Brent Seabrook’s 11th-round shootout goal for Blackhawks gives Quenneville 500th win

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Quenneville gets 500th win, Blackhawks top Jackets

CHICAGO — Brent Seabrook scored in the 11th round of a shootout Tuesday night and the Chicago Blackhawks beat the Columbus Blue Jackets 4-3 to give coach Joel Quenneville his 500th career victory.

Marian Hossa, playing his first game with the Blackhawks at the United Center, scored in the second round of the shootout. Columbus’ Jakub Voracek tied it in the next round, setting the stage for a goaltending battle between Steve Mason and Chicago’s Cristobal Huet before Seabrook skated in for the winner.

Quenneville is the 14th NHL coach to reach 500 wins.

In regulation, Chicago got power-play goals from Jonathan Toews and Patrick Sharp and a short-handed score from Kris Versteeg. Hossa added two assists.

Kris Russell, Antoine Vermette and Samuel Pahlsson scored for the Blue Jackets.

Mason finished with 23 saves, including five in overtime. Huet had 20 and stopped a shot by Rick Nash with about 14 seconds left in the extra period, sending it to a shootout.

Quenneville is in his first full season as Chicago’s coach after taking over four games into last season and leading the young team to the Western Conference finals. He also has coached the St. Louis Blues and Colorado Avalanche.

Russell’s hard slap shot from the top of the left circle 40 seconds into the final period went sailing past Huet and gave the Blue Jackets a 3-2 lead.

But on the power play, Duncan Keith’s shot from high between the circles hit Toews in front of the net and eluded Mason, tying it at 3 less than five minutes in.

Versteeg took a pass from John Madden near the blue line and faked two defenders on his way down the ice before beating Mason on the glove side for a 1-0 lead with 6 minutes left in the opening period.

The short-handed goal, Chicago’s sixth of the season, came against the league’s top-ranked power play entering the game.

The Blue Jackets tied it in the second when Vermette jammed in a rebound from a scrum in front.

Columbus took the lead with a little less than six minutes to go in the second when Pahlsson — who played part of last season with the Blackhawks — shot the puck from the left circle and it zipped past Huet, who was apparently screened on the play by his teammate, defenseman Brent Sopel. It was Pahlsson’s first goal of the season.

Sharp then scored on a power play to make it 2-all. Patrick Kane fired the puck across the crease, Sharp stopped it with his stick on the other side of the net and then flicked it in.

NOTES: The Blue Jackets put D Rostislav Klesla on injured reserve and brought up Mathieu Roy from the AHL. Klesla was injured in a mid-ice collision with St. Louis’ Barret Jackman on Monday. … Attendance was 20,363 in Chicago’s first home game since Nov. 15 following a 4-1-1 road trip.