Blackhawks only have eyes for Saturday's Game 5

When the Blackhawks won Stanley Cup titles in 2010 and 2013, the clinching game came on the other team's home ice.

This year - if the Hawks can prevail in Game 5 at Tampa Bay on Saturday - they would return home with a 3-2 series lead and a chance to celebrate in front of 22,000-plus at the United Center.

And don't think a few of them haven't let that thought cross their minds.

"There are moments where you let yourself daydream," Jonathan Toews said Thursday.

But then ...

"All of a sudden you catch yourself getting ahead of yourself," Toews said. "You need to snap back to right here, right now. ...

"The only way you get to that point is if you just focus on the next shift, the next period. ... That's as far ahead as you want to look."

Kimmo Timonen couldn't agree more.

"It's easy to look to the end of the results, easy to dream about it," said the 40-year-old defenseman. "You can dream about it, but you can't let your mind wander too far.

"We got a big game coming up Saturday. You can only focus on Saturday."

Even Steven:

After four games of the Stanley Cup Final, not only has every game been decided by 1 goal, but neither team has ever even enjoyed a 2-goal lead.

"It's really tough for either team to separate themselves from the other in any of these games, which makes for entertaining hockey games," Jonathan Toews said.

This is only the third time - and the first since 1968 when the Canadiens swept the Bruins - that the first four games were 1-goal affairs.

"The fact that nobody's had a two-goal lead after four games speaks volumes about what we're talking about here," Hawks coach Joel Quenneville said. "Hey, it's fast, it's quick, it can be unpredictable. It's two good hockey teams going at it."

Tough as nails:

Johnny Oduya was injured during Game 3 and didn't participate in the morning skate leading up to Game 4, but the 33-year-old was on the ice for 25:45 during the Hawks' 2-1 win on Wednesday. Only Duncan Keith and the Lightning's Victor Hedman logged more playing time.

"Yeah, he's a warrior," Joel Quenneville said of his defenseman who has missed just 12 regular-season games the past five seasons. "Kind of reminds me of Hammer (Niklas Hjalmarsson). The two of them, from Sweden. They like to play with one another, hang out with one another. Got a lot of the same attributes as far as how they prepare and produce.

"Low maintenance. Nice bounce-back by him."

Oduya blocked 5 shots and was an important part of a penalty-kill unit that took care of all 4 Tampa Bay power-play chances.

Tip-ins:

Patrick Kane, who assisted on Brandon Saad's game-winning goal Wednesday, moved into fourth place past Steve Larmer for most points in the playoffs among Blackhawks. Kane has 112 points and needs 18 to pass Bobby Hull for third place, 34 to pass Denis Savard and 39 to pass Stan Mikita. ... Jonathan Toews' goal in Game 4 was his 10th of the postseason and is a career high, bettering the 9 he had in 2014. ... The Hawks are now 41-14 in Games 4-7 since the start of the 2009 postseason.

He said it:

"I wished that went in. I guess in life you can't get everything. Just living the dream here (laughter)."

- Kimmo Timonen on his third-period shot that hit the crossbar in Game 4