Brandon Saad netted the all-important goal as the Chicago Blackhawks scored a 2-1 victory over Tampa Bay on Wednesday to level the Stanley Cup final.
The Blackhawks' victory tied the NHL's best-of-seven championship series at two games apiece.
Game five is in Tampa on Saturday, when the Blackhawks will try to take another step toward a third championship in six seasons.
Saad gave the Blackhawks a 2-1 lead with 13:38 to play, backhanding a shot under Tampa Bay's 20-year-old Russian goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy, who was making his first playoff start.
Vasilevskiy made 17 saves as he stood in for Ben Bishop, who was ruled out with an unspecified injury.
Corey Crawford provided a solid performance in the Blackhawks net, making 24 saves.
Captain Jonathan Toews scored his first goal of the series for Chicago, opening the scoring with 13:20 left in the second period.
Five minutes later, Alex Killorn provided the Lightning's lone goal off a pass from Valtteri Filppula.
Crawford then withstood a bevy of shots in the final minute, as Tampa Bay pulled Vasilevskiy for an extra attacker, including turning aside a point-blank blast from Lightning captain Steven Stamkos.
"I was really pretty lucky," said Saad, who drove the puck up the left side after a faceoff, lost it in front of the net but recovered it to backhand his shot through Vasilevskiy's pads.
"I just saw space going to the net, tried to drive and create some chaos. Goalie made a good play with poking the puck, bounced around my feet and I finally found it to my stick, just tried to get some wood on it and get to the net and found a way through his legs."
Blackhawks coach Joel Quenneville praised Saad's "great power move to the net."
"He's dangerous," Quenneville said of the forward who notched his eighth goal of the 2015 playoffs. "Very good performance."
Tampa Bay did everything but score in the final minute.
"I'll be honest with you, I don't know how one of those didn't go in," Lightning coach Jon Cooper said of his team's late barrage, which included a point-blank blast from Lightning captain Steven Stamkos and a deflection by Killorn that sailed over the net."
The one-goal deficit was the fourth straight in the series, the first time since the Canadiens' sweep of the Blues in 1968 that the first four games of a title series were decided by just one goal.
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