Jonathan Toews showed Team Canada general manager Steve Yzerman why he’d be a pretty good Olympian — especially if games are decided by shootouts.Toews scored once in regulation and again in the shootout, leading the Blackhawks to a 5-4 victory over the Boston Bruins.Toews, who is 10 for 18 on career shootout attempts, said he didn’t even know Yzerman was at the United Center scouting players for the Winter Games, which will take place in Vancouver in February.The Blackhawks are 14-3-1 since Toews, their 21-year-old captain, returned Nov. 9 after missing six games with a concussion.Despite blowing three one-goal leads and having its shutout streak snapped at 150 minutes, 43 seconds, the Blackhawks improved its NHL-best home record to 15-3-1 while playing before its largest crowd this season (21,717). At 22-8-3, the Blackhawks are off to their best start in 27 years.Patrick Kane scored the shootout clincher and Kris Versteeg, Patrick Sharp and Andrew Ladd had regulation goals for the Blackhawks, who defeated Boston for the first time in almost six years. They had been 0-4-1 against the Bruins in that span.Tim Thomas made 40 saves, many of them acrobatic stops, but couldn’t prevent the Bruins from losing their third straight game. David Krejci scored twice for Boston, including the goal that forced overtime with 2:43 left in regulation. Thomas, who couldn’t be faulted on any of Chicago’s regulation goals, said his timing was off during the shootout.Patrice Bergeron’s attempt to start the shootout.Toews then beat Thomas low to the stick side. After Blake Wheeler hit the post to Niemi’s left, Kane stuffed a backhander past Thomas to give the Blackhawks their eighth shootout or overtime victory this year, tied for most in the NHL.Friday’s quick shootout outcome was the antithesis of several of the Hawks multiple-round outings earlier in the year.The Hawks had recorded consecutive shutouts and hadn’t allowed a goal in exactly a week before Krejci beat Niemi 9:22 into the game on a nice pass from Wheeler.Poor second-period defense by the Bruins gave Thomas no chance on point-blank shots by Versteeg and Sharp.Daniel Paille made it 2-2 at 16:32 of the second. Toews then scored with 26.6 seconds left in the period as he stood alone in front of the net and hacked at the puck until it went past Thomas.Boston’s Johnny Boychuck and Andrew Ladd traded third-period goals before Krejci scored on a rebound to tie it 4-all. Mark Recchi had two assists for the Bruins and leads all active players with 1,461 points and 909 assists.

NOTES—Nicklas Hjalmarsson

was ill and missed the game. He was replaced by Jordan Hendry.