replaced Talbot with Mikko Koskinen.
But just 47 seconds later, former Oiler Drake Caggiula continued the onslaught with his ninth goal of the season and second in a Hawks uniform to put the Hawks ahead 5-2. Dominik Kahun added his ninth goal of the season to close out the scoring for the Hawks.
Erik Gustafsson's third goal in his last two games put the Hawks up 1-0 just 1 minute, 55 seconds into the game. Four seconds after Ryan Nugent-Hopkins went into the penalty box for slashing, Jonathan Toews won a faceoff back to Gustafsson, who put up a soft wrist shot towards the next that got past a screened Cam Talbot.
The Hawks held the lead through most of the first period until they got sloppy and took four minor penalties in the final four minutes. Leon Draisaitl scored twice on the power play before the period was over, including once on a 5-on-3, to take a 2-1 lead.
Hawks goalie Cam Ward finished with 25 saves.
