Patrick Sharp and Martin Havlat each scored two goals, Nikolai Khabibulin made 14 saves and the hometown Chicago Blackhawks defeated the Los Angeles Kings 4-1 on Sunday to end a 0-3-2 slump.
Chicago, which snapped its longest winless streak this season, is 4-7-3 in its past 14.
Sharp skated in his first game after missing 16 with a left knee injury.
Khabibulin lost a bid for his second shutout this season and 40th of his career when the Kings' Drew Doughty scored a power-play goal with 3:06 left in the third.
The victory moved the 38-22-10 Blackhawks into fourth place in the NHL's Western Conference, two points ahead of idle Vancouver (38-24-9).
Khabibulin earned his first win since a 3-1 victory in Atlanta on Feb. 11, when he suffered a groin injury that sidelined him for a month. Khabibulin, who was activated from injured reserve on March 11, has started four of Chicago's past five games.
Los Angeles's Jonathan Quick made 28 saves as Chicago dominated for most of the game and outshot the Kings 32-15.
The Kings, playing the third game of a six-game road trip, saw their playoff hopes dwindle further. Los Angeles (30-32-10) is seven points behind eighth-place Nashville in the Western Conference and the post-season cutoff with 10 games remaining.
Los Angeles lost its second straight and is 1-4-1 in its past six.
Penalties kill
Chicago had a 5:35 power play, including a 25-second five-on-three, early in the first set up by a double-minor to Los Angeles's Justin Williams and a minor to Sean O'Donnell.
Sharp opened the scoring with a power-play goal at 9:46 and with 54 seconds left in the long advantage. He beat Quick on the glove side with a rising shot from low edge of the left circle to complete a two-on-one break.
Sharp was leading the team in goal scoring with 23 when he was injured on Feb. 13 in the opening minute of a home game against St. Louis.
Havlat made it 2-0 at 4:21 of the second when he completed a give-and-go with Sharp with a one-timer from the right edge of the crease. Havlat dished to Sharp in the right circle. Sharp then slid a pass back to Havlat after Havlat cut across the crease.
Quick stopped Chicago's Troy Brouwer on a breakaway with a glove save midway through the second.
A wraparound attempt by the Blackhawks' Andrew Ladd slipped underneath Quick's pads at 7:16 of the third. Los Angeles's Kyle Quincey crashed into the net and dislodged it before the loose puck crossed the goal-line.
Quincey received a delay-of-game penalty on the play.
Doughty scored a power-play goal on a screened shot from the right wing with 3:06 left in regulation to cut it to 2-1.
Sharp scored into an empty net with 1:06 remaining to make it 3-1. Havlat added an empty-net goal with 18 seconds left to complete the scoring.
Blackhawks left-winger Ben Eager sat out the first game of a three-game suspension. Eager was suspended for elbowing Edmonton's Liam Reddox in the head in the third period of Chicago's 5-4 shootout loss to the Oilers on Friday. Eager didn't receive a penalty on the play, however.
The Blackhawks' Cam Barker sat out with an undisclosed injury, while fellow Los Angeles blue-liner Denis Gauthier missed his second game with an upper-body injury.
