Getty ImagesNo. 1 Star: Brent Seabrook, Chicago Blackhawks

Seabrook fired home the winner for the Blackhawks as his overtime goal gave them a 6-5 victory over the Boston Bruins in Game 4, evening the Stanley Cup Final 2-2. It was his second overtime goal of the playoffs, with the first coming in Game 7 against the Detroit Red Wings.

No. 2 Star: Patrice Bergeron, Boston Bruins

Continuing to make his case for the Conn Smythe Trophy, Bergeron scored a pair of goals that helped the Bruins tie the game at four early in the third period. The first of his two goals came on the power play and was the result of a deflected shot that went off the glass behind Corey Crawford, off the top of the net and right to Bergeron.

No. 3 Star: Patrick Kane, Chicago Blackhawks

Reunited with Jonathan Toews, Kane (and Toews) woke up offensively with a goal and an assist. The goal was Kane's first of series, while Toews put home his first since Game 5 against the Detroit Red Wings in the second round.

Oh, this was unfortunate on Wednesday night in Austin, TX:

It was overtime in Game 4 of the Stanley Cup Final on Wednesday night. The pressure was high. The next goal would either bury the Chicago Blackhawks in a 3-1 hole or give them new life in a 2-2 series against the Boston Bruins.

Viewers watching KXAN in Austin witnessed the Blackhawks cycle in the Bruins zone, tension mounting.

And then … they heard KXAN news anchor Sally Hernandez tell us that “you have to love what you do” in order to host a morning show. And that Amanda Dugan is your traffic guru. And then a commercial for Capital KIA and their giving-away-cars prices.

And then, after roughly 30 seconds of promos and ads, the station cut back to the game ... to see the Blackhawks celebrating Brent Seabrook’s game-winning goal in overtime.

Which KXAN missed.

But at least viewers now understand how lucky the morning news team is to work with one another.

KXAN issued an epic apology on its newscast after the game (via Awful Announcing). Ironically, it aired right around a feature story on hockey’s growing presence in Austin:

“Computer automation will bite ya sometimes.”

This is how it begins, the robot apocalypse; not with a rain of nuclear missiles triggered by SKYNET, but by a computer ruining Game 4 for hockey fans in Texas …

Well that was fun, wasn't it? After two tightly played games in the Stanley Cup Final, Game 4 was a sloppy, unpredictable ramble of an overtime game that featured 11 goals between the Chicago Blackhawks and the Boston Bruins.

And here they are ...

Brent Seabrook's goal at 9:51 of overtime was the game-winner in Chicago's 6-5 victory, to even the series at 2-2. Patrice Bergeron's power-play goal at 17:22 of the second period was the nuttiest. Johnny Boychuk's game-tying goal at 12:14 of the third might have been the most shocking.

Getty ImagesBOSTON -- When you get pucks to the net, good things usually happen. For Brent Seabrook, he did just that and helped the Chicago Blackhawks even the Stanley Cup Final with a 6-5 overtime victory over the Boston Bruins in Game 4.

The Blackhawks were desperate to get their offense going, so head coach Joel Quenneville put Patrick Kane and Jonathan Toews together on his top line. The reunion worked as Chicago built up a 3-1 lead midway through the second period. (Game 4 was the first time Kane and Toews both scored in a playoff game since April 2010.) Then things got crazy.

Over the next 18 minutes of the game, the teams combined for six goals, including Patrice Bergeron's wacky off-the-top-of-the-net tally, and the game moved to overtime for the third time in the series.

In the extra frame, the Bruins were unable to clear the puck from their zone when Seabrook picked it up and fired it past Tuukka Rask:

"It's one of those things that we talked about all year, all playoffs is getting pucks to the net," Seabrook told NBC Sports afterward. "It just sort of found a way in."

The series now shifts back to Chicago for Game 5 on Saturday night and with the Blackhawks having re-discovered their offense and successfully scoring on a power play after firing blanks on 11 opportunities entering Wednesday night.

After the offensive struggles in their two losses, the Kane/Toews combination paid off in Game 4, making one wonder why they weren't put together before earlier.

"You always get second guessed," said Quenneville. "There's reasons why. At the same time, you know, I think we didn't mind the way we played the first game, first part of the second game. Game 3 we were disappointed with our offense. So we went to the well."

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What has to happen for two teams to combine for five goals in a period?

A little luck, for one thing. It helps when the bounces are incredibly conducive to goal-scoring, and we mean incredibly. Case in point: Patrice Bergeron's 4-3 goal, which was the direct result of one of the most fortuitous bounces we're bound to see in this Stanley Cup Final, as Zdeno Chara's wrist shot deflected high off the boards behind the goal, up onto the goal, and then down into the crease and right onto the stick of Bergeron.

Ever the opportunist, Bergeron didn't waste the freebie and finished the Rube Goldbergian play off by putting the puck into the goal. Thanks, hockey gods!

That was the wackiest moment in a truly wacky second period, where Game 4 between the Chicago Blackhawks and the Boston Bruins turned into an unexpected track meet

Really, it seemed less like the Stanley Cup Final we've been watching for the past week and more like a game between the Flyers and the Penguins.

It's the Boston Bruins hosting the Chicago Blackhawks in Game 4 of the Stanley Cup Final, and your pals at Puck Daddy are live chattin' this bad boy beginning at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT.

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BOSTON -- The Boston Bruins finally held their Stanley Cup Final Fan Fest, after it was rained out during Game 3 on Monday. And it was ... pretty much like their other fan fests every postseason.

Let's take a look, shall we?

There were Bruins fan signs ready-made for those fans that would require such homogenous tokens of enthusiasm.

Ah, that's more like it: Homemade fan sign, tremendous flag in its Teemu-osity.

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BOSTON -- Mandatory use of visors for players entering the NHL next season, plus the testing of a form of hybrid icing in the preseason were among the items endorsed by the league's general managers on Wednesday.

NHLPA Special Assistant Mathieu Schneider said that the GMs were committed to changing the way icings are called, and if all parties are pleased with it, the rule would officially be implemented beginning with the 2013-14 regular season.

Along with hybrid icing and mandatory visors, video review of four-minute high sticking penalties, shallower nets (from 44 to 40 inches), and the need for the puck to make contact with a stick on a pass in order to wave off an icing will now go to the Board of Governors on June 27 for approval.

More discussion needed on diving

The issue of diving was also brought up Wednesday, but according to Schneider, there needs to be more discussion in order for there to be a recommendation to the BoG for some form of punishment.

"There's so many that are gray, even though there's the calls that everybody and their mother knows that it's a dive, there are a lot of them that are gray," said Schneider. "What happens if you discipline one player and another player says, 'I did the same thing'? It's very difficult. There's nothing that's black and white. It's not like a high stick."

Among the ideas discussed were better education of players and a list inside team dressing rooms.

"It's something that we want to address, but we're not sure how to do it right now," Schneider said.