Blues get back to winning

In St Louis, the Blues needed a turn around after the 11th bar to get their 12th win in 13 games, 2-1, over the Boston Bruins in the skills competition.

The loss snapped a seven-game win streak the Bruins were riding.

Jordan Binnington won his 14th game Saturday – file photo by Lewis Bleiman

“Nine out of 10 points, that’s great,” Bruins coach Bruce Cassidy said. “Guys had some fun together, bonded a little bit. At the end of the day, I was really happy with the way we played.”

Alexander Steen scored for the Blues in regulation to give them a 1-0 lead.

St Louis improved to 33-23-5.

Jordan Binnington made 31 saves for his 14th win of the season.

“It’s nice to get back in the win column, yeah, and just continue to do what we’ve been doing, take it one game at a time and keep focusing,” Binnington said.

Chris Wagner scored Boston’s regulation goal.

“I thought it was a battle,” Blues coach Craig Berube said. “It wasn’t a pretty game at all. It was a tight hockey game and they force a lot of that on you. They’re a good team. They check really well.

“There’s no room out there when you play the Boston Bruins and so we knew what kind of game it was going to be, and it’s just kind of a battle. But goalies were good, both sides, and we were fortunate enough to get the win. They’re a good hockey team and they’re really well-coached and they play a hard game. It’s a tight game when you play them.”

Sammy Blais scored in the sixth round of the skills portion of the contest to get the win for St Louis; Blaise was on a call-up from San Antonio Rampage of the American Hockey League.

“I thought they were going to choose someone else, but it worked out, so I’m pretty happy about that,” Blais said. “When [Rask] went down a little bit, I saw the opening and I just shot it, so it worked.”

The Bruins dropped 36-17-9.

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Tuukka Rask made 28 saves in the loss.

“I’m not totally happy. We were looking for two points, but this was two teams that were waiting for the other one to break,” the Bruins’ David Backes said.