CHICAGO — The Bruins kicked off their two-game siblings trip Saturday night, with virtually everyone on the roster accompanied by a sister or brother, each of the smiling “plus ones” outfitted in natty Black and Gold jackets with their favorite NHL brother’s number stitched on the arm.
In the end, the Bruins treated the Blackhawks as if they were their much younger kid brothers, rallying from an early deficit and thumping them, 5-2, a win that included two goals by Mason Lohrei and one each by Charlie McAvoy, Viktor Arvidsson, and Marat Khusnutdinov.
The win, their sixth in a row (tying a season high), lifted the Bruins to 28-19-2, a pace for 97 points.
Joonas Korpisalo won his third straight in net, turning aside 22 shots, including 14 in a row after Ryan Greene and Wyatt Kaiser provided the Blackhawks with a 2-0 lead in the first period.
The trip wraps up Tuesday night in Dallas.
Zoe Lohrei, Mason’s sister, held the honor of reading the starting lineup to the Bruins pregame, with all the players and siblings packed into the dressing room. Big bro Mason, also celebrating his 25th birthday, went out and scored on two of his three shots on net, including the 2-2 equalizer and a power-play goal that provided the 4-2 lead in the third.
By coach Marco Sturm’s eye, it was the best game he’s seen from Lohrei, who has been the center of trade chatter of late. His two goals might take that chatter down a notch or two.
“I’ll definitely take [Sturm’s] compliment, for sure,” said a smiling Lohrei after the win, which left him with a club-high six goals among defensemen. “Thank you to him.”
Lohrei of late has returned to his confident shooting ways. McAvoy also has been more eager to shoot of late, and he made a bold move down low on his goal, barreling low into the slot to snap home a pass from Elias Lindholm. It was the first game this season that the Bruins got three goals from their backliners.
“I think the past few games I’ve been getting a few more looks,” added Lohrei. “It‘s just about getting my feet moving a little more and finding that open space. I think I do that pretty well. So it’s getting back to doing that and getting pucks to the net.”
The Bruins have outscored opponents, 27-7, in this six-game streak. They also have not surrendered a goal in the third period.
“I think that confidence now, going into the third period, we aren’t afraid,” mused Sturm. “In the past it has been our best period. That was the mind-set today. The guys are willing to defend . . . defending, not panicking, still making plays.”
After falling behind by a pair in the opening period, strikes by McAvoy, Lohrei, and Arvidsson sent the Bruins into the second intermission with a 3-2 lead.
McAvoy sparked the rally 1:55 into the second, uncharacteristically moving low into the slot, where no one in a red shirt picked him up. An alert Elias Lindholm, parked in the left circle, spotted McAvoy making his move and delivered a tape-to-tape pass for McAvoy’s third goal of the season.
Lohrei, playing his off side with partner Hampus Lindholm back in the lineup and manning the left side, picked the top right corner for his fifth, the 2-2 equalizer, at 14:51. An eager shooter, Lohrei wasted no time snapping off a wrister off the pass that Lindholm sailed over to him. Pavel Zacha set up the scenario with strong puck control in the offensive zone.
Arvidsson capped the three-goal rally with 46 seconds to go before the break for the Bruins’ first lead of the night. The “Little Weasel,” as dubbed by Sturm, Arvidsson connected for his 11th after some quick, fancy passing with linemates Casey Mittelstadt and Zacha.
The Blackawks, finally showing signs of reviving the moribund franchise yet again, moved out to their 2-0 lead in the first.
Technically, Greene’s goal came at even strength, but the Bruins were still in penalty-kill mode when winger Andre Burakovsky shuttled his pass into the slot for Greene to slam home.
A bad call — or noncall — was a key part of Kaiser’s goal at 18:14. Kaiser walked in freely from the right point, again to the sweet spot between the circles, and rifled home his wrister for the 2-0 lead. Nick Foligno should have been whistled off for hauling down Mittelstadt.
All of it was forgotten by the time the final horn blew, followed by the march of the siblings, who made their way back to the dressing room, where their brothers had the music blaring.
“It’s just great . . . you can see the siblings, how much fun they have,” said a smiling Sturm, in the relative quiet outside the room. “You see how happy they are, nervous they are . . . that for me alone is awesome.”
Kevin Paul Dupont can be reached at kevin.dupont@globe.com.