Game 3 in Dallas, between the Stars and St Louis Blues was a back and forth affair and fortunately for the Blues they were the ones who started the trend and ended it.
The Blues’ Tyler Bozak opened the scoring in the first period.
Pat Maroon ended the scoring when he connected with 1:38 left in regulation to give St Louis a 4-3 victory and 201 series lead.
“I think I just had more time to use my hands,” Maroon said. “Usually, I’m muffing it into the pads. But I got it up quick, and I’ve been working on that in practice, just taking it from the back of the net and trying to lift it instead of just putting it into the pads. Got one through tonight.”
Jordan Binnington made 28 saves to get the win.
“Once again tonight, it’s not the way we drew it up before the game, but we’ll take it,” the Blues’ Alex Pietrangelo said.
The Stars responded to each Blues lead with goals scored by Alexander Radulov, Andrew Cogliano and Tyler Seguin.
“It was a great playoff game. It was back and forth, both teams were giving what they had,” Stars coach Jim Montgomery said. “I just thought the Blues did a better job possessing pucks in the offensive zone than we did.”
Jaden Schwartz and Pietrangelo also scored for St Louis.
“The guys that are going out there, they have a lot of pressure on them,” Blues defenseman Vince Dunn said. “But I think they really handled themselves really well.”
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Ben Bishop made 30 saves in the loss.
“We need to come out and be a little better. We need to dig a little deeper. I thought we got outworked a little bit in the tough areas, and we need to be better,” Ben Lovejoy said after the Game 3 loss.
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