In St Louis, Jordan Martinook hit for a hat trick for the visiting Carolina Hurricanes on Thursday night, in a 6-4 over the Blues.
As is common in the NHL this season, the Blues blew a 2*-0 lead in the game.
Pavel Buchnevich scored in the first period, and Noel Acciari added a marker in the second period for the two-goal lead.
“We’re competitive, we’re in every game,” St. Louis center Robert Thomas said. “Tie game with five minutes left. I thought we had a really good third period too. I thought we pressed them, had a bunch of chances, games like that are going to happen.”
St Louis dropped to 11-12-0.
In the middle frame, the lead evaporated on the Blues with the Canes scoring three straight.
“Yeah, we did,” Blues coach Craig Berube said. “We’ve got to get a kill there. That puck, for me, has got to be cleared when we could have done a better job probably after we didn’t clear it. It’s just being a little bit tighter there and not giving so much time to Burns.”
Brent Burns hit off the power play to make it 2-1.
Martinook started his hat trick to tie it at 2-2 in the sixth minute of the second.
“Sometimes, momentum builds after a power play,” Hurricanes coach Rod Brind’Amour said. “We were able to snap home a couple more. That was a big part of the game obviously.”
Seth Jarvis scored for the Canes to make it 3-2.
St Louis stopped the Carolina run with a goal from Torey Krug to make it 3-3.
Martinook scored his second of the night early in the third for a 4-3 advantage to Carolina.
“[I’d] seen it hop over Parayko,” Martinook said. “It hopped over a stick and I had a little break. Their other D was closing quick so I just tried to get it off as quick as I could. The five-hole was the only place I could go and luckily it went in.”
In the final two minutes, Jordan Stall hit an empty-net goal for a 5-3 lead to Carolina, before Ryan O’Reilly scored with 42 seconds left to cut it one again, 5-4.
Martinook finished his hat trick with an empty-net strike.
Jordan Binnington made 30 saves in the Blues loss.
“It seems like any time we lose a game, it’s usually 5-10 minutes where we give up a few chances that ultimately lead to goals, and that’s what we’ve got to clean up,” Krug said. “It’s up to us to learn from those mistakes sooner than later. Otherwise, we’re going to keep falling behind. We’ve got to make an adjustment there.”
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