In St Louis, the Blues came back from a 1-0 deficit in the opening stanza on Thursday night to defeat the visiting Vancouver Canucks, 2-1.
Robert Thomas scored at 8:03 of the third period to give the Blues a 2-1 lead they protected for the win.
“Good play by a lot of people,” Thomas said. “[Pavel Buchnevich] makes a great pass over to Scotty. He threw off their whole team. [Jordan Kyrou] drives by the net, goalie can’t see it and he overslides, and I just found it over the blocker. A lot of guys did a lot of good things for that goal.”
Jordan Binnington made 25 saves in the win.
The Blues moved to 19-17-1 snapping a two-game skid.
“I think we played really solid game defensively,” Buchnevich said. “I think since second period, we take over the game and play a really good game, don’t give up many chances and got the ‘W.'”
St Louis tied the game, 1-1, at 4:22 of the middle frame off a strike by Colton Parayko.
“I’m just trying to find spots in the O-zone and find holes that I can kind of jump into,” Parayko said. “I think the forwards have done a great job of kind of finding us D-men. It’s been good, I guess, that way.”
The Canucks fell to 24-11-3.
“I thought we missed a glorious chance in the third,” Vancouver coach Rick Tocchet said. “We have four or five missed nets. We’ve got to hit the net on those shots.
“[St. Louis was] good through the neutral zone. I thought they hit the weak side a lot. But for the most part, like I said, we had our looks, we just need some guys to bear down on their shots.”
Conor Garland staked Vancouver to a 1-0 lead at 1:57 of the first period.
“Obviously disappointed, 1-1 going into the third, you want to find a way to get points out of that,” the Canucks’ Quinn Hughes said. “But we had some hard looks, just didn’t capitalize and execute a little bit better.”
Thatcher Demko made 30 saves in the loss.
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