In St Louis, the Blues staked the Chicago Blackhawks to a 3-0 lead into the early minutes of the third period.
From there, the Hawks could not seem to accept the hospitality and promptly surrendered four unanswered goals and lost to the Blues, 4-3.
Justin Faulk capped the rally when he scored with 2:26 left in regulation.
“I was just trying to read their forward and got my head up in time to take a look at [goalie Corey] Crawford to see what I thought I had and got a little help from the post,” Faulk said.
Jordan Binnington made 19 saves in the win.
Brandon Saad had two goals for Chicago and Patrick Kane added a single marker in the third to help the Blackhawks to the lead.
“It hurts, it [stinks], given the week that we’ve had so far,” Jonathan Toews said. “But give the guys credit, we flushed everything down the drain and focused tonight. That team comes out hard in their building, we kept them from the score sheet for the first couple periods, found a way to take control of that game, especially in the third. That [stinks] to blow that one with the lead that we had.”
Tyler Bozak struck twice in the rally and Jacob de la Rose scored to tie the game, 3-3.
“First, I dumped [the puck] in and it wasn’t a very good dump, to be honest with you,” de la Rose said. “I should have kept it away from Crawford, but [Ryan O’Reilly] made a good forecheck and he found me in the slot, and I really didn’t have time to put it on my forehand, so I shot it with my backhand, and it’s a good feeling to see it go in.”
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Corey Crawford made 34 saves in the loss.
“I thought for most of the game we played the type of road game you have to (in order) to survive in a rink like this against a team like that,” Chicago coach Jeremy Colliton said. “We got a lot of saves, no question. And they carried the play for a lot of the game, but we did little things that helped us to survive. We made enough plays to put ourselves in position to succeed.”
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