In St Louis, Ville Husso made 35 saves and the Blues moved into third place in the Central Division whit a 4-1 win over the visiting Vancouver Canucks. 
“As a goalie, you want to make those saves and help the team at good times,” Husso said. “And today, I made a couple good saves in the second period and kept the game 2-0, and then we score right away in third. That was like pretty much game over.”
Vladimir Tarasenko had three points on the night with a pair of goals, he now has 500 career NHL points.
“It’s a great accomplishment,” St. Louis coach Craig Berube said. “He’s been a very good player for quite a while. He’s continuing to be a good player. He’s actually a more well-rounded player than when I first got here, seeing him now.
“His opportunities this year he’s had to score goals, he could at least have 30 because he gets a lot of good slot shots.”
Brad Hunt scored the Vancouver goal.
“I don’t think we were very good tonight,” Vancouver coach Bruce Boudreau said. “We were really flat in the first period. We got behind [by] two. That gave them life. We played better in the second period but we didn’t get rewarded for it. When they score on the first shift of the third period, that was it. We didn’t have enough guys play with a sense of urgency that you need at this time of the season. I just didn’t think we were in it tonight at all.”
Vancouver now returns home after going 2-1-1 on a roadie.
The Canucks dropped to 32-27-9, and lost a chance to climb the adder in the Western Conference..
The Canucks fell behind, 3-0, on a Tarasenko less than a minute into the middle frame.
“I set the tone there in the third with a missed assignment,” the Canucks’ J.T. Miller said. “We got off on the wrong foot there at the start of the third period. I actually had a good play before that. A good stick on [Tarasenko]. I just puck-watched for one second. I knew he was over there. I really did. I was just being stubborn. [Pavel] Buchnevich made a really nice pass over there to him. All it takes is one second with good players. You watch the puck a little too long and then it’s in the back of the net.”
Marco Scandella and David Perron scored to give the Blues a 2-0 lead in the opening period.
“If you score first in the game, you’ve got a good feel going, you feed off that,” Berube said. “It was nice getting that 2-0 lead. After we killed that penalty in the second, I wish we would have kind of got going the other way a little bit more than we did.”
Jaroslav Halak made 25 saves in the Canucks loss.
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