In St Louis, John Klingberg scored with 19 seconds left on the regulation clock to get the Dallas Stars even with the Blues on Saturday and force extra time.
Unfortunately for the Stars, the Blues scored once on penalties for a 4-3 win.
“I think we have a really good system 6-on-5, and we stuck with it,” Klingberg said. “I think we hold on to the pucks there and take what’s open. We knew that they were going to try to pack it in when they play 5-on-6. We got some opportunities there, and credit to the guys down low. They won back the pucks, and that’s how you create scoring chances.”
Jake Allen, who stopped all three shots in the penalties, made 28 saves in the win.
“I tried to have some fun with it,” Allen said. “We’ve been in a lot of overtime games this year. I can’t put a number on it, but quite a few and, you’re not going to win them all, honestly. It’s a pond hockey game, so you’re just waiting for a breakdown, and they got one there. I thought it was going to be 2-on-0 originally, and then Benn sort of pulled away, got the save, and [Ryan] O’Reilly had a big goal in the shootout.”
Tyler Seguin and Denis Gurianov also scored for the Stars.
Brayden Schenn, David Perron and Tyler Bozak scored for the Blues in regulation.
“I think that our team knows how to win,” Blues head coach Craig Berube said. “You win seven, eight in a row three times, it means you’re winning games where you’re probably not playing your best hockey. It’s hard to play really good hockey every night. You’ve got to find ways to win games without playing your best game. We’ve done a pretty good job of that.”
Ryan O’Reilly had the only strike on penalties.
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Anton Khudobin made 26 saves in the loss.
“I always look at these shootout losses as you don’t lose the game, because you don’t lose the game, you tie the game,” Dallas coach Rick Bowness said. “You lose the shootout. We played with them. It was great to see us come back because I thought we were playing really well.”
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