CHICAGO _ Patrick Kane had the sixth regular-season hat trick of his career and Brandon Saad scored the go-ahead goal late in the third period to help the Blackhawks overcome a pair of blown leads and beat the Wild 5-3 on Sunday night at the United Center.
The victory snapped a four-game losing streak for the Hawks, who improved to 13-15-6. They came into the game with one regulation win in their last 13 games while the Wild had just one regulation loss in their last 13 games.
Saad's game-winner, which came with 6 minutes, 17 seconds remaining in the third period, was his 11th goal of the season and third in the last two games. Kane's third goal _ his 18th of the season _ came on an empty-netter with 1:03 remaining. Kane also has had two hat tricks in the postseason.
Robin Lehner stopped 23 shots for the Hawks.
Kane's first tally barely made it over the goal line and wasn't confirmed until after play stopped and a video review found it had gone in.
His second of the game deflected off a stick and found its way through goalie Kaapo Kahkonen's legs to put the Hawks up 2-0 with 8:27 left in the first period.
A little over a minute later, Eric Staal picked up the 1,000th point of his career when he blew a slap shot past Lehner to make it 2-1.
The Wild tied it early in the second when Kevin Fiala scored the first of his two goals on a breakaway. The Hawks regained the lead on David Kampf's deflection of a Connor Murphy shot for his fifth goal of the season that set a career high.
But before the second period could come to a close, the Wild tied it again as Fiala's shot through the crease deflected off Olli Maatta's skate and into the net to tie it at 3.
The Hawks are off for a couple of days before opening a two-game road trip on Thursday against the Jets.
