Brandon Saad scored in the third period of Game 4 to give the Chicago Blackhawks a much needed 2-1 home win over the Tampa Bay Lightning to even the Stanley Cup Final at two games apiece.
3 takeaways from Chicago’s Game 4 win
Bruce Bennett/Getty Images1. Brandon Saad is going to get paid this summer
The Blackhawks winger will become a restricted free agent this summer, and his playoff performance will pay off handsomely (and literally) in a couple of months. Saad scored the game winning goal in Game 4, his eighth of the playoffs. He has a knack for scoring momentum-changing goals in big moments, and Chicago will be hard-pressed to keep teams away from him.
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Pool Photo-USA TODAY SportsInjured Ben Bishop unavailable for Game 4
Bruce Bennett/Getty ImagesBishop put on a spectacular 37-save performance in Game 3 in Chicago, but not without enduring plenty of pain. He was slow to get up after shots on multiple occasions, trudged sluggishly through his own crease and even laid prone on the ice after getting sideswiped by Brandon Saad. But he stuck in the game and gutted out a win nonetheless.
He won’t get a chance for a repeat performance. Vasilevskiy went 7-5-1 in the regular season with a .918 save percentage and a 2.36 goals against average.
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