In Chicago, Jordan Binnington made 30 saves in a 4-0 shutout for the St Louis Blues over the Blackhawks on Sunday.
“Today, I think our team played really strongly in the last two periods,” Binnington said. “It feels good to get a shutout and a win. We were really solid. The team did a good job making my job easy tonight.”
David Perron hit for a pair of goals for the Blues.
“It didn’t start out exactly like we wanted in the first,” St. Louis head coach Craig Berube said. “We were assertive in the first period, but we got better in the second period. Special teams were really good tonight (going 1-for-3 on the power play and 3-for-3 on the penalty kill). We just started playing our hard hockey offensively, forechecking and being hard pucks, battling and working for it and keeping puck possession. We ended up capitalizing on some plays.”
St Louis moved to 32-14-6.
“He stood on his head,” Chicago head coach Derek King said. “He was unbelievable. He keeps us in the games every night, but that should be motivation right there to get competing and start staying in the battles. It just seemed like we didn’t score in the first period when I thought we played pretty good, when we were right there with them.
“We didn’t get it. They get one and then we [take on a] here-we-go-again kind of attitude. We just stood still, stopped playing. They woke up and they were winning the battles. We weren’t.”
The Blackhawks fell to 19-27-8.
“I like our (power-play) unit. We were put together the last game or two games ago,” Perron said. “Every single time we went out there, I felt we created momentum.
“The second [goal], I just kind of jumped on a face-off loss, put it on net and it went in. I think I was the only guy that knew it went in. It was just barely across the goal line.”
Jordan Kyrou and Pavel Buchnevich combined to give the Blues a 2-0 lead.
“Yeah, obviously, good crowd tonight and couldn’t kind of get them going,” Chicago’s Dylan Strome.said. “Just didn’t do enough to keep them loud or make them loud. Kind of fell behind and then, you know, that’s the way it goes sometimes.
“We just didn’t capitalize on our chances. I think we had lots of good looks on a couple of power plays, couple of good chances in the first, they get the lead and we kind of go from there. I think sometimes it feels like you get these chances and they just aren’t going in. We kind of got down and couldn’t’ fight back in it. Disappointing, obviously.”
Marc-Andre Fleury made 31 saves in the Chicago loss.
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