Boston Brings the Hits, but Chicago's Speed Wins the Game Chicago's Patrick Kane, center, scored twice during Game 5 as the Blackhawks beat the Bruins, 3-1, to take a 3-2 series lead. CHICAGO - There is something about important games that brings out the best in Patrick Kane, the Blackhawks" star wing with the magic touch. In 2010, he scored the overtime goal in Philadelphia that ended Chicago's 49-year Stanley Cup drought. In the conference finals this year, his hat trick in Game 5 eliminated the Los Angeles Kings. On Saturday night - six years after Chicago made him the No. 1 overall pick in the N.H.L. entry draft - Kane's pair of goals propelled the Blackhawks to a 3-1 victory against the Boston Bruins and gave them a three-games-to-two lead in the Stanley Cup finals. After the game, Kane stood at center ice, his helmet off and his mullet exposed, straining to speak over the roaring United Center crowd. "One more win," he said as the fans cheered even louder. Kane now has 9 goals and 19 points in the playoffs, tops on the Blackhawks. He leads the Blackhawks in scoring in the Stanley Cup finals with 5 points. He also led the team in the 2010 finals against the Flyers with 8 points in 6 games. Patrick Sharp said about his teammate Kane: "I still remember when he got drafted, I was watching on TV. I remember him sitting at the desk on TV saying he was going to show up and make the team out of training camp, and I got a good chuckle out of that. Little did I know he'd win rookie of the year, and he's improved every season. In the first three games of this series, Coach Joel Quenneville baffled onlookers by splitting up Kane and his longtime forward-line partner, Jonathan Toews. The Blackhawks trailed the Bruins by two games to one. "Maybe it looks like I didn't know what I was doing," Quenneville said after Game 4, when the reunited Kane and Toews each scored a goal in the Blackhawks" 6-5 overtime victory. Now Quenneville's belated move seems like the turning point of the series. But Toews, Chicago's captain and one of the best two-way centers in hockey, may not be able to play at all. Toews stayed on the bench throughout the third period. He was struck high by a hard, unpenalized check from Bruins defenseman Johnny Boychuk in the second period. After the game, Quenneville declined to specify the nature of Toews's injury beyond calling it "upper body." "It's been a war - it's been a battle," Quenneville said of both the game and the series. Patrice Bergeron, also a top two-way center, sustained what appeared to be an even worse injury. Bergeron was taken to a Chicago hospital for observation with an undisclosed injury after skating only two shifts in the second period, the second one lasting only 16 seconds. An ambulance with Bergeron inside was seen leaving the rink before the second intermission. Now the series shifts to Boston on Monday night, when the Bruins will try to stave off elimination and force a Game 7. They do so knowing that the Blackhawks beat them Saturday by sticking to their game plan of generating speed through the neutral zone. Chicago attempted 55 shots to Boston's 49, giving the Blackhawks the advantage in that category in every game of the series. Over all, the Blackhawks have tried 377 shots to the Bruins" 293 - a measure of how much more they have had the puck. On Saturday, the Bruins leveled plenty of hits - 53 to the Blackhawks" 22 - but deviated from one crucial element of their own game plan. The Bruins inexplicably failed to test Chicago goalie Corey Crawford, who surrendered five goals in Game 4, all over or under his glove hand. Nine of the Bruins" 12 goals in the first four games of the series came against Crawford's glove. Yet on Saturday they did not send a shot to his glove hand until two minutes into the third period. Defenseman Zdeno Chara beat Crawford on the Bruins" second shot to his glove side, a slap shot from 36 feet at 3 minutes 40 seconds of the third period. It reduced the Boston's deficit to 2-1. But the Bruins did not manage another shot to Crawford's shaky glove side the rest of the night. The Bruins swarmed the Chicago net in the final minutes, but the Blackhawks" Dave Bolland shot into an empty net with 14 seconds left in regulation. Bruins defenseman Torey Krug was tripped by Chicago forward Michael Frolik moments before, allowing Bolland to get to the puck, but neither referee called the penalty. In shots on goal, the Blackhawks outperformed the Bruins by 31-25. Tuukka Rask finished with 29 saves; Crawford finished with 24. Kane's first goal, which opened the scoring at 17:27 of the first period, came after Johnny Oduya's shot struck a Bruins stick and fell right to Kane, who was open at the side of the net. Kane made the score 2-0 at 5:13 of the second. The other wing on the line, Bryan Bickell, charged in around Seidenberg, shot the puck off the side of the net, gathered the rebound and fed it to Kane. Chara was caught between Bickell and Kane, and could only watch as Kane roofed a backhander over Rask. Chara finished minus-2 on the night. He was minus-3 in the Bruins" Game 4 defeat. After the game, Kane was asked if he remembered his overtime goal that won the Cup for Chicago in 2010. He described it, and how he was the only one in the building who saw it go in and how he broke into a celebration before anybody else knew what was going on. "It was a great moment," he said. I think it's exciting to be back in that situation again. This is what you work for all year, all summer, when you're training throughout the year at training camp, whatever it may be. This is what you work for, this opportunity. We've got to seize the moment and take advantage of it. Kane and the Blackhawks will soon have their chance to take advantage of their moment.