In St Louis, Colorado’s Devon Toews scored with less than three minutes left in regulation to give Avalanche a 2-1 lad, and eventual win by the same count on Friday night over the Blues.
“We kind of said going into it that we’ve got to win a 1-0, 2-1 game, whatever it may be,” the Avalanche’s Josh Manson said. “We found a way to do it and stuck with it. The game maybe got away a little bit there in the third, got away from the game plan, but then we got back to it and stayed consistent, and things like that will happen. You get bounces at the end of the game and you’re still in the game.”
Alexandar Georgiev made 30 saves in the win.
The Avalanche moved to 22-11-3.
The Avs took a 1-0 lead at 15:11 of the opening stanza on a marker from Ryan Johansen.
“I thought he played great tonight,” Avs coach Jared Bednar said. “He worked hard, he checked hard, he obviously goes to the net on both of those goals. He had a good night. We needed it. We needed a little bit of offense from somebody else in this game, and we got it.”
The Blues dropped to 18-16-1.
“I’ll take that effort every night,” St. Louis coach Drew Bannister said. “I thought we competed and played well. Maybe 10 minutes of the second period that we got away from our game, but I thought we certainly deserved a better result. Our guys competed, they played well. There are some times that you’re the better team and bounces don’t go your way, it just happens. For us, it’s just about regrouping ourselves for tomorrow (at the Pittsburgh Penguins) and getting ready.”
St Louis tied the game, 1-1, when Robert Thomas scored at 16:31 of the first.
“Nothing changed for us, really,” St. Louis defenseman Colton Parayko said. “I think obviously our forwards did a good job of coming back and helping in support. I know they had their sticks in there quite a bit and interrupted a bit. Everyone just stayed tight on them (the top players for Colorado) in the [defensive] zone and things like that. But credit to the forwards for kind of staying tight.”
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Jordan Binnington made 21 saves in the loss.
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