Two months into the season, the Boston Bruins finally have their first three-game win streak.

After scoring wins over the Canadiens and Red Wings earlier in the week, the B’s made it an Original Six triple play with a 4-2 victory over the Chicago Blackhawks at the United Center on Wednesday.

All three of those teams are well outside the playoff structure but, well, the B’s have to get their points somewhere, somehow.

Brad Marchand and Morgan Geekie each scored a pair of goals to lead the B’s to victory.

As was the case in their victory over the Red Wings on Tuesday, the B’s spotted their opponent the first goal before coming back to tie it before the first period was out.

The opening tally was not a pretty one for Jeremy Swayman. Old friend Nick Foligno gathered a rebound on the left and Swayman committed to a quick put-back shot, going into the splits. Foligno instead carried the puck around thee net and fed it out front to Alex Vlasic. Swayman had little chance to recover and Vlasic buried it just 1:23 into the game.

But eventually, the B’s began to establish a territorial advantage and they evened it up at 12:17. Brad Marchand kept the play alive behind the net with a good shift before he changed off for Morgan Geekie. Working behind the net, Justin Brazeau fed the oncoming Geekie in the slot. Petr Mrazek made the initial stop but it trickled behind him. Geekie followed up the original shot and knocked home the loose puck for his third of the year.

The B’s nearly took the lead on the waning seconds of the first when Marchand’s wrist shot broke through Mrazek’s glove and bounced off the post. The B’s did get a power play to start the second when Wyatt Kaiser knocked the net off it’s moorings in a desperate attempt to clear the rebound of the Marchand shot with 14 seconds left in the period.

The PP failed, but the B’s would soon find themselves with a two-goal.

As he has done on occasion early in periods, coach Joe Sacco put Marchand and David Pastrnak on a line together with Elias Lindholm and it clicked for a pair of Marchand goals.

Pastrnak has not had much luck finding the back of the net and his confidence in that endeavor has seemingly been on the wane. But he set up Pavel Zacha’s OT game-winner against the Wings and picked up helpers on both of Marchand’s second period goals that came 2:05 apart.

The first one was a beauty on a set play off a Lindholm faceoff win. Mason Lohrei fed Pastrnak coming out from behind the net on the left side and Pastrnak delivered, a perfect seam pass that gave Marchand a one-timer goal at 2:58. Sacco, smartly decided to keep the stars together.

Then at 5:03, Marchand followed up a Pastrnak shot and beat Mrazek on a backhander for his 10th goal of the year, giving the captain the team lean in goals over Pastrnak.

But the B’s could not maintain the two-goal lead through two period as the Hawks halved the lead with 1:37 left in the second on a fortunate goal. From the left circle, Jason Dickinson wristed a shot fisrt deflected off Brandon Carlo, then Nikita Zadorov and past Swayman.

The Hawks pressured for the equalizer early in the third but Geekie’s second of the game at 5:02 gave the B’s a little breathing space again.

Lohrei blocked a shot in the defensive slot and it bounced out to Brazeau, who spotted Geekie head up ice. Brazeau sprung him for a breakaway and Geekie beat Mrazek with a wrist shot under the glove.

The B’s had a chance to put the hammer down on a power play, but Mrazek made two big stops and Charlie McAvoy hit the crossbar to keep it a two-goal game But as it turned out, they had all the offense they needed ...

Bruins will represent three of the four countries in February’s Four Nations tournament in Montreal and Boston.

For Team USA, McAvoy, who was among the initial group of players named to the roster, will be joined by Swayman. One would think that if the tournament started today, Swayman (7-9-2, .892 save percentage going into Wednesday’s game) wouldn’t see much time, but there’s still time for him to play his way into some games.

Elias Lindholm was named to Team Sweden. Defenseman Hampus Lindholm would have had a chance to be named but he’s still out for the foreseeable future with a knee injury.

Captain Brad Marchand had also already been named to Team Canada.

The only team without a Bruin will be Team Finland. Goalie Joonas Korpisalo, who has been an important pickup for the B’s as Swayman struggled out of the gate, could have been under consideration but the Finns went with Juuse Saros, Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen and Kevin Lankinen.

The round-robin tourney will begin in Montreal with four games, starting on Feb. 12, before it shifts to the Garden for a doubleheader on Feb. 17 and the championship game on Feb. 20.

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