In St Louis Thursday, Jake Allen made 29 saves to blank the Dallas Stars, 3-0.
It was his first shutout of the season.
“It’s pretty cool,” Allen said. “I think it was a lot harder for Glenn to make shutouts back in the day than it is for us. I’ll take it, and it’s pretty cool to have that under my belt, and hopefully I get a lot more in the next few years.”
Brayden Schenn, Colton Parayko and Vladimir Tarasenko struck for the Blues’ goals.
But the star of the game was Allen who held the Stars off the board but the Stars also hurt themselves with a string of seven penalties.
“I think it’s more why we took the penalties,” Stars head coach Ken Hitchcock said. “We took the penalties because we were second place to the puck. They won the race and we took the penalty because of it. We got beat, got beat to a lot of the races on the penalties we took, poor stick positioning, poor sticks. Any momentum we started to build, we got it taken away with penalties.”
A late horn in the second period made it appear that the Stars’ Stephen Johns had scored.
“The horn’s always delayed in every arena,” Allen said. “It’s usually a second delayed, so you always know once the horn (sounds) … the puck’s in the net is probably the same time as the horn, so you always know it’s late.”
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Kari Lehtonen made 24 saves for the loss.
“I don’t think we played a good game, and we took too many penalties, and you can’t do that if you want to win hockey games. You have to score goals,” the Stars’ Alexander Radulov said. “That’s the bottom line, and we weren’t able to do that today, so that’s the No. 1 thing, obviously. Everybody has to just look in the mirror, all of us, regroup, and it’s enough talking. I think we just have to show up and play,”
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