Blackhawks lead 1-0 after 2 periods

Jun 16, 2015 - 2:10 AM Chicago, IL (SportsNetwork.com) - Duncan Keith scored with 2:47 left in the second period to give the Chicago Blackhawks a 1-0 lead over the Tampa Bay Lightning in Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Finals.

With a win on Monday night, the Blackhawks will win their third title in six seasons. They last won the Cup in front of the home fans in 1938.

After several quality chances, Chicago's most reliable defenseman finally broke the scoreless deadlock.

Keith moved in from the neutral and took Patrick Kane's saucer pass at the blue line. The star defenseman fired a shot from the top of the slot, but Ben Bishop made the save. Keith followed his shot and wristed the rebound over Bishop's glove.

Brent Seabrook nearly gave Chicago a two-goal lead after Tampa Bay's Ondrej Palat went off for elbowing with 47 seconds left in the stanza, but his shot rang off the post.

The Blackhawks owned a 23-11 shot advantage through 40 minutes.

Less than three minutes into the game, Nikita Kucherov, playing despite missing most of Game 5 due to an injury, raced through the neutral zone on a breakaway, but Chicago defenseman Johnny Oduya broke up the play with a timely stick check.

Tampa Bay captain Steven Stamkos nearly scored his first goal of the series, but rang a shot off the crossbar at 7:50.

Moments later, the Blackhawks went on the power play after Cedric Paquette tripped Jonathan Toews in the offensive zone. Teuvo Teravainen missed on a redirect from in tight of Marian Hossa's cross-slot feed.

On another Chicago power play, Kane sent the puck under a diving defender and across the goalmouth to Toews, who quickly tapped the puck on net, but Bishop made a sprawling save to keep the game scoreless.

Corey Crawford withstood an aggressive sequence from Tampa Bay's "Triplets" line -- Tyler Johnson, Palat and Kucherov -- with under two minutes left in the first period as Kucherov sent a pass to Jason Garrison, who had his one- timer blocked by Hossa.

Tampa Bay came out firing in the second period, registering four shots over the opening four minutes.

Just over a minute into the middle frame, Stamkos raced into the offensive zone all alone on a breakaway, slowed down and stickhandled multiple times, but had his low shot stopped by Crawford's pad.

Chicago moved in on net with a 3-on-1, but Andrew Desjardins could not catch up to a lead pass and Bishop slid out of his net to disrupt the play.

The Blackhawks continued to push the pace midway through the second. Kris Versteeg's deflection of Trevor van Riemsdyk's point shot off an offensive zone faceoff trickled through the blue paint and wide of the net.