In St Louis, Jordan Binnington made 27 saves for the Blues in a 4-2 win over the visiting Vegas Golden Knights.
The Blues used a three-goal second period to erase a 1-2 deficit coming out of the first frame. 
Oskar Sundqvist struck for a goal and two points on the night.
TRhe win snapped a three-game skid for St Louis.
“Yeah, we never want to lose games, especially not three in a row,” Sundqvist said. “Maybe our first period wasn’t really good, but our second period, we really got to our game and that’s how we need to play. When we do that, we’re really hard to stop. We’re creating a ton of chances. We just need to find that game we had in the second period and build off that one.”
Max Pacioretty and William Carrier were the Vegas rollers.
“I thought we had two great periods, the first and the third, but the second wasn’t obviously nearly good enough,” Vegas coach Gerard Gallant said. “Lot of missed chances, but we were loose in the second. That cost [us] the hockey game.
“It was a good hockey game, two good hockey teams playing against each other, and when you give up three in the second like that … we turned the puck over, we gave them odd-man rushes and you’re not going to beat a team like that.”
Mackenzie MacEachern opened the scoring for St Louis and Jaden Schwartz and Robert Thomas added markers.
“It feels like I’m in the right spots a lot of times,” Sundqvist said. “At the same time, it’s a really good job by the other guys to get the pucks there. Today, it was more a lucky goal. It was more a reaction when Petro shot it there. I’m happy it went in.”
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Marc-Andre Fleury made 25 saves in the loss.
“I thought we played very good in the first and the third, but I thought they came pretty hard [in the second period],” Fleury said. “They put the puck on net. Had a lot of bodies there and that fourth one, that’s on me. I wish I would have stopped that one.”
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