In St Louis, Ryan O’Reilly scored at the 12 minute mark of the third period for the only goal of the game and the Blues defeated the Arizona Coyotes, 1-0, on Thursday night.
“It’s kind of weird with all the shots we threw at them that that was the one that went in,” O’Reilly said. “Kind of a lucky bounce. I just tried to elevate it and it rolled over his 
shoulder, hit the post, hit his back and then in. It was kind of the bounce we needed. We did a lot of things well tonight against a tired team.”
Jordan Binnington made 14 saves, yes 14 saves, for his second straight shutout.
“We’ll take it,” Binnington said. “Team’s playing great and we’ll build off that.
“We were dominating pretty consistently that game. Another full 60 minutes and being relentless and being hungry to get that first goal and working for that next one. It was a good mindset and it was a big two points for us.”
The Coyotes still hold a wild card, if only tied, at the second position.
“We had no juice tonight. It just hit us. A lot of games,” Coyotes head coach Rick Tocchet said. “You could just tell some guys were really tired. We hung in there. Raanta was unreal tonight. He gave us a chance. That’s basically the story. He was the star for us. We had no juice at all.”
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Antti Raanta made 45 saves in the loss, and should sue for lack of support.
“Obviously it was very tough to generate any offense tonight,” the Coyotes’ Christian Dvorak said. “Raanta was very good for us. We could have gotten run out of the building, so it was a great game by him. We just couldn’t get anything going.”
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