Entering Game 5 of the Western Conference finals Chicago Blackhawks forward Patrick Kane had scored just three goals this postseason, and only one over his past eight games. When you're one of the best players on the best team in the NHL, production like that is going to start to lead to some criticism.

As it turns out, it was only a matter of time until he started to break through. And man did he break through on Saturday night.

Kane scored three goals in Chicago's 4-3 double overtime win against the Los Angeles Kings, including the game-winning tally on a two-on-one rush set up by captain Jonathan Toews to send the Blackhawks to the Stanley Cup final for the second time in four years.

Obviously, Kane was a little excited.

The Blackhawks made it this far without the type of offensive production you might have expected from their top-two players and at different points throughout the postseason they've both faced criticism for not producing enough. That's quickly starting to change. As it turns out, reuniting them on the same line earlier in Western Conference final series has been just what the Blackhawks needed.

Of course, with both players it was also just a matter of time until they started putting points on the board. They've both been at the center of a lot of Chicago's scoring chances this postseason and have been playing much better than their box score line would indicate only to get crushed by some abnormally low percentages.

Take Kane for example. Before his goal in Game 4, which ended seven-game goal-less drought, Kane had scored on just two of his 50 shots this postseason for a shooting percentage of just four percent. That's a low number for any forward not playing on somebody's fourth line.

For a guy that scored on 16 percent of his shots during the regular season and 11 percent for his career it's unheard of and you had to assume that just wasn't going to last if he kept getting his chances. He's too talented, has too good of a shot, and was generating too many shots (more than three per game -- a number that is actually an increase over what he did during the regular season) to be kept out of the net forever.

Keep getting pucks at the net and eventually something has to find it's way in.

He kept creating chances, he kept getting shots on net, and now he's finally started to get the reward. It couldn't have happened at a better time for the Blackhawks.