In Denver, Nathan MacKinnon collected a goal and four points on Thursday as the Colorado Avalanche defeated the visiting St Louis Blues, 7-4.
“Big win,” MacKinnon said. “Scoring seven against a good defensive team is obviously something that’s not going to happen again, but it’s a good game by everybody, really solid. It’s nice to finally get a win.”
Philipp Grubauer made 24 saves in the win.
Robert Thomas struck twice for St Louis.
“We didn’t play a very smart game tonight, that’s the bottom line,” St. Louis head coach Craig Berube said. “You have to play good defense against this team and manage things, and we didn’t do it. We didn’t do it good enough.”
Alex Pietrangelo also scored for St Louis.
“We felt like we had some momentum there,” Pietrangelo said. “Just seemed like we couldn’t grab the momentum when we thought we had some.”
Nazem Kadri scored twice for the Avs.
Mikko Rantanen, Cale Makar, J.T. Compher, and Joonas Donskoi all scored for Colorado.
“I think we were just due, honestly,” MacKinnon said. “We were giving all the opponents their goals in the third with bad breakdowns. Something just felt kind of different tonight when they made it 3-2. There was no panic, and Cale had a big goal, and that kind of iced it. We knew we needed some maturity from everybody at that time.”
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Jordan Binnington got the start for the Blues, but did not finish the game. He surrendered all seven goals and made 34 saves in the loss.
“Enough goals,” Berube said.
Jake Allen mopped up the mess with just just under six minutes left in the game; he made one save.
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