In St Louis, the Blues surrendered a 1-0 lead in the second period to the Colorado Avalanche, who had taken a 2-1 lead.
The Blues responded with four unanswered goals and took the win, 5-2, on Monday night.
David Perron notched a hat trick for St Louis.
“I thought we played a pretty solid game,” Blues coach Craig Berube said. “That’s a tough team, man. They’re fast. They’ve got a lot of speed, and I thought our guys did a real good job tonight.”
Jordan Binnington made 26 saves to get the win.
Nazem Kadri and Mikko Rantanen were the Avs strikers in the second period when theyey erased the early deficit on Peron’s first goal of the game in the opening frame..
“They controlled the whole first period for me,” Colorado coach Jared Bednar said of St. Louis. “Then, actually I kind of felt like we controlled the second until that double minor. We were playing good. We came back, built the lead, and then the double minor, they made some plays and caught us on the penalty kill for two (goals), and I thought they dominated the third. Just a better performance by them. We just weren’t good enough, you know … they dominated. They deserved to win, no question.”
Vince Dunn and Jordan Kyrou added single markers for St Louis.
St Louis scored twice with less than two minutes left in the middle frame.
“That just carries over to the third period for us,” Dunn said. “When the power-play is at least doing the right things and getting shots to the net, that sets up the next line that’s coming out. As much as possible we want to score, but most importantly, we want to create momentum and I think we did a great job for our team in that second period leading into the third.”
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Philipp Grubauer made 31 saves in the loss.
“Second period, we were really good,” Rantanen said. “They didn’t have much in the second until the two power plays, and they capitalized. The third wasn’t good enough. We were pushing from 3-2 behind and we tried to get a goal, but we gave up chance after chance. Not good enough in the third.”
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