VANCOUVER -- Daniel Sedin scored the go-ahead goal with 5:25 left in the third period and added his third goal of the game 2:01 later to lead the Vancouver Canucks to a 6-3 win against the Chicago Blackhawks on Saturday at Rogers Arena.
Twin brother Henrik Sedin set up all three of Daniel's goals and finished with a goal and four assists as the Canucks recovered to win after blowing a third-period lead. Vancouver ended a four-game losing streak.
Chicago's Artem Anisimov tied the game at 3-3 with 7:40 left in the third period, and it looked like the Canucks might lose after blowing a third-period lead for the sixth time this season. But Henrik Sedin fed his brother with a cross-ice pass off the rush, and Daniel Sedin beat Corey Crawford on the blocker side from the left faceoff dot to restore Vancouver's lead.
Daniel, who reached the 900-point mark when he set up Henrik's first-period goal, completed his hat trick on his next shift when he redirected a pass from Henrik past Crawford.
Jannik Hansen and Alexandre Burrows, into an empty net, also scored and Ryan Miller made 26 saves as the Canucks (8-7-6) won in their first game back home after a 1-4-2 road trip.
Jonathan Toews scored and set up Ryan Garbutt's first goal of the season for the Blackhawks (11-8-2), who were playing for a second straight night after a 2-1 overtime loss at the Calgary Flames on Friday. Crawford made 14 saves as Chicago reached the halfway point of its annual "Circus Trip," which concludes with three games in California next week.
Garbutt tied the game 2-2 late in the first period and the Blackhawks were dominating early in the second, outshooting the Canucks 7-1, before Garbutt took a penalty in the offensive zone.
Daniel Sedin put Vancouver back ahead 21 seconds later after Henrik tapped Duncan Keith's stick in the corner, causing him to whiff on a clearing attempt, and then passed across to Daniel alone in the low slot for a one-touch shot through the legs of a sliding Crawford.
Toews opened the scoring on the game's first shot on goal, beating Miller from the bottom of the left circle with a perfect short-side wrist shot on a power play at 6:17. But the Chicago captain was in the penalty box for tripping when the Canucks tied it just over three minutes later.
Toews' penalty gave Vancouver a 5-on-3 for 70 seconds, and Henrik Sedin capitalized with two seconds left in the first penalty, beating a sprawling Crawford after corralling a hard cross-ice pass from his twin brother. It was the 900th career point for Daniel, who joined Henrik (935 points) as the only Canucks to reach that milestone.
Henrik assisted on Hansen's goal with 4:42 left in the first period that gave the Canucks a 2-1 lead. Hansen, who went to the locker room earlier after getting hit in the head by a slap shot, parked atop the crease and chipped Henrik's pass from behind the net past Crawford's glove.
Garbutt tied it again with his first of the season 52 seconds later, starting the play by picking off a pass in the neutral zone and finishing it after Toews circled behind the net and passed across to the far side, catching Miller prone after slipping on defenseman Luca Sbisa's stick.
Chicago got forward Marko Dano back after missing the game Friday with illness, but Andrew Shaw spent most of the game on the top line after replacing Dano there in Calgary.
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