BOSTON — Patrick Kane tied Bobby Hull for the second-most points in franchise history, but the Chicago Blackhawks lost to the Boston Bruins 4-3 on David Pastrnak’s goal with 17.2 seconds left at TD Garden.
Kane and Alex DeBrincat’s two-on-one rush against Bruins defenseman Jack Ahcan turned into a four-on-one, with Kane pulling up and dishing to DeBrincat, who scored for the fifth straight game.
The assist was Kane’s 1,153rd career point, tying him with Hull and leaving him 314 behind franchise leader Stan Mikita (1,467).
Kane has 16 assists in his last 15 games, including five Tuesday in an 8-3 win against the Anaheim Ducks. Kane added a goal against the Ducks for the first six-point game of his 15-year career.
He has 12 points over the last five games with at least one point in each.
DeBrincat’s first-period goal came 2 minutes, 29 seconds after Charlie Coyle put the Bruins on the board with a wrister off a rebound of a Connor Clifton shot.
Four minutes, 12 seconds into the second, Brandon Hagel gave the Hawks the lead with his second goal in as many games after Jonathan Toews and Kirby Dach took turns digging the puck out of a wall battle.
What the Hawks couldn’t afford to do was wage a special-teams battle: Both of the Bruins’ units are better.
But the matchup of the Bruins’ seventh-ranked power play against the Hawks’ 24th-ranked penalty kill that dogged the visitors. The Hawks committed three penalties in the second period, and the Bruins cashed in on two of them.
On the second power play, Ahcan tapped a puck to himself around Riley Stillman in the slot and lifted it past Kevin Lankinen for his first career goal.
The Bruins again had the man advantage when David Pastrnak whipped the go-ahead goal off Charlie McAvoy’s seam pass.
The Hawks came up empty on their first two power plays, but Coyle hooked Dylan Strome in the third, and Hagel tied the game 3-3, cleaning up DeBrincat’s rebound. Hagel has five points in his last three games, and his two goals gave him 20 on the season, surpassing Kane for second on the team behind DeBrincat (34).
