Sharp's Hat Trick Lifts Blackhawks

Patrick Sharp scored three times and Rene Bourque added two short-handed goals and an assist to lift the Chicago Blackhawks to a 5-3 win over the Detroit Red Wings on Saturday night.

It was Chicago's fourth straight victory over the Red Wings this season. The Blackhawks tied a team record with three short-handed goals, and Detroit tied its record by allowing three. Nikolai Khabibulin made 39 saves.

Henrik Zetterberg and Tomas Holmstrom each had a goal and an assist for Detroit, and Brian Rafalski also scored. Dominik Hasek stopped 12 shots.

Sharp gave Chicago the lead with 6:52 left with the Blackhawks' third short-handed goal of the game. Nicklas Lidstrom couldn't keep the puck in at the blue line and then fell, giving Sharp a breakaway the other way. He fought off Nicklas Kronwall and out the puck past Dominik Hasek.

Sharp added an empty-net goal with 30 seconds left. He had tied it 3-3 at 4:30 of the third period with his eighth goal.

Bourque's second short-handed goal of the game gave the Blackhawks a 2-1 lead 7:11 into the second period. He is the eighth Blackhawks player to score two short-handed goals, the last being Steve Sullivan in January 2001.

Detroit went ahead with two goals in the last 6:35 of the middle period.

Holmstrom jammed in a shot from in front of the net for a power-play goal just 36 seconds after Bourque's second goal for his 10th goal of the season. Henrik Zetterberg put the Red Wings ahead with 31 seconds left in the frame on a one-timed shot from the bottom of the left circle. It was his 14th goal.

Chicago took a 1-0 lead on Bourque's first short-handed goal, 1:16 into the game.

After picking up the puck from a faceoff in his own zone, Bourque carried it into the neutral zone and banked it off the boards. He then beat Rafalski to the puck to give himself a breakaway, and then beat Hasek with a wrist shot.

Rafalski atoned for Bourque's goal when he put in the rebound of Kris Draper's shot to tie it at 5:47.

Notes:@ Chicago C Jason Williams missed the game because of a groin injury. ... Detroit D Chris Chelios, at 45 the NHL's oldest player, got the day off. ... Bourque was hit in the hand by Rafalski's slap shot with about 11 minutes left in the third period and left the game.