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 The game had a bit of everything, including a controversial shootout goal.
Shannon, in just his second game since being called up from the American Hockey League, made contact with Nikolai Khabibulin as he spun back across his body and tucked the puck in, drawing complaints and a shot to the back of the head from the Chicago goalie.
There was also a penalty shot with 2:07 left in overtime after Chicago defenseman Brent Sopel knocked the net off with the Canucks on a 3-on-1 rush. But Daniel Sedin lost the puck trying to deke to his backhand and didn't even get a shot.
Chicago trailed 1-0 going into the third period, but Patrick Sharp tied it at 5:44, and Cam Barker gave Blackhawks the lead on a strange bounce with 4:05 left.
Barker threw the puck at the net from just inside the blue line, then watched as it bounced off a Canucks player just in front of him and arced high into the air, just clearing goalie Roberto Luongo's head before landing on the goal line and bouncing in.
It looked like the Canucks, missing injured defensemen Willie Mitchell (back), Kevin Bieksa (calf), Aaron Mitchell (foot) and Lukas Krajicek (shoulder), were about to lose after having the lead after two periods for the first time this season (20-0-0).
But Naslund tied it with Luongo on the bench for an extra attacker, parking himself at the side of the net and redirecting Mattias Ohlund's bouncing point shot past a helpless Khabibulin.
Alexandre Burrows also scored and Luongo stopped 16 shots through overtime and Patrick Kane, Jonathan Toews and Sharp in the shootout as the Canucks bounced back from a 6-2 drubbing by Colorado the night before to win for the second time in three games to stay a point behind Nashville and Calgary for eighth place in the Western Conference.
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Khabibulin made 32 saves through overtime for the 14th-place Blackhawks, who have one win in their past seven games.
Chicago's Toews returned after missing 16 games with a sprained left knee, but lost winger Martin Havlat, who left the game after just one shift in the second period because he was feeling ill.
Toews, who is fourth in team scoring with 32 points and second among all NHL rookies with 15 goals despite missing a month, jumped immediately back onto the top line with fellow rookie Kane and Patrick Sharp.
The trio almost combined on the first goal early in the second period, but after Sharp snapped a pass from Toews off the inside of the post, Henrik Sedin took the long rebound and sprung Burrows for a breakaway. Burrows deked to his backhand and lifted the puck just over Khabibulin's glove 1:43 into the second period.
Chicago's top line, dangerous most of the night, tied it early in the third period. Toews beat Mike Weaver on the forecheck and fed a pass to Sharp in the high slot, where he snapped a quick, high shot past Luongo on the blocker side.
Notes: Canucks C Byron Ritchie and Chicago RW Adam Burish dropped the gloves and fought two seconds into the game. Sharp extended his point streak to four games (four goals and one assist). Havlat only played six shifts and 4 minutes and had his personal four-game point streak snapped. Canucks LW Brad Isbister was back after being a healthy scratch the past five games. Chicago has two games left on a seven-game road trip: in Columbus on Wednesday and Nashville on Thursday.
[Associated Press]
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