BOSTON _ Give the Blackhawks moms all the credit.
OK, maybe their boys deserve a little bit as well.
The last-place Hawks pulled off a stunning 4-3 overtime victory Thursday night at TD Garden over the Bruins _ who entered the day with the second-most points in the NHL _ as Jonathan Toews scored on a breakaway 54 seconds into OT.
Toews' goal ended the Hawks' three-game losing streak and snapped the Bruins' eight-game winning streak.
"We had the start we needed tonight and carried it through 60 for the most part," Toews said. "It's got to be a confidence builder when you beat a team like Boston in their own building, but what matters is what we do next. And we've got another chance to build off it tomorrow night (in New Jersey)."
The victory came with many of the players' mothers in attendance for the team's biennial moms trip, including those of Ryan Carpenter and Dylan Strome, whose first-period goals came 37 seconds apart.
That wasn't quite as efficient or important as the famous "17 seconds" goals that beat the Bruins in Game 6 of the 2013 Stanley Cup Final, but it'll do.
Carpenter scored a short-handed goal, his first goal in a Hawks uniform, and Strome added a power-play goal in his first game back after missing four games with a concussion. The Hawks improved to 11-12-5, while the Bruins fell to 20-3-6.
The teams played to type as the game got underway with the Bruins controlling possession and not allowing the Hawks a shot on goal until 11:15 remained in the first period.
But with Anton Wedin off for tripping, Carpenter picked up a turnover in the Hawks zone. After Connor Murphy got off a shot on the odd-man break, Carpenter put back a rebound to make it 1-0.
10 seconds after David Pastrnak went off for roughing, Strome tipped in a shot from Erik Gustafsson for his sixth goal of the season.
The Hawks must not have been too comfortable with that two-goal lead because they made it 3-0 just _ and here's where it gets a little serendipitous _ 17 seconds into the third period on Alex DeBrincat's sixth goal of the season. It was DeBrincat's first goal in his last 12 games.
"It was a long time between goals," DeBrincat said. "But hopefully I can get hot again and keep going."
The Bruins didn't like being down three goals for the first time all season, and the deficit lasted less than two minutes. Former Hawk Joakim Nordstrom pounced on a rebound to make it 3-1 and finally beat Robin Lehner, who stopped 37 shots for his first win in his last four starts.
The Bruins scored twice in the final five minutes to tie the game. Chris Wagner's short-handed goal with 4:59 remaining made it 3-2, and Torey Krug tied it with 2:33 remaining to send the game to overtime.
"We know we have to change the tide, and this was a great opportunity to do so," Lehner said. "We've shown in spurts we're a good team. We've just got to start doing it consistently."
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