Jonathan Toews scored the go-ahead goal with 1:16 remaining, and the Chicago Blackhawks defeated the Edmonton Oilers 4-3 in Game 3 to take the lead in the best-of-5 Stanley Cup Qualifiers series at Rogers Place in Edmonton on Wednesday.
It was Toews' second goal of the game, fourth of the series.
Olli Maatta and Matthew Highmore scored, and Corey Crawford made 25 saves for the Blackhawks, the No. 12 seed in the Western Conference.
Teams that win Game 3 after a series is tied 1-1 are 21-7 (75 percent) winning a best-of-5 NHL series (14-2 when last used from 1980-86).
Game 4 is in Edmonton, the Western Conference hub city, on Friday (6:45 p.m. ET; NBCSN, NHL.TV, SN, NBCSCH). The series winner advances to the Stanley Cup Playoffs.
Highmore deflected a shot by Slater Koekkoek to tie the game 3-3 with 5:47 remaining in the third.
Leon Draisaitl had three points, Connor McDavid scored, and Mikko Koskinen made 21 saves for the Oilers, the No. 5 seed in the West.
McDavid scored a power-play goal with eight seconds remaining in the second period to give Edmonton a 3-2 lead.
Draisaitl tied the game 2-2 with his second goal of the game 4:07 into the second off a rebound from in close.
Toews gave the Blackhawks a 2-1 lead on a 5-on-3 power play with five seconds remaining in the first period when the puck hit his skate and trickled across the goal line.
Maatta scored to give Chicago a 1-0 lead at 9:14 when his shot from inside the blue line got through traffic.
Draisaitl tied it 1-1 at 9:42 on a cross-crease from Tyler Ennis.
Ennis left the game after being checked into the boards by Kirby Dach with 3:15 remaining in the second.
Oilers defenseman Adam Larsson was unfit to play and was replaced by Caleb Jones.
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