Blues edge Wild in OT, 3-2

In St Louis, the Blues made it two in a row over the Minnesota Wild on Saturday, 3-2, in extra time.

Ryan O’Reilly picked up the game-winner with two seconds left in the extra session.

“I had a general idea (how much time was left),” O’Reilly said. “As I was coming out of the zone, I saw we didn’t have much time left and still time to make a play obviously, but I knew when I was coming towards ‘Schenner’ that I’ve got to finish something at the net here and try to attack. Luckily, the timing was good, and we got it.”

Ville Husso made 28 saves in the win.

Nico Sturm and Matt Dumba were the Wild strikers.

The Wild were far more competitive and engaged after a 9-1 shelling in their previous game with the Blues.

“The response was great, absolutely great,” Minnesota head coach Dean Evason said. “We competed our butts off. One-hundred percent, it was businesslike. We rolled the lines. Every line did the right things. We got a couple of bad bounces this game. I don’t want to say we deserved better because both teams played really well. It was right there. We caught a couple bad bounces, and that was the difference in the hockey game.”

Mike Hoffman scored both St Louis goals in regulation, including the game-tying goal with 42 seconds left in the third period.

“You just got to get pucks to the net,” Hoffman said. “It’s never pretty 6-on-5, the ice is all chewed up, you can hardly make a flat pass. You’re just trying to get pucks there and hopefully get a lucky bounce, which we did.”

Cam Talbot made  saves in the loss.

“I think tonight was a step in the right direction,” Talbot said. “We needed a response after last game, and we came out and I thought that we did everything right to win the hockey game tonight. They get two of the luckiest bounces I’ve seen, and then it went into overtime there. We deserved to win that game if it wasn’t for those lucky bounces. I thought that we did everything right tonight. We took away their chances off the rush. We were stronger in zone. We picked up the third guy in the slot there. We didn’t give them a ton of chances tonight. If we can put this game back on the ice come Monday, we’ll have a lot more success.”