Chicago Is Up, 3-0, on Edmonton : NHL playoffs: Roenick’s goal gives the Blackhawks a 4-3 victory in overtime. The Oilers blow a 2-0 lead.

The Chicago Blackhawks wrote themselves in the NHL record book and moved to within one victory of their first trip to the Stanley Cup finals since 1973.

Jeremy Roenick’s goal 2:35 into overtime gave the Blackhawks a 4-3 victory over the Edmonton Oilers on Wednesday night and a 3-0 lead in the Campbell Conference finals.

It was the Blackhawks’ 10th victory in a row, tying the NHL record for consecutive wins in one playoff season set by Boston in 1970. The multi-season record is 12 by Edmonton in 1984-85.

Roenick tipped a pass by Chris Chelios past Bill Ranford, who made four game-saving stops earlier in overtime. Chicago had all five shots in overtime.

The Blackhawks, who won for only the second time in nine playoff games at the Northlands Coliseum, can advance to the finals for the first time in 19 years with a victory Friday night. Only two teams have come back from a 3-0 deficit to win a playoff series.

For the second consecutive game, Edmonton blew a 2-0 lead.

After Chicago scored three times in the second period to take the lead, Edmonton tied it when defenseman Brian Glynn picked off Stephane Matteau’s clearing pass and beat Ed Belfour with a screened 40-footer at 7:13 of the third period.

The goal broke a streak of 12 consecutive goals by the Blackhawks in the second and third periods of the series.

The Blackhawks had two good scoring chances in the first 30 seconds of Game 3, but it was the Oilers who struck first. Joe Murphy’s backhand pass from the left corner found Bernie Nicholls, who knocked the puck past Belfour 2:08 into the game.

The Oilers capitalized on a Chicago mistake for their second goal.

Mark Lamb stepped around defenseman Brian Marchment at the Chicago blue line, creating a two on one. Lamb’s pass found Craig MacTavish, whose 15-footer from the slot beat Belfour at 13:00.

The Oilers’ 13 first-period shots were one fewer than they managed in Game 2. But their lead melted under the heat of the Blackhawks’ forechecking.

After the Blackhawks finished killing a five-minute major penalty against Jocelyn Lemieux, who was ejected for cutting David Maley with his stick, Chicago began to take control, forcing the Oilers into three consecutive penalties and capitalizing twice.

Brian Noonan started the comeback at 6:36, knocking in a rebound after Ranford stopped Roenick’s bad-angled shot.

Rob Brown, playing because of an injury to Greg Gilbert, evened the score when Brown got the shaft of his stick on Michel Goulet’s waist-high cross-ice pass and deflected it past Ranford.

After Belfour robbed Vincent Damphousse on the Oilers’ best chance of the period, Chelios picked off Dave Manson’s clearing pass and fired a screened 60-footer past Ranford at 18:49.